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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 18 times out of 19 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 unbeaten 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 NOD32 Antivirus System ... and NOD32 started making its mark on the world's map.

Over the past couple of years NOD32 gained wide acceptance with both IT professionals and home users alike and it is now distributed worldwide in 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.