ESET PROTECT vs. Malwarebytes

Malwarebytes

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
ESET PROTECT	Score 9.2 out of 10	N/A	ESET provides Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) capabilities via the ESET PROTECT Platform, covering Windows, Mac, Linux, and both Android and iOS operating systems, providing Mobile Device Management functionality. It comes with multi-tenant management, ensuring real-time visibility for both on-premises and off-premises endpoints as well as full reporting for ESET enterprise-grade solutions. ESET PROTECT management platform can be deployed on-premise or in-cloud. For organizations looking to…	$49.99 per year 1 device
Malwarebytes	Score 8.2 out of 10	N/A	Malwarebytes is a antimalware application for home and small businesses, which blocks viruses, malware, hackers, viruses, and malicious websites.	$119.99 per year 3 devices

Pricing

ESET PROTECT

Malwarebytes

Editions & Modules

Essential: $49.99
per year 1 device
Premium: $59.99
per year 1 device
Ultimate: $179.99
per year 5 devices

Teams - Sole proprietor: $119.99
per year 3 devices
Teams - Boutique business: $399.99
per year 10 devices
Teams - Small office: $799.99
per year 20 devices

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
ESET PROTECT	Malwarebytes
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

ESET offers are tailored to each customer’s needs. ESET takes pride in working with customers and partners to find the perfect solution for their security challenges at the right price. Contacting an ESET partner or sales representative ensures each solution is made-to-measure and precisely fits the size, complexity of IT environment and level of protection to match the customer’s business requirements. Pricing percentage is dependent on number of years and devices purchased.

All plans include a 60-day money back guarantee. 1st year discount available for the Small office plan.

