Facebook Adds ESET to Its Anti-Malware Arsenal
Facebook added to its arsenal of security tools with its announcement Wednesday that it reached an agreement with information-technology-security vendor ESET to incorporate its anti-malware technology directly into the social network’s existing abuse detection and prevention systems.
Facebook added to its arsenal of security tools with its announcement Wednesday that it reached an agreement with information-technology-security vendor ESET to incorporate its anti-malware technology directly into the social network’s existing abuse detection and prevention systems.
The addition of ESET follows similar agreements with anti-malware outfits F-Secure and Trend Micro in May.
Chetan Gowda, a software engineer on Facebook’s site integrity team, detailed the agreement with ESET in a note on the Facebook Security page:
To help people who use Facebook proactively combat malware and make it easier to find and use the right technology for protecting their devices, we announced partnerships in May with anti-malware leaders F-Secure and Trend Micro.
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