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 ESET, the leader in proactive protection celebrating 25 years of its technology this year, today announced the launch of a new line of products for business customers – ESET Endpoint Security and ESET Endpoint Antivirus. With the new product line, ESET is strengthening its focus on the business segment. Both ESET Endpoint Antivirus and ESET Endpoint Security come standard...  Read more...

  Source: ESET ThreatSense.Net® (April 2012) 1. Defo – 8.96%: Typical memory usages were like the top 4 kb of the 640 Kb conventional memories. Inserting a non infected diskette in the floppy drive would result in the virus writing itself to the boot sector of the floppy diskette. 2. HTML/Iframe.B.Gen – 4.64%: Generic detection of malicious IFRAME tags embedded in HTML pages, which redirect the browser to a specific URL location with malicious...  Read more...

ESET, the leader in proactive protection against cyber-threats, announced today the BETA launch of the next generation of ESET products: ESET Cyber Security, and adding a brand new product to its portfolio - ESET Cyber Security Pro. Both deliver ultimate protection against emerging threats for the Mac platform, as well as security vis-á-vis cross-platform attacks targeting Windows or Linux based systems in mixed networks. Each, ESET Cyber Security BETA and ESET Cyber Security Pro...  Read more...

ESET today announced that for the second straight year, Gartner has ranked the company as the security software vendor with the largest worldwide growth in consumer security. According to Gartner’s “Market Share: Security Software, Worldwide, 2011” report, which was released in late March 2012, ESET grew by 30.10 percent.According to the report, “The security software market continues to show resilience at a time of IT budget restrictions. The market grew 7.5 percent in 2011.” “We are...  Read more...

ESET, the award-winning producer of security software, this year celebrating 25 years of its technology, has been announced the leader in consumer satisfaction by the ASCII General Research Institute (part of ASCII Media Works) in Japan. ESET product lines were the top choice for Japanese consumer segment customers among paid products: leading in eleven out of twelve categories. ESET is the brand of choice especially for power users, who are often utilizing the advanced settings of...  Read more...

ESET, the leader in proactive protection against cyber-threats, is expanding its global network of R&D centers. On April 17, the company will officially open its technological hub in Montreal, Canada with offices directly on the campus of the highly-recognized École Polytechnique Montreal.“ESET Canada is an integral part of our network of technology centers around the world and allows us to respond effectively to the rise of cyber threats and technological challenges. Moreover, ESET...  Read more...

 JS/Kryptik.BP – 8.13%: Trojan has the capabilities to remote access connection handling, perform Denial of Service (DoS) or Distributed DoS (DDoS), capture keyboard inputs, delete file or object, or terminate process. Defo – 7.71%: Typical memory usages were like the top 4 kb of the 640 Kb conventional memories. Inserting a non infected diskette in the floppy drive would result in the virus writing itself to the boot sector of the floppy...  Read more...

The phenomenon of organizations allowing or encouraging their employees to use their own computing devices for work–known as Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD–is now widespread in many countries, bringing with it some serious risks to company networks and data. As we first reported here on the blog a few weeks ago, ESET commissioned a Harris Interactive survey to help companies get a handle on the scale and scope of these risks. We have now summarized the most important findings in this...  Read more...

ESET, the leader in proactive protection against cyber-threats, today announced the Release Candidate version of its new flagship products for business customers branded as ESET Endpoint Solutions. ESET invites IT administrators to join in the public testing of the new solutions in this last phase of BETA testing. Both ESET Endpoint Security RC (with added Personal Firewall and Anti-spam) and the lighter version of ESET Endpoint Antivirus RC come standard...  Read more...

In the past few weeks, I’ve noticed an alarming increase in fraudulent email messages coming to some old, well-established email addresses of mine. It’s not just the quantity of messages that’s noteworthy, it’s the quality as well. This particular wave of attacks includes some attacks that are frighteningly real looking. And they’re being used to serve up a toxic brew of malware to unprotected systems. Consider these two examples of messages I received this week. The first appears to be a...  Read more...