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Understanding and Teaching Heuristics
April 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper is designed to provide a basic understanding of what heuristics are and how they are used in the anti-malware industry. Topics covered include signature based detection, generic...
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The Root of All Evil? - Rootkits Revealed
April 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Public awareness of rootkits has risen in recent years, but as with worms, viruses and other forms of malicious software (malware), the term rootkit is applied unselectively to a range of...
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ESET Smart Security 4 Product White Paper: Antivirus - Antispyware - Personal Firewall - Antispam
February 28, 2009, 12:00am PST
The Internet is perhaps the greatest communication tool ever created. However, now that so many computers have an "Always-On" connection to the Internet, there is an unprecedented amount of...
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A Pretty Kettle of Phish
February 15, 2008, 12:00am PST
"Phishing" usually refers to the practice of posting a deceptive message as part of an attempt at fraud and/or identity theft. It's sometimes referred to as "Carding", "Hoax Mail", or "Spoofing"....
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From Fun to Profit: The Evolution of Malware
April 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Digital threats have evolved from a bizarre hobby for computer geeks into a huge source of profit for organized cyber-crime. From a technical point of view, malware has diversified to enable...
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Testing Testing: Anti-Malware Evaluation for the Enterprise
April 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Anti-malware software remains an essential defensive component for most enterprises, understandably anxious to get the right balance of affordability and effectiveness. Unfortunately, journalists,...
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The Passing Storm: The Storm/Nuwar Botnet
January 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
While security software can mitigate the direct impact of Nuwar and other bot-related malware on individual systems, the wider effects of botnet activity need additional countermeasures. DDoS...
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Global Threat Trends: November 2008
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Analysis of ESET's ThreatSense.Net, a sophisticated malware reporting and tracking system, shows that the highest number of detections this month, with almost 11.74% of the total, was scored by...
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Net of the Living Dead: Bots, Botnets and Zombies
April 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Organized crime long ago discovered the Internet's profit potential, and has succeeded not only in recruiting the necessary expertise to exploit that potential, but in capturing and subverting a...
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Who Will Test the Testers?
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The anti-malware industry has been plagued since its earliest days by one poorly designed comparative test after another. Contrast this then with the rather surprising fact that anyone with a...
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Mid-Year Global Threat Report
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The mid-yearly Global Threat Report looks at malware threat trends over the past six months, focusing on broad trends rather than the minutiae of individual malicious code: this is a better...
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A Dose by Any Other Name
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Years ago, when alt.comp.virus was still useful, 'Name that virus' was a popular virtual party game, and virus names were, if not standardized, at least easy to cross-reference with tools like...
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People Patching: Is User Education of Any Use at All?
April 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In general, the anti-malware community splits dramatically into two camps when it comes to the evergreen debate about the effectiveness of user education and security awareness as a protective...
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The Spam-Ish Inquisition
April 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
UCE is usually regarded as a subset of UBE, though it's a very considerable percentage of 'Spammy' email, and many simply use the term UCE interchangeably with 'Spam'. Bulk email such as...
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Global Threat Report 2007
January 15, 2008, 12:00am PST
ESET's product line has, traditionally, been focused on the detection and removal of viruses and other forms of malicious software, though notice as one reads through this paper that it do rather...
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Free But Fake: Rogue Anti-Malware
February 25, 2009, 12:00am PST
Most antivirus products are commercial and typically offer, as is the case with ESET solutions, free trial versions for a 30-day period. This limitation is the perfect excuse for criminals to...
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The Game of the Name Malware Naming, Shape Shifters and Sympathetic Magic
September 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Once upon a time, one infection by specific malware looked much like another infection, to an antivirus scanner if not to the naked eye. Even back then, virus naming wasn't very consistent between...
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Understanding and Teaching Bots and Botnets
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Bots and botnets suck, so what better teaching aid to help people understand them than a vacuum cleaner? The second in the 'Understanding and teaching...' series, this paper is designed to both...
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Staying Safe on the Internet
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The traffic lights are always at amber on the Internet, because there are always risks, so here are some tips for reducing exposure to attacks from cybercriminals. Of course, it can't cover all...
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Social Security Numbers: Identification Is Not Authentication
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The sky is not falling. Knowing SSN is not necessarily enough to give an attacker control over finances or steal identity. It depends on the context and on what other information he or she has. As...
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Keeping Secrets: Good Password Practice
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Passwords and passphrases are one example of a form of security measure called authentication. It gives them to people so that they can use them to prove that they are entitled to use something to...
