Bratislava, November 5, 2009
ESET Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server features Antispam protection, Transport layer protection as well as Antivirus and Antispyware protection with Anti-rootkit technology and HIPS function represented by Self-Defense feature. In order to further foster ESET’s efforts in the corporate market, this product supports both Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, while backward compatibility with Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, 2000 and 2003 is also ensured.
Bratislava, November 4, 2009
Throughout the month of October, ESET customers have encountered the Conficker worm the most. This fact is underscored by the results of ESET statistical reporting system ThreatSense.Net®. Win32/Conficker with an 8.85% share of all detected threats remains the topmost threat.
Bratislava, October 26, 2009
Internet users and social networking sites visitors, should brace themselves for a spike of attacks around Halloween with an aim to monetize vulnerabilities. The attackers are known to take advantage of the increase in traffic around holidays when peole exchange online greetings to try and steel personal content or infect computers with malware.
Bratislava, October 23, 2009
ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon Business, announced that it has certified 5 vendors in detection and cleaning following its first round of of security software designed for the MS Windows 7. ICSA Labs found that ESET products comply with its requirements for how well a products detects malware.
Bratislava, October 21, 2009
ESET is the 11th fastest growing technology company in the region of Central Europe – covering 10 countries, including fast developing ones in the Balkan region. According to this year’s ranking by Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Central Europe, ESET has registered a 951% growth within the past 5 years and is the fastest growing technology firm in Slovakia.
Bratislava, October 2, 2009
Throughout September, the popularity of exchangeable media has contributed to the high occurrence of related threats in the Slovak Republic. INF/Autorun is the country‘s top threat with a share of 5.51%. A similar trend was registered also in Israel (4.99%), Latvia (4.97%) and Lithuania (5.44%). Even higher share of USB-exploiting threats was registered in the United Arab Emirates – 7.36%.
Bratislava, September 29, 2009
The complete line of ESET products - ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 and ESET Smart Security 4 (home and business editions), Remote Administrator 3, SysInspector and ESET Online Scanner are fully compatible with Microsoft’s new operating system.
Bratislava, September 23rd , 2009
ESET, the creator of security software for the protection against all – even unknown computer threats has submitted for public testing a beta version of ESET Mobile Antivirus for Symbian operating system.
Bratislava, September 16, 2009
Virus Bulletin Conference is the most important event in the antivirus industry. Once a year, it offers an opportunity for top managers of antivirus and software companies to get together with top experts on combatting malware, software developers as well as other experts on PC/Internet security. VB2009 is going to take place in Geneve, Switzerland.
Bratislava, September 8, 2009
The users of the popular social networking site Facebook - including fans of ESET - have reported a virus targeting Facebook Fan Check application. This is a hoax that has been spread among the application’s users, which in turn has led to increased search activity on this topic.
Bratislava, September 2, 2009
For the month of August, Win32/Conficker is the most wide-spread threat globally with a share of 8.56%.
Moreover, the Scandinavian countries continue to have a high exposure to the Koobface worm targeting users of social networks such as Facebook and MySpace.
In just under one year after the initial release of ESET Mobile Antivirus for Windows Mobile in English, ESET is pleased to expand support for the following 15 localized language versions:
Bratislava, August 19, 2009
The Delphi programming language tends to be used in quite robust database applications used primarily by banks and other institutions processing vast amounts of data, some of which have already reported being infected with Win32/Induc.A. The virus itself isn’t destructive, but rather uses innovative and uncommon techniques to spreading quickly.
Bratislava, August 5, 2009
Win32/Conficker
remains top threat in Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Romania, South Africa and Italy.
For the month of July, Poland and France were dominated by a mixture of Trojans of the Win32/PSW.OnLineGames
Bratislava, August 4, 2009
The test conducted by independent British magazine Virus Bulletin (VB) assessed the performance of products by 37 anti-virus vendors. The tested products were based on Microsoft Windows Vista Business Edition SP2 X32 platform.With its 59th appearance in the testing, ESET’s product has missed this prestigious award only twice in its history.
Bratislava, July 29, 2009
Travelling? Working outside your office? Fancy surfing while sitting in a café? Surfing while waiting at the airport? Before you start up your laptop why don´t you do something for its security? Here are 5 easy-to-provide and useful things to do to your computer this summer.
Bratislava, July 27, 2009
Director of Malware Inteligence at ESET, David Harley adds: „Work or play, use HTTPS to access webmail. Consider buying hosted VPN access. Avoid connecting to sites that transfer sensitive info, your bank for instance.”
Bratislava, July 15, 2009
- This malware has the capability to copy itself into the system files and executing itself
- It is in Top 5 in Austria, Poland, Turkey, in Top 10 in Bulgaria, United Kingdom and Sweden
Bratislava, July 3, 2009
- Conficker once again top threat
- TrojanDownloader.Bredolab.AA, new on the global scale, ranks No. 1 in Czech Republic and Slovakia
- Mixture of trojans attacking online gamers still abundant
Bratislava, June 24, 2009
ESET Plugin for Cisco NAC successfully passed the beta testing period and is now in the so-called release candidate version, i.e. almost final version. Today marks the beginning of intensive public testing prior to market launch.
Bratislava, June 23, 2009
- Twitter Trend Topics directing users to dangerous sites
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Avoid clicking any content containing TwitterBest.mp or Zasaden.mp
- ESET recommends running a system scan and a PC restart
Bratislava, June 8, 2009
- Online survey places ESET within top 5 in the home user segment
- High share of clients, rating themselves as expert, among users of ESET products
- ESET number 1 in Slovakia, as well as in Thailand, Hungary and Turkey
Bratislava, June 4, 2009
- No major changes in the ranking of top threats
- More threats exploiting the "autorun.inf " and using exchangeable media
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Win32/Conficker top threat already in Hungary, Italy
- Denmark with high occurrence of a worm attacking Facebook users
Bratislava, June 3, 2009
ESET Mobile Antivirus Update Improves User Experience
Bratislava, May 20th, 2009
ESET Online Scanner allows to perform scans without the need to install security software.
