ESET has achieved 48 Virus Bulletin VB100 Awards, more than any other vendor. In Virus Bulletin's comparative tests, ESET NOD32 Antivirus has not missed an 'In the Wild' virus sample since May 1998.

In an independent test by AV-Comparatives, ESET NOD32 Antivirus has consistently achieved the best results among all tested brands. "ESET NOD32 Antivirus is the leader in Advanced+ awards, having received top honors in each of the last five tests. This represents the most proactive malware detection capabilities of all the products tested over the last 12 months."

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, 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).

2006 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Central Europe
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.

2006 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA
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 is named the antivirus manufacturer of the year by PC Magazine Middle East for 2005.

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 cerificates 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!!!"