Botnet Protection by ESET

What is ESET Botnet Protection? And how the Botnet Protection provides real-time protection against botnet malware?

The latest version of ESET Smart Security includes New Botnet protection technology.
ESET Botnet protection quickly and accurately spots malware on the system and preventing your PC from becoming part of criminally-controlled network.

The New ESET Botnet protection discover malware through analyzing its network communication protocols. Botnet malware is changing frequently in contrast to network protocols, which haven't changed in the last years. This new technology helps ESET defeat malware which tries to avoid detection and try to connect your computer to botnet network.

Botnet - A bot, or a web robot is an automated malware program that scans blocks of network addresses and infects vulnerable computers. This allow hackers to take control of many computers at the same time and turn them into bots (also known as a zombie). Hackers typically use bots to infect large numbers of computers, which form a network or a botnet. Once the botnet is in your computer, it can be used in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, proxy and also can be used to perform automated tasks over the Internet, without you knowing it (for example sending spam, viruses or stealing personal and private information such as bank credentials or credit card numbers).