ESET Threat Blog

It was back in the 1990s when someone told me that operating systems like Windows NT were getting so safe that AV would soon be out of business. And I hear on a regular basis that AV is so ineffective it's not worth having. Because I get some of my income from the anti-virus industry, … Read More…

The much reported/blogged iPhone worm does not affect all iPhones. Specifically it affects SOME iPhones that have been jailbroken. A significant part of the iPhone and iPod Touch security model is a technique called “whitelisting”. This is not new and is known to be a very effective security technology that can be used to prevent … Read More…

…and it’s still hybrid. Or multi-layered, if you prefer. What anti-malware companies (and malware authors, if it comes to that) are constantly doing is revisiting concepts that have worked before so that they fit the current environment better: there’s nothing wrong with an evolutionary approach, but changing the terminology doesn’t make it revolutionary. So what Larry … Read More…