enoonmai said:
@swatkat: How's NOD32? I was kinda waiting for you to "test" it out? Any good? How is it on system resources, heuristics, updates, configuration levels, etc?
hi enoonmai,
NOD32 comprises of four scanning modules namely AMON (Background Scanner), NOD32 (On-Demand Scanner), DMON (MS Office and IE scanner, here DMON means Document Monitor), IMON (Internet Monitor, for scanning Emails). These are nicely grouped in one interface called NOD32 Control Center.
Yeah..NOD32 is very light on system (better than AVG!!). According to Lavalys Everest, these are my RAM utilization in different cases:-
Total RAM=191MB SDRAM
1] No AV installed: Usage 57%
2] AVG 7 Free: Usage jumps to 84%
3] NOD32: Usage jumps to 70%
Also, time taken to open applications is greatly reduced, compared with AVG or any other AV….
Each module of NOD32 has loads of Options
(i like this!!!). By clicking “Setup” in each module window, it opens up the options window, which lets you control EVERY aspect of Antivirus process, like Scanning (file types, when to scan etc), Detection methods used (like Signature based or Heuristics etc), Actions to be taken (when a virus is found) and file type exclusions.
I think NOD32 has good Heuristics; it has 3 levels of Heuristics namely Safe, Standard and Deep! It also has some options like “Runtime Packer” scan, which scans packed files several formats are scanned internally. It also has one option called “Advanced Heuristics”, apart from above 3 Heuristics, their help says that this one extends heuristics capability of NOD32 and enables it to detect new Trojans, worms and viruses.
Another good feature is two stage Actions, like if it finds a virus, first action is to clean and if it fails , you can specify another second action, like rename, delete, quarantine etc. Both first and second actions can be customized.
Overall, NOD32 is a good AV, with lots of Options to tweak it! New users may suddenly find it very confusing, by seeing those loads of options!! And scanning speed is also good…..
I can not say anything about detection rates of NOD32 (because I can not test it!!!!). But according to reviews, tests by several websites and organizations it has a very good detection rate.
As in that McDonald ad, “i am lovin it” !!!
I suggest you to try it….
