The product NOD was launched in Czechoslovakia when the country was part of the Soviet Union's sphere of influence. At present, ESET is recognized Europe's biggest privately held cybersecurity company. This sparked an idea between friends to help protect PC users and soon grew into an antivirus software company.
However, its history dates back to 1987, when two of the company's founders, Miroslav Trnka and Peter Paško, developed their first antivirus program called NOD. The company was founded in 1992 in Bratislava, Slovakia.
ESET's security products are made in Europe and provide security software in over 200 countries and territories worldwide, and its software is localized into more than 30 languages. ESET, s.r.o., is a Slovak software company specializing in cybersecurity.
