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hmKeywords:"Agent protection,HIPS,Password protection",
hmTitle:"Agent protection",
hmDescription:"The ESET Management Agent is protected by a built-in self-defense mechanism. This feature provides the following:",
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hmBreadCrumbs:"<a href=\"fs.html\">Get started<\/a> &gt; <a href=\"fs_deployment.html\">ESET Management Agent Deployment<\/a>",
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hmHeader:"<h1 class=\"p_Heading1\"><span class=\"f_Heading1\">Agent protection<\/span><\/h1>\n\r",
hmBody:"<p class=\"p_Normal\">The ESET Management Agent is protected by a built-in self-defense mechanism. This feature provides the following:<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_NormalList\" style=\"text-indent: 0; page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; padding-left: 13px; margin-left: 19px;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\" style=\"font-family: Arial,\'Lucida Sans Unicode\',\'Lucida Grande\',\'Lucida Sans\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">&#8226;<\/span><span class=\"f_NormalList\">Protection against modification of ESET Management Agent registry entries (HIPS)<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_NormalList\" style=\"text-indent: 0; page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; padding-left: 13px; margin-left: 19px;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\" style=\"font-family: Arial,\'Lucida Sans Unicode\',\'Lucida Grande\',\'Lucida Sans\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">&#8226;<\/span><span class=\"f_NormalList\">Files that belong to ESET Management Agent cannot be modified, replaced, deleted or altered (HIPS)<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_NormalList\" style=\"text-indent: 0; page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; padding-left: 13px; margin-left: 19px;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\" style=\"font-family: Arial,\'Lucida Sans Unicode\',\'Lucida Grande\',\'Lucida Sans\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">&#8226;<\/span><span class=\"f_NormalList\">ESET Management Agent process cannot be killed<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\" style=\"text-indent: 0; padding-left: 32px; margin-left: 0;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\" style=\"font-family: Arial,\'Lucida Sans Unicode\',\'Lucida Grande\',\'Lucida Sans\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">&#8226;<\/span>The ESET Management Agent Service cannot be stopped, paused, disabled, uninstalled or otherwise compromised<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\">Some of the protection is covered by the HIPS feature included in your ESET application.<\/p>\n\r<div style=\"text-align: left; text-indent: 0; padding: 0 0 0 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0;\"><table class=\"Table_note\" >\n\r<tr class=\"Table_note\">\n\r<td class=\"Table_note\" style=\"width:4px; background-color:#3DAAE1;\"><br \/>\n\r<\/td>\n\r<td class=\"Table_note\" style=\"width:20px;\"><p class=\"p_Normal\"><img alt=\"Note\" title=\"Note\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" style=\"margin:2px 0 0 0;width:20px;height:20px;border:none\" src=\".\/images\/note.svg\"\/><\/p>\n\r<\/td>\n\r<td class=\"Table_note\"><p class=\"p_Normal\">To ensure full protection of the ESET Management Agent, HIPS must be enabled on a client computer.<\/p>\n\r<\/td>\n\r<\/tr>\n\r<\/table>\n\r<\/div>\n\r<h2 class=\"p_Heading2\" style=\"page-break-after: avoid;\"><span class=\"f_Heading2\">Password-protected setup<\/span><\/h2>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\">In addition to self-defense, you can password-protect access to the ESET Management Agent (available for Windows only). To set an ESET Management Agent password, you need to create the appropriate <a href=\"admin_pol_password_protection.html\" class=\"topiclink\">policy for ESET Management Agent<\/a>.<\/p>\n\r<div style=\"text-align: left; text-indent: 0; padding: 0 0 0 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0;\"><table class=\"Table_important\" >\n\r<tr class=\"Table_important\">\n\r<td class=\"Table_important\" style=\"width:4px; background-color:#E9A514;\"><br \/>\n\r<\/td>\n\r<td class=\"Table_important\" style=\"width:20px;\"><p class=\"p_Normal\"><img alt=\"Important\" title=\"Important\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" style=\"margin:2px 0 0 0;width:20px;height:20px;border:none\" src=\".\/images\/important.svg\"\/><\/p>\n\r<\/td>\n\r<td class=\"Table_important\"><p class=\"p_Normal\">If the ESET Management Agent is password-protected, you must provide the password to uninstall, repair or upgrade (with changes) the Agent.<\/p>\n\r<\/td>\n\r<\/tr>\n\r<\/table>\n\r<\/div>\n\r"
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