ESET Australia - Recent Awards

June 2010 - PassMark Australia tested the performance, effectiveness and usability of solutions from seven of the largest security vendors and assigned each product a rating tied to its features, design, ease of use, overall performance and level of excellence in categories representing major functions or feature sets common to the sphere of business security ... and ranked ESET Smart Security Business Edition as the "number one" in endpoint security for business!

ESET - #1 + #2 = CLEAN SWEEP!

ESET crossed the finish line ahead of all the "Big Name" anti-malware programs in the prestigious annual Australian PC Authority Best Tech Awards for 2009 with an impressive "One - Two" clean sweep!

ESET Smart Security took out the #1 "Outright Winner" Award, with ESET NOD32 Antivirus coming in a very close second to win the #2 "Highly Commended" Award.

	ESET has won more Virus Bulletin VB100 Awards than any other vendor. In Virus Bulletin's comparative tests, ESET NOD32 Antivirus has not missed an 'In the Wild' virus sample since it was first tested in May 1998.
	Named "Best Antivirus Product" of 2006 and 2007, ESET has earned 11 "Advanced+" ratings since 2004, more than twice as many as any other vendor.
	Awarded CNET Editors' Choice: April 2009
	CPCW is the most popular IT newspaper in China with a circulation of over 700,000 per issue. The annual IT Brand Award is organized by CPCW and is referred to as the Oscar in the IT industry. ESET has won the Editor's Choice Award for 2 consecutive years now in 2008 and 2009.
	ESET has been positioned on the 2009 Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection.
	ESET Smart Security Business Edition (January 2009)
	PC Home was founded in 1996 and is now the core online media for CNET, with 6 million registered users. ESET won the Best Performance Award in its 2008 test which was evaluated based on the product's resource comsumption, scanning speed, detection rate, update speed, user friendliness, etc.
	Traditional Scanning: A Proactive Scanning: A "ESET may be the most effective virus scanner you've never heard of." (December 2008)
	PCDIY is one of the most popular computer magazines in Taiwan. Every year, PCDIY will investigate the favorite software from the heavy users who love to set up their computer and figure out new things of computer. In 2008, ESET NOD32 Antivirus is the best recommendation from these heavy users.
	NOVA is one of most important 3C channels in Taiwan. NOVA investigates the best choice from the shoppers who frequently buy software and Computer peripheral every year. ESET NOD32 was recommended by most of shoppers, it's their favorite antivirus software.
	Consumers Digest "Best Buy" (April 2008)
	Every year the Inc. 500 celebrates the remarkable achievements of today's entrepreneurial superstars - the men and women leading the 500 fastest-growing private companies in America. For the past two years, ESET has been named a member of this exclusive club.
	Finalist - Readers Trust Awards 2009
	"9 out of 10" - Maximum PC
	"Five Best Windows Firewalls"
	"5 out of 5 stars"
	"Top 8 Anti-virus Packages" Winner: ESET NOD32 Antivirus
	The ESET Smart Security Business Edition and ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Business Edition solutions completed the rigorous testing program and both garnered OESISOK certification. OESISOK certification from OPSWAT affirms that ESET products are correctly installed on all supported operating systems, is not detected as malware, demonstrates ability to detect threats with high accuracy, and is detectable by the OESIS Framework.
	ICSA (A division of TruSecure Corporation) use a very similar testing methodology to Virus Bulletin. Whereas the VB100 is awarded to a specific product on a "snapshot" basis, with no failure correction period allowed, ICSA Certification concentrates more on requiring a product to achieve and maintain a particular level.
	ESET was the second company to be certified against this rigorous test set of more than 28,000 spyware objects. In fact, ESET NOD32 Antivirus had a significant lead over dedicated spyware applications. The Checkmark certification is operated by West Coast Labs, a division of West Coast Publishing.
	West Coast Labs has a virus library with many thousands of different viruses and variants, collected through a bespoke harvesting process. For a product to be certified to Anti-Virus Checkmark, Level One the product must be able to detect all those viruses which are "In the Wild". This gives a clear and independent indication to end users of those anti-virus products that they can be relied on to perform to Level One functionality.
	For a product to be certified Anti-Virus Checkmark, Level Two the product must comply with Anti-Virus Checkmark, Level One and, in addition, disinfect all viruses on the "in the wild" list which are capable of disinfection. Disinfection means: That the virus is (or is substantially) removed from the infected object and the object is usable; the application/program should not hang or crash the machine, the machine should boot up correctly, the document should so far as possible be restored to its former uninfected state without loss of data.
	For a product to be certified to the Trojan Checkmark the product must be able to detect all Trojans in the West Coast Labs Trojan test suite, which is regularly updated. The product should not cause any false alarms (based on testing against the West Coast Labs false alarm test suite).
	The award was given based on readers' votes against a number of antivirus products, and ESET NOD32 Antivirus is the most popular product here which gets most votes from readers and IT users, beating the other products such as Symantec, TrendMicro, and McAfee.
	Best Solution in Linux & OSS, Editor Choice 2005 and 2006 (2 consecutive years).
	The main purpose of CheckVir project is testing antivirus products and solutions independently from developers, helping users and antivirus companies. ESET NOD32 Antivirus gained CheckVir Advanced award in a proactive test (October, 2006) where CheckVir Lab tested the heuristic capabilities of several anti-virus products.
