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- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $39.99 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
- Date added: January 21, 2010
- Total Downloads: 3,545,178
- Downloads last week: 33,628
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 689 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on March 06, 2009
As far as reputations go, ESET's NOD32 is practically unimpeachable. Version 4 of the popular and effective antivirus and antispyware builds on that rep, emphasizing its community-sourced ThreatSense for preventing attacks before they occur, a slick interface, and some of the highest independently-tested detection rates married to low rates of false positives.
Installation is clean and straightforward. Greatly improved from its humble beginnings as separate scanners that once littered the desktop, NOD32 can be toggled between standard features and more advanced options. Scans were neither blazingly fast nor excruciatingly slow, but the real-time defenses produced no noticeable drags on system performance. NOD32 has consistently scored near the top of several independent antivirus testing organization ratings for finding the most malware. An uninstallation option is available, requiring a reboot. However, we found residual system files and Registry settings that had to be deleted by hand.
If you're confident in your clicking habits, you might not necessarily miss the firewall and spam filter that ESET built into its Smart Security suite that's based on NOD32. Even without them, though, NOD32's speed, accuracy, and lack of impact on resources make it a must.
Publisher's description
From ESET :ESET NOD32 Antivirus proactively detects and disables viruses, trojans, worms, adware, spyware, phishing, rootkits and other Internet threats. ESET NOD32 Antivirus provides: 1) Proactive Protection - multiple layers of detection protecting you from Internet threats before it is too late. 2) Precise Detection - accurately identifies known and unknown threats; it consistently wins top awards from testing labs and is recognized for having zero false positives. 3) Lightweight Design - requires less memory and CPU power, allowing your computer to run fast and have more room for games, web browsing, and emailing. 4) Fast Scanning Speeds - highly efficient program ensures fast file scanning and product updates; it runs quietly in the background.
What's new in this version:
Version 4.0.474 improves compatibility with server operating systems and HTTP scanning compatibility and fixes several bugs.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 689 votes
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Version: ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4.0.474
Pros: With one exception easy to use.
Cons: It constantly shows my anti virus protection as "off" or disabled and I have to try and reinstate it manually.
Summary: I now feel I cannot trust it to protect my computer against viruses and I don't know how to fix the problem permanantly.
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Version: ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4.0.474
Pros: Not to Heavy in my compie
Cons: Must be update for a short times
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4.0.474
Pros: Nod is odd, scanning dazzling, price is scalping, but plan on buying, anyway.
Cons: Spectacular!
Summary: Popular!
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Version: ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4.0.474
Pros: Little weight, does not bother with warnings.
Cons: I do not have complaints
Summary: I am some years old using it and the truth compared with others this to seem is the one that I nedd
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Version: ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4.0.474
"Good but does work only on windows XP original"
Pros: Good it scans fast everything is good.
Cons: Only problem i faced is it is updating when i switched off my windows updates . it only working when windows updates switched ON.
Summary: Only problem i faced is it is updating when i switched off my windows updates . it only working when windows updates switched ON.
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