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Marshall Islands email paralysed by 'zombie' attack

news@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

news@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

news@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?

news@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

news@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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Antivirus passes opera's audition

news@nod32usa.com (Johnathan Kastner) — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:59:31 -0700

"The virus caused a range of problems which were only resolved after Cresswell installed Eset's NOD32.... with the help of NOD32, he quickly identified the virus and eliminated it from his client's systems."

Opera Australia is Australia's major opera company, and is one of the busiest in the world, presenting around 600 performances per year.

The operating environment of the company is complex and blends next-generation applications with legacy systems, a set-up, which can complicate the security choices available to the IT staff.
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Computer Security Solutions welcomes 10,000th customer

news@nod32usa.com (Johnathan Kastner) — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:27:56 -0600

Just three years ago, Web Your Business opened a computer security division and named it Computer Security Solutions. They are now proud to welcome their 10,000th customer with a free year of the antivirus product Nod32.

The lucky 10,000th customer was Richard Williams, a partner at Cabinets on Time, based in Spring, Texas. Richard Williams moved to Nod32 because of its lighter use of computer resources. "I switched to Nod32 over a year ago, because [other antivirus programs] were resource hogs, said Williams. Thanks, and you have a great product.

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Dorset County Council Chooses NOD32

news@nod32usa.com (Johnathan Kastner) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:23:58 -0600

Light footprint and excellent heuristics are main criteria

Bournemouth, UK (26th July 2007) It was announced today that Dorset County Council has extended its NOD32 Enterprise Edition licence agreement, which protects the Councils 4500 desktop computers and associated servers against viruses and other malicious attacks, to include the 15,000 machines in Dorset schools covered by the LEA.

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Nod32 Featured on - Kingmax Super Stick L Series 8GB USB Flash Drive

news@nod32usa.com (Johnathan Kastner) — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:12:52 -0600

Kingmax showcased its Super Stick USB flash drive at the world-famous Computex Taipei event that took place in June 2007. Now the company has announced that it plans to launch an 8GB Super Stick L series USB flash drive come August 2007.

According to Kingmax, since the Super Stick L series USB flash drive uses advanced Micron 72-nm flash memory, it is able to squeeze up to 8GB capacity into the tiny form factor.

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NOD32 Secures Top Score in Global AV Test

stjohn@nod32usa.com (StJohn (singin) Murray) — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:51:17 -0600

Eset, the leader in proactive threat protection, today announced that its NOD32 Antivirus software was the only antivirus solution awarded the Advanced+ Certification in the May 2007 Anti-Virus Comparative No. 14 test, conducted by testing organization AV-Comparatives.

The Advanced+ Certification is granted to antivirus products that demonstrate leading proactive detection capabilities while delivering minimal false positives.

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NOD32 Receives PC Plus Value Award and Placement on the Hot List

stjohn@nod32usa.com (StJohn (singin) Murray) — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:24:10 -0600

Bournemouth, UK (5th July 2007) It was announced today that the authoritative computing magazine, PC Plus has awarded NOD32 Small and Home Office the PC Plus Value Award. In addition, PC Plus has placed the software it describes as the hardline riot cop of the virus slaying world onto its Hot List, making it PC Plus' current pick for best in its class.

Although the review commented that the availability of in-depth settings may not be for suitable for everyone, James De Vile wrote, A package you can trust to silently eradicate all would-be threats from any number of computers, NOD32 is the best in its class, especially considering its excellent price.

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NOD32

stjohn@nod32usa.com (StJohn (singin) Murray) — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:34:33 -0600

This product contains several pieces that integrate very well. When combined, it covers protection from viruses, worms, spyware and other malicious attacks. The pieces include anti-virus monitor, email monitor, document monitor and internet monitor. The monitors are delegated to serve their specific purpose; therefore, protection is complete and no one monitor is overburdened. The monitors work nicely together to proactively protect the computers. Another component of the system is the NOD Scanner. The NOD Scanner is an on-demand scanner that can be controlled from the console to scan systems on a schedule or on-demand.

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NOD32 Unveils Online Scanner

stjohn@nod32usa.com (StJohn (singin) Murray) — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:50:42 -0600

NOD32, the leader in proactive threat protection, today unveiled its new online scanning service. Powered by award-winning NOD32 Antivirus software, NOD32 Online Scanner is a free Web-based service that enables computer users to perform a comprehensive system scan to check for and clean viruses, spyware, and other malwarewithout uninstalling their existing antivirus solution. With Online Scanner, non-NOD32 users can get a second opinion on the health status of their computers and determine if their existing malware solution is really performing up to snuff.
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Questionable false positive file removed

stjohn@nod32usa.com (StJohn (singin) Murray) — Wed, 16 May 2007 11:33:55 -0600

In Virus Bulletin's April 2007 Linux comparative review, VB reported that ESET's product NOD32 had generated a false positive during scanning of the older part of the clean test set. After further investigation and careful consideration, VB now deems that the file alerted on was inappropriate for inclusion in the clean test set. The file will be removed from the clean test set with immediate effect. A VB100 is therefore awarded to NOD32. No other products were affected.
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