ESET vs. Competition

Find out what independent testing organizations compare when testing antivirus software and why they focus on those particular traits. See how ESET performs in these tests and where we excel — not to mention where the competition falls unforgivably short. Check out ESET's advantages and see what makes our solutions stand out from the crowd in the global Internet security market.

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In-the-Wild viruses are real viruses that have been reported to Wildlist organizations by at least two independent reporters. ESET NOD32 Antivirus is the only solution in the world that has never missed an In-the-Wild virus since the inception of testing in May 1998.

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ESET holds the record number of the highest Advanced+ awards in proactive detection by AV-Comparatives. No other vendor was able to match this achievement to date.

Proactive detection refers to the way ESET security solutions detect malicious programs that have not yet been discovered and catalogued. The scanning engine is trained to detect malware without relying on the updates of the antivirus signatures, i.e. catching malware by its intrinsic "malicious" behavior.

Every day cyber criminals create thousands of new malware variants, making it difficult for an antivirus solution to strike the right balance between detecting these emerging threats and flagging legitimate programs. ESET’s unique ThreatSense® technology strikes this balance, closing the vulnerability to emerging threats while keeping false positives to a minimum.

In June 2011 AV-Test reviewed the performance of 22 security solutions testing typical tasks, including download of different types of files, file copying, application install, application startup and others. 13 categories were tested and summarized in the "System Slowdown" category, leading with ESET.