Digital protection provider ESET Southern Africa has unveiled the seventh edition of its flagship online security products, ESET Smart Security and ESET NOD32 Antivirus.
As social media-related threats grow exponentially in SA, profile cloning and hacking have become an everyday reality, making the need for social media security no longer a 'nice to have', but a necessity. Web users now expect to be able to browse their social network(s) of choice in safety, irrespective of platform or device.
"As our use of the Web, mobile and social platforms continues to grow, cyber criminals are capitalising on the opportunity to spread undetectable malware that puts personal information and online identities at risk," says Carey van Vlaanderen, CEO at ESET Southern Africa.
According to ESET, new features such as the social media scanner and the exploit blocker allow for consumers to protect themselves from potential threats, but also to protect their friends and followers when using popular social media sites and apps, such as Facebook and Twitter. On Facebook, it protects users' timelines, messages and newsfeeds, as well as their friends' timelines. On Twitter, it protects users' profiles and posts.
Exploit blocker adds another layer of protection against new and undiscovered malware to get one step closer to attackers. Exploit blocker monitors the behaviour of processes, watching for suspicious activity typically associated with exploits. Once triggered, the threat is analysed, and if considered suspicious, the threat will be blocked immediately.
Advanced memory scanner works alongside the exploit blocker to help protect against malware actively trying to evade detection. The scanner detects malware or viruses that would otherwise go undetected by the other security technologies on a PC or mobile device.
Both ESET NOD32 Antivirus and ESET Smart Security are officially certified for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.
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