Bratislava, May 12, 2009
ESET has been included in leading analyst firm Gartner’s May 2009 ‘Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms’, which addresses security technologies for the protection of corporate network endpoints for the SMB and large enterprise market.
Bratislava, May 11, 2009
Analysis of ESET’s ThreatSense.Net , a sophisticated malware reporting and tracking system, shows that the highest number of detections in April, with almost 8,70% of the total, was scored by the Win32/Conficker class of threat.
Bratislava, April 29, 2009
ESET SysInspector that comes standard with a new generation of security suite - ESET Smart Security is now available in its new stand-alone version.
Bratislava, April 24, 2009
The antivirus community has been allerted to the activities of the botnet using the Win32/Hexzone.AP. trojan. It is a typical Trojan that reports to a command and control server using the HTTP protocol.
Bratislava, April 21, 2009
The prize was received by ESET CEO Miroslav Trnka who commented: "
The recognition is a testament to our good relations and mutual respect that permeates the company. It is also reflective of a generous benefit package we provide our employees."
Bratislava, April 9, 2009
ESET detected a new variant of Conficker worm that is different to the previous ones in one major, yet surprising feature. It doesn’t contact any of the control domains, even though it originally operated with up to 50 000 domains a day.
Bratislava, April 6, 2009
Users with with Cisco devices implemented in their company networks have the opportunity to test it. Testers can provide feedback or questions about the beta version of ESET Plugin for Cisco NAC directly to betasupport@eset.sk.
Bratislava, April 6, 2009
According to the data captured by ThreatSense.Net,® the worm Conficker has been spreading on a massive scale primarily in the region of Eastern Europe, with especially high occurence in Ukraine (27,52%), Russia (22,48%), Romania (12,11%), Bulgaria (10,17%), apperaing also in Spain (11,81%), Italy (7,79%).
Bratislava, April 2nd, 2009
As of today, the new ESET Online Scanner is in the "release candidate" phase, marking the beginning of intensive public testing prior to market launch.
Bratislava, April 1, 2009
The analysts at ESET have carefully watched the commencement of activity of the worm Win32/Conficker.X. The worm has in its body an embedded command to trigger its activity on April 1st. This command has thus been activated, prompting the worm to start communication with a randomly-generated number of domains out of the estimated daily total of 50, 000 where the worm checks for instructions.
Bratislava, March 30, 2009
Thus far, the year 2009 has proved to be successful for ESET. The company has secured the highest possible accolades in two of the most prestigious Antivirus tests - the British-based Virus Bulletin and Austrian-based AV-Comparatives.
Bratislava, March 23, 2009
The new variant of the dangerous worm Conficker is rapidly spreading through the Internet. The malware‘s variants, which appeared previously have succeeded in shutting down thousands of PCs worldwide. Computer security experts agree that Win32/Conficker.X, (also dubbed by some vendors as Conficker.C or Conficker.D) poses even a greater threat than its predecessors.
Bratislava, March 12, 2009
Worms, such as
WIn32/Agent and
Win32/Agent.NFL were among the most frequent threats afflicting PC users across Europe, including the Czech Republic, Germany, Finland, Lithuania and Latvia. Yet another type of malware, namely
WMA/TrojanDownloader.GetCodec.Gen has been dominant across a sizable portion of the continent, appearing in Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Greece, the Netherlands, Italy and Hungary.
Bratislava, March 2, 2009
Today, ESET introduces a new generation of its security solutions, delivering its most effective protection against emerging threats. Built on the unique and time-tested ThreatSense® technology that has made ESET into a leader in proactive protection - ESET Smart Security® 4 and ESET NOD32 Antivirus® 4 - were optimized for even greater protection and enhanced usability, while retaining their signature small system footprint.
Bratislava, February 26, 2009
Malware writers have created a malicious program exploiting unpatched vulnerability in some versions of MS Excel. ESET, a leading provider of security solutions – catalogues this malware as X97M/TrojanDropper.Agent.NAI. trojan.
Bratislava, February 18, 2009
As of today, ESET Smart Security 4 and ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 are in the so-called "release candidte" phase, marking beginning of intensive testing prior to market release.
Bratislava, March 31, 2009
Information and
Removal tool.
Bratislava, 3.2.2009
We have been detecting very high volumes of malware using the Windows
Autorun facility for well over a year, along with gaming password-stealing
malware, which again takes second place. Password stealers are still being seen
in very high numbers, and shouldn't be perceived as in decline. INF/Autorun is actually a very
broad class of malware, since many kinds of malicious program use this approach
to infection.
Bratislava, 22.1.2009
Win32/Conficker by ESET has ranked
among the most wide-spread global threats already toward the end of last year.
Compared to its original version, the variant is spreding even more agressively
thanks to its ability to block signature updates of antivirus software. To
increase its destructive power even further, its creators have added
a function allowing it to spread by a way of USB key.
Bratislava, 19.1.2009
Win32/Conficker is a new addition to the
regular malware charts - placing third with (3,90%) constituting a network worm which can be
controlled remotely by an attacker, spreading and exploiting a known
vulnerability in the Windows RPC subsystem. Conficker tries to download
additional malware likely to be connected with adware.
