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Windows IT Pro

2012 Editors' Best Antivirus/Anti-Malware Product

ESET was named as a silver medal winner of the "2012 Editors' Best Awards" in the Best Antivirus/Anti-Malware Product category by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro. The 2012 Editors' Best Awards are based on a product's strategic importance to market, its competitive advantages, and its value to customers.

SC Magazine

2012 Reader Trust Award

ESET Smart Security has been recognized as the Best Anti-Malware Management solution after proving the product’s success and overall impact to the Reader Trust Voting Panel who are SC Magazine readers that are high-lever IT security executives.

AV-Comparatives

2012 Best Overall Speed

For the consistently low impact on system performance, ESET NOD32 Antivirus has earned Best Overall Speed award from AV-Comparatives.

AV-Comparatives

2012 Top Rated Product

ESET Smart Security 5 received the AV-Comparatives “Top rated product of 2012” award, for achieving high overall performance, demonstrating low system impact and having one of the lowest false positive scores in the AV-Comparatives 2012 tests.

AV-TEST

2011 Best Usability

ESET Smart Security 5 won Best Usability 2011 Award by AV-TEST among 18 other vendors. The award is given based on ESS’s performance in terms of minimizing notification messages, false positives and overall low system impact.

Windows IT Pro

2011 Windows IT Pro Editors’ Award

ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 Business Edition was named the Bronze Editors’ Choice winner in “Best Antivirus/Anti-Malware product” category.

Windows IT Pro

2011 Windows IT Pro Community Choice Award

ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 Business Edition was named the Bronze Community Choice winner in “Best Antivirus/Anti-Malware product” category.

PassMark Software

Best overall ratings

ESET Endpoint Security ranked first in an independent review by PassMark Software and was rated highest in performance among 7 endpoint security solutions.

76 Virus Bulletin VB100 Awards

ESET NOD32 Antivirus has achieved more Virus Bulletin VB100 Awards than any other product. In order to get awarded, product must detect all In-the-Wild viruses while reporting no false positives. ESET NOD32 has never missed an In-The-Wild virus.

Highest Rating, Advanced+

ESET has more “Advanced+” awards in retrospective tests than any other vendor. To receive this highest ranking, product has to have excellent excellent detection rates and low false positives.  

2011 Readers Choice Awards

Readers vote on the best business-grade desktop and server antivirus and antispyware products.  "Whoever believes commoditization drained innovation and competition from the enterprise antimalware market clearly hasn’t been paying attention to ESET. The Slovakian firm and its NOD32 Antivirus product leapfrogged its way to the top the 2011 Readers’ Choice Awards."

Readers Trust Awards 2010 Finalist

ESET has been long recognized by SC Magazine's reviewers and readers. In January 2009 ESET Smart Security – Business Edition was awarded 5 out of 5 stars. A few months later, it was named finalist for "Readers Choice, Best Anti-Malware Solution".

Most Effective

According to Forbes' Andy Greenberg in 2008, "ESET may be the most effective virus scanner you’ve never heard of."

Kick Ass! Award

ESET is the overall winner of the “Kick Ass! Award” that was issued by the Maximum PC magazine in January 2009.

2011 Global Customer Value Enhancement Award in Endpoint Security

Based on the findings of their Best Practices research, Frost & Sullivan's global research organization of 1,800 analyst presented the 2011 Global Customer Value Enhancement Award in Endpoint Security to ESET.

In May 2010, ESET NOD32 Antivirus Business Edition was awarded with the "Citrix Ready" certification. This certification confirms that the solution works effectively on Citrix XenApp virtual environments.

ESET is the only antivirus company to achieve ICSA antivirus detection certifications for both Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. ESET Endpoint Security is certified on Windows 7 64-bit in both antivirus detection and cleaning. ESET NOD32 Antivirus Business Edition for Mac is certified on Mac OS X for antivirus cleaning.

In September 2010, ESET Smart Security received the VMware Ready certification, which ensures that ESET is fully compatible with the VMware environment.

Each quarter, AV-Test.org tests security products in the areas of protection, repair and usability.  ESET met all the requirements and achieved certification for Windows 7, Windows XP and Windows Vista Operating System. 

After extensive testing and evaluation, the CheckVir laboratory certified ESET with the Highest Advanced Rank (2008).

In 2009, ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 and ESET Smart Security obtained the “Compatible with Windows 7” logo.

ESET Smart Security and ESET NOD32 Anitvirus have both garnered OPSWAT Certification. This certifies that these ESET products are verified interoperable with solutions from leading technology.