ESET Smart Security Premium Review

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ESET Smart Security premium is a full-featured security package that includes a password manager, data encryption tools, parental controls, and even an anti-theft feature that can track your computer down if it gets stolen. All this protection will run you $79.99 MSRP for Smart Security Premium (See it on the ESET website), which is what I tested, and it covers one device for one year. That’s almost double the typical price for basic antivirus, but you can save some cash by getting the “non Premium” version, which is $20 less and lacks password management and data encryption. You can then save another $10 by just getting the basic NOD32 antivirus package, which has typical pricing of $39.99 a year.

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