I’d say that no software is perfect just like saying that nobody’s perfect On the previous version (can’t remember which one it is now), Kaspersky detected a few more trojans in my computer compared to NOD32. But I wasn’t sure whether it’s real or whether it’s a false alarm. I haven’t tried its latest version so unfortunately I can’t give any comparison to that. However, your comment does add a value to this post so thanks for sharing again

Well, I didn’t like it so far. Yes, it is light on the system and the detection rate is outstanding – it found a spyware that no other program had, not Kaspersky and not any of many spyware detectors. But I found three serious problems with NOD32. First, too many false alarms, even with heuristics set to medium. It even found a “probably unknown NewHeur_PE virus” in a RAR archive containing only Word and PDF files from 6 years ago that hasn’t been opened in years.

Second, I ran this first full scan with “no cleaning” because I wanted to look at the results first and decide what to do with them later; I was afraid it would delete some vital clean file by mistake. I was expecting to find some easy right-click option in the scan log, so I could either mark the file as safe, disinfect it or delete it, just as Kaspersky does. I found out that I just couldn’t do it. For that, I had to either run another scan with the “standard” or “strict” option on and then work from the quarantine, or get out of the program and use the Explorer interface commands, after manually entering the exceptions one by one.

And third, the log contained *hundreds* of warnings about archives and software setup files that it simply couldn’t parse to extract and scan. Nearly all of them were trivial ZIP and RAR archives or InstallShield executables that Kaspersky never misses.

I also didn’t see anything like the real-time application behaviour analysis that Kaspersky does – it is even more annoying than UAC, but definitely a great added security value. I could perhaps add ThreatFire to do that, but it would be great if NOD32 included that feature.

I’ll be giving NOD32 a couple of days more (not longer, because the trial version doesn’t update the signatures more than once), then I’ll try Avira, but I guess I’ll be back to Kaspersky in the end. I still have almost a full year of its licence left, after all, and I like its features. I may supplement it with occasional Virustotal checks of specific files, and on-line system scans offered by many antivirus vendors (including ESET).

But I’ve explored your blog and loved it, Michael! I intend to be a regular visitor. My compliments!

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I do have a link, but why bother if the public beta is going to be released in a few hours? (it’s meant to be available for public on Friday 9th)

Though the beta does look promising…sideline question…leaked Windows 7 beta? … got a link :p

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