Comments on: Eset’s Nod32 2.7: Best Antivirus Product of 2007 http://blog.scotsnewsletter.com/2007/02/04/esets-nod32-27-best-antivirus-product-of-2007/ Operating systems. Broadband. Issues. Reviews ... tech info you can use. Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:14:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Steve3456 http://blog.scotsnewsletter.com/2007/02/04/esets-nod32-27-best-antivirus-product-of-2007/#comment-486 Steve3456 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:11:21 +0000 http://blog.scotsnewsletter.com/2007/02/04/esets-nod32-27-best-antivirus-product-of-2007/#comment-486 Scot, I am curious – do you use the Virus Bulletin www.virusbtn.com to help with your anti-virus evaluations? They have useful information on their site with histories back to 1998. Many people disparage Symantec, yet Symantec Anti-virus is one of the best at catching viruses and not generating false positives – similar to NOD32. These two antivirus apps are the only two that caught 100% of the viruses thrown at them by VB. All the other vendors missed some of the viruses. However, NOD32 is twice as fast as Symantec at scanning for viruses according to VB. This puts NOD32 a big notch ahead of Symantec, though Symantec has it over NOD32 in ease of use for “average” users. So the data at VB confirm your excellent call on NOD32. Regarding Anti-spyware, Spywarewarrior (spywarewarrior.com) has the most comprehensive site I have seen. From this site I have learned that to protect against spyware, a multi-level approach works best. Use a program like Spybot S&D (www.spybot.info/en) and/or Spyware Blaster (javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html) to set kill bits to prevent execution of malware code. Use a IP blocker like IE-SPYAD for ZonedOut (http://www.spywarewarrior.com/uiuc/resource.htm) to block thousands of IP addresses known for spreading malware. On top of this use your favorite anti-spyware, a firewall and text-only email. You will need to monitor your logs for anti-virus and anti-spyware compatibility issues and set exceptions to allow these two to get along. You will also need to edit the white list for ZonedOut to allow access to a few sites you do use but for whatever reasons may have been placed on the blocked list by the editors (like some *.MSN.com or *.microsoft.com or *.yahoo.com or com.com sites). Scot,
I am curious – do you use the Virus Bulletin http://www.virusbtn.com to help with your anti-virus evaluations? They have useful information on their site with histories back to 1998. Many people disparage Symantec, yet Symantec Anti-virus is one of the best at catching viruses and not generating false positives – similar to NOD32. These two antivirus apps are the only two that caught 100% of the viruses thrown at them by VB. All the other vendors missed some of the viruses. However, NOD32 is twice as fast as Symantec at scanning for viruses according to VB. This puts NOD32 a big notch ahead of Symantec, though Symantec has it over NOD32 in ease of use for “average” users. So the data at VB confirm your excellent call on NOD32.

Regarding Anti-spyware, Spywarewarrior (spywarewarrior.com) has the most comprehensive site I have seen. From this site I have learned that to protect against spyware, a multi-level approach works best. Use a program like Spybot S&D (www.spybot.info/en) and/or Spyware Blaster (javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html) to set kill bits to prevent execution of malware code. Use a IP blocker like IE-SPYAD for ZonedOut (http://www.spywarewarrior.com/uiuc/resource.htm) to block thousands of IP addresses known for spreading malware. On top of this use your favorite anti-spyware, a firewall and text-only email. You will need to monitor your logs for anti-virus and anti-spyware compatibility issues and set exceptions to allow these two to get along. You will also need to edit the white list for ZonedOut to allow access to a few sites you do use but for whatever reasons may have been placed on the blocked list by the editors (like some *.MSN.com or *.microsoft.com or *.yahoo.com or com.com sites).

]]> By: macsband http://blog.scotsnewsletter.com/2007/02/04/esets-nod32-27-best-antivirus-product-of-2007/#comment-313 macsband Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:15:22 +0000 http://blog.scotsnewsletter.com/2007/02/04/esets-nod32-27-best-antivirus-product-of-2007/#comment-313 Scot, Thank you for pointing me to Nod32. Norton and McAfee were signficantly slowing my three Dell dual core 1.83GHz PCs. AVG and Ad-aware failed to protect me from spyware that corrupted dozens of Windows files. You saved me a LOT OF WORK trying to find an efficient and robust piece of software. And I guess the Eset engineers have been listening because I find the version 3.0 interface clean and intuitive. Thanks again. Mac Scot,
Thank you for pointing me to Nod32. Norton and McAfee were signficantly slowing my three Dell dual core 1.83GHz PCs. AVG and Ad-aware failed to protect me from spyware that corrupted dozens of Windows files. You saved me a LOT OF WORK trying to find an efficient and robust piece of software. And I guess the Eset engineers have been listening because I find the version 3.0 interface clean and intuitive. Thanks again. Mac

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