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Playing Dirty
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper highlights the importance of protecting the gamer. However, when malware targeting online games is copied to the system, it does not and cannot check whether the owner of the system is...
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Common Hoaxes and Chain Letters: Volume 1
August 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This is a listing of hoaxes and chain letters that are commonly reported right now, though it might be expanded to include more varied material, as time allows. Not all hoaxes are chain letters,...
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Anti-Malware Evaluation for the Enterprise
May 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Like malware nomenclature and the alleged total reliance of anti-virus software on signature detection, detection performance testing of anti-malware programs, especially comparative testing,...
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Phish Phodder: Is User Education Helping or Hindering
May 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Mostly, security professionals can spot a phish a mile off. If they do err, it's usually on the side of caution, for instance when real organizations fail to observe best practice, and generate...
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Case Studies
Printer's Internet Threats Prompt Switch to ESET
February 29, 2008, 12:00am PST
Sorrento Mesa Printing is located in San Diego, CA. It business prints, ships and fulfills nationally and internationally for digital and offset printing. The challenge was machines were running...
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Case Studies
Austrain Winemaker Pours Itself an ESET Solution
January 28, 2008, 12:00am PST
Stutzenhofen, Austria - Owner Georg Hugi relies on traditional methods of wine production, stressing the quality of its famous Goldstück - the sprkting wine with 24 carat gold inside. It is only...
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ESET Case Study: ESET - Where the Smart Money Is
January 23, 2008, 12:00am PST
Regents Bank has been in the banking business since 1994, and with Regents Bank in La Jolla, CA since 2002. The challenge was slow system performance, workstations continually, rebooting, etc....
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ESET Case Study: When Customer Privacy Matters
January 23, 2008, 12:00am PST
Computer Security Associates was founded in 1993 and became an ESET customer in December of 2002. The challenge was customer privacy was not secure, unstable solutions required and repeated...
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Case Studies
ESET Case Study: Westwood One Tunes in ESET
December 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
Westwood One is a large provider of network radio programming and one of the largest domestic providers of traffic information in the U.S. It was looking for a company to support older legacy...
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ESET Case Study: Business College's Bottom Line
April 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Babson College is located in Wellesley, MA, best known for its nationally ranked entrepreneurship program. In order to ensure stability at the client level Sol creates standard images for every...
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ESET Case Study: AllCom Credit Union
July 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Laura Cummings is vice president of administration and electronic operations for AllCom Credit Union, a regional provider of savings and loan products located in Worcester, MA. Cummings is...
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ESET Case Study: Managed Service Provider - AppRiver
March 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
AppRiver was founded in April 2002 with a handful of experts, an arsenal of technology, and one clear value proposition: to offer businesses of all sizes secure messaging solutions. Numerous...
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ESET Case Study: Media - Dial Global Communications
March 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In August of 2007 Westwood One turned over the reins of that division to Dial Global. Dial Global's programming also includes feature and long form programming for all formats, hosted by legendary...
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One of EU's Fastest Growing Companies Adopts ESET as a Corporate Standard
March 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Pamhagen, Austria - Elbacom, one of EMEA's largest and fastest-growing Windows Embedded Systems Microsoft Partners relies on ESET NOD32 Antivirus when executing its "IQ - Intelligence Quality /...
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ESET Case Study: Managed Service Provider - No Panic Computing
March 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
No Panic Computing (NPC) specializes in secure mobile computing solutions for small business professionals. When it came time to select the security software component, NPC had one goal in mind...
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ESET Case Study: Regents Bank
March 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
One of those challenges was of course to secure the network - protecting it from hackers, viruses, spyware, keyloggers and other Internet threats. Some problems started happening, and the level of...
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Case Studies
ESET Case Study: Sorrento Mesa Printing
March 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Sorrento Mesa Printing is located in San Diego, CA. Its business prints, ships and fulfills nationally and internationally for digital and off set printing. Prior to suffering its first infection,...
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ESET Case Study: Sprague Energy
June 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Sprague Energy is one of the largest suppliers of energy and materials handling services in New England with products including home heating oil, diesel fuels, residual fuels, gasoline and natural...
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Case Studies
Austrian Winemaker Pours Itself an ESET Solution
March 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Stutzenhofen, Austria - Georg Hugl, owner of Weinviertler Sektmanufaktur, relies on traditional methods of wine production, stressing the quality of its famous Goldstuck - the sparkling wine with...
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The Spam-Ish Inquisition: Tired of Spam With Everything? Don't Fritter Away Your Time and Energy on Junk Mail
February 15, 2008, 12:00am PST
Spam looks like a simple enough issue until one have to try to define it. Most people have a working definition along the lines of "Email I don't Want." While that's perfectly understandable, it...
