T-Log

With a newly bought notebook with Vista from my University Notebook Sales, I tried to make my notebook as powerful and strong as it can. Therefore for the security aspect, I installed ESET Smart Security. I liked NOD32 and installed it for my home desktop, for my new notebook I tried ESS instead.

After 3/4 year after I used it, I discover there are a sever problem that raised by it, including the time that I lived in South Korea for my exchange study. Here are the problems that I experienced with ESS:

1. The internet was terminated and unable to connect again if I use some online streaming service QPlay to watch some TV programmes. For which I have to restart the system so as to connect to the network again.
2. I was unable to connect to some wireless network. I can be redirect to a login interface and login, but I am not able to access any website after login. This happened when I was in Korea Univeresity. I can access wireless in the International studies hall but not in the Studying room located in 4/F of Centennial Memorial Hall.
3. Similiar with the case above, but much worse……Whenever I turn on my notebook with wireless function on in the library of my university (CityU), the system crashes and blue screen of death appear. This time I seem to discover what make it wrong. I turn of the wireless when the system start up, and turn the firewall of ESS off, then I try to connect the wireless on, it works fine again.

These experience led me to find if there is something wrong with ESS and after a glance from Google search, it shows numerous problem about ESS……I was shocked that ESS with Vista really result in tons of problem. Maybe, just like medicine for human, the power of ESS is too strong that it cause allergy or even fatal effect to some system or situation.