ESET NOD32 receives tremendous response at Infoconnect 2007
ESET, the well known security vendor, exhibited along with their sole partner in Kuwait - Future Technology Systems. The vendor signed here a great number of deals for its award-winning anti-virus solution - ESET NOD32. Eset also showcased its portfolio of world-class security solutions in addition to meeting up with existing and potential customers at Kuwait’s leading technology event.
“Infoconnect was a perfect forum for us to showcase our latest and best global security solutions and to create brand awareness of our strong portfolio amongst our customers in Kuwait. The event gave us excellent response in terms of sales leads for our world-class antivirus solution, NOD32. Our sales team is busy following up on the potential leads we received at this premier technology event and we are confident these leads will result in great business for Eset and Future Technology Systems,” said Mr. Neo Neophytou, Managing Director, Eset Distribution Middle East.
“Our main goal behind participating in Infoconnect was to position ESET NOD32 as the Antivirus of choice in its segment. ESET NOD32 is an ideal product for enterprises and home users who are looking for proactive security solution without affecting their system speed. Infoconnect also was a great platform for us to raise Eset’s profile, position and brand image in Kuwait. Going by the superb response we received this year, we are looking forward to participating in a bigger way in Infoconnect 2008″, Mr. Neophytou added.
ESET Distribution offers Anti-virus, Firewall and Anti-spam solutions. Their award-winning, anti-threat software system, ESET NOD32, provides real-time protection from known and unknown viruses, worms, trojans, spyware and other malware. ESET NOD32 Antivirus software is powered by ThreatSense technology, a sophisticated detection system based on advanced heuristics that proactively protects users from emerging various threats. Third-party tests from Virus Bulletin and AV-Comparatives have demonstrated that ESET’s solution consistently achieves the highest degree of ‘in the wild’ malware detection rates, while also maintaining a leadership position in fast scans and unobtrusive signature updates.
Even if it was a small company ESET gained a high reputation especially for it,s main product, the anti virus program called NOD32. A program that is a defiance for so called bloated software that pretend an absolute protection in exchange with the loss of computer,s overall speed performance.
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OneCare Finishes Last in Antivirus Test
Windows Live OneCare from Microsoft competed with 17 antivirus software applications in a test against nearly half a million viruses, Trojans, worms, and other malware, according to Austrian antivirus researcher Andreas Clementi.
Clementi posts results of tests of top antivirus products on his AV Comparatives Web site (www.av-comparatives.org). G Data Security’s AntiVirusKit blocked 99.5 percent of the malicious threats. AEC’s TrustPort AV WS, Anvira’s AntiVir PE Premium, MicroWorld’s eScan AntiVirus, F-Secure’s Anti-Virus, and Kaspersky Labs’ AV also impresively succedeed high marks.
However, big-brand solutions such as Norton AntiVirus from Symantec and McAfee’s VirusScan could not keep up to the competition. Symantec’s software scored 96.8 while McAfee scored 91.6. And Microsoft’s OneCare blocked only 82.4 percent of malicious software.
This represents a very interesting issue, why pay more for a high-brand security solution, if that proved to be a weak piece of software?How could this be explained?
Well, in his report, Clementi suggested that end users should keep in their minds that the detection rate is only one aspect of a complete antivirus product. He also offered some additional factors to consider, including looking into other independent test results.
“We encourage our readers to also have a look at tests done by other test centers with large collections of verified malware,” he noted, “as tests based solely on viruses listed on the Wildlist give a fairly limited view of the detection capabilities.”
This is not the only test that has found Microsoft’s security software as inadequate. In other test, Microsoft’s antispyware tool, Windows Defender, also dissapointed,performing very poor. Australian security company PC Tools - which makes and sells its own antispyware product - the popular and powerful Spyware Doctor tool ( as the most recent reviews show ) - found Windows Defender to detect only between 46 percent and 53 percent of the spyware thrown at it. This is a black ,,spot” for Microsoft, I even wonder if Windows Defender was a garbage piece of software or Microsoft,s so said recent interest for a real security software policy is just a complex of empty words.
Antivirus goes down
According to Michael Sutton, a security specialist with SPI Dynamics, the downfall of current antivirus products results from the fact that they are especially signature-based. Hard-coded signatures rely on exact matches before they trigger, he explained, and malware writers have realized that even simple mutations can bypass signature-based algorithms.
The only antivirus software that little exceeded 50% proactive detection of unknown/undiscovered malware software to the last test of Clementi (in november 2006) were Antivir PE Premium, from Avira and NOD32, from Eset. Eset has been being for quite a time well known for its heuristic proved capabilities, but even so, the day when every new created virus to be automatically detected without updated signatures is still far even for them, not to talk about the other companies which don,t have a too good know-how technology in this respect.
Source: http://www.topix.net/tech/spyware