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Case Studies
ESET Case Study: Total Tech
May 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Founded in 2004, Total Tech is an Internet and network security solutions provider that helps protect and secure over 400 companies from network security threats. Total Tech has never supported...
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ESET Case Study: Network Security Group, Inc.
March 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Network Security Group, Inc. is a network security solution provider and full service network security VAR focused on small-to medium-sized businesses. It was looking for a technologically...
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ESET Case Study: CSA
March 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
CSA was founded in 1993 and became an ESET customer in December of 2002. It feels the way because it had spent time selling, installing and managing other solutions as well - including those of...
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ESET Case Study: Reliance, LP
April 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
With over 1,500 employees and 1.5 million customers, keeping the network humming is one of his top concerns. Selecting the right security software is an integral part of this process....
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ESET Case Study: San Diego Gastroenterology Medical Associates
September 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
San Diego based Gastroenterology Medical Associates was founded in 1977 with two internal medicine doctors. It wasn't until 2004 that SDGMA's computers got connected to the Internet, so its...
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ESET Case Study: Archbold Medical Center
April 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Archbold Medical Center is comprised of five hospitals and four nursing homes, with more than 800 beds in and around Thomasville, Georgia. Until April 2007 medical center was using Symantec...
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ESET Case Study: Winnipeg School Division
April 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Kenn Olson is a divisional computer electronics technician for Winnipeg School Division (WSD), which provides educational programs and related services to approximately 34,000 students from...
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ESET Case Study: Monadnock School District
April 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Monadnock School District wanted something that it could afford, and started to believe that antivirus solution wasn't right. Symantec had just come out with version 10 and it was causing all...
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ESET Case Study: New Orleans Archdiocese
May 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The Archdiocese of New Orleans is a private school district comprised of ¬ campuses across eight civil parishes. Prior to installing ESET, the Archdiocese's biggest challenge was balancing the...
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ESET Case Study: Keystone College
March 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Keystone College is a four-year institution with approximately 1,700 students. During the previous renewal cycle in 2004, Keystone evaluated Sophos and McAfee, and re-evaluated the Symantec...
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ESET Case Study: Coronado Unified School District
March 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Coronado Unified is a K-12 school district located just south of downtown San Diego - on Coronado Island. It began finding that more viruses and other malware were penetrating his defenses and...
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ESET Case Study: Babson College
March 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Babson College is located in Wellesley, MA, and best known for its nationally ranked entrepreneurship program. More than 1,700 undergraduate and 1,600 graduate students attend Babson, representing...
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Case Studies
Austrian Winemaker Pours Itself an ESET Solution
March 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Stutzenhofen, Austria - Georg Hugl, owner of Weinviertler Sektmanufaktur, relies on traditional methods of wine production, stressing the quality of its famous Goldstuck - the sparkling wine with...
Provided by Eset
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Case Studies
ESET Case Study: Sprague Energy
June 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Sprague Energy is one of the largest suppliers of energy and materials handling services in New England with products including home heating oil, diesel fuels, residual fuels, gasoline and natural...
Provided by Eset
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Case Studies
ESET Case Study: Sorrento Mesa Printing
March 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Sorrento Mesa Printing is located in San Diego, CA. Its business prints, ships and fulfills nationally and internationally for digital and off set printing. Prior to suffering its first infection,...
Provided by Eset
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Case Studies
ESET Case Study: Regents Bank
March 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
One of those challenges was of course to secure the network - protecting it from hackers, viruses, spyware, keyloggers and other Internet threats. Some problems started happening, and the level of...
Provided by Eset
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Case Studies
ESET Case Study: Managed Service Provider - No Panic Computing
March 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
No Panic Computing (NPC) specializes in secure mobile computing solutions for small business professionals. When it came time to select the security software component, NPC had one goal in mind...
Provided by Eset
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Case Studies
One of EU's Fastest Growing Companies Adopts ESET as a Corporate Standard
March 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Pamhagen, Austria - Elbacom, one of EMEA's largest and fastest-growing Windows Embedded Systems Microsoft Partners relies on ESET NOD32 Antivirus when executing its "IQ - Intelligence Quality /...
Provided by Eset
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Case Studies
ESET Case Study: Media - Dial Global Communications
March 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In August of 2007 Westwood One turned over the reins of that division to Dial Global. Dial Global's programming also includes feature and long form programming for all formats, hosted by legendary...
