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NOD32 Antivirus
The latest generation of ESET’s Internet security for businesses, ESET NOD32®, provides proactive protection against increasingly sophisticated and targeted cyber threats. Known for being fast and unobtrusive, it allows you to focus on your business, not your antivirus.
- Smart Detection
ESET NOD32 Antivirus uses proactive detection technology to identify malware, providing your system with around the clock protection. Proactive detection relies on advanced heuristics as well as generic and genetic algorithms to detect new malware and new mutations of known malware.
- Extremely Light System
Footprint ESET NOD32 Antivirus is so light your users will not even notice it’s running.
- Advanced Archive Scanning
Threats don’t always enter where you expect. ESET NOD32 Antivirus can scan into layers of compressed files to ferret out malicious software. Users can control search depth, file size, archive size and timeout of archive scans.
- Encrypted Communication Control
Scanning SSL-encrypted HTTP and POP3 protocols and even defeats threats that hide from plain sight.
- Enhanced Portable Computer Support
Enhanced settings for portable computers allow tasks to be postponed when the computer is running on battery power.
- ESET SysRescue
Creates rescue CDs, DVDs or USB drives for cleaning unstable, infected systems.
- ESET Sysinspector™ Integration
Administrators will love our advanced diagnostic tool for taking “deep-dive” snapshots of systems. Files and processes are colour coded in scan logs to make it easy for IT administrators to identify potential threats in the system.
- Uninstall Password Protection
Password protection prevents ESET NOD32 Antivirus from being uninstalled by unauthorised employees or visitors.
- ESET Self Defense and HIPS
ESET NOD32 Antivirus has built-in technology to prevent malicious software from corrupting or disabling it. Unauthorised attempts to modify your OS or applications are actively blocked through a combination of advanced behavioural analysis and network filtering that monitor your system processes, files and registry keys.
- Removable Media Access Control
Protects against infections from USB drives, fl oppies, CDs and DVDs.
- Improved Cleaning
Cleaning of certain difficult to remove infections has been significantly improved.
- Support for Cisco Network Admission Control
Regulatory compliance is simplified with native support for Cisco NAC.
- Mirror Updating
Mirror servers make it easy to manage distribution of signature database updates
to all ESET products within the network, saving you valuable time and bandwidth.
- Proactive Protection
Award winning ThreatSense† technology combines advanced heuristics and malware signatures to deliver the best Zero-Day protection.
- Precise Detection
Accurately identifies known and unknown threats. Consistently wins top awards from testing labs. Businesses will bypass false alarms that cause confusion, loss of time and resources.
- Lightweight
Built to ensure fast system startup, utilising less system resources than competitors. More room for other business applications to run, increasing employee productivity.
- Fast
Highly optimised code ensures file scanning and updates are quick and efficient, maximising work performance.
- Remote Administration
Ensures hassle-free installation, centralised administration and seamless updating within a network environment. From five users to hundreds of thousands can be managed through Remote Administrator, saving resources, time and money.
- PRODUCT COMPARISON
| ESET v4 | Kaspersky | Sophos Endpoint | McAfee | |
| GENERAL | ||||
| Antivirus/Spyware | * | * | * | * |
| Spam/Anti-Phishing | * | * | * | * |
| Two-way Firewall | * | * | * | * |
| Rootkit Detection | * | * | * | * |
| ADVANCED | ||||
| Intrusion Detection System (HIPS) |
HIPS | Intrusion Prevention | HIPS | - |
| Removable media access control |
* | * | Device Control | - |
| Self Defense | * | * | - | * |
| Fast Scan | Smart Optimalization | * | Decision Caching | - |
| ENHANCEMENTS | ||||
| Rescue Disk | SysRescue Recovery CD | * | - | - |
| System diagnostic utility | SysInspector | Security analyzer | - | - |
| Password Protection | * | * | - | - |
| Laptop Enhancements | * | - | - | * |
| Fullscreen Enhancements | * | Gamer Edition | - | - |
| SUPPORT AND UPDATES | ||||
| Free Phone Support | * | * | * | - |
| Win 95/98/ME | NOD32 v2.7 | - | - | - |
| DETECTION CAPABILITIES | ||||
| Heuristic Detection | 62% | 33% | 62% | 30% |
| False Positives | 4 | 9 | 259 | 3 |
| Boot Time Percentage Overhead | 12% | 108% | 101% | 70% |
| Scanning Speed on Win08 Server | 21 MB/s | 10 MB/s | 11 MB/s | 10 MB/s |
| Average File Access Lag Time | 45 MB | 176 MB | 123 MB | 136 MB |





