Why ESET's NOD32?
Technology, not brand names, stops malware.
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Industry tests and data to show the differences in detection, size and speed of NOD32's top competitors. Compare the data against Symantec, McAfee, Kaspersky and Trend. Find out why NOD32 is the Safest, Fastest, Smallest solution.
Best Virus Protection & Detection of Known and Evolving Threats
- Approximately 80% of threats are proactively detected using ThreatSense® heuristics. For example, all variants of MyDoom, Netsky, Bagle and Mytob were detected heuristically - before most other vendors even had a signature. Compare some of the other antivirus solutions from Symantec, McAfee, Trend, and Kaspersky here.
- ESET NOD32 Antivirus received the highest awards (ADVANCED+) in retrospective testing, due to its high proactive on-demand detection rate and low rate of false positives. ESET NOD32 Antivirus includes one of the fastest scanners in the industry, earning the status of Overall antivirus product winner of 2006 (source: http://www.av-comparatives.org/)
- In-the-Wild Virus Detection - ESET is the record holder of 47 VB100 awards collected over the last 9 years. These tests validate the products ability to detect known malware. (source: http://www.virusbtn.com/)
The Best Anti Virus Software Fights In-the-Wild Viruses
- ESET NOD32 Antivirus has missed fewer "In-the-Wild" viruses than any other vendor in VirusBulletin testing, as depicted below.
The Fastest Performance of Antivirus Software
With ESET NOD32 Antivirus, it’s not necessary to sacrifice speed for detection. Scanning and update processes happen behind the scene without a perceptible decrease in performance.
- 40MB/sec scanning rate under Windows® XP Professional, 64-bit, Edition (source: Virus Bulletin, Dec. 2006)
- Three-times faster than Symantec and Kaspersky, four-times faster than McAfee under Microsoft® Windows Vista Business Edition (32-bit) (source: Virus Bulletin, Feb. 2007)
- On-access Scanning performance impact of 4%. (source: Canon/ESET testing, Aug. 2006)
Using the in-depth chart below, you can compare antivirus software, and find out which type will provide the kind of protection you need. The study stands ESET NOD32 Antivirus up to some of the biggest brand names – Symantec, McAfee, and Trend Micro – comparing protection as well as performance.
| Comprehensive Protection |
ESET NOD32 Antivirus |
Symantec |
McAfee |
Trend |
Kaspersky |
VB100 Awards for detection of all In-the-Wild viruses in the VB test sets without any false-alarms. (virusbulletin.com,
May 1998 - December 2007) |
47 |
41 |
33 |
16 |
39 |
Advanced+ Awards
Tests of proactive and on-demand detection (AV-Comparitives.org, May 2005 - November 2007)
Advanced+/Advanced/Standard |
10/1/0 |
4/3/2 |
2/7/2 |
No Data |
7/2/2 |
Missed In-the-Wild Viruses in Virus Bulletin tests between May 1998 and February 2007 (virusbulletin.com)
- On-Access
- On-Demand |
0 |
29 |
64 |
68 |
34 |
| 0 |
2 |
71 |
64 |
15 |
| Real-time protection against 16 zero-day viruses (virustotal.com) |
87% |
7%* |
33% |
0% |
13% |
| Retrospective/Proactive Test by 3-month old signatures (May 2007) |
68% |
24%* |
24% |
No Data |
9% |
| Performance |
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| Executable scanning rate (December 2006, Virus Bulletin) on Windows 2003 Server x64 on AMD Athlon 64 processor |
40 MB/s |
10 MB/s |
13.4 MB/s |
19.9 MB/s |
5.9 MB/s |
| Scanning rate of executables (February 2007, Virus Bulletin) on Windows Vista Business Edition(32-bit) |
43.17 MB/s |
14.54 MB/s |
11.61 MB/s |
No Data |
12.12 MB/s |
* - Norton AV
Compare antivirus software and the answer is clear. Big brand names don’t stop malware. Advanced design and technology does. ESET NOD32 Antivirus, with ThreatSense® offers superior detection and performance, as well as the smallest footprint.
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