ESET Threat Blog

Round here, we’re mostly concerned with the malicious and programming kinds of bug. But as an avid watcher of Spooks*,  I couldn’t resist sharing with you an item in the Telegraph about a samovar presented to the British Royal Family about twenty years ago. Apparently, after a surveillance sweep of the Queen’s estate at Balmoral, the … Read More…

AV-Comparatives, one of the major anti-malware testing organizations, has just announced its retrospective test for November. Retrospective or "frozen" testing involves testing the ability of one or more products to detect threats proactively, using techniques such as advanced heuristics rather than signature detection.
The test used new and unique samples received between 4th and 31st … Read More…

We’re very interested in the whole Phishing problem, not just the malware/banking Trojans side of the issue. So while free publicity for job sites is not exactly the business we’re in, I thought you might find this item interesting. The PhishBucket site describes itself as a  nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting job seekers from fraudulent … Read More…

Okay, sorry about the horrible pun. It suddenly occurred to me that people (especially those from outside the UK) might be somewhat shocked that the Barts and the London NHS Trust, a group of three major hospitals in London took so long to deal with a malicious program that was, apparently, detected by their provider … Read More…

Hello again. I’m back from Washington (not to mention Vienna, Bratislava and York), but I haven’t escaped from detection testing issues. Not that I’m complaining: after many years of campaigning for better testing and better information about testing, it feels very positive that people are prepared to sit through a 60 minute presentation and then … Read More…

 
There was terrible news in Mumbai, India. Terrorists attacked several site and at least 80 people were reported dead. Knowing that I plan to go to India, it didn’t take long before I received a phone call asking if I was aware of the situation and if I would still be going. Both of my … Read More…

A couple of years ago I blogged about the Julie Amero case http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/?p=42. There is finally closure in this case.
In the state of Connecticut and innocent person proclaiming their innocence is called “Disorderly Conduct”, so Julie accepted a plea bargain and was forced to pay a $100 fine for being a victim of adware/spyware. It … Read More…

We’ve added some features to ESET Smart Security. The beta for version 4.0 is now open to the public. Visit http://beta.eset.com to try out the new version.
As always with beta software, it is not recommended to be used on production systems.
 
New features include:

support for Microsoft Windows Live Mail and Mozilla Thunderbird mail user agents
scanning of … Read More…

Microsoft announced that they will be dropping OneCare and providing a free consumer anti-virus product. Much like when Microsoft announced they would enter the anti-virus market, this has caused quite a bit of media buzz. Much like when Microsoft announced they would enter the anti-virus market, this is not a big deal.
To start with, … Read More…

I’m still in Washington, but have just picked up some news that reminds me not only of home, but of my job of a few years ago, when I worked as a security manager for the UK’s National Health Service. It’s been announced that the Barts and The London NHS Trust, which includes several of … Read More…