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Community Pulse
	ESET PROTECT	Malwarebytes
Considered Both Products	ESET PROTECT Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT User-friendly interface and centralized management, dashboard is innovative, making security management straightforward even without a dedicated security team. ESET PROTECTis easy-to-deploy solution with a user-friendly interface and strong protection. ESET PROTECT real-time … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT Both are great products, but the resource footprint on ESET seems to be smaller, and the multitenancy of ESET makes it so much easier to use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT The two main competitors We compared ESET PROTECT against was Bitdefender and Withsecure: Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT Much better performance, features and experience ! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT Choosing ESET PROTECT rather than McAfee Security or other secuty softwares helps me more evaluate specific security requirements of the company. Considering the scalability of solution it provides, the ease of use of its interface, the level of support provided by the vendors, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT Our team had used ESET PROTECT in the past and decided to use it again without shopping around for other vendors. Our overall experience has been a great one over the last 10 years of using it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT ESET PROTECT was the easy choice, with the web interface, the ability to be installed on all OSs including Mobile, built-in MDM. Having the ability to package Anti-virus, real-time scanning, Encryption, and Firewall into one package was perfect. The Support team has helped … Incentivized Helpful? Kallie Koortz Owner Chose ESET PROTECT ESET Firewall is better by 20% it is a more stable firewall which remembers previous config after updates. ESET is more expensive than AVG but runs smoother on newer desktops. Management console on ESET is easily better that AVG console. Deployment of ESET has proven easier … Incentivized Helpful? CF Chris Funk IT Director Chose ESET PROTECT We used ThirtySeven4 antivirus before eSet, and we were underwhelmed with its protection and another of our offices was compromised with ransomware under its protection. We had changed to eSet about a month prior and it stopped the attack when one of our staff opened the email … Incentivized Helpful? AR Alex Richards Account Director Chose ESET PROTECT Far more cost effective, doesn't slow computers down as much, far easier to use and better central management. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT NOD32 is the only paid antivirus software that is not a memory hogger. That's all that is important. Why would I install software on my PC that hogs up all my memory? And the free ones are full of ads, and popups trying to trick you into getting their paid plans. They were … Incentivized Helpful? Eric Atkinson Customer Service / IT Manager Chose ESET PROTECT eSetEndpoint Antivirus is hands down the best anti-viral application I have come across. This was recommended to me to help cut back on the amount of resources being used on the computer when the antivirus program is running. Incentivized Helpful? Benjamin Young Systems Administrator Chose ESET PROTECT I prefer Eset [Endpoint Antivirus] because it tends to not consume resources on devices like Kaspersky. I have also had better success with Eset [Endpoint Antivirus] in a domain environment than I have with Kaspersky. Incentivized Helpful? ET Eric Tucker I.T. Manager Chose ESET PROTECT We reviewed quite a few solutions when we first started the process of finding a new antivirus/protection suite. There were some other very good candidates such as Kaspersky Endpoint Security, Symantec Advanced Threat Protection, and McAfee Endpoint Security. However as the … Incentivized Helpful? Moris Mendez Ing. de Sistemas Informaticos Chose ESET PROTECT They all offer similar benefits, such as being free of viruses and other types of infections, but when tested and evaluated against Eset Endpoint Antivirus, they all have some weakness--that is, some are very good but consume most of the computer resources, in others the … Incentivized Helpful? Cameron Council Systems and Security Administrator Chose ESET PROTECT It was pre-existing when I came to this company so ESET is dug in deep and removing it would be a process. Defender was nice and is a solution I wouldn't mind moving to. My biggest concern is web protection due to the amount of password compromise request emails the user base … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT