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ESET HOME Security Ultimate is ESET's top consumer subscription tier, combining its security suite with a VPN, identity protection and ransomware remediation. ESET HOME Security Essential, ESET HOME Security Premium and ESET HOME Security Ultimate are multi-platform solutions. While Ransomware Shield detects and blocks threats, Ransomware Remediation (available in ESET HOME Security Ultimate and ESET Small Business Security) automatically backs up and restores. Easy to install, easy to share with your family and easy to check the security status of your home with the free ESET HOME app. ESET HOME Security Ultimate covers Android, iOS, macOS and Windows.

Current Version
19.0.11.0
Market
Consumer
Licence
Paid
Price
USD 179.99 / annual
Record Created
2026-08-20
Last Updated
2026-10-10

Vendor

ESET was in the antivirus business before it was an industry: the NOD engine was written in 1987 in what was then Czechoslovakia, and the company formed around it in 1992 once private enterprise became legal. It has never been acquired and has no outside owner, which is rare at its size and is why it publishes its own annual report rather than appearing as a line in a parent's. Home users buy the ESET HOME Security tiers — Essential, Premium and Ultimate — with ESET NOD32 Antivirus as the entry engine, ESET Mobile Security for Android on phones, ESET Cyber Security on macOS, and ESET Small Business Security for a handful of machines. Organisations buy tiers of the ESET PROTECT Platform: ESET PROTECT Entry, Advanced, Complete and Elite, up to the fully managed ESET PROTECT MDR, with ESET Endpoint Security on the workstations and ESET File Security for Microsoft Windows Server and ESET Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server on the servers. What separates the upper tiers is ESET Inspect, the XDR module, and ESET LiveGuard Advanced, a cloud sandbox that detonates an unknown file before it is allowed to run. ESET calls the detection stack itself ESET LiveSense: signatures, its own DNA Detections, an Advanced Memory Scanner for fileless attacks, a UEFI Scanner for firmware, and the ESET LiveGrid reputation system. ESET Research publishes named malware analysis under its own byline and the ESET Threat Report, and the company has entered AV-Comparatives' and AV-TEST's public cycles continuously for over two decades — which is where most of the test results recorded against its products here come from. ESET says it protects more than a billion users and 500,000 business customers across 178 countries; those are the company's own figures. Vendor page →

Website
eset.com
Country
Slovakia
Headquarters
Bratislava, Slovakia
Year Established
1992
Customers
500K business customers
Users
110M users
Revenue
≈ $806.3M (2025)

Platforms

Androidnative
iOSnative
macOSnative
Windowsnative

Target Market

Consumer secondary

Capabilities

Malware Detectionkeynative
Ransomware Protectionkeynative
Behavioral DetectionkeyNot known
Web Protectionkeynative
Email Protectionnative
Host Firewallnative
Sandbox Analysisnative
Cloud-Assisted Scanningnative
Heuristic DetectionNot known
Device ControlNot known
Vulnerability Shieldingnative
Central Management ConsoleNot known

4 of 12 not yet known — not recorded, which is not the same as not supported.

Pricing

PlanLicencePriced perBilledPrice
SummarySubscriptionnot statedyearlyUSD 179.99

Versions

  • 19.0.11.0Windows

The newest release each source names per platform, not every release the vendor has shipped. A release date is shown only where one is recorded.

Independent Tests

At a glance — latest result per lab test

AV-TEST Antivirus Test

Tested: macOSlab report ↗

Each bar is one lab’s own figure on that lab’s own scale. Labs test different models at different times, so the figures are not combined into one score.

All results

AV-TEST Antivirus TestTest antivirus software for MacOS Tahoe - March 2026
Protection: 6Performance: 6Usability: 6
AV-TEST Antivirus TestTest antivirus software for Windows 11 - June 2026
Protection: 6Performance: 6Usability: 6
AV-TEST Antivirus TestTest antivirus software for MacOS Tahoe - June 2026
Protection: 6Performance: 5.5Usability: 6
AV-TEST Antivirus TestTest antivirus software for Windows 11 - August 2026
Protection: 6Performance: 6Usability: 6

Certifications

OESIS Framework SupportSupported1 activeSupported

Change History

This record was created 2026-08-20. Everything below is what has changed since.

  • 2026-09-30Test result addedNew AV-TEST Antivirus Test resultevidence
  • 2026-09-23Capability addedVulnerability Shielding: built inevidence
  • 2026-09-23Capability addedCloud-Assisted Scanning: built inevidence
  • 2026-09-23Capability addedSandbox Analysis: built inevidence
  • 2026-09-23Capability addedHost Firewall: built inevidence
  • 2026-09-23Capability addedEmail Protection: built inevidence
  • 2026-09-23Capability addedWeb Protection: built inevidence
  • 2026-09-23Capability addedRansomware Protection: built inevidence
  • 2026-09-23Platform addedRuns on macOSevidence
  • 2026-09-23Platform addedRuns on iOSevidence
  • 2026-09-23Platform addedRuns on Androidevidence
  • 2026-09-22Product updatedListed in Home Antimalwareevidence
  • 2026-09-19Product updatedNo longer sold to: Enterpriseevidence
  • 2026-09-19Pricing plan addedPrice: USD 179.99 yearlyevidence
  • 2026-09-17Test result addedNew AV-TEST Antivirus Test resultevidence
  • 2026-09-09New versionNew version: 19.0.11.0 (Windows)evidence
  • 2026-09-04Product updatedListed in Network Firewallevidence
  • 2026-08-27Test result addedNew AV-TEST Antivirus Test resultevidence
  • 2026-08-26Test result addedNew AV-TEST Antivirus Test resultevidence
  • 2026-08-26Test result addedNew AV-TEST Antivirus Test resultevidence
  • 2026-08-25Test result addedNew AV-TEST Antivirus Test resultevidence
  • 2026-08-25Test result addedNew AV-TEST Antivirus Test resultevidence
  • 2026-08-20Certification addedCertified: OESIS Framework Support (Supported)evidence
  • 2026-08-20Capability addedMalware Detection: built inevidence
  • 2026-08-20Pricing plan addedPrice: paidevidence
  • 2026-08-20Product updatedAlso sold to: Enterpriseevidence
  • 2026-08-20Product updatedAlso sold to: Consumerevidence
  • 2026-08-20New versionNew version: 19.0.11.0evidence
  • 2026-08-20Platform addedRuns on Windowsevidence
  • 2026-08-20Product createdNew product listedevidence

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