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Awards, Certifications and Accolades

PCMag

Consumer Recommended

"To succeed today, antivirus vendors have to provide great protection without affecting the performance of a user’s system. Every vendor attempts to get the balance right, but this year the most recommended company in the antivirus market was the Slovakia-based ESET, edging past larger, better-known competitors."

Windows IT Pro

2011 Editors' Best and Community Choice Award Winner by Windows IT Pro Magazine

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

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.

Information Security Magazine

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."

Parents Tested Parent Approved

Seal of Approval

ESET Smart Security 5 received the esteemed PTPA (Parents Tested Parent Approved) Seal of Approval, the most publicized and highly recognized award seal in North America.

Virus Bulletin

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.

AV-Comparatives

Most "Advanced+" Awards

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

CNET

Editors' Choice Award

The coveted CNET Editors' Choice award recognizes outstanding consumer electronics that represent the best available choice for quality, performance, design, service, value, and its logo is a mark of excellence denoting the best possible investment for consumers.

Frost & Sullivan

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.

Maximum PC

Kick Ass! Award

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

West Coast Labs

West Coast Labs' Checkmark certifications are given based on products' ability to detect and remove threats. ESET currently holds Checkmark certifications in both detection and removal of infections across our endpoint, mobile, file server and mail server security product families.

PC Home

Best Performance Award

In 2009, ESET NOD32 won the "Best Performance Award" from PC Home demonstrating minimum resource usage and excellent product performance.

Recognitions

Inc. 5000

Leadership Recognition

Every year the Inc. 5000 celebrates the remarkable achievements of today's entrepreneurial superstars – the men and women leading the 5000 fastest-growing private companies in America. For the past three years, ESET has been named a member of this exclusive club.

PCDIY

In 2008, ESET NOD32 Antivirus was recommended as the best from PCDYI, one of the most popular computer magazines in Taiwan, especially popular with heavy users of computer software.