Why ESET's NOD32?
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Industry tests and data to show the differences in detection, size and speed of NOD32's top competitors. Compare the data against Symantec, McAfee, Kaspersky and Trend. Find out why NOD32 is the Safest, Fastest, Smallest solution.

Best Detection of Known and Evolving Threats

• Approximately 88% of threats are proactively detected using ThreatSense heuristics. For example, all variants of MyDoom, Netsky, Bagle and Mytob were detected heuristically - before most other vendors even had a signature. Compare to Symantec, McAfee, Trend, and Kaspersky.
• NOD32 receives the highest awards (ADVANCED+) in retrospective testing, due to its high proactive on-demand detection rate and low rate of false positives. NOD32 includes one of the fastest scanners in the industry, earning the status of Overall Anti-Virus product winner of 2006. (source: www.AV-Comparatives.org)
• In-the-Wild Virus Detection - ESET is the record holder of 41 VB100% awards collected over the last 7 years. These tests validate the products ability to detect known malware. (source: www.virusbtn.com).

NOD32 has missed fewer In-the-Wild viruses than any other vendor in VirusBulletin testing, as shown below.

Fastest Performance

With NOD32, it's not necessary to sacrifice speed for detection. Scanning and update processes happen behind the scenes without a perceptible decrease in performance.

• 19MB/sec scanning rate under Windows 2003
• Three to 34 times faster than the leading brands under Windows XP
• Keep employees productive by minimizing the impact on their systems

Minimal Resource Utilization

NOD32 conserves resources on disk and in memory, leaving more room for critical applications. It is compact enough to run on modest systems, saving valuable memory without compromising performance or functionality, yet powerful enough to slam the door on malware intrusions. 

• Utilizes approximately 22MB of RAM, one of the smallest packages in the industry
• Low RAM usage and intelligent caching reduces disk access and memory paging
• Low 4% performance overhead (source: Canon/ESET testing, August 2006)