ESET® NOD32® Antivirus System How does yours compare? You buy anti-virus virus software to protect your computers/data which is the sensible thing to do but how effective is it? Virus Bulletin are full time professional, independent antivirus experts and are widely respected within the antivirus industry for their rigorous comparative tests focusing on virus detection rates, scanning speed, and generation of false positives. To earn a Virus Bulletin etin 100% Award, an antivirus product must detect all of the current “In the Wild” viruses and not produce any false positives. NOD32 is the only solution worldwide that has consistently never missed a single “In the Wild” worm or virus in this testing since ce May 1998 and holds the world record of Virus Bulletin 100% Awards, obtaining the 52nd 2nd Award in October 2008. The table below is based on the number of times all of these products have been tested periodically on various operating systems with Virus Bulletin etin since May 1998 which is when NOD32 was first submitted to them for testing. Anti Virus Software Brand/Product ESET NOD32 Norton/Symantec Avira Antivir Microsoft OneCare (since June 06 only) Sophos Kaspersky Norman CA InnoculateIT/eTrust MicroWorld/eScan F-Secure Secure FSAV SoftwinAVX/BitDefender McAfee Trend PC-Cillin/SvrPro Cillin/SvrPro GDATA Frisk F-Prot Bullguard Alwil Avast32 H+BEDV Antivir Command/Authentium Authentium VirusBuster Grisoft AVG Dr Web32/Dialogue Science Panda Hauri/ViRobot
Times Tested Since May ‘98
Tests Failed
Tests Passed
Success Ratio %
54 49 17 4 55 57 54 48 23 44 25 54 24 27 35 5 46 14 34 43 44 49 4 12
2 3 3 1 14 15 15 14 7 14 8 18 8 10 13 2 19 6 15 19 20 24 3 11
52 46 14 3 41 42 39 34 16 30 17 36 16 17 22 3 27 8 19 24 24 25 1 1
96.29% 93.87% 82.35% 75.00% 74.54% 73.68% 72.22% 70.83% 69.56% 68.18% 68.00% 66.66% 66.66% 62.96% 62.85% 60.00% 58.69% 57.14% 55.88% 55.81% 54.54% 51.02% 25.00% 8.33%
Symantec are running second in this table although in the same testing, NOD32 scanning times are considerably faster, despite the fact NOD32 32 has a much smaller system footprint and uses far less system resource. Incidentally, Symantec also failed the 3 Virus Bulletin tests prior to NOD32 making its debut. That brings their overall success ratio down to 88.46% Where anti-virus virus software is concerned, consistency is the key to successful virus protection! (Figures correct as at October 2008 E&OE)
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