Eset

ESET is a security software company, which was founded in 1992 in Bratislava ( Slovakia). It is privately owned and has offices in San Diego (United States ), London ( United Kingdom), Buenos Aires ( Argentina) and in Prague (Czech Republic). The exclusive distribution of ESET's products in Germany is perceived by the ESET Germany GmbH in Jena.

Products

Esets first product was the antivirus program NOD for DOS. In 1998 came with NOD32 v1.0 the first version for Microsoft Windows on the market, the second version followed in 2003. The last minor version of the 2.x branch was v2.70.39, which was released in November 2006 and for the first time Windows Vista Compatible. In November 2007, Eset released the version 3 of its anti -virus software, with the name in ESET NOD32 Antivirus has been changed. ESET Smart Security a complete security suite with antivirus, antispam, and firewall has been created. The current version is 7 both products.

Esets products run on both 32- bit and 64- bit version of Windows NT SP6 to Windows 7 including server variants. With older versions of Windows only version 2 can thus be used by NOD32. There are also versions for BSD, Linux, Novell NetWare, and Solaris.

Sold by Eset programs are written in Assembler, which may speed advantages and reduced system with it.

The ThreatSense scanning engine makes extensive use of generic signatures and heuristic methods. This is not to be confused with the ThreatSense.Net function, can be sent to Eset with the suspicious files.

Since August 2007 Eset offers on its website to a free online virus scanner. This examines the computer via ActiveX for viruses and other pests.

Test results

NOD32 average in tests from predominantly good. When retrospective proactive test by AV -Comparatives in May 2008, which simulated the heuristic capabilities of antivirus engines with old signatures, he reached the highest level of certification Advanced . In the categories of scripts malware ( detection rate 3% ), Windows viruses ( 24%) and other malware (14%) cut from NOD32 but not good.

When anti-virus program comparison of c't in issue 1 /2008 of heuristic detection value decreased with NOD32 over the previous year, as with all programs of 78.5 to 68 percent. In the category of performance " proved NOD32 as above average afloat ".

2009, sales amounted to 50 million euros and 155 million U.S. dollars.

In the test of Stiftung Warentest in 2011 occupied Eset together with the competitive products from G Data and Avira second place. In the following test of Stiftung Warentest in April 2012 Eset received a " satisfactory" ( score 2.6 ), and came in fourth place. In the test of Stiftung Warentest from April 2013 Eset scored in all four individual events ( antivirus, firewall, handling, computational load ), the "good", thereby reaching No. 1 on the Total score ( overall score: 2.1).

E-Sport

Since 2011, Eset is sponsoring one of the largest German e-sports tournament series will be played in StarCraft II. The Eset Masters 2013 prize money from a pool of $ 27,000 will be awarded. During the qualification matches take place with low price money online, the majority of the prize money will be played on an offline final in front of audience. The live stream of qualifications is provided from 18 clock CET on The HomerJ show every Wednesday.

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