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Vacationing with Your Computer? A few tips to stay secure

Do you travel a lot or work on your computer outside the office? Does your business require extensive travelling that calls to do last-minute work at the airport? Are you one of the millions of users around the world who have to take their portable computer wherever they go? Whether your weapon of choice is a netbook, notebook or smartphone, you need protection. ESET’s security expert Ján Vrabec has a few tips on how to stay safe in cyberspace.

ESET Analysis: Worm Win32/Stuxnet Targets Supervisory Systems in the U.S. and Iran

BRATISLAVA - ESET, the global leader in proactive protection against malware has issued a warning against a worm dubbed Win32/Stuxnet, which threatens users around the globe. Exploiting a vulnerability in Windows® Shell, this dangerous threat is detected by ESET as LNK/Autostart.A. It is used in targeted attacks to penetrate SCADA systems, especially in the United States and Iran...

ESET Update Boosts Engine Scanning Speed

ESET has increased the speed of its scanning engine by 30% on average. With the signature update 5187, many processes have been optimized for even higher performance.

Website-infecting Trojan Becomes One of the Top Threats in Europe

In June, the regular monthly report mapping the most widespread computer threats has shown several emerging trends. One of the top threats spreading across almost in all European counties is a trojan infecting websites. Technically, it is a script injected into web pages, which automatically redirects visitors to IFRAME-infected websites, from which the script downloads and executes additional malicious code to unprotected computers.

ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 for Mac and Linux Available in Beta 2 version

ESET is moving forward with another step to the final release of ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 for Mac OS X and ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 for Linux desktop when releasing its Beta 2 version.

Virus Bulletin Test: ESET NOD32 Antivirus Uses Minimum System Resources

Virus Bulletin test conducted on the Windows Server 2008 R2 platform has brought 62nd VB100 Award, and at the same time, makes ESET the holder of the most consecutive awards of this kind in the industry – 45 in total.

European PCs under attack by removable media malware

For the month of May, 2010, ESET ThreatSense.Net®, a unique in-the-cloud malware collection system has evaluated Win32/Conficker as the top threat with a global share of 9.12%.

ESET Acquires Antispam Maker

ESET, a global provider of security solutions, announces the acquisition of COMDOM Software ̵ a Slovakia-based software company acclaimed for antispam solutions. The latest acquisition underlines the company’s strategy of solidifying its position as a premiere developer of security software.

ESET on Matousec´s 8.0 Earthquake

Following a few media requests on the Matousec.com article about Khobe 8.0 Earthquake vulnerability, ESET would like to assure its customers that they don’t need to be worried about their security. The vulnerability potentially targets only the self-defense mechanism in EAV and ESS version 4 and above, with no effect on the standard functionality of the scanner.

Top 3 Global Threats: Malware Family Capable of Stealing User Information

The data from ESET’s in-the-cloud malware collection system ThreatSense.Net® shows the new trend in the month of April when Win32/Agent entered Top 3 threat ranking with 3.53% share out of all detected malware detected on the ESET users computers. ESET describes this detection of malicious code as generic, as it describes members of a broad malware family capable of stealing user information from infected PCs.