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ESET Supports New Global Online Safety Message: "Stop. Think. Connect.™"

ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, today announced its support of "Stop. Think. Connect.™," the first-ever coordinated message to help all digital citizens stay safer and more secure online. The message was created by an unprecedented coalition of private companies, nonprofits and government organizations, and it will begin to appear widely around the globe in October in coordination with National Cyber Security Awareness Month.

ESET Congratulates Steve Wampler on Historic Summit of El Capitan

ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, congratulates Steve Wampler on becoming the first person with Cerebral Palsy to summit Yosemite National Park's El Capitan. Steve's climb, which was sponsored by ESET, marks an incredible achievement on behalf of disabled persons everywhere and serves to raise awareness and funds for The Wampler Foundation, a non-profit organization which Steve founded with his wife Elizabeth.

ESET Announces Release Candidate for ESET Cybersecurity

ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, today announced the availability of the Release Candidate of ESET Cybersecurity for Mac for public testing. ESET Cybersecurity was previously made available for public beta testing on December 2, 2009, under the name ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 for Mac. The product is now entering the final stage of public testing.

ESET Announces ESET Cybersecurity for Mac

ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, today announced ESET Cybersecurity for Mac, the company's new security solution for OS X. Leveraging ESET's award-winning NOD32 ThreatSense® engine, ESET Cybersecurity for Mac delivers advanced protection against internet security threats without impacting system performance. In addition, ESET Cybersecurity for Mac customers will have access to online training designed to help better arm them against cybercrime and malicious attacks.

ESET Announces new Mobile Security Solution for Smartphone Protection

ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, today announced the availability of ESET Mobile Security, a new security solution for mobile devices that protects users from the latest mobile threats. ESET Mobile Security leverages ESET's proven threat protection to secure users' mobile communications, sensitive data and privacy on mobile devices that run on Windows Mobile and Symbian platforms.

ESET Releases Threat Center Application for Apple iPhone

ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, has launched the company's first iPhone application – ESET Threat Center. The application gives users the ability to locate the biggest web-based threats, directly from ESET's Global Threat Lab.

ESET Sets Mark for Consecutive Wins with Record 63rd VB100 Award

ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, today announced that it has captured its 63rd VB100 award from Virus Bulletin, the widely-respected independent comparative testing group, and leads all antivirus vendors with a record-setting 46 straight VB100 awards. August's Virus Bulletin report focused on the Windows Vista Business Edition SP2 platform; of the 54 products participating, 35 passed and 19 failed. While maintaining that Windows Vista still runs on over 20% of systems, Virus Bulletin concedes "this may be one last hurrah for a platform that has caused us much grief and aggravation in the past."

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano Gives National Honor to ESET's Securing Our eCity

ESET's Securing Our eCity, a public-private initiative designed to counter the rapidly-growing wave of cybercriminal activity, today announced that it was honored by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt as the "Best Local/Community Plan" along with MyMaine Privacy for the administration's 2010 National Cybersecurity Awareness Challenge. President Obama also attended the event.

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

ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, 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. SCADA are supervisory and monitoring systems used in many industries, for instance in power engineering.

ESET Ranked #1 Endpoint Security for Business

ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, today announced that PassMark Software, a leading authority in software and hardware performance benchmarking and testing, has ranked ESET Smart Security – Business Edition the number one endpoint security for business. In a comparative analysis, PassMark Software tested the performance, the effectiveness and the usability of seven security solutions from some of the world's largest security vendors. PassMark Software then assigned each security product a rating tied to its overall performance, ease of use, design, features and level of excellence in that category. Categories represent major functions or feature sets common to the sphere of business security.