ESET Threat Blog

It will likely come as no surprise to regular readers of ESET's Threat Blog that we are somewhat gadget aficionados here in the Research Department. Our focus, however, is usually on issues such as malware, spam and privacy so we do not spend a lot of time discussing gadgetry.  Every once in a while, though, … Read More…

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Kevin Townsend posted a blog in response to a piece by Mike Rothman at Securosis. Mike’s piece on “The Death of Product Reviews” makes some pretty good points about security product reviews in general. Kevin’s piece is more specific to anti-malware. He too makes some useful discussion points about the value or otherwise of … Read More…

Good morning. Is there anyone still out there and connected? Thought so.
While one or two people who comment here seem to think I’m personally responsible for developing, maintaining, and marketing ESET products (and in at least one case writing the malware as well) I’m afraid I didn’t spend April 1st crouched over a rack of … Read More…

You may have noticed that I’ve been making a lot of references to this over the past few weeks. You can now download it here. Quite a few people have worked pretty hard to make this project happen, and I’d like to thank them now. I hope some of you will find it interesting and … 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…

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…

I’m in Washington right now, at the CSI conference. It won’t surprise regular readers to know I’m here to talk about testing anti-malware products (again!) So it may not surprise you to know also that I’m particularly interested to see an article by Larry Seltzer that looks at the documents just approved by AMTSO (the Anti-Malware Testing … Read More…

AMTSO, the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization, have just issue a press release about the guidelines documents just published on their web site after ratification by everyone present at the AMTSO meeting in Oxford at the end of October.
You may have noticed that we’re quite optimistic about the beneficial future impact of AMTSO on testing … Read More…

I just came got back from Oxford (that’s the one in the UK, by the way), where the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization held its latest two-day meeting. I’m not usually considered to be a glass-half full person, especially when it comes to issues around testing, but I’m feeling genuinely enthusiastic about the progress that was … Read More…

Most of us have been in Estonia for the past few days for a couple of conferences. You may hear more about that later, when Normal Service is resumed. One thing I wanted to remark on now, though (partly because it relates directly to some presentations I’ve been doing) is a spike in the use … Read More…