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ESET Captures 53rd Virus Bulletin VB100 Award

Detects 100 Percent of In-the-Wild Polymorphic Viruses, Worms and Bots

SAN DIEGO, December 4, 2008

ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, today announced it has captured a record 53rd VB100 award from Virus Bulletin, a widely-respected independent comparative testing group. The October 2008 comparative review was conducted on the Windows Server 2008 platform, showcasing ESET’s continued support for the latest Windows environments. ESET is still the only company with more than 50 VB100 awards and continues to lead the industry with the highest detection rates with zero false positives — the winning formula in malware prevention.

Virus Bulletin introduced its first VB100 award in 1998, and conducts several comparatives every year, rotating its platforms between Linux, Windows, Windows servers and Novell Netware. In order to display the VB100 logo, an antivirus product must meet two criteria: (1) Demonstrate it detects all "In-the-Wild" viruses during both on-demand and on-access scanning; and, (2) Generate no false positives when scanning a set of clean files. Since the inception of VB100 awards in 1998, ESET’s antivirus products continue to boast a success rate of over 96 percent — the industry's highest. Most antivirus vendors have success ratios in the 50-75 percent range.

ESET NOD32 Antivirus' stylish new look remains impressive both visually and in usability terms." said John Hawes, Virus Bulletin. "Analysis of results showed the product's usual excellent detection rates and yet more splendid scanning speeds over the clean sets, with nothing missed in the WildList set. ESET adds yet another VB100 to its record tally."

ESET is powered by ThreatSense® technology, an advanced heuristics engine that enables proactive detection of malware not covered by even the most frequently updated signature-based products. Unlike traditional approaches, ESET solutions decode and analyze executable code in real-time, using an emulated environment. By allowing malware to execute in a secure virtual world, ESET is able to clearly differentiate between benign files and even the most sophisticated and cleverly-disguised malware.

ESET Crowned “Best Antivirus Product of 2007” by AV-Comparatives

Honor Bestowed on Security Leader for Second Straight Year

SAN DIEGO – December 19, 2007 – ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, today announced that its award-winning ESET NOD32 Antivirus was named “Best Antivirus Product of 2007” by AV-Comparatives, an independent research outlet that tests antivirus software. Over 17 products were tested throughout the year, with winners from a range of categories including on-demand scanning speed, polymorphic virus detection and number of false positives generated. ESET NOD32 Antivirus was named the overall winner for the second consecutive year.

According to AV-Comparatives, to capture “Best Antivirus Product of 2007,” the product must have high detection rates (including detection of difficult polymorphic viruses), high proactive detection rates, very few false positives, be fast with low system impact, cause no crashes or hangs and have no noticeable bugs.

ESET NOD32 Antivirus led the pack because of its ThreatSense® technology, an advanced heuristics engine that enables proactive detection of malware not covered by even the most frequently updated signature-based products. Unlike traditional solutions, ESET NOD32 Antivirus decodes and analyzes executable code in real-time, using an emulated environment. By allowing malware to execute in a secure virtual world, ESET is able to clearly differentiate between benign files and even the most sophisticated and cleverly-disguised malware.

“In our four years of testing antivirus products, we still haven’t found one that can rival ESET’s advanced heuristics,” said Andreas Clementi, founder and chief researcher at AV-Comparatives. “As a result, ESET consistently outperforms the competition in proactively detecting viruses and generating very few false positives without causing system slowdown, therefore earning the title of ‘Best Antivirus Product of 2007.’”

The 2007 summary report can be found here.

ESET NOD32 Antivirus V3.0 and ESET Smart Security Business Editions Now Available

Integrated Solution Delivers Unmatched Speed and Accuracy in a Dispersed Computing Environment

SAN DIEGO – November 26, 2007 – ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, today announced the general availability of ESET Smart Security Business Edition, a new, highly integrated security solution for enterprises and small-to-medium-sized businesses. It includes antivirus, antispyware, antispam and firewall features built on ESET’s award-winning advanced heuristic ThreatSense® detection system and the ESET NOD32 Antivirus scanning engine. The Business Edition also incorporates ESET’s Remote Administrator, allowing both ESET Smart Security and the new version of ESET NOD32 Antivirus to be deployed and managed remotely from a central location.

“ESET understands that businesses are looking for maximum protection, low system requirements, accurate results and fast scanning speeds—all at a low total cost of ownership,” said Anton Zajac, CEO of ESET, LLC. “With ESET Smart Security, we’ve been able to deliver the industry’s highest level of accuracy with the fewest false-positives, thereby virtually eliminating the man hours traditionally spent chasing after inaccurate results. Our solution runs behind the scenes and even in large dispersed deployments, it operates with industry-leading scanning speed and near-zero impact on system performance.”

With significantly lower performance overhead compared to the competition, ESET Smart Security uses only 40MB of disk space and scans systems up to 30-times faster than other products. And unlike security suites which combine standalone products, ESET Smart Security tightly integrates the antispyware, antispam and firewall features with the new version of ESET’s flagship ESET NOD32 Antivirus scanning engine. This tight integration allows each module to share information with the other to evaluate and classify every threat appropriately within the ThreatSense detection system.

ESET’s ThreatSense technology provides the industry’s highest level of accuracy. It is the only antivirus technology that has not missed an in-the-wild-virus in Virus Bulletin VB 100 testing over the past nine years, while producing only one false-positive during that time. It has also received more Advanced+ awards from AV-Comparatives.org for proactive protection than any other product.

Unique to ESET Smart Security and ESET NOD32 Antivirus V3.0 Business Edition:
• Hands-on service – All ESET customers receive the same level of excellent technical support service, whether an individual computer user or an SMB.
• Ease of installation – ESET Smart Security and ESET NOD32 Antivirus V3.0 Business Edition scanning engines are quick and easy to install, no matter what solution is currently running.
• Advanced threat protection network – ESET solutions are backed by ThreatSense.Net, a global early warning system built into the products. ThreatSense.Net extends the power of ThreatSense’s powerful analytics by automatically submitting samples of and information about new malware to ESET researchers for analysis, thus helping to close the window of vulnerability opened by new threats.

About ESET
Founded in 1992 and headquartered in San Diego, Calif., ESET is a global security software solution company that provides next generation virus protection. ESET’s award-winning anti-virus software system, NOD32, assures maximum network performance, advanced heuristic detection, and free worldwide support. NOD32 provides enterprise customers with the highest ROI in the industry as a result of increased user compliance, decreased downtime, and higher productivity. NOD32 holds more Virus Bulletin 100% Awards than any other anti-virus product available, consistently detecting all known viruses “in the wild” without false positives. ESET’s work with major corporations like Canon, Dell and Microsoft has propelled the company into Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 two years running. ESET is a privately held company with offices in San Diego, US, London, UK, Prague, CZ, and Bratislava, SK.