The awesome 450kw Mosler MT900R will carry the NOD32 name when it takes on Australian and other international teams in the inaugural Bathurst 24 hour race on 15 - 17 November.

This event is destined to become one of the world's greatest endurance races. The unique road circuit has hosted some of the most exciting touring car races in the world, and the new 24 hour format is continuing to attract global interest.

The challenging Bathurst circuit, with it's 200 meter climb up Mount Panorama and the thrilling decent to the 300kph Conrod Straight, is talked about everywhere in motor racing.

NOD32 still leads the world in virus detection . . . ow with an unequalled 19 VB100 Awards !!!

August 2002 . . . CNet and ZDNet continue to trash NOD32 with blatantly shonky facts and figures . .. ZDNet even re--published Ken Feinstein's amateur rubbish-quality April "review" in July . . . but in August, NOD32 once again confirms its position as the world's #1 virus detector by winning its 19th VB100 Award from the world's #1 professional antivirus testing authority, Virus Bulletin . . . once again the only antivirus program in the world to make a "clean sweep" of 100% of every virus in every category !!!

Once again NOD32 is the only antivirus program in the world to make a "clean sweep" of every virus in every category! Now with an unequalled record of 18 Virus Bulletin 100% Awards, NOD32 continues to lead the world league!

"Once more comes the arduous task of noting details of NOD32 before declaring it to have gained yet another VB 100% award. Speed and detection rate were maintained once more for Eset's product leading to a predictable, but no doubt welcome, result ..." (Virus Bulletin - June 2002)

Not only did NOD32 score the highest possible detection rate, it also had highest overall scanning speed!

Virus Bulletin's editor commented in January 1999, "It is almost a truism in the antivirus field that you have speed or good detection. However, NOD32 is one of the products that bucks that idea, effectively coupling the two."

NOD32 still combines the fastest speed with unequalled detection in 2002 !!!

After having passed the April 2002 certification audit, Eset received ISO 9001:2000 certification in the areas of Software Design and Development and Project Management.

The Certificate was issued by SKQS - an authorized certification authority, for an initial period of three years. ISO 9001:2000 certification is yet another assurance of the highest quality standards and service for Eset's rapidly growing client base.

A comprehensive review of NOD32 Antivirus System has been published in May issue of the Croatian edition of PC Chip magazine.

Boris Licina, Editor of the magazine, said "In our testing, NOD32 antiviral tool proved itself to be trustworthy, successfully detecting not only all the viruses we used in our test set but also the ones that arrived via e-mail."

See http://www.nod32.com.hr for further information on NOD32 in Croatia.

Virus Bulletin is widely regarded as the world's leading independent antivirus software testing authority, and its VB100 awards are not easy to win.

NOD32 was first submitted for Virus Bulletin testing in May 1998, when it won the first of its record string of VB100 awards. Between May 1998 and January 2002, NOD32 won the VB100 a record 17 times out of 18 tests, and holds more VB100 awards than any other antivirus program in the world ... and even though it missed the November 2000 VB100 due to a false alarm, NOD32 remains ubeaten in virus detection. NOD32 was the only antivirus program in the world to detect 100% of all viruses in all categories in that test !!!

Although Eset has been specializing in antivirus detection and protection since 1992, our relationship with Virus Bulletin is relatively "young" by industry standards.

Early incarnations of NOD were very powerful and very effective, and its high virus detection rate made NOD-ICE an extremely popular program in its native Slovakia and surrounding countries ... but Eset remained virtually unknown outside Eastern Europe for many years.

By the time the 21st Century rolled around, media coverage of NOD32's heuristic detection of "big name" viruses like CIH, Melissa, LoveLetter, and Homepage "before they were written" had IT security professionals sitting up and taking notice of the little antivirus program with the funny name from the country hardly anyone had ever heard of ... and NOD32 started making its mark on the rest of the world.

Over the past couple of years the little antivirus program with the funny name gained such wide acceptance with both IT professionals and home users alike that NOD32 is now distributed worldwide and has already been translated into eight languages, with more to follow.

In just two years, NOD32's runaway success as the world's #1 virus detector has seen Eset grow from a small virtually unknown antivirus specialist into a fairly large and fairly well known antivirus specialist with a strong reputation for getting the job done, and we now find ourselves in a position to co-sponsor the most prestigious international antivirus conference of them all ... the annual Virus Bulletin Conference.

We've come a long way in a short time.

See you in New Orleans!

An independent panel comprised of professional journalists and members of the academia has voted Eset, creator of the critically acclaimed NOD32 Antivirus System, "IT Firm of The Year - 2002".

38 companies were nominated for the Award, and 5 were selected as finalists. Selection criteria considered by the panel include the uniqueness of the products, revenue growth rate, support of non-profit organizations, etc.

Eset was selected as the winner ahead of IT industry giants like IBM and SAP.

Winning the "IT Firm of the Year" Award is a clear indication of the maturity of the company and the high quality of its product line.

ICSA Labs, an independent division of TruSecure Corporation, has been a renowned authority in computer security research and product certification for over a decade. The ICSA Labs set performance standards for information security products and certify over 95% of the installed base of firewall, antivirus, cryptography, and IPSec products.

"NOD32 ICSA Certification is yet another mark of quality of Eset's sophisticated product. Complete detection of all virus samples of NOD32 system was combined with impressive scanning detection rate and surprisinglylow system footprint," commented Larry Bridwell, ICSA Labs Content Security Programs Manager, after completion of the tests.

About ICSA Labs
ICSA Labs, an independent division of TruSecure Corporation, offers vendor-agnostic testing and certification of security products. Hundreds of the world's top security vendors submit their products for testing and certification at ICSA Labs. The end-users of security technologies rely on ICSA Labs to authoritatively set and apply objective testing and certification criteria for measuring product compliance and reliability. The organization tests 95% of products in key technology categories such as antivirus, cryptography, PKI, IPSec, VPN, firewall, PC firewall, intrusion detection and content security.