ESET Smart Security 5 Secures Top Honors from Independent Testing Lab. ESET announces it has won a “2011 Best Usability” award from the AV-TEST Institute, a leading international and independent service provider in the fields of IT security and antivirus research. ESET Smart Security 5 was awarded “Best Usability” for its low false positives and low impact on system performance.

ESET, the leader in proactive protection against cyber-threats, today announced the BETA launch of its new flagship products for business customers: ESET Endpoint Security Suite and ESET Endpoint Security. ESET, the pioneer of proactive protection and the maker of the award-winning NOD32 technology that is celebrating 25th anniversary in 2012, invites IT administrators to join in the public testing of the new BETA version of the new solutions. Both ESET Endpoint Security Suite BETA (with added Personal firewall and Anti-spam) and the lighter version of ESET Endpoint Security BETA come standard with ESET Remote Administrator 5 BETA and are available for free download at ESET.com.

ESET, the leader in proactive protection against cyber-threats, is announcing the release of ESET Gateway Security for Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway for public BETA Testing. With ESET Gateway Security for Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway, the protection of business data is threefold – it covers server traffic on multitude of protocols, filters unwanted messages from company e-mail, and safeguards the server-stored data from exploitation by malware. Potential threats are filtered away at the gateway level, before they can infiltrate company servers and endpoints.

ESET Outperforms Competition; Recognized as “Top Rated Product”. ESET today announced it has been named a “2011 Top Rated Product” by AV-Comparatives and has secured its 71st “VB100” award from Virus Bulletin. Both awards add to ESET’s long track record of great results from these distinguished testing organizations.

ESET, the leader in proactive protection against cyber-threats, has received Citrix Ready certification of three of its award-winning business security solutions: ESET File Security for Microsoft Windows Server, ESET Smart Security Business Edition, and ESET Remote Administrator. The certification confirms that the above-mentioned business solutions run smoothly in Citrix virtual environments.

2011 statistics: INF/Autorun leads the malware; HTML/ScrInject.B.Gen top threat in December. ESET, the leader in proactive protection against cyber-threats, advises on the latest Facebook threat. If you use this social network, you have probably heard of Timeline, a "new" feature that replaces the "traditional" profile page. “However, as a new user, you may be confused by Timeline and confusion could make you the target of a growing number of Timeline-related scams,” says ESET Security Evangelist Stephen Cobb.

This year ESET’s top security experts from around the world – Stephen Cobb, Cameron Camp, Aryeh Goretsky, David Harley, Robert Lipovsky and Sebastian Bortnik – once again compiled a list of predictions about the threatscape developmenst for 2012.

ESET, the leader in proactive protection against cyber-threats, announces the release of ESET Mail Security for IBM Lotus Domino BETA. The Beta testing will take place for a period of at least two months.

ESET Tops the List with the Least Amount of System Impact. ESET announces that it has secured its fourth “Advanced+” award in performance testing from AV-Comparatives, an independent research organization. The latest test measured the impact on system performance of 20 antivirus products. In addition to receiving the highest possible number of “Advanced+” awards in performance testing, ESET has received more “Advanced+” awards in retrospective tests than any other vendor, which is given to products that have excellent heuristic detection rates and low false positives.

November Malware Threats: INF/Autorun Stays on the Top. The holiday season is here and ESET has put together golden tips for safer holiday shopping online. Even more holiday shopping will happen online this year than last and that means more scammers will be looking to do some shopping of their own, possibly at your expense. This might involve using your credit card and bank account to fund their gift-buying, or perhaps capturing and selling your personal information for some extra holiday cash. Here are some of the tips that Cameron Camp, Stephen Cobb and other ESET researchers have put together to help savvy cyber-shoppers avoid getting scammed while hunting for the best holiday deals online.