ESET Nod32 Antivirus?

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Anyone else tried these? I've just finished a trial with them and signed up.
Previously I ran Norton which I found far to heavy on memory and this seems much lighter, yet way more powerfull to use.
Am well impressed :)

And no I don't work for them :lol:
 
Best AV software on the market, IMHO. :)
 
the free ones are generally fine but if i was paying for one nod32 would be my weapon of choice (or sophos if i was in a larger company) :)
 
Well, my NOD ran out and times were hard so I've been using Antivir for over a year now and it's been brilliant.
 
I would also look at bullguard, I had NOD for ages but actually prefer this, good in the ratings also, I brought a genuine key on EBay for it, cheap as chips, been as good as gold for the last 6 months.
 
...Had NOD for a while but it went downhill at version 3 so ditched it. Not the best anymore.

Using Kaspersky 2010 which is much better. Free when you bank at Barclays too :)
 
Can't agree with that. I use NOD at home and on about a 1000 machines worldwide within the company work for. It is both effective and not a resource hog. I would use nothing else.
 
...Having it on 'about 1000' machines doesn't make it good ;)
 
shufty said:
...Having it on 'about 1000' machines doesn't make it good ;)
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lol - let's just say it's given me a good chance to evaluate it in the real world and also to have a damn good look at the competition during the evalution process ;)

What kind of testing do you have to back up your views?
 
Using Eset for a year now, it replaced Mcafee and is far better as it does not hog and choke your pc memory.

touch wood :bonk: have had no issues with it at all:)
 
LemmingLover said:
...not a resource hog...
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2.7x was excellent, very fast and it didn't seem to have let anything through.

We've had quite nasty performance issues with it at work unless advanced heuristics have been disabled.

Version 4 is better performance-wise but it still does 'freak out' sometimes. It runs OK for most people working for the company (about 70 people use it there), but for some users, it just starts using up most of the cpu performance, spikes in cpu usage (goes from 0 to 99% usage of the CPU, being around 30-50% most of the time I've seen it when using the Task manager) and only a reinstall helps.

That said, it seems it didn't let any viruses through.
 
Slapo said:
2.7x was excellent, very fast and it didn't seem to have let anything through.

We've had quite nasty performance issues with it at work unless advanced heuristics have been disabled.

Version 4 is better performance-wise but it still does 'freak out' sometimes. It runs OK for most people working for the company (about 70 people use it there), but for some users, it just starts using up most of the cpu performance, spikes in cpu usage (goes from 0 to 99% usage of the CPU, being around 30-50% most of the time I've seen it when using the Task manager) and only a reinstall helps.

That said, it seems it didn't let any viruses through.
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You've used Symantec and McAffee? Now they are resource hogs :)
 
LemmingLover said:
You've used Symantec and McAffee? Now they are resource hogs :)
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I use McAfee maybe two years ago (the free AOL edition) and it was OK. Whether it had been worse before that or after that, I don't know.

I've used Norton Internet Security 2008 for about a year until earlier this year and it was very fast. The 2009 version of it was fast as well, but it insisted on me having the nag plug-in for Firefox installed, so I didn't buy an upgrade or a subscription.

I had used Avast since then until maybe a week ago, when it seemed to me it restarted my computer at random. Maybe the new PSU I got is faulty, but the reboots were random and even when the system wasn't under full load - and hardware temperatures are OK.
That said, when my old PSU (less powerful and efficient as the new one) died, it could have damaged something else in my computer, but I doubt that would have made the restarts random. I'll try SiSoft Sandra's burn-in test tonight to make sure, though.

I've also tried AVG briefly, but whenever I opened a directory with a few exe files, it just hammered my computer, so away it went. I'm on Avira now and if it proves to be good until the end of this week, I think I'll buy the premium version.
 
Im glad I brought this thread up, I had only heard of people using Nod32 at work before but I'm glad I seemed to have made the right choice.
After using Norton at home for 5 years, I can definately vouch that this is less of a hog. I this sounds silly, it just feels much safer?
 
I used to use Sophos at work, now we push out TrendMicro OfficeScan :]
 
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