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ESET Announces Availability of ESET Smart Security and ESET NOD32 Antivirus V3.0
ESET Announces ESET Smart Security and ESET NOD32 Antivirus V3.0
Tight integration and advanced heuristics provides better protection against blended threats.
We're pleased to announce news on ESET Smart Security, a new, integrated security solution for consumers and SMEs, built on ESET’s award-winning advanced heuristic ThreatSense® detection system and the ESET NOD32 scanning engine.
Unlike security suites that combine standalone products, ESET Smart Security tightly integrates the antispyware, antispam and firewall features, with a new version of ESET’s flagship ESET NOD32 Antivirus scanning engine. This tight integration allows each module to share information with the other to evaluate and classify every threat appropriately.
ESET Smart Security takes less than a minute to install and does not require the PC to be rebooted after installation. The simple user interface enables even novice users to easily set-up the system and makes choices such as sharing information on a network or choosing to remain anonymous on an unsecured wireless network, easy. More advanced users that wish to have more detailed control over ESET Smart Security can do so using the “Advanced Mode” interface.
In its default settings, ESET Smart Security offers powerful detection capabilities with minimal user intervention. Handy features such as small updates and low performance overhead means that being secure does not equate to a slow machine, whilst ESET Smart Security’s advanced integration ensures comprehensive protection against blended threats. An example of the integration can be seen in the way ESET Smart Security handles html links in specific applications. Clicking on an html link in Microsoft Word for instance, will render the application as being classed as a ‘browser’. ESET Smart Security will then apply a far more rigorous heuristic checking to any traffic that occurs on network connections to that application.
ESET Smart Security and the latest version of ESET NOD32 Antivirus set the standard for modern heuristic scanning. Emulation technology allows for data to be opened in a virtual area within the program, so that it can be assessed and checked for suspicious activity before it is allowed to run on the machine. Combined with ESET’s ThreatSense technology, which provides a proactive early warning system from millions of installed systems around the world, ESET closes the window of vulnerability from when malware is discovered and a signature update released.
ESET Smart Security combines speed, accuracy and minimal computer system impact to deliver a significant improvement over traditional solutions in the marketplace today. ESET’s ThreatSense technology provides the industry’s highest level of accuracy. With significantly lower performance overhead compared to the competition. ESET Smart Security uses only 40MB of disk space, and scans systems up to 30-times faster than other products.
Research indicates that consumers and businesses are looking for maximum protection, low system requirements, accurate results and fast scanning speeds—in that order. They are tired of solutions that slow down their computers and interfere with other applications, ESET set out to build a solution that addressed these concerns while offering the best level of protection available. With ESET Smart Security, we’ve surpassed our goal and savvy computer users will be amazed by its ease of use, intelligent lightweight design and near-zero impact on system performance.
Availability and pricing
ESET Smart Security and ESET NOD32 Antivirus V3.0 will be available for purchase from the 5th November 2007. Business Editions of the product will be available from the 26th November 2007.
ESET Releases NOD32 Antivirus for Microsoft Exchange 2007
We're pleased to let you know that a major new release of ESET NOD32 Antivirus for Microsoft Exchange has been announced. Version 2.71 provides full Microsoft Exchange 2007 support and includes important changes to the product architecture, which increases performance even further.
ESET NOD32 Antivirus for Microsoft Exchange provides on-line scanning of email in the Microsoft Exchange Server environment. The new version now has the capability to run as an external scanning engine. This improvement to the architecture, which allows the ESET ThreatSense engine to run inside the ESET Control Centre, independently of the MS Exchange Server, enhances scanning stability in certain server environments.
In addition, enhancements have been made to the configuration and scheduling of Background Scans. In Version 2.71, the user can configure Background Scans to run only on messages received within a certain time period, for example in the last week or month and schedule the Background scan to run only during a specific time frame such as non-business hours when the server load is lower.
Other enhancements include the ability to execute rules based on the mailbox name and the log file now includes additional performance information, which can then be used to optimise the configuration.
ESET NOD32 Antivirus for Microsoft Exchange version 2.71 is available now and is a free upgrade for existing users. The installer covers all Microsoft Exchange versions supported. When installing onto MS Exchange 5.5, 2000 and 2003, 32-bit components are installed and 64-bit components are installed for MS Exchange 2007.
ESET Launches New Online Scanner
New Web Tool Provides Free, No-Hassle Malware Assessment and Cleaning
Powered by award-winning ESET NOD32 Antivirus software, the ESET Online Scanner is a free Web-based service that allows non-ESET users to identify hidden threats, get a “second opinion” on the health status of their computers and determine the strength of their current malware solution.
Based on ESET’s unique advanced heuristic detection technology, ThreatSense, the ESET Online Scanner provides a comprehensive analysis of a computer’s malware infection status. It not only detects both known and unknown forms of malware, including viruses, worms, Trojans, phishing and spyware, residing on a computer, but it also cleans the system and allows the end-user to troubleshoot and repair many malware-related problems.
Additional ESET Online Scanner Benefits:
• Fast and Easy-to-Use: The scanner is installed and activated by a single button
• Always Up-to-Date: Uses the most current threat signatures and heuristic detection algorithms available from the ESET Threat Lab
• Deep Scans: Scans inside archive files, runtime packed executables and email messages
• Anonymity: The Online Scanner can be used anonymously as contact information is not required to use the service.
Availability
The ESET Online Scanner is available now: http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/index.php.