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

SAN DIEGO – April 3, 2008 – 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 “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.

Posted by Sean Cannon in NOD32 News at 08:00

R&D budgets, outsourcing models and support services

Malware development is now closely mimicking the legitimate business world, according to Symantec's latest internet security threat report.

Criminals are increasingly outsourcing parts of the malware process, be it writing code or developer tools, distributing the finished product or even setting up support services for organisations that buy the software.

Posted by Sean Cannon in Virus & AntiVirus News at 08:00