There is some confusion over whether it is safe to install a new version of ESET Antivirus (NOD32) or ESET Smart Security over the top of an existing license.

Here is a guide to trouble-free installation of ESET antivirus or ESET Smart Security when you already have an ESET product installed...

How to install an upgrade to your ESET antivirus - or ESET Smart Security...

this includes:

• upgrading from 2.7, 3.0, 4.0, 4.2 etc to 5.0 for Home or 4.2 for Business


• changing from ESET antivirus to ESET Smart Security


• installing a full licensed copy when you have the trial

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in General Security on Wednesday, June 23. 2010 07:52

Microsoft released a whole raft of windows updates today -

Once again, time to get these updates to keep yourself safe...

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in General Security at 15:45

by Aryeh Goretsky Distinguished Researcher ESET North America

The Reuters news agency reported earlier today a sudden increase in violent and pornographic images and videos on Facebook. A quick review of my personal account and a check-in with my other Facebook-wielding colleagues revealed a couple of nothing more than a couple of suggestive pictures, complete with snarky comments embedded in them, from the usual sources and no discussion of violence or pornography pandemics. While our collective Facebook usage is described as casual at best, it seems unusual that several dozen security researchers who keep an eye or two on Facebook wouldn’t have noticed something suspicious should there have been outbreaks of violence and pornography there. After all, if nothing else, it makes for good blog fodder.

Our colleagues at Sophos and BitDefender have written more about the matter in their respective blogs, with the former providing some additional details of what Facebook’s customers saw and the latter identifying a variant of the seven-year-old Win32/Bifrose trojan as the source of the problem and speculating that this might be a late arrival of the Fawkes virus that Anonymous claimed it was going to unleash on Facebook for Guy Fawkes Day.

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in General Security at 23:28

DENVER (CBS4) – Cloud storage is getting a lot of publicity these days. It’s designed to simplify and consolidate information in one location. But how secure is the technology?

Jeremy Kossler is a traveling salesman who likes all his data to travel with him.

"I take the iPad into business meetings, that's my note pad. All my notes that I type at client meetings go right to my phone and I can access them anywhere," Kossler said.

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in General Security at 23:22