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November Top Threats: Europeans Targeted By Malware spreading via P2P and Social Networks

European Internet users, as well as clients in other parts of the world were afflicted by the Win32/Conficker worm.Aside from the famous types of malware, the users in Europe were also exposed to worms targeting social networks, such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.

ESET Releases Beta Version of ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 for Mac OS X and Linux

ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 for Mac and ESET NOD32 Antivirus for Linux, respectively meet the demanding criteria for advanced PC protection, detecting threats engineered for a multitude of platforms. All ESET products employ advanced heuristic analysis that creates a layer of defense against emerging threats and use generic signatures for reliable detection of mutations of known viruses.

ESET Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server – Public Beta available

ESET Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server features Antispam protection, Transport layer protection as well as Antivirus and Antispyware protection with Anti-rootkit technology and HIPS function represented by Self-Defense feature. In order to further foster ESET’s efforts in the corporate market, this product supports both Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, while backward compatibility with Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, 2000 and 2003 is also ensured.

Conficker Is The Most Widespread

Throughout the month of October, ESET customers have encountered the Conficker worm the most. This fact is underscored by the results of ESET statistical reporting system ThreatSense.Net®. Win32/Conficker with an 8.85% share of all detected threats remains the topmost threat.

ESET Warns Against Online Thieves During Halloween

Internet users and social networking sites visitors, should brace themselves for a spike of attacks around Halloween with an aim to monetize vulnerabilities. The attackers are known to take advantage of the increase in traffic around holidays when peole exchange online greetings to try and steel personal content or infect computers with malware.

Only 5 vendors, including ESET, have met the detection and cleaning criteria for Windows 7

ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon Business, announced that it has certified 5 vendors in detection and cleaning following its first round of of security software designed for the MS Windows 7. ICSA Labs found that ESET products comply with its requirements for how well a products detects malware.

ESET ranked 11th in Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Central Europe

ESET is the 11th fastest growing technology company in the region of Central Europe – covering 10 countries, including fast developing ones in the Balkan region. According to this year’s ranking by Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Central Europe, ESET has registered a 951% growth within the past 5 years and is the fastest growing technology firm in Slovakia.

September - Rise of USB and Exchangeable Media-borne Threats

Throughout September, the popularity of exchangeable media has contributed to the high occurrence of related threats in the Slovak Republic. INF/Autorun is the country‘s top threat with a share of 5.51%. A similar trend was registered also in Israel (4.99%), Latvia (4.97%) and Lithuania (5.44%). Even higher share of USB-exploiting threats was registered in the United Arab Emirates – 7.36%.

ESET Announces Support for Windows 7

The complete line of ESET products - ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 and ESET Smart Security 4 (home and business editions), Remote Administrator 3, SysInspector and ESET Online Scanner are fully compatible with Microsoft’s new operating system.

ESET launches Public Beta of ESET Mobile Antivirus for Symbian

ESET, the creator of security software for the protection against all – even unknown computer threats has submitted for public testing a beta version of ESET Mobile Antivirus for Symbian operating system.