Entered CNET Catalog: 03/15/2002
SKU: CNETNOD32
Manufacturer: ESET, LLC
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User Rating: 
10/10
It's the best AV I ever used
Pros: efficient, low resources required, fast, easy to use, install and update
Cons: graphoics, but who needs grapgics with AV?
User Rating: 10/10
A techie secret
Pros: Known to techie types as the best
Cons: Big mags seem to ignore it or hate it
User Rating: 10/10
Very Light and Effective
Pros: Deadly to Malware. Quiet. Conserves Resources.
Cons: User interface is lean or elegant. You pick.
The user interface is very lean, which I tend to regard as elegant, but which some might regard as spartan. No matter though, this is great software.
User Rating: 10/10
Amazing Product!!
Pros: Low system requirements, not a system hog in any way. catches bugs more than any other product i have used. etrust,trend,avg,norton etc.
Cons: There arent any. its all good
User Rating: 
9/10
I signed up just to write this review
Pros: great virus detection, low resources
Cons: a little hard to learn, but not that hard
I installed NOD32 and it started detecting viruses right away, you just have to get used to the configuration scheme and it'll work ok, it uses very low system resources and my pc works better than ever.
User Rating: 9/10
Dumped ZoneAlarm Sec. Suite
Pros: Doesn't slow down the computer; No more nagging messages
Cons: Settings a a bit cryptic for the average user.
NOD32 seems fast and efficient. My laptop even boots faster. No nagging messages! I like it so far.
User Rating: 10/10
Just rocks
Pros: simple and user friendly
Cons: editors rating
User Rating: 10/10
Best AV ever, hands down.
Pros: Fast, Effective, Troublefree
Cons: Intimidating Interface
Also love the fact that there are discounts for multiple system licenses.
User Rating: 9/10
Complete protection for your PC
Pros: simplicity,efficency,powerfull protection (detection)
Cons: missing antispyware protection,spartan look
User Rating: 9/10
The best antivirus I have ever used
Pros: Very effective, value for money, customisable and a 30 day free trial!
Cons: Too technical for simple users, no firewall.
I used Norton for 1 year - that was rubbish.
Then I used Trend Micro PC-Cillin for 3 years. That ran quicker than Norton, and it WAS great for a time. However a nasty "rootkit" virus disabled my PC-Cillin, and deleted safe mode from my computer. Not good.
NOD32 detected the virus. (3 months later PC-Cillin still does not detect it even though they have agreed they will update their software). Not only that it detected about 20 other files that were infected that PC-Cillin does not detected.
Now PC-Cillin slap me with an $80 annual renewal.. up from $55 last year! (That's Australian Dollars).
NOD32 has a 30 day trial, and is cheaper than PC-Cillin. What's more it is fast, and does not use high system resources.
I would NOT recommend NOD32 to people who are non-technical as the user interface does not use clear language. For example, the Control centre gives you the choice of clicking on: AMON,DMON,EMON,IMON,NOD32 - what the heck does that mean you'd ask yourself!
However for the person who is not scared of clicking a few buttons it is FANTASTIC!
In my view it is a shame that there is no firewall to complete the package, but it is sold as antivirus software after all.
TRY IT!
8 out of 10 for non-technical users
10 out of 10 for technical users.
Overall 9 out of 10.
User Rating: 10/10
Its the best Antivirus I have even seen .. ever!
Pros: Real time scan and immediate protection .. amazing!
Cons: No easy way to access quarantined items
User Rating: 10/10
Principales características de Nod 32
Pros: Recursos, tasa de detección, soporte técnico, precio.
Cons: A veces hay problemas para enviar a ESET labs archivos susceptibles de infeccion.
Todas las comparativas independientes acreditan que la detección heurística y las firmas genéricas de Nod 32 son las mas avanzadas del mercado por lo que continua ofreciendo la mayor protección en las horas cero, además, su módulo proactivo se actualiza regularmente.
Nod 32 también utiliza un motor de detección reactivo sobresaliente y cada vez aumenta más su calidad tal como se puede observar en las comparativas de AV. Todo esto no serviría de nada si no tuviera una buena detección "on the wild"(la pieza de malware es parada cuando intenta acceder al sistema sin necesidad de realizar un escáner de todo el disco), es más, Nod 32 goza de poseer el mayor n? de premios Virus Bulletin por lo que tiene una efectividad envidiable.
