My AV software, with a NOD
Through the recommendations of fellow friends and other anonymous Samaritans, I’ve decided to uninstall my once beloved McAfee to try something supposedly ‘better’. After sometime researching on the best AV software available, I was disappointed to find out that McAfee wasn’t even on the top 3 list. In fact, I have never heard of the Top 2 ever before. Perhaps I was too far out on catching up with the latest software and trends these days. They were Eset’s NOD32 and Kaspersky Lab’s AntiVirus. It was reported that NOD32 has never not detected a possible virus threat, and it is supposed to be faster in scanning. All these because they use some sort of high level algorithm that’s mind-blowing. Even Kaspersky lost out on detection although its rather reputable in the market.
Checking out Eset’s website reassured me that these guys really know what they’re doing, and they’re in it for good. They’ve claimed 100% detection awards for many months straight – which makes you wonder if they’ve actually make viruses to create opportunities for themselves…hmm. Well its just part of my nature to be overly suspicious. With sufficient evidence to support my decision to switch, I said my last rites to McAfee, and wish I never had to go back to that slow but intuitive AV program.
The first thing that took me by surprise was the sheer size of NOD32. It’s only a bloody 8MB size! I was pondering if this was some sort of a trial program, or it’s just a big joke. Installing it was fast, and I encounter no problems whatsoever. Then comes the face-off. The interface looks nothing like intuitive at first sight. It looks like you have to know what you wanna do in order to use it. Plus you have to download the manual separately on the website. So I read the amazingly thin manual, which doesn’t really provide much detail except for the normal explanation to everything you see on the interface: the scan function, the monitor function. etc (I was hoping they’ll include some really complex stuff on the algorithm used and stuff, to convince myself that this is really a product of the supernerds). Now comes the real test: The Scan!
1 click to scan my local drive and in less than probably 15min it was done! McAfee did mine in >2hrs! This got me worried. I was wondering if it was actually doing its job in scanning my files properly coz I really didn’t think it could be that fast! Later on I found out that they have an advance setting in which you can scan more in-depth of your files, but even that took less than an hour. Nonetheless it detected a threat which the other AV I tried never did. So I thought it couldn’t be all that ‘bad’. There were just too many good things about NOD32 that you wonder if it's actually working because its just too good...to be true.
At the end of the day, I’m drawn into believing that I’ve made the right choice in switching, as it’s supposed to be the best AV software in the market, its a lot faster than any others…and it updates definitions almost everyday. For me, that’s convincing enough ;p
Use this site to do a comparison yourself.
Checking out Eset’s website reassured me that these guys really know what they’re doing, and they’re in it for good. They’ve claimed 100% detection awards for many months straight – which makes you wonder if they’ve actually make viruses to create opportunities for themselves…hmm. Well its just part of my nature to be overly suspicious. With sufficient evidence to support my decision to switch, I said my last rites to McAfee, and wish I never had to go back to that slow but intuitive AV program.
The first thing that took me by surprise was the sheer size of NOD32. It’s only a bloody 8MB size! I was pondering if this was some sort of a trial program, or it’s just a big joke. Installing it was fast, and I encounter no problems whatsoever. Then comes the face-off. The interface looks nothing like intuitive at first sight. It looks like you have to know what you wanna do in order to use it. Plus you have to download the manual separately on the website. So I read the amazingly thin manual, which doesn’t really provide much detail except for the normal explanation to everything you see on the interface: the scan function, the monitor function. etc (I was hoping they’ll include some really complex stuff on the algorithm used and stuff, to convince myself that this is really a product of the supernerds). Now comes the real test: The Scan!
1 click to scan my local drive and in less than probably 15min it was done! McAfee did mine in >2hrs! This got me worried. I was wondering if it was actually doing its job in scanning my files properly coz I really didn’t think it could be that fast! Later on I found out that they have an advance setting in which you can scan more in-depth of your files, but even that took less than an hour. Nonetheless it detected a threat which the other AV I tried never did. So I thought it couldn’t be all that ‘bad’. There were just too many good things about NOD32 that you wonder if it's actually working because its just too good...to be true.
At the end of the day, I’m drawn into believing that I’ve made the right choice in switching, as it’s supposed to be the best AV software in the market, its a lot faster than any others…and it updates definitions almost everyday. For me, that’s convincing enough ;p
Use this site to do a comparison yourself.
Labels: Anti-Virus, Eset, Kaspersky, McAfee, Nod32
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