ESET is an IT security company headquartered in Bratislava, Slovakia that was founded in 1992 by the merger of two private companies. The company was awarded as the most successful Slovak company in 2008 and 2009.[1][2] ESET is privately held and has branch offices in San Diego, California; Wexford, Ireland; London, United Kingdom; Bournemouth, United Kingdom; Bristol, United Kingdom; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Prague, Czech Republic, Israel and Kraków, Poland.
ESET's first product was NOD, an antivirus software for computers running MS-DOS. In 1998, ESET introduced NOD32 1.0 for Microsoft Windows, with version 2.0 following in 2003. The last supported build of the 2.x codebase is 2.70.39, released in November 2006 to add support for Microsoft Windows Vista. In January 2010, ESET announced...