Web Coast Labs concedieron a Nod 32 las certificaciones antivirus level 1, 2, anti troyanos y las dos certificaciones antispyware (Kaspersky tiene todas menos una certificación spyware).
Nod 32 no gasta apenas recursos -yo ni lo noto- y lo he comparado con Kaspersky 6 ambos en su configuración mas alta y Nod 32 consume muchísimo menos que el renovado Kaspersky pese a lo que se decía, es como ir del día a la noche. Nod 32 también es muy bueno en la detección de virus polimórficos y solo es superado por Norton según AV-Comparatives.
Nod 32 tiene un módulo especializado en Internet que impide que se cuele cualquier tipo de malware utilizando un navegador y da opción para bloquear la pagina así los virus no llegaran nunca tan siquiera a rozar nuestro sistema aunque, hay que destacar la no inclusión de firewall por lo que necesitaremos tener instalado uno.
El modulo DMON de Nod 32 nos protege contra virus macro en los procesadores de texto y el modulo EMON es nuestra protección para algunos programas de correo.
Para finalizar incluye un módulo que nos permite escanear y desinfectar nuestro sistema pero por estar este antivirus tan volcado en la detección ?on the wild?a veces no elimina los archivos (tan solo los detecta) y cuando se intenta acceder a ellos o intentan aprovechar cualquier vulnerabilidad son eliminados y detectados por el residente.(El scanner de Kaspersky y otras compañías son muy buenos porque eliminan todos los archivos que se encuentran y tienen almacenados en su base de datos o que detectan por heurística).
Un punto final que pondría a ESET como el producto líder en seguridad seria su capacidad para detectar amenazas combinadas y la poca cantidad de falsos positivos que comete.
Para comparar dos antivirus ambos deben de estar en su máxima configuración (En el caso de Nod 32 la predeterminada esta muy por debajo de la máxima) y la comparativa debe de ser realizada por personas expertas a ser posible laboratorios independientes prestigiosos, sino, será SIEMPRE una chapuza.
User Rating: 10/10
Best Out There...PERIOD!
Pros: Fast, Light, Once set up...Easy to use, Top Shelf Antivirus!
Cons: Too bad most reviewers get paid for there rating!
User Rating: 10/10
Don't believe the hype about NOD32
Pros: Fact is it outperforms any other AV independently tested. Has consistent top performance in respected independent analysis amongst many more well known products.
Cons: It's been relatively unknown and as that?s changing the occurrences of the ill informed who just show everyone how much they don't know is a little more common as well.
Excellent pro-active detection of new and evolving threats without the need for further updates - you should read that to mean 'When up to date at zero-hour' but test by av-comparatives.org have confirmed it's effectiveness without any updates for three months. No anti-virus has 100% detection but NOD32 really is the closest thing to being the perfect antivirus.
User Rating: 10/10
One of the handful of softwares that actually impresses me!
Pros: ridicously fast, dependable and stable, unobtrusive, really small footprint
Cons: has a learning curve - which really doesn't matter
I usually forget I have it installed, because I can't tell on performance whether it is on or not.
I get reminded whenever something tries to sneak in, which so far nothing have succeeded in doing - and which I fully expect nothing ever will.
The performance is truly stunning, this is the first AV I've tried that I have let scan my HD's during daytime when I need the computer. It is so fast scanning means a short coffee-break, rather than a long lunch and then some.
The interface is somewhat geeky, but not that hard if you're willing to give it a few minutes. Normally you won't have to use it anyway, as the defaults are good for most situations and users. You can also set the proggy to be totally silent if that is what you want, then it just works - not even reminding you of it's existence.
In the three years this have been my first-choice AV I've had it crash exactly once, as part of a major system crash - which makes it probably the most stable software on my computer, including the OS.
The review by Ken wasn't really fair at the time, it smells a lot like a "not made here" bias, and it has no bearing on current reality whatsoever - C|Net should really do it over.
NOD32 is an assembly proggie, coded by former east block low level programmers. It makes it stand apart in this era of high level programming and high resource consumption. You can easily run it on a pre millenium-shift puter successfully - which tells you the first half about the quality of programming. The second half is that it aces the virus bulletin tests and has the best record of any and all AV's whatsoever.
So how come can a review of a program that does more with less, better and more stable, without hassle - barely top average? How can C|Net let such a review stand in the face of real world facts?
Beats me.
User Rating: 10/10
Simply the best.
Pros: Small footprint, blindingly fast, infinitely configurable.