While the detection rate may not be as great as McAfee, Eset Endpoint Antivirus has offered a more affordable pricing model. Active protection also has less of a performance impact on workstations when compared to Mcafee, making it a generally leaner product overall. It was … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT We previously used NOD32 which was a more consumer oriented product. From our research Eset Endpoint Antivirus is a Signiant improvement for MS Virus & Threat protection. Incentivized Helpful? JR Jackie Ramos IT Manager, Services and Support Chose ESET PROTECT For us we thought ESET was stronger that Norton. More well rounded in its all its features for business. Price point was also a big factor and no treats or issues while using this software in the past 7 years. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Oakes Lieutenant Chose ESET PROTECT We have tried the Norton, and Avast, Neither compare to ESET as far as the capability to maintain virus signature databases, also the ransomware protection is great. All aspects of this product are beneficial to whom ever purchases this for their protection. I have been … Incentivized Helpful? Chathuranga Amarasinghe Security Specialist Chose ESET PROTECT Cost is reasonably low and feature-wise it gives all the same capabilities of similar products so we chose Eset as our organization's antivirus solution. Incentivized Helpful? TW Tharanga Wickramsinghe Software Engineer Chose ESET PROTECT When considering the price, price of Eset is reasonable. Also, it has higher threat detection ratio than other products. Another thing is Eset Endpoint Antivirus does not consume high system resources. Incentivized Helpful? Eric Krueger IT Manager Chose ESET PROTECT The overall experience of support and deployment was better with ESET. Any questions we ran into were answered by their support team quickly and accurately. The tools and reporting made our IT department happy by allowing us to put out higher-level reports for upper management … Incentivized Helpful? Martha Batruny IT Manager Chose ESET PROTECT It is playing a significant role in our organization. It offers great features and functions. I would say its services are completely matchless. Incentivized Helpful? Dustin Brilliant Information Systems Engineer Chose ESET PROTECT ESETs best plain AV is very well set up. Incentivized Helpful?	Malwarebytes WM William C Mueller Senior Systems Engineer Chose Malwarebytes Sentinel One is streamlined, with a minimal resource footprint, and it appears to work well, offering slightly more comprehensive protection than Malwarebytes. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Serres Systems Administrator Chose Malwarebytes We chose Malwarebytes for Teams which offered a significant savings compared to other scanners Incentivized Helpful? Pete Maddox Managing Member Chose Malwarebytes Night and day difference. Low overhead, not a single breach in over 5 years with Malwarebytes. Incentivized Helpful? David Young, M.A. President Chose Malwarebytes Use it and forget it...no constant advertisements. Incentivized Helpful? VK vinoth kumar Sr system administrator Chose Malwarebytes Mcafee usually takes a long time to scan each system as we usually have scheduled systems scan every weekend. But if we want to scan a particular system in minimal time we usually go with Malwarebytes to get the job done. Incentivized Helpful? RJ Roxanne Jacobs Executive Director Chose Malwarebytes We have used Malwarebytes for many years. Originally, we used the free version but converted to the paid version. Now, we have five licenses, one for each of the staff members who are working remotely. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Malwarebytes Proven to be one of the best in detecting malware that is otherwise undetected by other solutions. When a user gets hit by certain malware, many other tools do not even detect them as malware, while with Malwarebytes, you can rest assured that if it states that a computer is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Malwarebytes Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection is better than Webroot's Business Endpoint Protection in quite a few ways from the admin console to how effective the software works. Malwarebytes has a better admin GUI console in every way. Malwarebytes has detected malware that Webroot has not. Incentivized Helpful? Philip Dixon Director Of Information Technology Chose Malwarebytes I found Sophos to be more resource intensive, scans take longer and affect the end user experience more. Building policies and customizations is not as intuitive with Sophos. Incentivized Helpful? Mauro Biefeni Head of Information