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ESET releases ESET Antivirus 4.2.64 - recommended upgrade!

news@nod32usa.com (Greg Hewitt-Long) — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:50:51 -0600

ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4.2.64.12 has been released. You can download the new build from the download page.

Changelog:
Fix: Computer hangs when going to sleep/hibernate on Windows 7 (usually in combination with Dropbox)
Fix: Sysrescue Wizard cannot detect the Czech version of Windows Automated Installation Kit
Fix: Enhanced support of scanning of virtual drives used by Office 2010
Fix: Opening Office documents from Novell shared folder is not possible

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ESET Secures 63rd VB100 Award!

news@nod32usa.com (Greg Hewitt-Long) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:40:54 -0600

August 10, 2010 ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, today announced that it has captured its 63rd VB100 award from Virus Bulletin, the widely-respected independent comparative testing group, and leads all antivirus vendors with a record-setting 46 straight VB100 awards. August's Virus Bulletin report focused on the Windows Vista Business Edition SP2 platform; of the 54 products participating, 35 passed and 19 failed. While maintaining that Windows Vista still runs on over 20% of systems, Virus Bulletin concedes "this may be one last hurrah for a platform that has caused us much grief and aggravation in the past."

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The 'war' against malware doesn't take a break at Christmas...

news@nod32usa.com (Greg Hewitt-Long) — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:42:24 -0700

While many of us are opening presents, preparing meals, or eating breakfast, the good folks at ESET are still pumping out the antivirus and smart security updates... today so far we've seen one update, and before the day is over, we may see another...

Update 4716 (20091225)

2009-12-25 14:09 (Local time in Bratislava I think)

J2ME.TrojanSMS.Agent.A (8), JS/TrojanDownloader.Agent.NRL, VBS/TrojanDownloader.Agent.NCH (4), VBS/TrojanDownloader.Agent.NCI (2), Win32/Acobot.A (2), Win32/Adware.SecurityTool.AA (2), Win32/Adware.SpyProtector.N, Win32/Afcore, Win32/Afcore.NAO, Win32/Afcore.NAS (2), Win32/Afcore.NAT (2), Win32/Agent.NHG, Win32/Agent.QNP, Win32/Autoit.FL, Win32/AutoRun.FakeAlert.AF (2), Win32/AutoRun.IRCBot.DZ, Win32/Cimag.BI (2), Win32/FlyStudio.OCI, Win32/Injector.ANC, Win32/Kryptik.BNS, Win32/Kryptik.BNT, Win32/Kryptik.BNU, Win32/Kryptik.BNV, Win32/Mebroot.DB, Win32/Olmarik.SD (4), Win32/Rootkit.Agent.NPZ, Win32/Spy.Agent.NQG (3), Win32/Spy.Banker.SMT, Win32/Tifaut.C, Win32/TrojanDownloader.FakeAlert.AFQ (2), Win32/TrojanDownloader.FakeAlert.AQI (2), Win32/TrojanDownloader.FakeAlert.AQT (4), Win32/TrojanDownloader.FakeAlert.AQW (2), Win32/TrojanDownloader.FakeAlert.AQX (3), Win32/TrojanDownloader.FakeAlert.AQZ, Win32/TrojanDownloader.FakeAlert.ARA (2), Win32/TrojanDownloader.FakeAlert.ARB, Win32/TrojanDownloader.Mebload.T (2), Win32/TrojanDownloader.Small.OCS, Win32/TrojanDropper.Microjoin.C, Win32/VB.OQY (2), Win32/VB.ZJG

Here at the BetterAntivirus.com sales order processing, we've been taking breaks from festivities to process orders from...
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ESET Smart Security 4.2 Now Available for BETA Testing

news@nod32usa.com (Greg Hewitt-Long) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:30:12 -0700

Bratislava, December 22, 2009

ESET Smart Security 4.2 with improved Firewall and Antispam Now Available for BETA Testing

ESET launches the version 4.2 of its ESET Smart Security and ESET NOD32 Antivirus for public beta testing. All main modules of ESET Smart Security Antivirus, Antispyware, Personal Firewall and Antispam are improved to ensure better stability and performance of the software.

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Reasons for early renewal of your NOD32 or ESET Smart Security license!

news@nod32usa.com (Greg Hewitt-Long) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:36:23 -0700

The Christmas season is a busy time for all - you're busy shopping, visiting friends and family, and generally having a Merry 'ol time! We are as well - we love the Holidays - it doesn't matter if you're Christian, Jewish and any other faith - the season of holidays is busy for all of us (even those that work).

In antivirus sales, there is a big jump after Christmas, and throughout the first quarter - but January is VERY big - for families, individuals and small businesses (10 PCs and under) - we think the reasons are several:

PCs and laptops as gifts - the accompanying antivirus is either sub-standard, or replaced at the end of it's 30 day "trial"
End of year budget spend and new year budgets allow software purchase
that "turn over a new leaf" syndrome gets people motivated to be a better computer user
regardless of the reason - we're busy helping new customers and plenty of returning customers with their renewals... and it's those renewals that you have to pay attention to...

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December 2009 - ESET antivirus scoops 59th VB100 Award

news@nod32usa.com (Greg Hewitt-Long) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:10:46 -0700

In a routine testing by Virus Bulletin, ESET antivirus has taken yet another VB100 award.

This brings the ESET Antivirus VB100 award total to 59 - still the highest of any antivirus vendor!
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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 08:27:14 -0700

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 15:56:00 -0600

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 18:59:00 -0600

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.

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Marshall Islands email paralysed by 'zombie' attack

newsREMOVED@betterantivirus.com (Annette King) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:50:00 -0600

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 06:51:45 -0600

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.

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Old Is New Department: Microsoft Patents Proactive Virus Protection

newsREMOVED@betterantivirus.com (Annette King) — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:38:44 -0600

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 Most in the Industry

newsREMOVED@betterantivirus.com (Sean Cannon) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:00:58 -0600

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.
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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 12:02:21 -0700

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, thats how many are exhibiting at CeBIT this year.

The best of the lot is NOD32, though, according to Esets Richard Hlavatý. He says that his companys program is much better than the likes of Norton, McAfee, Kaspersky and F-Secure. The reason he says, is NOD32s unrivalled heuristic detection engine.

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ESET Announces Support for Windows Server 2008

newsREMOVED@betterantivirus.com (Sean Cannon) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:29:54 -0700

Antivirus Leader Also Compatible with Latest Vista and XP Service Packs

SAN DIEGO February 27, 2008 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. ESETs line of award-winning security solutions, including the companys flagship antivirus product, ESET NOD32 Antivirus, is currently available and ready to support Windows newest server product lines.

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