ESET Threat Blog

A few years ago, from time to time I used to visit the school where my wife taught IT, to talk to some of their students about IT security. In fact, we wrote a paper at that time(along with my good friend Eddy Willems), based on some research data we gathered between us in the … Read More…

EICAR (formerly known as the European Institute for Computer Anti-virus Research, though that title hasn't been used for a good while) is best known for its yearly conference and for the EICAR test file, which can be used as an installation check with most anti-virus programs to check that it's installed and active.
Sadly, I've been … Read More…

[Update: if this post is of interest to you, you may also find Kevin Townsend's commentary of interest, though the title seems a little misleading to me. While I'm not altogether comfortable with the fact that the message is a little too reminiscent of fake AV, I don't see how you can describe an application that ... Read More…