NOD32

[Unkno]

Originally posted by: flexy

Originally posted by: scott
In Dec 2005 I had an experience where I ran each of these virus scanners (each fully updated) with following results:

Brand.........................# of viruses detected
McAfee...............................0,
NOD32...............................0,
TrendMicro.........................0,
Panda................................0
Kaspersky........................23 !!!

ONLY Kaspersky found the infections.

This experience has proven to me that at this time, Kaspersky is definitely the best of these 5.

To directly answer the OP, "NO", NOD32 is no good.

There is no question that KAV has the bestr detection rate - you just need to do some research, there are websites MANY covering this.

However (without going into detail) i have reasons NOT to use KAV (i tried almost all AVs out there). NOD32 comes second or so, on par with Norton, uses not many resources and integreates NICELY.

Calling NOD32 "no good" is just ignorant....KAV has like 100% detection rate but makes your machine truly a "virus scanner" computer, including altering filesystem-streams and all that.....NOD has (correct me if i am wrong) like 95% or so detection rate....and there is FAR WORSE out.....eg. many people use Antivir and its detection rate is pretty POOR.

if you go to my thread above somewhere with the link, it shows the total amount of detections (includs spyware, viruses, worms, trojans......) from the top best/popular anti-viruses. You can see that kaspersky has a total of 99.88%, norton has 99.41% while Nod32 has 98.31% and you can compare it to antivir that has 93.63% and AVG pro with 87.44%.


KAV, McAfee, NOD32, and Norton are all very comparative and sometimes one would be better than the other depending on update times. For example, NOD32 has very frequent daily updates.

 

[Stangs55]

Anyone know when Kapersky 2006 is being released?

 

[ManBearPig]

So far i do like NOD 32...its unobtrusive. I dont mind waiting for a while for scans because i just auto set them to when im not on.

Does kaspersky have a free trial?

 

[WildHorse]

Originally posted by: Heen05
So far i do like NOD 32...its unobtrusive. I dont mind waiting for a while for scans because i just auto set them to when im not on.

Does kaspersky have a free trial?

Yeah they have a 30 day free trial.

Also, here are some of the scan results I reported. I didn't keep screenshots of others because I didn't expect to be posting on a public web board about them.

If I had it to do over, I'd also test out Bit Defender and F-Secure, which I didn't know about last Dec.

The Kaspersky Online Scanner results are posted here [click on image to enlarge]:
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/scott/28Dec05Scan_Pgs1_and2.jpg

The McAfee VirusScan Pro results are posted here:
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/scott/28Dec05McAfeeScan.jpg

Portion of Kaspersky Online Scanner actual report here [click on image to enlarge](run 3 days in a row w same results):
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/scott/29DecKaspScan.GIF

 

[ChiBOY83]

Originally posted by: flexy

Calling NOD32 "no good" is just ignorant....KAV has like 100% detection rate but makes your machine truly a "virus scanner" computer, including altering filesystem-streams and all that.....NOD has (correct me if i am wrong) like 95% or so detection rate....and there is FAR WORSE out.....eg. many people use Antivir and its detection rate is pretty POOR.

you can turn off those ADS (file streams) off now in kaspersky's options

EDIT: furthermore, KAV uses about typically 1/5th of the resources that firefox has when there are multiple tabs... i mean, i have a gig of ram, so i don't see how anyone can consider an antivir a resource hog, it just doesn't seem that relevant ANYMORE. If you say that an antivirus slows your system you should probly consider getting more ram

 

[kukyfrope]

I use NOD32 and it's currently using about 20MB of system resources. I like it for being unobtrusive but I find the app GUI a bit clunky. A positive is how configureable it is. I've previously used:

AVG
AntiVir
Norton