[KB3204] Configure ESET products to detect or ignore unwanted, unsafe and suspicious applications

Issue

  • Enable or disable the detection of potentially unwanted, unsafe, or suspicious applications

Details

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Your ESET product can detect potentially unwanted, unsafe, and suspicious applications before installing them on your computer. When you install your ESET product, you are prompted to enable or disable the detection of Potentially unwanted applications.

Whereas the detection of Potentially unwanted applications is configured during installation, the detection of Potentially unsafe applications is disabled by default, and the detection of suspicious applications is enabled by default.

Solution

Potentially unsafe application

Potentially unwanted and suspicious applications are programs that may not be intentionally malicious but can negatively affect the performance and reliability of the system or send information to third parties. Potentially unsafe applications, such as keyloggers and password-cracking tools, can have legitimate uses but can also be malware components.

Business users | macOS users

  1. Open the main program window of your Windows ESET product.

  2. Press the F5 key to access Advanced setup.

  3. Click Protections. Select settings next to Malware detections (powered by machine learning), Potentially unwanted applications, Suspicious applications, and Potentially unsafe applications according to your preferences. Click OK to save your changes.

    Figure 1-1

See more information about Detection responses.

마지막 업데이트: Oct 22, 2024

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