Cons: If you don't know how to use one of them there puters', this might not be the software for you.
Can't schedule virus scans? Bull. You can schedule it hourly. Daily. Weekly. Event triggered, schedule which antivirus profile you want it to use when it scans (it supports multiple profiles, depending on what type of scan you want it to perform, what drives, how thorough, scan only or scan and clean, notify or silent, logged or not logged, email reports to any email address, etc, etc, etc) schedule it to repeat itself on it's own if the scan fails to complete (system lockup, power failure, etc...). You can schedule it to do a full scan after a virus update. On boot. When you open a specific program. The list goes on, and on.
Not able to find and remove Kak? Bull. I tried it. It worked flawlessly. Faster than I could have even imagined, it found it, knocked it out of memory, deleted the file and threw it into qurantine. As I SET IT UP TO DO... Gee Ken, too used to Nortons rediculously shiny buttons and no actual options? Rather have an 80MB footprint in your systems RAM when using Norton rather than 12-15MB? NOD32 loads about as quick as notepad in XP. No, I'm not kidding.
Virus heurisitics? Please. It's the best. Rosenthal simulators, I tried three different ones, it functioned perfectly on all three.
Not scanning your email until it gets in your inbox? Bull. Ken, it supports POP3 port scan (110, but you can add ports to that if you like, depending on your firewall, etc...), as well as SMTP via Outlook. By it's very design, it is one of the best email antivirus protections there is. Hands down.
I don't know what product you were reviewing Ken, but I hope they leave you to the point and shoot digital cameras and MP3 player reviews from now on out, and leave the real tech reviews for people who know what Assembly language means (NOD32 was coded entirely in Assembly, or machine language, which explains its lightning speed and small footprint, just fyi).
I sent CNET and ESET emails regarding this review. I asked CNET to take it down, because when you Google NOD32 reviews, this is like the 5th one on the page. I don't work for ESET. I am not affiliated with them in any way. But I support well written software. People, this antivirus software is simply the best out there. Ewido, yes it's good. But it's slower than this. Kaspersky and Trend Micro also both are good. I use Trend Micro on my jump drive because it doesn't require an install. But they are not as effective, and have a much larger footprint. Not as fast. Panda is good too, but again, on an older machine, it will cripple it. It's to big, and too slow. I ran this on a friend of mines computer to get rid of some horrible Malware/trojans that were on her computer. She runs a PIII 500Mhz. It loads like a champ, and one I set it up, it is almost entirely transparent to even being on her system. Yes, it got rid of several pieces of malware, and fixed what adaware, spybot, and avg could not.
Try it out. It works for 30 days. Check out the settings. See how configurable it is watch how fast it scans your drive (my entire C drive, 36GB SCSI 10000RPM w/ 2.8Ghz P4 takes about 4 minutes. Compare that to Norton's 45 minutes to an hour). If you have a home network with shared drives, you can even scan these sectors. You can scan by folder, or even file, remotely. My 2 cents. Ken, shame.
User Rating: 10/10
Excellent, The Best Out There, Cnet under rates this program greatly...
Pros: The Best viruse scanner That I have ever Used.
Cons: None what so ever!
User Rating: 10/10
Simply Amazing!
Pros: Self-Updating, Awesome real-time protection, user friendly, quite inexpensive, great support, big virus database, doesn't take a lot of space, nice GUI.
Cons: Minimal, can't think of any.
But, NOD32 is simply flawless. It's very user friendly, updates and scans in the background while you work on the PC. Best real-time protection I've ever seen. A must have!
User Rating: 9/10
Almost too good to be true
Pros: Excellent detection performance, not a resource hog
Cons: None for me
I'm not the least bit interested in snappy user interfaces. All I want from antivirus software is that it keep the things I don't want in my computer out of my computer and otherwise stay out of my way. NOD32 does that better than anything else I've seen before. It is extremely unobtrusive and does not slow my system down AT ALL. ESET even makes the unusual claim that you may see a slight performance increase after installing; I'm not prepared to believe that without some serious testing that I don't have time for, but I can say without a doubt that it has no adverse effect on my systems' performance.
NOD32 has a stellar detection record, and is reported to keep out even adware, better than some of the dedicated adware prevention programs out there. What more could you want?
User Rating: 10/10
Where has this Guy Been?
