NOD32 or Kaspersky?

[sibot]

Hey all,

I've been wanting to change my Anti-Virus for a long time now, and am wondering whether I should go for NOD32 and Kaspersky?

I'm currently using AVG Free, and am pretty much satisfied with it, but want to go in for more security by purchasing a full version of either. I've been doing a bit of research online about whether I should go for NOD32 or Kaspersky, and after a lot of looking around on different forums and statistics, I'm still undecided about the same.

People claim NOD32 as a light/fast and effective anti-virus, while Kaspersky boasts about its higher detection and removal rate. Some figures show that NOD32 has better detection rate. Seriously confusing.

I looked up the NeoWin 2008 Best Antivirus statistics and NOD32 wins hands down, with 400+ votes while Kaspersky has 150+.

It would be much appreciated if anyone could help me make the right choice. My main priority is to have maximum detection and removal rate, looking for total security.

Btw, how does bitdefender compare to them?

Regards,

Sibot

[sibot]

I don't think I have ever seen Avira cause BSOD, more likely it's a driver or hardware fault.

Thats what, its unlikely for an AntiVirus to cause a BSOD. But, after I uninstalled Avira, there hasn't been a single BSOD, while while it was installed, I had 2 BSOD's for the first time ever.

Kaspersky found me more viruses than NOD32 before (when running full scans)

But I guess both are good and light to your computer.

Yeah, thats what everyone has been saying, but the latest AV Comparatives report says Kaspersky only found 27% of the viruses while NOD32 had a 57% success.

I think I'll be going ahead with NOD32!

[zerologic]

Thats what, its unlikely for an AntiVirus to cause a BSOD. But, after I uninstalled Avira, there hasn't been a single BSOD, while while it was installed, I had 2 BSOD's for the first time ever.

Yeah, thats what everyone has been saying, but the latest AV Comparatives report says Kaspersky only found 27% of the viruses while NOD32 had a 57% success.

I think I'll be going ahead with NOD32!

After you install Eset NOD32 double click the taskbar icon and then click 'F5' on your keyboard.

When the dialog loads click 'Real-time system protection' then 'setup' and make sure the two malware types are ticked.

I'm sure you will be pleased with Eset NOD32. (Y)

[teaumaz]

Thats what, its unlikely for an AntiVirus to cause a BSOD. But, after I uninstalled Avira, there hasn't been a single BSOD, while while it was installed, I had 2 BSOD's for the first time ever.

Yeah, thats what everyone has been saying, but the latest AV Comparatives report says Kaspersky only found 27% of the viruses while NOD32 had a 57% success.

I think I'll be going ahead with NOD32!

I know you only want to choose between Kaspersky and NOD32, but from my own experience, I have been using Bitdefender Antivirus 10 for three years now, and I could not be happier about it. Have not had a single virus, uses 20-25 megs resources when idle and basically works like a charm.

In general, I suppose on a modern system, any of the top AV solutions will do, whether it is NOD32, Bitdefender, Kaspersky or F-Prot.

[FlyingTony]

I strongly recommend kaspersky, but, i haven't used NOD32, my classmates is using it , who didn't give it a high value.

[Rapid Dr3am]

+1 NOD32.

I am using it, and I like it. I used Kaspersky, and it wouldn't scan properly. Support was offered by the general public on their forum.

Then it decided my key was blacklisted, and after a few days no answer was given. I filed a chargeback for the payment and prompty installed NOD32.

[ProclaimDragon]

I'm currently running NOD v3.0 and it's using 35Mb for ekrn.exe (ESET Service) and another additional 10Mb for egui.exe (NOD32 Antivirus). I'm curious about the resource usage of Kaspersky Anti-Virus (not the security suite) for every process that belongs to KAV. I've read on the previous page that it was using 25Mb on some system.

What does that mean exactly? Does KAV only has one process and it was using 25Mb? It has 2 or more processes and one of them was using 25Mb? I'm really curious about how many processes does KAV use and how much resources they use (each).

So, anyone running KAV 2009 (no older versions please) can post a report about this?

[Skulltrail-old]

*stares at poll* WHOA.

I think Kaspersky is a lot better than NOD32. I actually used NOD32 a couple of weeks ago and can't stress it enough how silent NOD32 is and I favor that however the detection rate isn't as notorious as Kaspersky AVs. As I said before, I used NOD32 a couple of weeks ago and got a virus, no details from NOD32, I uninstalled and went back with KIS7, it immediately detected the virus and shoved up the AV quarantine's ass. :laugh:

KIS owns... but NOD32 is good...

[DDStriker]

from personal experience and having used both i'd have to say Nod32

I feel it gets updated more (was receiving update packages every hour)

when i used kaspersky it felt it was neccesary to just delete(or quarantine) the virus and take my files along with it without asking (by default)

nod32's approach by default is to fix the file (which does it fine) or if not it will ask me what to do

even after trying to configure kaspersky it still felt the best option was to delete rather then fix where as nod32 fixed everything (refering to win32.salinty virus :D)

[anonymous_user]

Yeah, thats what everyone has been saying, but the latest AV Comparatives report says Kaspersky only found 27% of the viruses while NOD32 had a 57% success.

Thats for the proactive test (detection of new/unknown malware). In the ondemand tests, KAV wins over NOD32.

Anyways my suggestion is to just trial both program and buy whichever one runs better on your computer. Both are excellent AV.

[tom01]

Nod32...

Kaspersky..

Comodo +Defence.

[Shaymaa]

NOD32 is just perfect...I've been using it for years now.

+1

[ProclaimDragon]

Kaspersky Online Scanner just found me this virus on some .dll file located in System32:

Trojan.Win32.BHO.eeh

But I can't really find any good info about it, can anyone help me?

NOD32 doesn't find anything on the same file...

[zerologic]

Kaspersky Online Scanner just found me this virus on some .dll file located in System32:

Trojan.Win32.BHO.eeh

But I can't really find any good info about it, can anyone help me?

NOD32 doesn't find anything on the same file...

What's the {name.dll}? Win32.BHO = Malware. Most likely left overs of malware that NOD32 didn't clean well.

[ProclaimDragon]

copol.dll

Just tried something else, the ESET Online Scanner and it also find this virus/malware but with a different name: Win32/Adware.IeDefender.NFM application

One thing I don't get. The online scanner founds it, but not the AV installed on the system? Yes, I have it updated and scanned only that file and it didn't report anything...

EDIT:

Nevermind, just did another update and rescanned file and it's gone.

Well, guess both Kaspersky and NOD32 found the same things on my system, I better stick with NOD... But still would love for someone that uses Kaspersky 2009 to post the memory resources used for every process that belongs to Kaspersky. Anyone?

Edited July 24, 2008 by Nazgulled

[Rejinderi]

kasper detects more .. it detects tiny puny viruses that pratically does nothing sometimes it detects softwares i needed as viruses =.= had to do frigging stupid things to get it running

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