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Eset Eset NOD32

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Pros
Superior proactive detection
Cons
Overly technical interface

Performance
Renewal cost, per year	$27 (3/31/07)
Ease of use	Very Good
Malware detection rate: Malware detection tests used AV-Test.org's collection of 884,164 malware samples.	90%
File viruses	79%
Macro viruses	100%
Script viruses	100%
Polymorphic viruses	99%
ActiveX controls	100%
Back doors	95%
Bots/zombies	94%
Trojan horses	89%
Adware	86%
Dialers	99%
Number of false positives (out of 20,000 harmless files)	6
Heuristic detection (one-month-old signatures)	79%
Heuristic detection (two-month-old signatures)	73%
Detection rate of malware within archived files	84%
Detection rate of existing infections (10 infections)	100%
Disinfection rate (files, Hosts changes, Registry items)	55%
Average time (in hours) to deliver signatures for new malware	4 to 6
Right-click manual scans in Windows Explorer?	Yes
E-mail protocols scanned	POP3, SMTP
Scan Web traffic?	Yes
Scan speed with standard settings, in seconds	57
With Firefox 2	4%
With Adobe Photoshop CS2	7%
With Microsoft Office 2003	5%
Daily support hours	12
Saturday support hours	0
Sunday support hours	0
Free phone support	Yes
Toll-free phone number	Yes
Cost of phone support	0
Live chat support?	No
E-mail support?	Yes

User Reviews for Eset Eset NOD32

Reviewed by: peterwl

Duration of ownership: 6 Months

Strengths:

Weaknesses:

Overall Evaluation: This is a review of the review. Caught 79% of unknown malware using 1 month old signature files? Who uses 1 month old sigs? I sure as hell don't! Caught 90% of everything but fared bad with 32-bit viruses? HUH? What version NOD32 were you testing? Why not compair apples to apples and oranges to oranges instead of putting all your results in a bag and shaking? I though malware was everything not classified as a virus or a trojan. So it gets rather confusing when throwing percentages around with no clear labels.
Reviewed by: MXRDriver

Duration of ownership: 2 Years

Strengths: 1. Speed 2. Set it and forget it 3. Stability 4. customer Service (a bit slow, but great)

Weaknesses: UI not as "pretty" as the rest

Overall Evaluation: PC World's reviewer's opinion of an overly technical interface is, I think, stretching for it a bit. The UI is admittedly not as intuitive or as easy on the eyes as Mcaffee or Norton, but it well within the average user's (me) ease of use. My old computer with XP and NOD32 finally crashed and burned. After I purchased my new computer with Vista installed on it, I downloaded NOD32's Vista version by contacting their customer service(via e-mail) and retrieving my current password and account name. I believe Norton charges extra for that service. With both of my most recent computer's I replaced Norton with NOD32. On both machines Norton crashed and generated error messages...NOD32 doesn't. Norton many times requires re-boot...NOD32 doesn't. Norton slowed both computers noticably...NOD32 doesn't. As far as which VS actually works best, I rely on PC World's experts...and it looks like a toss-up