ESET Awards

Unique technologies built into ESET products result in unprecedented detection efficiency and the highest hard disk scanning rates. The most prestigious international awards earned by ESET are presented below. Among the awards, Virus Bulletin 100% Awards are of special importance due to the high professional recognition of this international publication on computer virus prevention, detection and removal. ESET has earned the award a record 59 times. Since the first submission of NOD32 for Virus Bulletin testing in May 1998, NOD32 system did not miss a single "In the Wild" virus in any of the tests.
Full listing of our results can be found at: http://www.virusbulletin.com

ESET is the world leader of the Virus Bulletin 100% Awards having won more awards than any competing product. As of April 2010, ESET has won 61 of the coveted awards.

“As usual, NOD32 reached a high level of detection that brought another VB 100% award to its collection,” wrote Matt Hamm of Virus Bulletin.

In an independent test by AV-Comparatives NOD32 has achieved the best results among all tested brands.
Proactive technology ThreatSense is implemented in all ESET’s products. Thanks to this technology, NOD32 constantly achieves only excellent results when compared to competitors.

ICSA (A division of TruSecure Corporation) use a very similar testing methodology to Virus Bulletin. Whereas the VB 100% 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, NOD32 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)

ESET is named the antivirus manufacturer of the year by PC Magazine Middle East for 2005.

In the test performed by SWPower in September 2005, NOD32 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.

In its November 2003 Antivirus Test Comparison, PC Chip Croatia rated NOD32 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 NOD32 was rudely neglected in favor of "big names" - the famous web site Cnet went so far as to bury NOD32 as a third class program with doubtful quality - but they could not have gone further from the truth, because NOD32 is the winner of many awards and cerificates from the most respected independent labs and groups in the antivirus industry." wrote the PC Chip Editor in his review.

NOD32 Antivirus System 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.
NOD32 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. "NOD32 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 NOD32 the Wintotal Award. In the tests performed by wintotal.de staff in August 2002, NOD32 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 --- NOD32." Not surprising since NOD32 is the only product to have never missed an "In The Wild" virus during Virus Bulletin Testing.
"NOD32 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 - NOD32 has the most advanced heuristics available.
"The penalty for thorough scanning is normally a longer scan time, but NOD32 was the fastest as well as the most thorough." NOD32 avoids the baggage carried by most other programs - written in machine code NOD32 scans the executable files at least two times faster than any other antivirus product available.
"Is it any wonder we awarded NOD32 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.
"NOD32, more than any other program, is simply a must-have!!!"

Deloitte Touche Fast 50 2005
ESET Ltd. was, for the fourth successive year, ranked among the top companies in the prestigious Deloitte Touche 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, NOD32, entered the program, the company has progressed from 33rd place to the current 8th spot. Thus ESET has reached the TOP 10 of the most successful companies of 2005.