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1. ESET CYBER SECURITY 2015 UPDATE
2. ESET CYBER SECURITY 2015 FULL
3. ESET CYBER SECURITY 2015 PRO
4. ESET CYBER SECURITY 2015 SOFTWARE

ESET CYBER SECURITY 2015 SOFTWARE

Unlike some other software applications, antivirus programs have a very large attack surface because they need to inspect many types of files and code written in different languages from various sources, including the Web and email and file parsing has historically been a source of many vulnerabilities.įor the past several years there's been a push to limit the privileges of widely used software applications. In 2012, Ormandy found critical vulnerabilities in Sophos Antivirus and last year he found a flaw that could be exploited to remotely disable the protection engine used in many Microsoft antimalware products.Īlso last year, Joxean Koret, a researcher at Coseinc, found dozens of remotely and locally exploitable vulnerabilities in 14 antivirus engines. This is not the first time that security researchers have found serious vulnerabilities in antivirus products. "In order to achieve maximum reliability, ESET uses specialized tools, runs multiple code reviews and gradually deploys mitigations to make the code more robust," the statement said. The vulnerability was located in the emulation routine used by a particular scanner for a specific malware family and didn't affect the core emulation engine, ESET said in an emailed statement.Īs a result of code-rewriting efforts to improve product quality, the company had already corrected the flaw, and it didn't exist in ESET's "pre-release" engine, which is available to all customers, the company said.

ESET CYBER SECURITY 2015 UPDATE

The company released a scanning engine update Monday to fix the flaw, so users should make sure they update their products.

ESET CYBER SECURITY 2015 PRO

The vulnerability affects ESET Smart Security for Windows, ESET NOD32 Antivirus for Windows, ESET Cyber Security Pro for OS X, ESET NOD32 For Linux Desktop, ESET Endpoint Security for Windows and OS X and ESET NOD32 Business Edition. The flaw is particularly dangerous because it can be exploited in many ways, including by simply loading a website in the browser, downloading an email message in a local email client, plugging a USB thumb drive into the computer and other actions that trigger disk operations.īecause it's so easy to exploit, the flaw can be used to create a computer worm that spreads from one computer to another, including on "air-gapped" networks though USB thumb drives, according to Ormandy. The vulnerability found by the Google researcher allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands with the highest system privilege. "Unfortunately, analysis of ESET emulation reveals that is not the case and it can be trivially compromised." "Because it's so easy for attackers to trigger emulation of untrusted code, it's critically important that the emulator is robust and isolated," Ormandy said in a blog post. The ESET products monitor disk input and output operations and when executable code is detected they run it through the emulator to apply the detection signatures. The vulnerability in ESET products was discovered by Google security engineer Tavis Ormandy and was located in their emulator, the antivirus component responsible for unpacking and executing potentially malicious code inside a safe environment so that it can be scanned. are reverse engineering antivirus products in search for vulnerabilities and methods to bypass detection. The discovery of the flaw, which has now been patched, comes on the heels of a report that intelligence agencies from the U.K.

ESET CYBER SECURITY 2015 FULL

Several antivirus products from security firm ESET had a critical vulnerability that was easy to exploit and could lead to a full system compromise.