	In October 2006, ESET NOD32 Antivirus was awarded with CheckVir Mailscanner award. During this certification process only infectious virus samples are used which are published on the Wildlist. Antivirus products pass the certification process only if they stop the infected incoming and outgoing e-mail messages.
	For the third time (since Middle East operation started) ESET NOD32 Antivirus won the Best Performance Award from latest Windows Middle East Magazine test in antivirus segment.
	ESET NOD32 Antivirus has been awarded by SoftPedia with five stars and SoftPedia Pick Award which is given to products that SoftPedia editors think are excellent and above average in their category. Awards are based on the editors' experience and judgment, and awarded are only products which the majority of the reviewers agree deserve it.
	ESET, LLC was, for the fifth successive year, ranked among the top companies in the prestigious Deloitte Technology Fast 50 program. As in previous years, Eset has made steady progress towards the top. Since 2002, when this producer of the award winning antivirus solution, ESET NOD32 Antivirus, entered the program, the company has progressed from 33rd place to the current 9th spot with the growth of 1,100 percent over the period of five years. Thus ESET has reached the TOP 10 of the most successful companies of 2006.
	Since 2002, the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA program has ranked the 500 high-tech companies based in Europe, the Middle East and Africa that have achieved the fastest rates of annual revenue growth. The winners, chosen on the basis of their nomination and a thorough company assessment conducted by Deloitte company, are announced annually in autumn. Eset received the award for the fourth consecutive year.
	ESET NOD32 Antivirus is very light on hard disk space and, amazingly, uses little memory. We were also very pleased with the short time it took to scan the entire hard disk. Fast, secure, and easy on the computer's memory and hard disk, it is hard to fault ESET NOD32 Antivirus. Idran Junadi , PCMagazine Singapore, October 2005
	ESET is named the antivirus manufacturer of the year by PC Magazine Middle East for 2005.
	"Excellent detection of viruses and spyware .You're not going to get better protection than this." (Australian PC User, October 2005)
	PC Utilities editor's choice. ESET NOD32 Antivirus was chosen by PC Utilities as the Editor's choice for an anti-virus system.
	In the test performed by SWPower in September 2005, ESET NOD32 Antivirus received the highest possible rating of six points. The mark given by SWPower editors shown the current best antivirus based on update, price, efficiency and available localize version. Full review in Slovenian language: http://www.nod32.si/Test_NOD32_revija_SWPower.pdf
	In its November 2003 Antivirus Test Comparison, PC Chip Croatia rated ESET NOD32 Antivirus as the #1 performer in both speed and detection... ahead of antivirus industry heavyweights Norton, McAfee, TrendMicro, Kaspersky, AVG, eTrust, H+BEDV, Panda, and Sophos. "Since the beginning, ESET NOD32 Antivirus was rudely neglected in favor of "big names" - the famous web site Cnet went so far as to bury ESET NOD32 Antivirus as a third class program with doubtful quality - but they could not have gone further from the truth, because ESET NOD32 Antivirus is the winner of many awards and certificates from the most respected independent labs and groups in the antivirus industry." wrote the PC Chip Editor in his review.
	ESET NOD32 Antivirus receives a 2003 InfoWorld Readers' Choice Award from InfoWorld Media Group, responsible for delivering award-winning technology and product news, research and analysis to the IT community for more than 25 years. More than 1000 readers voted this year's Readers' Choice Award. ESET NOD32 Antivirus has also received the InfoWorld Test Center's top rating of Excellent, a mark given by InfoWorld editors and analysts to products that have shown top quality and market readiness. "ESET NOD32 Antivirus provides excellent functionality and simple administration in a package that won't tax computer or human resources." (InfoWorld, July 2003) InfoWorld is a division of IDG, the world's leading technology, media, research, and event company. IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers and offers online users the largest network of technology-specific sites around the world through IDG.net, which comprises more than 330 targeted Websites in 80 countries.
	One of the most popular German website portals dedicated to Windows software applications Wintotal.de granted ESET NOD32 Antivirus the Wintotal Award. In the tests performed by wintotal.de staff in August 2002, ESET NOD32 Antivirus received the highest possible rating of six points. The categories considered in the evaluation process include efficiency and speed of the scanning engine, system/resource requirements of the antivirus system, frequency of system updates and user friendliness of the graphical user interface.
	Chosen as the BEST ANTIVIRUS PROGRAM OF 2001 by PC User Magazine of Australia. "In PC User's most recent antivirus tests, only one program provided 100% protection against all viruses in a very large test set --- ESET NOD32 Antivirus." Not surprising since ESET NOD32 Antivirus is the only product to have never missed an "In The Wild" virus during Virus Bulletin Testing. "ESET NOD32 Antivirus also has effective heuristics to protect against unknown viruses, and the company is really on the ball with updates." Next Generation Antivirus programs use advanced heuristics to detect new Viruses, Worms, Trojans and assorted Malware - ESET NOD32 Antivirus has the most advanced heuristics available. "The penalty for thorough scanning is normally a longer scan time, but ESET NOD32 Antivirus was the fastest as well as the most thorough." ESET NOD32 Antivirus avoids the baggage carried by most other programs - written in machine code, it scans the executable files at least two times faster than any other antivirus product available. "Is it any wonder we awarded ESET NOD32 Antivirus as PC User's Best Antivirus Program of 2001?" Actually it is a very pleasant surprise to see a major publication willing to acknowledge the superior performance of a product that doesn't spend any money advertising in it. "ESET NOD32 Antivirus, more than any other program, is simply a must-have!!!"