Technology Chose Malwarebytes Malwarebytes beat the pricing we received from competing products like ESET and Bitdefender. Also, from looking at multiple reviews and ratings, Malwarebytes simply does a better job of protecting systems. It is easy to manage and maintain (sometimes information can be too … Incentivized Helpful? Mark Piskura FAA Repair Station Training Coordinator Chose Malwarebytes I have found Avast and TRENDmicro are experts in their own right but I have always found success at a low cost using Malwarebytes. Incentivized Helpful? Jennifer Stirling Executive Assistant to Lindsey Stirling Chose Malwarebytes I haven't used Norton, MacKeeper, nor any other anti-viral software for many years. I believe Malwarebytes is the most effective malware software available in its price range and have been extremely satisfied with it. Since using it I have had no issues nor incidents with … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Malwarebytes Malwarebytes seems to lead the industry in customer focus. Their support team is superior. The breadth of services they offer is a major factor along with their roadmap for the future. I believe the update process is one of the easiest I've experienced with major software … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Malwarebytes Malwarebytes is much better at detecting and mitigating non-traditional or virus-like attack vectors than any of the frontline anti-virus programs that we evaluated. As such, we chose to use Malwarebytes in tandem with a frontline anti-virus solution, providing us with two … Incentivized Helpful? BB Barry Burd Professor Chose Malwarebytes It's difficult to make a fair comparison because I use Bitdefender on a Mac rather than a PC. Bitdefender finds many suspicious emails that it can't remove or quarantine, so I have to remove them manually. Malwarebytes doesn't do that. Incentivized Helpful? Marc Shaffer CEO Chose Malwarebytes To be blunt, MB leaves them in the dust from an operative and functional perspective. We use them because we get great support for all functions and find they do an excellent job at what they are designed to do. Competitive costs and no extraneous fees. Software that tries to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Malwarebytes Have also used the following malware/spyware protection/removal tools: SuperAntiSpyware Spybot Search & Destroy Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Malwarebytes Initially organization was startup so we preferred Malwarebytes. Incentivized Helpful? Kyle Dennis Sr. Systems Administrator Chose Malwarebytes Ultimately, we chose to go with Malwarebytes in addition to other solutions because we felt it filled a small but critical void in our overall protection on our network and client systems. I can't say I would use the product on its own as it was built for a very specific role … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Malwarebytes We've looked at other products but the ease of use, reviews and tests, and at this point, our own experience has led to us remaining with Malwarebytes instead of others. Cost is also a factor, Malwarebytes is reasonable comparatively when you look at what you get vs. what … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Malwarebytes Simply put, Malwarebytes has been around for a long time and has yet to fail me. The consistency in which it operates on our devices and updates on its own without breaking itself means that I do not have to second guess if we are going to be protected properly or not. It … Incentivized Helpful? dishant sharma Content writer and programmer Chose Malwarebytes It is also a very good option to consider as an antivirus system. But, it is not effective against the rootkits; that's why I selected Malwarebytes over it. Malware bytes has a more powerful and effective scanning mechanism than Norton. If I compare the free versions of the … Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Henkel Owner Chose Malwarebytes It's been a while since I made my decision to purchase Malwarebytes over the other products listed. I believe at the time Malwarebytes was the best product on my short list. I tried both AVG and Avast before deciding on Malwarebytes. Malwarebytes was also recommended to me by … Incentivized Helpful? Richard Marton Customer Support Manager Chose Malwarebytes Better design, lower cost, more effective malware removal. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Malwarebytes For me, there are no other alternatives compared to the free version of Malwarebytes. I used McAfee Total Protection as an alternative, it's a full product with anti-malware, anti-virus, anti-spam. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

