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news@nod32usa.com (Greg Hewitt-Long) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:41:56 -0500

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v4.0 ESET Antivirus and v4.0 ESET Smart Security launch TODAY!

news@nod32usa.com (Greg Hewitt-Long) — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:27:14 -0600

Computer Security Solutions is proud to announce that ESET launched version 4.0 of both ESET Smart Security and ESET Antivirus today!

As usual, customers who have a valid license for current products (be that version 2.7 or version 3.0) are able to download and install the latest v4.0 of their product for FREE. This means you can upgrade to the latest v4.0 antivirus if you have a valid antivirus license - and that you can move to v4.0 ESET Smart Security if you have a valid ESET Smart Security license.

Unlike many other anti-threat vendors, ESET is committed to zero-cost ugprades within the same product family to it's loyal customers - this means that unlike "the other guys" - there will be no "upgrade fee" to get the latest, greatest protection - you have already paid by your original purchase, or purchase of a renewal license.

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NOD32 Renewed by Ontario Ministry of Education in 400,000 License Deal

news@nod32usa.com (Greg Hewitt-Long) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:56:00 -0500

SAN DIEGO - August 11, 2008 - ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, today announced that the Ontario Ministry of Education (OME) has again selected ESET NOD32 Antivirus software to protect more than 400,000 networked computers.

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NOD32 Secures 51st VB100 Award for Unprecedented Malware Detection

news@nod32usa.com (Greg Hewitt-Long) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:59:00 -0500

Detects 100 Percent of Worms, Bots and "In-the-Wild" Viruses, with Zero False Positives

SAN DIEGO - August 4, 2008 - ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, today announced it has captured a record 51st VB100 award from Virus Bulletin, a widely-respected independent comparative testing group. ESET is the only company with more than 50 VB100 awards and continues to lead the industry with the highest detection rates with no false positives â the winning formula in malware prevention.

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Marshall Islands email paralysed by 'zombie' attack

newsREMOVED@betterantivirus.com (Annette King) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:50:00 -0500

Email communication in the Marshall Islands was paralyzed Tuesday after hackers launched a "zombie" computer attack on the western Pacific nation's only Internet service provider, officials said.

The attack starting early Tuesday, in which hackers used computers taken over by viruses to flood the Internet provider with spam emails, caused a complete shutdown of email traffic into the nation of around 55,000 people.

More than 18 hours after the initial attack Tuesday incoming email service to the monopoly provider had still not been restored.

The government-owned National Telecommunications Authority (NTA) was hit with a sudden four-fold increase in incoming email, which it described as an attack by "zombie computers", said an NTA spokesman.

While NTA customers could send and receive emails to each other through the local system, virtually no non-NTA emails had been received since Monday, impacting local businesses, banks and government offices.

"Some malevolent person unleashed infected computers to flood NTA with mail," said a local information technology expert who asked not to be named.

"The fact that there were so many messages sent shows a degree of sophistication to the attack."

Local officials said the cyber attack was believed to be the first on the country's only Internet service provider.

ESET Secures Record-Breaking 50th Virus Bulletin Award for Security Excellence

news@nod32usa.com (Greg Hewitt-Long) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:51:45 -0500

Detects 100 Percent of Viruses, Worms and Bots with Zero False Positives

San Diego, June 4, 2008 - ESETÂ®, the leader in proactive threat protection, today announced it has captured a record 50th VB100 award from Virus Bulletin, a widely-respected independent comparative testing group. ESET is the first company to reach the 50-award milestone.

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 boast a success rate of over 96 percent â the industry's highest. Most antivirus vendors have success ratios in the 50 â 75 percent range.

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Old Is New Department: Microsoft Patents Proactive Virus Protection

newsREMOVED@betterantivirus.com (Annette King) — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:38:44 -0500

Microsoft has just snared a U.S. patent for proactive virus protection, which is how security software helps secure your PC when it encounters shape-shifting malware not already in its antivirus definition file. What I want to know is, what does this mean for all the other vendors -- like McAfee, Symantec, Kaspersky, and Trend Micro -- that have been selling proactive protection software for years? Do they now have to pay Microsoft protection; I mean, royalties?

Here's the quick low-down on the new Microsoft patent. Issued on June 20, patent number 7,376,970 is entitled "System and method for proactive computer virus protection." The inventor is Adrian Marinescu, who was at one point (maybe he still is) a lead developer on the Windows kernel team, heavily involved in the heap manager. He previously worked on Windows NT's object manager, which is a key software traffic-cop managing the interaction among all the executive kernel subsystems. All this is by way of saying that Mr. Marinescu clearly knows his operating-system internals.

