ESET Threat Blog

Andrew Lee just drew my attention to a poll carried out by an IT magazine in the UK, asking the question ‘Do you think it's necessary to use paid-for anti-virus software to effectively protect your PC?’ Clearly this is a question that a lot of people ask, but the answer is more complicated than you … Read More…

Some readers will know that I often contribute articles to SC Magazine's Cybercrime Corner. Here are a couple that have gone up today.

Social engineering and social media starts from Symantec's transient false positive detection of Facebook as a malicious site, and goes on to consider a more serious side to the event, in the light of … Read More…

SC Magazine's Dan Raywood and I were talking about a claim by Nir Zuk, CTO of Palo Alto Networks, that "Anti-virus is dead because it is unable to detect attacks properly and is incapable of working on mobile devices…" As you might expect, I don't by any means agree that AV is a dead parrot, … Read More…

[Part 8 of an occasional series, updating a blog series I ran in early 2009 to reflect changes in the threat landscape. This series will also be available shortly as a white paper.]
Anti-Virus isn’t Total Security
Don’t expect antivirus alone to protect you from everything.
Use additional measures such as a personal firewall, antispam and anti-phishing toolbars, but … Read More…