Pros: Fast, reliable, low on system resources
Cons: No down-loadable updates
User Rating: 10/10
The best AV I ever used
Pros: Doesn't hog resources, fast detection
Cons: couldn't find any
User Rating: 10/10
outstanding and unbeatable
Pros: light on resources and awesome detection
Cons: none that is likely to cause problem
User Rating: 9/10
Product you can fully trust.
Pros: Flawless performance, never misses a threat. Has always detected new threads on the wild before they are identified.
Cons: Menus somewhat intricate, but workable.
User Rating: 9/10
Cnet's review way out of date and not at all accurate
Pros: Small footprint, easy to automate, frequent updates, fast scanning
Cons: Doesn't scan Thunderbird emails
Nod32 from Eset is an excellent virus scanner, probably because it sticks with the job of being a virus scanner.
Norton and McAfee and others try to be a virus scanner, a firewall, a popup blocker, et cetera ad infinitum. These all-in-one's may do all of these jobs well, but certailny do not do them efficiently or elegantly.
Because Nod32 doesn't attempt to do other jobs, it can do it's one job very well, and do it nicely.
For example on demand scanning a local HDD with Nod32 is fast and doesn't slow a system to a crawl. Granted, it takes some time to scan through the large HDD's on most computers, but Nod32 does it with finesse.
Nod32 also has a nice variety of scanning options. I don't use outlook at home, so I was able to not only choose to not turn on the email scanner but to not install it at all.
Updates and scanning can be set up to run automatically on days and times of the user's choosing. When I had Norton, I would set the update and scan time, but they would never actualy run at those times. With Nod32 I can set the automatic options and actually sit there and watch them happen. The manufacturer, Eset, updates the virus signature database at least once a week, sometimes twice, so Nod32 is always ready to deal with emerging threats.
The only drawback, that I can see, is that Nod32 doesn't support active scanning of Mozilla's Thunderbird email client. There is of course a simple workaround, and that's active scanning of all internet traffic.
While Nod32 may not have the limelight of its bigger competitors, it defiently does not lay in their shadow; it shines all by itself.
User Rating: 10/10
The Best of the best security tools on the market.
Pros: Does not slow your computer like other security tools. Very efficient and user friendly. Regular automatic updates. The bottom line: you feel that something is protecting your PC.
Cons: Deep scanning very lenghy and not needed. The system scan is enough
NOD32 anti virus
Zone alarm firewall alone
Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy
Tune up clean Maintenance
You are done.
Karim Alameddine
User Rating: 9/10
By far the best antivirus out there, if you wanted to pay for one.
Pros: Fast, very fast, full featured, stable, never missed an in the wild virus
Cons: Not free, not well known
Only drawback: not free.
User Rating: 9/10
The best anti-virus I've ever owned!
Pros: In-depth scanning, not a system resource hog
Cons: User navigation is difficult
I decided to conduct my own little experiment and you can imagine my unpleasent surprise when I saw all the trojans and worms living on my computer. Nod has detected them all and with one click they have been deleted.
Since I do a lot of downloading in my spare time I like to be protected up the wazoo. Antivirus is extremely important to me and after trying Nod I will never switch back to a name brand again.
I've read a lot of poor reports about the "supposedly best antivirus program" Norton and in my experience all of them are true. Nod doesn't hog the system resources and it's complete.
My only complaint is that people who aren't stealthy with computers will have a tough time navigating this program. But once you get the han of it you are impressed beyond belief!
User Rating: 9/10
This is definitely a best buy
Pros: This anti-virus by far is the best at detecting unknown viruses, very good detection of known viruses, and most of all has very little impact on system performance
Cons: The menu and user interface could be a lot better, no firewall
User Rating: 10/10
Best of the Best
Pros: Low system consumption, 100% capture rate so far, and blazing fast
Cons: Not well known in the computing world
User Rating: 9/10
The best antivirus
Pros: Good for old computer with not much ram,good virus database,easy to use
Cons: not verry god for inxeperenced users
User Rating: 9/10
Excellent , efficient and light
Pros: Use few resources, efficient and easy to install
Cons: Interface needs to be more simple
I installed NOD32 (look to virus bulletin) easily 3 months ago and it is very efficient. It runs silently and virus definitions are updated once or twice a day.
Thanks to ESET. I plan to discontinue with my 3 users Norton License (now only 2 users) as soon as I have to pay for next year. (also very difficult to access Norton Hotline and pay for a new year is a Minotaure corridor!!)
User Rating: 9/10
NOD is the DON
Pros: Superior security and minimal footprint. It's at least one of the best. Enough said.