ESET PROTECT

Malwarebytes

Endpoint Security

Comparison of Endpoint Security features of Product A and Product B
	ESET PROTECT 9.3 Ratings 8% above category average	Malwarebytes - Ratings
Anti-Exploit Technology	9.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)	9.60 Ratings	00 Ratings
Centralized Management	9.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Hybrid Deployment Support	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Infection Remediation	9.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Vulnerability Management	9.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Malware Detection	9.40 Ratings	00 Ratings

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	ESET PROTECT	Malwarebytes
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Medium-sized Companies	BlackBerry Protect (CylancePROTECT) Score 9.1 out of 10	BlackBerry Protect (CylancePROTECT) Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises	BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management Score 9.8 out of 10	BlackBerry Protect (CylancePROTECT) Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
	ESET PROTECT	Malwarebytes
Likelihood to Recommend	9.6 (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.5 (0 ratings)	8.9 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	ESET PROTECT	Malwarebytes
Likelihood to Recommend	Comprehensive threat prevention against a variety of threats, such as viruses, ransomware, and spyware is effectively provided by ESET PROTECT. The cross platform compatibility of this software is advantageous for business with diverse IT environments such as those combination of Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. Some industries, such highly regulated sectors with specific compliance needs, may find it more cost-effective, however it is less suitable for small enterprises with limited IT resources and for organizations with severe budgetary limits. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Now, I gave it that rating because it's a handy tool for diagnosing issues. Quarantining them, and most of the time, it does fix the problem. Though with rootkits, it's been hit or miss, and sometimes perfectly valid software gets flagged erroneously. However, once you've run it, it tends to run continuously, consuming far too many resources and being a real pain to uninstall, sometimes even causing issues. Incentivized WM William C Mueller Senior Systems Engineer Read full review
Pros	ESET provides comprehensive, transparent protection for my MacOS devices without interfering with the efficiency of my operating system. It's easy to install, configure (default settings are great for just about everyone), and update. ESET's customer communications, including a very detailed knowledge base online, make it clear I've chosen the right antivirus solution! Incentivized BP Benjamin Plotkin Technical Project Manager Read full review	The software is very good at working in the background without interfering with the end user in any way, there has never been a complaint of slowness on the machines or any excessive scan times because the users are unaware of it. Malwarebytes management console is a very nice interface that tracks all of the machines on the network and shows which one is online, offline, up to date, out of date etc. I can also push installation packages to new machines without end user interaction. Malwarebytes does extremely well what it is made to do, and that is to stop malware. Never once has any infection made it past malwarebytes to harm an end user machine. Malwarebytes is always up to date, definitions are downloaded on a daily basis, you can trust that your software is current and you are being protected from the latest threats out there. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Price a little expensive - ESET is a great product, but it is priced at a high price and in a market as competitive as antivirus and security tools, this can weigh in the balance. Complexity in creating rules - it's quite complex to create rules in ESET, you end up wasting some time on it, it could be more intuitive. Incentivized Marcio Vizoli Analista de sistema Read full review	As of 2021 Q1, I have had issues with upgrading Malwarebytes installs on endpoints from the admin console. On about 30%-50% of the endpoints, I have to manually uninstall them, reboot, and reinstall Malwarebytes. This is a relatively new feature over the last year that Malwarebytes has done that let's you control updating the endpoint agent. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	I'm giving it a 10, because I would totally have no reservations about staying on with eSet for another 3 years once our contract comes up for renewal. We are looking to transfer to a different product in January, however. This is due to a special pricing contract with the state of Ohio that made a normally much more expensive product very affordable and was cheaper than our coming eSet renewal cost. This is a very special case only available to government and educational organizations, but had that not been offered, we would have gladly stayed with eSet. Incentivized CF Chris Funk IT Director Read full review	The last time we renewed Malwarebytes, we renewed for a 3 year renewal. That should describe the confidence we have in the product. Plus the cost savings impact year after year. Incentivized Joe Spradlin IT Manager Read full review
Usability	Provide execllent security agains malware, ransomware, and phishing. Easy to use and monitoring multiple devices and managing security settings remotely. Software firewall ability to secure network traffic and blocking websites and application at software level its gives very easy to configure .Zero-day threats as some other security products is missing with more advanced machine learning and behavioral analysis capabilities. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Usability-wise, it's pretty good, and it gets the job done. But once that's finished, the nags, the pop-ups, and the fact that it slows older systems down recklessly really cost it rating points. It becomes a clutter, and one of the first things we check when we receive reports that a PC is slow is whether it's running malware. Once we uninstall it, the PC is usually easily 40-50% faster. That's too much in the way of resources for something that wants to always run in the background. Incentivized WM William C Mueller Senior Systems Engineer Read full review
Support Rating	Excellent support from ESET and when we had questions regarding the initial deployment they were there. The questions we put forth were answered immediately with great detail. Any of the items we put forth, scenarios, were given a good solution from ESET to fit our needs. This company stands by their product and are happy to step up when needed. Incentivized Eric Krueger IT Manager Read full review	I honestly haven't needed support for Malwarebytes because I haven't had any problems with it, whatsoever. I am giving it a 9 rating because I haven't actually had an encounter or experience with customer service or support, so it's hard to rate the actual support team since I've never had the privilege of coming into contact with them. Incentivized Jennifer Stirling Executive Assistant to Lindsey Stirling Read full review
Implementation Rating	Do the full scan at the beginning and be prepared to wait until it is done. It will find things you did not know were there. You can leave on the Apple firewall as well as the ESET firewall. There have been no conflicts. Remember to remove emails from being backed up, so you do not have spam on your backup! This was the mistake I made. Incentivized Robin L. Ore Independent Business Owner Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	The two main competitors We compared ESET PROTECT against was Bitdefender and Withsecure: · Performance: ESET PROTECT was the lowest performance compared to other competitors. · Console/dashboard: ESET PROTECT had the most intuitive UI, had great automation features and is the only one that has an on prem option. · Security: Bitdefender was the strongest but only by a few % but due to the cost being double there was no way our management would accept the cost difference. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Malwarebytes seems to lead the industry in customer focus. Their support team is superior. The breadth of services they offer is a major factor along with their roadmap for the future. I believe the update process is one of the easiest I've experienced with major software platforms. You may be able to receive a discount if you purchase through a reseller / IT vendor. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	My computer operation improved drastically so it was very effective in business execution. I think it is a very easy software to introduce to small and medium-sized businesses at a reasonable price. Even in license management, you will receive an email as soon as possible, so you can handle the renewal procedure in a lot of time. Incentivized Carine Oliveira Marketing Manager Read full review	Less cleanup and work for IT, as users/PC don't get infected as often Less user interaction when premium is installed, it will run scans and block sites for you Less downtime as PCs stay up and running, users can stay productive Incentivized Kenji C System Administrator/IT Read full review
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