ESET News

ESET, a global provider of security software for enterprises and consumers, has joined the Microsoft Virus Information Alliance (VIA) alongside vendors including McAfee and Symantec. Alliance members assist the Microsoft Product Support Services Security Team in providing Microsoft customers with detailed information about significant viruses that are affecting Microsoft products and its customers.

ESET’s ThreatSense.Net technology provides us with a lot of relevant data which helps us to determine the impact that particular families of malware have on the global security landscape," commented Miroslav Trnka, director of engineering for ESET. "We have been cooperating with Microsoft since 2001. Membership in the VIA is acknowledgement of ESET’s research expertise and its active role in the AV industry. We are pleased to lend our threat detection expertise to help protect Microsoft's customers from new emerging threats and techniques."

With new threats appearing every day, it is important that antivirus companies not only provide new updates to identify these threats once they are released, but also are able to detect threats proactively through advanced heuristics. Without proactive heuristic detection, users must wait for updated versions of their antivirus software, creating a critical window of vulnerability that can last hours or even days. NOD32 heuristically detects significantly more unknown malware than any other product, as verified by multiple independent testing sources.

“Microsoft is pleased to work with ESET and all the VIA members to provide customers with the information they need to help protect themselves from malicious threats.  Security is an industry-wide issue, and Microsoft is committed to continuing to work closely with industry partners toward the common goal of improving security for all computer users,” said Stephen Toulouse, security program manager of the Security Response Center at Microsoft Corp.