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ESET Captures 49th Virus Bulletin Award in Ten Years â Most in the Industry

newsREMOVED@betterantivirus.com (Sean Cannon) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:00:58 -0500

ESET NOD32 Antivirus Detects 100 Percent of all Viruses, in both On-Access and On-Demand Environments

SAN DIEGO â April 3, 2008 â ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, today announced that ESET NOD32 Antivirus Version 3.0 has captured an industry-leading 49th VB100 award from Virus Bulletin. Virus Bulletin performs independent comparative testing of antivirus products and is widely respected within the antivirus community.

Virus Bulletin introduced its first VB100 award in 1998. In order to display the VB100 logo, an antivirus product must meet two criteria: (1) Demonstrate it detects all âIn-the-Wildâ viruses during both on-demand and on-access scanning; and, (2) Generate no false positives when scanning a set of clean files.
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Is Eset's NOD32 the best anti-virus software in the world?

newsREMOVED@betterantivirus.com (Annette King) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:02:21 -0600

Hall 6 at the CeBIT show in Hannover this week is packed full of anti-virus software manufacturers. If you count the number of anti-virus programs you know of, and times that number by 20, thatâs how many are exhibiting at CeBIT this year.

The best of the lot is NOD32, though, according to Esetâs Richard HlavatÃ½. He says that his companyâs program is much better than the likes of Norton, McAfee, Kaspersky and F-Secure. The reason he says, is NOD32âs unrivalled heuristic detection engine.

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ESET Announces Support for Windows Server 2008

newsREMOVED@betterantivirus.com (Sean Cannon) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:29:54 -0600

Antivirus Leader Also Compatible with Latest Vista and XP Service Packs

SAN DIEGO â February 27, 2008 â ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, today announced support for Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 platform, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3. ESETâs line of award-winning security solutions, including the companyâs flagship antivirus product, ESET NOD32 Antivirus, is currently available and ready to support Windows newest server product lines.

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Antivirus passes opera's audition

news@nod32usa.com (Johnathan Kastner) — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:59:31 -0600

"The virus caused a range of problems which were only resolved after Cresswell installed Eset's NOD32.... with the help of NOD32, he quickly identified the virus and eliminated it from his client's systems."

Opera Australia is Australia's major opera company, and is one of the busiest in the world, presenting around 600 performances per year.

The operating environment of the company is complex and blends next-generation applications with legacy systems, a set-up, which can complicate the security choices available to the IT staff.
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Computer Security Solutions welcomes 10,000th customer

news@nod32usa.com (Johnathan Kastner) — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:27:56 -0500

Just three years ago, Web Your Business opened a computer security division and named it âComputer Security Solutions.â They are now proud to welcome their 10,000th customer with a free year of the antivirus product Nod32.

The lucky 10,000th customer was Richard Williams, a partner at Cabinets on Time, based in Spring, Texas. Richard Williams moved to Nod32 because of its lighter use of computer resources. "I switched to Nod32 over a year ago, because [other antivirus programs] were resource hogs,â said Williams. âThanks, and you have a great product.â

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Dorset County Council Chooses NOD32

news@nod32usa.com (Johnathan Kastner) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:23:58 -0500

Light footprint and excellent heuristics are main criteria

Bournemouth, UK (26th July 2007) â It was announced today that Dorset County Council has extended its NOD32 Enterprise Edition licence agreement, which protects the Councilâs 4500 desktop computers and associated servers against viruses and other malicious attacks, to include the 15,000 machines in Dorset schools covered by the LEA.

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Nod32 Featured on - Kingmax Super Stick L Series 8GB USB Flash Drive

news@nod32usa.com (Johnathan Kastner) — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:12:52 -0500

Kingmax showcased its Super Stick USB flash drive at the world-famous Computex Taipei event that took place in June 2007. Now the company has announced that it plans to launch an 8GB Super Stick L series USB flash drive come August 2007.

According to Kingmax, since the Super Stick L series USB flash drive uses advanced Micron 72-nm flash memory, it is able to squeeze up to 8GB capacity into the tiny form factor.

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NOD32 Secures Top Score in Global AV Test

stjohn@nod32usa.com (StJohn (singin) Murray) — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:51:17 -0500

Eset, the leader in proactive threat protection, today announced that its NOD32 Antivirus software was the only antivirus solution awarded the Advanced+ Certification in the May 2007 Anti-Virus Comparative No. 14 test, conducted by testing organization AV-Comparatives.

The Advanced+ Certification is granted to antivirus products that demonstrate leading proactive detection capabilities while delivering minimal false positives.

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