A few months ago I wrote a fairly short comment piece for Virus Bulletin on how some popular posts to Facebook that invite you to make use of your personal data might be useful to scammers and others as part of some sort of data aggregation attack. An example I included was a popular posting featuring a simple code whereby

the poster, usually female, posts that ‘I’m [n] weeks in and craving [some kind of candy]’.

Even visiting security-oriented websites can sometimes be

There's a blog article I've been wanting to write for a few days, but haven't so far been able to make time for. However, Martijn Grooten drew my attention to a blog on much the same topic from our friends at Avast! and one of ESET's partners alerted me to a very relevant and related post by Brian Krebs, so I've pushed it to the top of the stack.

I first became aware of the plague of Indian companies operating PC and anti-virus support scams because one of our competitors advised me that one of them was apparently carrying out unethical marketing on ESET's behalf. (They weren't, of course, anything to do with ESET: see this blog series and this paper.)

I recently learned from my colleagues at ESET UK that

ESET kindly recommends its customers to take advantage of the free upgrade to the current ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4, which offers significantly improved protection, new features and apparently easier-to-use configuration and scanning options.

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ESET Announces Plan to Discontinue NOD32 Antivirus 2.7

Since Tuesday, ESET is showcasing its latest portfolio of products and services at the biggest technology trade show in Germany’s Hannover (February 3rd until March 6th).

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ESET returns to 2010 CeBIT Trade Show in Hannover

ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, today announced that ESET Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server is now available for businesses. ESET also announced the launch of the version 4.2 of its ESET Smart Security and ESET NOD32 Antivirus.

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ESET launches ESET Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server and ESET Smart Security 4.2

ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, today announced general availability of ESET Remote Administrator 4 for ESET NOD32 Antivirus and ESET Smart Security Business Edition customers. Current ESET Remote Administrator customers are able to upgrade to the new version free of charge by downloading and running the latest installer.

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ESET Announces General Availability for ESET Remote Administrator 4

The data from ESET’s in-the-cloud malware collection system ThreatSense.Net® shows the new trend in the month of April when Win32/Agent entered Top 3 threat ranking with 3.53% share out of all detected malware detected on the ESET users computers. ESET describes this detection of malicious code as generic, as it describes members of a broad malware family capable of stealing user information from infected PCs.

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Top 3 Global Threats: Malware Family Capable of Stealing User Information

ESET, a global provider of security solutions, announces the acquisition of COMDOM Software ̵ a Slovakia-based software company acclaimed for antispam solutions. The latest acquisition underlines the company’s strategy of solidifying its position as a premiere developer of security software.

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ESET Acquires Antispam Maker

For the month of May, 2010, ESET ThreatSense.Net®, a unique in-the-cloud malware collection system has evaluated Win32/Conficker as the top threat with a global share of 9.12%.

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European PCs under attack by removable media malware