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The predecessor of ESET's most popular antivirus solution -ESET NOD32 Antivirus- was created in 1987.
The first virus discovered by ESET co-founders Peter Paško and Miroslav Trnka was dubbed Vienna.
ESET started selling its first retail product -STOPVIR- in Austria.
The founders, decide upon the name ESET, an abstraction of the Egyptian goddess Aset –or- Isis.
ESET lays a cornerstone for the IT Security Sector, establishing one of the earliest Antivirus Brands and one of the first IT firms in the former east bloc.
Among today’s most popular resources about current cyber-threats, Virus Radar was originally established as part of a successful daily newspaper in Slovakia. From this point on ESET began providing regular updates to the industry and wider public on threats detected by its technology and its growing research team.
First retail version of NOD32 goes to market under the name NOD iCE.
ESET NOD32 Antivirus enters the newly created comparative testing of Virus Bulletin and earns its 1st VB100 Award.
ESET introduces Advanced Heuristics throughout its whole product portfolio.
ESET introduces Cloud Malware Detection in the form of ESET LiveGrid under its original name ThreatSense.Net. In the same year ESET pioneers object reputation technology.
ESET technology and products are distributed in more than 100 countries globally, offering its protection to over half the planet.
ESET introduces Exploit Blocker to its product portfolio. The feature monitors typically exploitable applications and in addition to particular CVE identifiers it focuses also on exploitation techniques.
ESET ranked 5th Largest Endpoint Security Vendor in 2013 by IDC. In the same year ESET introduces Advanced Memory Scanner, a unique ESET technology which effectively addresses an important issue of modern malware – heavy use of obfuscation and/or encryption.
The ESET research team from Canada, received the first ever Peter Ször Award at the 24th Virus Bulletin International Conference for their paper on Operation Windigo.
In 2015, ESET was named one of the Big Five in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 CE.
As of January 2016, ESET had over 1300 employees globally.
ESET NOD32 is the first product to ever receive 100 VB100 Awards.
