Simple Antivirus is Not Enough Anymore. ESET is Introducing All-in-One Protection for Consumers in India

ESET a global leader in cybersecurity, today announced the launch of its new innovative and streamlined offering for consumers in India. With more than 30 years on the market, ESET has moved to unify its broadly deployed consumer product portfolio. Specifically, ESET is introducing two brand-new customer-centric subscription tiers, namely ESET HOME Security Essential and ESET HOME Security Premium, providing both broad and reliable digital life protection with new features such as Browser Privacy & Security extension.

Responding to the increasing demand for an all-in-one solution that offers intuitive use of these new features, ESET is introducing an improved ESET HOME—a comprehensive security management platform. Available across all major operating systems—Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS—and includes visibility into home networks and connected smart devices.

"Today's digital landscape has become increasingly sophisticated, with online threats, such as phishing and banking scams, frequently making headlines. At ESET, we are committed to empowering consumers to remain protected online. The new ESET HOME Security is powered by a combination of AI, human insight, and cloud protection, providing all-in-one security solutions that enable our users to safeguard themselves, their families, and their homes from various digital threats. This will enable them to connect, explore, shop, bank, and thrive in the digital space," said Parvinder Walia, ESET President for Asia Pacific and Japan.

Complete security management platform

Research among ESET customers shows that the vast majority of ESET HOME users define themselves as home admins, those who take care of their household’s digital security. They are tech savvy but don’t want to spend much time managing ESET products. To meet customers’ needs, ESET has made improvements to ESET HOME. Now, as a complete security management platform, it is a seamless part of the user experience. In this place, managing devices, online purchases, subscription activation and renewal, downloading or upgrading security solutions, and enabling powerful functionalities like Anti-Theft and more, are all a seamless part of existing user flows.

To enhance user experience and simplify the platform’s management, ESET has made several interface changes, including the introduction of our Overall Protection Status, so users can see the level of protection for their household in one view. This combines both the validity status of a user’s licenses and the security status of devices connected to the account in three categories: Protected, Attention Required, and Security Alert.

These changes aim to provide customers with cutting-edge protection, while minimal interaction is needed to set up the product. At the same time, this new ecosystem provides meaningful options and functionality for proactive users who want to control and customize it. ESET HOME is an easy-to-use web portal and mobile app available for both iOS & Android.

Explore new subscription tiers and their features

Also introduced with this launch are the new subscription tiers for this new ecosystem—ESET HOME Security Essential and ESET HOME Security Premium. Subscription tiers provide all-in-one protection with low system impact, covering the complex needs of individuals and their households for digital life privacy and security. ESET HOME Security subscriptions are available on all major operating systems —Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS.

ESET HOME Security Essential is an entry-level subscription tier with protection features including improved modern endpoint security, multilayered real-time protection, as well as additional tools that further enhance the user’s ability to protect against various threats. Included are the Safe Banking & Browsing feature, designed to protect user’s sensitive data; Network Inspector, a diagnostic tool providing information on the security of the user’s router and display of devices connected to the network; and Parental Control to keep your family safe from inappropriate online content. Newly developed browser extensions (compatible with Chrome, Edge, and Firefox) provide enhancement of the Browser Privacy & Security feature. It includes cleanup tool such as Browser Cleanup, that cleans cookies, history, and much more from the browser regularly or on-demand. 

The middle tier, ESET HOME Security Premium, extends the feature set further by adding other security functionalities such as a Password Manager that protects and stores users’ passwords and personal data. This includes an automatic and accurate form-filling feature, saving their time when filling out web forms. Secure Data functionality boosts their privacy and security with powerful encryption of files and removable media, preventing data theft in the event of USB or laptop loss, and ensuring secure collaboration and data sharing. ESET HOME Security Premium offers the ESET LiveGuard tool, cloud-based protection specifically designed to mitigate never-before-seen threats.

The most advanced subscription tier, ESET HOME Security Ultimate, will be released in Q1 2024 and comes with brand-new ESET features, such as VPN.

Device-tailored security solutions

ESET HOME Security takes device protection to a new level by seamlessly integrating a suite of standalone device protection solutions tailored to meet customers’ security needs. This includes ESET Antivirus, ESET Mobile Security (EMS), Parental Control, and ESET Smart TV Security.

ESET HOME Security Premium is currently on a year-end sale, with discounts of up to 30% until December 31, 2023. Visit www.eset.com/in for more details.


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This Antivirus Program Now Offers Users Mine Ethereum Cryptocurrency

In a rare move where not all antivirus programs offers such feature, at least till date, one of the world's best-known anti-virus software makers is adding cryptocurrency mining to its product. Norton 360 customers will have access to an Ethereum mining feature in the "coming weeks".

NortonLifeLock (formerly known as Symantec Corporation) has announced the launch of Norton™ Crypto, a new feature designed to enable consumers to safely and easily mine cryptocurrency through its trusted Norton™ 360 platform.

Starting today, select Norton 360 customers in Norton’s early adopter program will be invited to mine for Ethereum initially and thereafter, in the coming weeks, Norton Crypto is expected to become available to all Norton 360 customers.

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However, the company said that for mining the cryptocurrency Norton 360 customers may require certain PC hardware to use this service. Norton also warns of "allowing unvetted code on their machines" and the danger of storing earnings on a hard drive which could fail.

Norton Crypto delivers a secure, reliable way for consumers to mine for Ethereum without opening themselves and their devices up to these pitfalls. Once cryptocurrency has been earned, customers can track and transfer earnings into their Norton Crypto Wallet, which is stored in the cloud so it cannot be lost due to hard drive failure.

