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The new ESET Online Scanner is now available in the Release Candidate verison
As of today, the new ESET Online Scanner is in the "release candidate" phase, marking the beginning of intensive public testing prior to market launch.
April 1st and Conficker: Nothing Happened?
The analysts at ESET have carefully watched the commencement of activity of the worm Win32/Conficker.X. The worm has in its body an embedded command to trigger its activity on April 1st. This command has thus been activated, prompting the worm to start communication with a randomly-generated number of domains out of the estimated daily total of 50, 000 where the worm checks for instructions. (April 1, 2009)
Record-breaking VB100% Awarded along with Highest AV-Comparatives Accolade
Thus far, the year 2009 has proved to be successful for ESET. The company has secured the highest possible accolades in two of the most prestigious Antivirus tests - the British-based Virus Bulletin and Austrian-based AV-Comparatives. (March 30, 2009)
A new variant of Conficker Worm Ready for Massive Attack on PC Infrastructure
The new variant of the dangerous worm Conficker is rapidly spreading through the Internet. The malware‘s variants, which appeared previously have succeeded in shutting down thousands of PCs worldwide. Computer security experts agree that Win32/Conficker.X, (also dubbed by some vendors as Conficker.C or Conficker.D) poses even a greater threat than its predecessors. (March 23, 2009)