Cons: Might be better with more tweakable config. Aside from that still looking for a con.
While I don't and never will consider myself an authority on this matter, I do work for a software company so I am able to differentiate my anus from my elbow when it comes to software.
I've used Norton Antivirus, system works, Panda Platinum, TrendMicro (which is good) and hands down beyond a shadow of a doubt NOD32 is superior in almost all aspects.
Norton's solutions are way over-hyped in my opinion, it sucks system resources.
And for all the hoo-haa Norton makes I've seen many virii and trojans sneak their way past its eyes.
NOD32 is like having your personal Consiglieri. You tell him who you want and don't want to see you in your office, and whether you want to hear about it or not. But there's so much more, but i'll leave it here. NOD32 overall, has excellent functionalities, offers highly effective and comprehensive protection and only asks for a minimal amount of system resources.
Pretty damn reasonable.
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User Rating: 9/10
Best used so far...
Pros: Fast, accurate, and not a memory hog.
Cons: I'm sure it has at least one, but I haven't found it yet...
User Rating: 9/10
Whoa This beats NAV hands down
Pros: Very light on system resources. Customize every aspect of your internet and system files
Cons: Takes time to learn
None of the above come close to NOD32. It out performs, out smarts, and out does any Anti Virus solution on the market today.
If you need to unistall the program for whatever reason, it does just that. No messing with seperate (cough) live update modules and registry hacks.
NOD32 is very easy on system resources as well. You can customize to no end with this program. From e-mail monitoring, and yes you can monitor Mozilla Thunderbird, to advanced Heuristics. Unload seperate modules is easy to do if needed. I can't say enough about NOD32 and could go on.
FIY here is a link to a great tutorial for setting up NOD32
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?s=471bc6f07bd4bfb57a2245205c23bbfd&t=37509
User Rating: 9/10
Excellent product!
Pros: Fast, small foot-print, very effective software.
Cons: For AV alone, moderately costly.
It is a slow system hog, and creates only quite average to sub-par results.
Their web site is decent for information and removal tools--so not completely worthless!
Do any of the reviewers even use the Norton product on their own systems?
User Rating: 9/10
Nod32 beats Nav in every perspective
Pros: fast, small footprint, complete
Cons: Configuration screens could be better organised
NAV Nod32
Installation duration 22 0,5 Minutes
Updates to complete install 3 1 Times
Mandatory reboots 3 1 Times
Diskspace used after updates 132 13 Megabytes
Ram used 49 19 Megabytes
Copying 320 Mb of mixed data 86 55 Seconds (clean system 53 seconds)
Scanning harddisk "default" 580 160 Seconds
"Smart" scanning harddisk 390 93 Seconds
"Full" scan of harddisk 630 206 Seconds
"Smart" scan of network share 117 22 Seconds
CPU usage "Smart" scan 60-100 7-30 percent
CPU usage "Full" scan 80-100 7-80 percent
CPU usage network scan 45 18 percent (average)
Deïnstallation time 145 5 Seconds (without reboot time)
Deïnstallations 2 1 Programs
Reboots for deïnstall 2 1 Times
Left-over after deïnstall 11 0 Maps
Left-over after deïnstall 7 0 Files
Startup time (after Bios beep) 49 28 Seconds (clean system 26 seconds)
Remarks:
System Athlon 2800+, 512 Mb ram, 160 Gb ata100 hdu, clean image of XP-pro used for both scanners.
Install duration = installation + all update's, without reboot time.
Skipped the advised complete virusscan after the first update of NAV to reduce installation time.
Nav wanted to shut down the Windows XP sp2 security center allthough that service was disabled.
Nav found a false positive (removealtool for Aurora adware was recognised as the aurora adware itself).
"Full" scan: all files scanned including scanning of archive contents (Zip's Cab's)
"Smart" scan: Only files with a "dangerous" extention, no scanning inside compressed files
"Default" scan: Scanning with the default options after installation.
PS: CNet, how much does Symantec pay?
User Rating: 9/10
Norton over this?!!! No way!
Pros: Not a resource hog, excellent detection rate, unobtrusive realtime scan engine (unlike Norton)
Cons: Could do with a more intuitive and nicer looking interface
User Rating: 9/10
Not knowing the why's and how's doesn't matter. It works!
Pros: It thoroughly disected, identified and rectified my computer
Cons: assumes you're a geek
