Originally posted by: flexy
Originally posted by: scott
In Dec 2005 I had an experience where I ran each of these virus scanners (each fully updated) with following results:
Brand.........................# of viruses detected
McAfee...............................0,
NOD32...............................0,
TrendMicro.........................0,
Panda................................0
Kaspersky........................23 !!!
ONLY Kaspersky found the infections.
This experience has proven to me that at this time, Kaspersky is definitely the best of these 5.
To directly answer the OP, "NO", NOD32 is no good.
There is no question that KAV has the bestr detection rate - you just need to do some research, there are websites MANY covering this.
However (without going into detail) i have reasons NOT to use KAV (i tried almost all AVs out there). NOD32 comes second or so, on par with Norton, uses not many resources and integreates NICELY.
Calling NOD32 "no good" is just ignorant....KAV has like 100% detection rate but makes your machine truly a "virus scanner" computer, including altering filesystem-streams and all that.....NOD has (correct me if i am wrong) like 95% or so detection rate....and there is FAR WORSE out.....eg. many people use Antivir and its detection rate is pretty POOR.
if you go to my thread above somewhere with the link, it shows the total amount of detections (includs spyware, viruses, worms, trojans......) from the top best/popular anti-viruses. You can see that kaspersky has a total of 99.88%, norton has 99.41% while Nod32 has 98.31% and you can compare it to antivir that has 93.63% and AVG pro with 87.44%.
KAV, McAfee, NOD32, and Norton are all very comparative and sometimes one would be better than the other depending on update times. For example, NOD32 has very frequent daily updates.