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.

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in NOD32 News at 08:27

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