Provided by Eset
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Case Studies
ESET Case Study: Managed Service Provider - AppRiver
March 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
AppRiver was founded in April 2002 with a handful of experts, an arsenal of technology, and one clear value proposition: to offer businesses of all sizes secure messaging solutions. Numerous...
Provided by Eset
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Case Studies
ESET Case Study: AllCom Credit Union
July 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Laura Cummings is vice president of administration and electronic operations for AllCom Credit Union, a regional provider of savings and loan products located in Worcester, MA. Cummings is...
Provided by Eset
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Case Studies
ESET Case Study: Business College's Bottom Line
April 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Babson College is located in Wellesley, MA, best known for its nationally ranked entrepreneurship program. In order to ensure stability at the client level Sol creates standard images for every...
Provided by Eset
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Case Studies
ESET Case Study: Westwood One Tunes in ESET
December 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
Westwood One is a large provider of network radio programming and one of the largest domestic providers of traffic information in the U.S. It was looking for a company to support older legacy...
Provided by Eset
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Case Studies
ESET Case Study: When Customer Privacy Matters
January 23, 2008, 12:00am PST
Computer Security Associates was founded in 1993 and became an ESET customer in December of 2002. The challenge was customer privacy was not secure, unstable solutions required and repeated...
Provided by Eset
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Case Studies
ESET Case Study: ESET - Where the Smart Money Is
January 23, 2008, 12:00am PST
Regents Bank has been in the banking business since 1994, and with Regents Bank in La Jolla, CA since 2002. The challenge was slow system performance, workstations continually, rebooting, etc....
Provided by Eset
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Case Studies
Austrain Winemaker Pours Itself an ESET Solution
January 28, 2008, 12:00am PST
Stutzenhofen, Austria - Owner Georg Hugi relies on traditional methods of wine production, stressing the quality of its famous Goldstück - the sprkting wine with 24 carat gold inside. It is only...
Provided by Eset
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Case Studies
Printer's Internet Threats Prompt Switch to ESET
February 29, 2008, 12:00am PST
Sorrento Mesa Printing is located in San Diego, CA. It business prints, ships and fulfills nationally and internationally for digital and offset printing. The challenge was machines were running...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
Phish Phodder: Is User Education Helping or Hindering
May 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Mostly, security professionals can spot a phish a mile off. If they do err, it's usually on the side of caution, for instance when real organizations fail to observe best practice, and generate...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
Anti-Malware Evaluation for the Enterprise
May 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Like malware nomenclature and the alleged total reliance of anti-virus software on signature detection, detection performance testing of anti-malware programs, especially comparative testing,...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
Common Hoaxes and Chain Letters: Volume 1
August 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This is a listing of hoaxes and chain letters that are commonly reported right now, though it might be expanded to include more varied material, as time allows. Not all hoaxes are chain letters,...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
Playing Dirty
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper highlights the importance of protecting the gamer. However, when malware targeting online games is copied to the system, it does not and cannot check whether the owner of the system is...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
Keeping Secrets: Good Password Practice
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Passwords and passphrases are one example of a form of security measure called authentication. It gives them to people so that they can use them to prove that they are entitled to use something to...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
Social Security Numbers: Identification Is Not Authentication
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The sky is not falling. Knowing SSN is not necessarily enough to give an attacker control over finances or steal identity. It depends on the context and on what other information he or she has. As...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
Staying Safe on the Internet
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The traffic lights are always at amber on the Internet, because there are always risks, so here are some tips for reducing exposure to attacks from cybercriminals. Of course, it can't cover all...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
Understanding and Teaching Bots and Botnets
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Bots and botnets suck, so what better teaching aid to help people understand them than a vacuum cleaner? The second in the 'Understanding and teaching...' series, this paper is designed to both...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
The Game of the Name Malware Naming, Shape Shifters and Sympathetic Magic
September 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Once upon a time, one infection by specific malware looked much like another infection, to an antivirus scanner if not to the naked eye. Even back then, virus naming wasn't very consistent between...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
Free But Fake: Rogue Anti-Malware
February 25, 2009, 12:00am PST
Most antivirus products are commercial and typically offer, as is the case with ESET solutions, free trial versions for a 30-day period. This limitation is the perfect excuse for criminals to...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
Global Threat Report 2007
January 15, 2008, 12:00am PST
ESET's product line has, traditionally, been focused on the detection and removal of viruses and other forms of malicious software, though notice as one reads through this paper that it do rather...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
The Spam-Ish Inquisition
April 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
UCE is usually regarded as a subset of UBE, though it's a very considerable percentage of 'Spammy' email, and many simply use the term UCE interchangeably with 'Spam'. Bulk email such as...
Provided by Eset
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