ANTI-VIRUS Protection

Comparison between NOD32 with other Antivirus Programs [Nov 05]       

ESET
NOD32

Norton
Symantec

McAfee Virus Scan

Trend
Micro

Sophos CA Vet

Innoculate (eTrust)

Virus Bulletin Magazine UK VB100% Awards. Awarded for detection of all in-the-wild viruses in the VB test sets, and without any false-alarms.
34
30
23
13
30
24
21
Viruses [InTheWild] missed in Virus Bulletin tests between May98 and May 05
0
33
64
22
32
25
80
Scan speed [executables] on Win XP [VB Jun 04] kb/s [bigger is better]
14023
3335
5415
7926
8163
3992
3824
Scan speed on Win 2003 Server [VB Nov 05] kb/s [bigger is better]
30385
6923
13022
n/a
n/a
12430
10319
Checkmark certified for Spyware [at May 05]
Y
N
N
Y
N
N
N
Percentage of new threats detected without a specific signature update.
[Test by AV-Comparatives.Org with new viruses using 3-month old scanner definitions]. This test indicates a product's capability to deal with new, previously unknown threats.
90%
8%
22%
12%
37%
0%
0%
Installation file size
8 MB
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Typical update file size
50k
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