ESET Threat Blog

I recently received a couple of questions about signatures from a reader.
1- You said that ESET receives around 200000 unique malware samples daily, so does ESET detect most of them or detect only the malwares that their signatures are listed here: http://www.eset.com/threat-center/threatsense-updates ?
2- Nowadays why signatures are written? Are they written to detect malwares initially, … Read More.

Yesterday I came across a nice governmental resource at On Guard Online, listing some common email scams. Security gurus might not learn a lot from it, but as @SecurityGarden has pointed out, it's a good place to steer your less knowledgeable friends and family.
The same site has a number of other useful-looking pages, though I … Read More.

In addition to recently getting a Droid 2, I purchased a Motorola H17txt Bluetooth headset. When used with a Blackberry or an Android based phone you can download and install an application called MotoSpeak that will read text messages and emails through the H17TXT. Before you go looking for such a headset be warned, there … Read More.

You have to be a real cool cat to get into the Cambridge Who’s Who registry. A few months ago I received a spam message from whoswhopublication@gmail.com.  A legitimate Who’s Who organization is very unlikely to be using a Gmail address and they wouldn’t have sent the email to AskESET. Here’s the email:
You were … Read More.

I'm distressed to note that Facebook is suing a teacher's community startup over its intention to use the name Teachbook, having already persuaded a site calling itself Placebook to switch to the name TraceTrip.
The issue has arisen over alleged "trademark infringement, trademark dilution and unfair competition." So I guess Mark Zuckerberg, the sensitive soul who owns … Read More.