Vincent Pilette, CEO of NortonLifeLock said --

As the crypto economy continues to become a more important part of our customers’ lives, we want to empower them to mine cryptocurrency with Norton, a brand they trust. Norton Crypto is yet another innovative example of how we are expanding our Cyber Safety platform to protect our customers’ ever-evolving digital lives.

Official 'Start-Up India' Website Has Hidden Virus That Can Steal Your Private Information

Every one is aware of PM Modi's ambitious 'Start-up India' initiative and its government run website startupindia.gov.in. To everyone's surprise its recently been discovered by a security analyst that the official website is infected with a hidden Trojan virus.

A Trojan is a type of malware that is often disguised as legitimate software. Trojans can be employed by cyber-thieves and hackers trying to gain access to users' systems.

Surya Pratap Singh, director of Aezowie Infotech Services and a security analyst himself, recently got recognition from 'Start-up India' for his new company and while browsing the Startup India official website he found a critical security problem, which he further explored to conclude that one of the website’s PDF files was infected by a Trojan in the Information page of the website.

In order to be sure, he checked that PDF file against his anti-virus programs and ran it through VirusTotal, and these showed that the file contained a Trojan virus (maybe the urlmal Trojan). To understand the issue more clearly Surya Pratap has also created a video of his findings.

This type of virus is generally used to control and steal sensitive information from a user’s systems. Thus, the systems of many users who downloaded this file from the website were at risk.

"From my point of view, that PDF file was probably uploaded to Startup India website without doing any security check or scanning and it may have been infected through a Heap Spraying technique or urlmal Trojan. I suspect this was the case as files can ‘go bad’, rather than it being uploaded by an an attacker," wrote Singh in an article at InfoSecurity Magazine.

"If this file had existed longer on the official Startup India website for downloading then it would be unsafe, it is also not good for Startup India website because very soon anti-viruses would blacklist that URL", he added.

Surya Pratap has later wrote and informed to the Startup India team along with CERT-India, who has developed the website. Both have acknowledged the same and working to resolve this serious security issue in the website.

NaMo - A Free Antivirus named after PM of India to Launch Soon

It seems after sweeping the nation by his charisma Mr. Narendra Modi is all set to take the antivirus software market by storm. Recently, Innovazion, which is a homegrown IT firm, launched its new antivirus software named NaMo Anti-Virus. For those who don’t know, NaMo is the popular short name for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The NaMo software will provide PC users with free protection against virus attacks and malware.

The current version of the software provides the user with basic protection and the company has huge plans of introducing the advanced versions of the software in the near future. It also has plans of launching the software for Apple's Mac PCs.  The company will also make available regular updates for the current anti-virus software.

The software promises real-time detection of viruses. It provides intelligent scanning which means fast and configurable smart scans. The software also offers custom detection using the de facto standard signature language. According to the company, the software is very light on the hard drive, which is a huge plus point.

Globally, India acquires the third spot in terms of internet users.  However, the statistics also reveal that only 13% of these internet users in the country are making use of valid license of antivirus software and about 30% end up reinstalling trial versions of same or other antivirus software. The remaining 57% of the users either make use of no protection at all for their systems or are using unknown applications for protection. NaMo antivirus aims to target this 57% PC users.

By manufacturing this antivirus, the company wants to congratulate the new government and at the same time communicate the message that the country has huge expectations from them. The company also clarified that it has no association with any political party or leader whatsoever.

Innovazion was started in 2007 and currently has over 500 employees. The company has its presence in seven countries all around the world which includes Singapore, Canada, US, India, China, UK, Romania and Germany. Business Consulting, application development, IT infrastructure, management and market research are some of the primary services provided with the company.

After NaMo branded Smartphones and phablets already in the market, it remains to be seen how the NaMo Antivirus fares in the market. Innovazion has already hit the popularity charts by naming the antivirus after the Prime Minister.

NaMo - A Free Antivirus named after PM of India to Launch Soon

It seems after sweeping the nation by his charisma Mr. Narendra Modi is all set to take the antivirus software market by storm. Recently, Innovazion, which is a homegrown IT firm, launched its new antivirus software named NaMo Anti-Virus. For those who don’t know, NaMo is the popular short name for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The NaMo software will provide PC users with free protection against virus attacks and malware.

The current version of the software provides the user with basic protection and the company has huge plans of introducing the advanced versions of the software in the near future. It also has plans of launching the software for Apple's Mac PCs.  The company will also make available regular updates for the current anti-virus software.

The software promises real-time detection of viruses. It provides intelligent scanning which means fast and configurable smart scans. The software also offers custom detection using the de facto standard signature language. According to the company, the software is very light on the hard drive, which is a huge plus point.

Globally, India acquires the third spot in terms of internet users.  However, the statistics also reveal that only 13% of these internet users in the country are making use of valid license of antivirus software and about 30% end up reinstalling trial versions of same or other antivirus software. The remaining 57% of the users either make use of no protection at all for their systems or are using unknown applications for protection. NaMo antivirus aims to target this 57% PC users.

By manufacturing this antivirus, the company wants to congratulate the new government and at the same time communicate the message that the country has huge expectations from them. The company also clarified that it has no association with any political party or leader whatsoever.

Innovazion was started in 2007 and currently has over 500 employees. The company has its presence in seven countries all around the world which includes Singapore, Canada, US, India, China, UK, Romania and Germany. Business Consulting, application development, IT infrastructure, management and market research are some of the primary services provided with the company.

After NaMo branded Smartphones and phablets already in the market, it remains to be seen how the NaMo Antivirus fares in the market. Innovazion has already hit the popularity charts by naming the antivirus after the Prime Minister.