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.

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in NOD32 News at 15:56

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 — the winning formula in malware prevention.

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in NOD32 News at 18:59

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.

Posted by Annette King in NOD32 News at 11:50

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

San Diego, June 4, 2008 - ESET®, 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 — the industry's highest. Most antivirus vendors have success ratios in the 50 – 75 percent range.

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in NOD32 News at 06:51