Kaspersky vs. NOD32

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Hi GuitarMan,

Anyone have a comparison link?
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I've been chasing links all day, and the google portion of my brain is
fairly well fried for the moment, so would you mind if I let other
people provide links for the moment? :-)
Thoughts, ideas, etc...?
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I think they're both great. On my old computer, when I was comparing
them side by side, I decided to stick with just NOD32, because KAV
was a bit too resource hungry for that computer, and I couldn't find
anything to complain about with regards to NOD32's performance. Four
years later, I have a more powerful machine, and I'm still a very
happy NOD32 user. :-)

By the way, it was very refreshing to see "Kaspersky" and "NOD32" in
the subject line rather than "NAV" and "McAfee"! ;-)

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Melissa

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I haven't used Kaspersky for several years. I tried KAV after the
demise of Dr. Solomons which was my all time favorite. I was never
really satisfied with KAV because of bugs and resource consumption.

I switched to Norton for a few years but it just kept getting to be
more of a pain so I changed to F-Prot which has been OK for the most
part.

About 4 months ago I switched to NOD32 and have been completely
satisfied with it. I highly recommend it.

NOD32 is low on resource usage, highly customizable and updates are
quick and easy.
 
Anyone have a comparison link?
Thoughts, ideas, etc...?
Thanks...
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For over all detection including Trojans KAV is the winner. They are both
great AV. KAV uses more resources. I am running KAV Pro because of the
better detection. I have used both and had no problems with either program.
Good Luck.
 
Melissa said:
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Hi GuitarMan,



I've been chasing links all day, and the google portion of my brain is
fairly well fried for the moment, so would you mind if I let other
people provide links for the moment? :-)


I think they're both great. On my old computer, when I was comparing
them side by side, I decided to stick with just NOD32, because KAV
was a bit too resource hungry for that computer, and I couldn't find
anything to complain about with regards to NOD32's performance. Four
years later, I have a more powerful machine, and I'm still a very
happy NOD32 user. :-)

By the way, it was very refreshing to see "Kaspersky" and "NOD32" in
the subject line rather than "NAV" and "McAfee"! ;-)

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Melissa
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Thanks for the reply Melissa... :-)
I'm currently running NOD32 to test it on my machine and so far, so good.
I was running McAfee Corp. 8.0i and it seems the updates were far and few
inbetween.

My setup:
P4 @ 2GHz.
1 GB of PC2700 (333)
160 GB HD
80 GB HD
NVidia FX5200 128MB Ram - AGP 8x
Lite-On DVD + R/RW
Memorex 52/24/52 R/RW
Soundblaster Live 5.1
Wireless/Wired LAN
DSL @ 3/384
 
Thanks for the reply Melissa... :-)
I'm currently running NOD32 to test it on my machine and so far, so good.
I was running McAfee Corp. 8.0i and it seems the updates were far and few
inbetween.

My setup:
P4 @ 2GHz.
1 GB of PC2700 (333)
160 GB HD
80 GB HD
NVidia FX5200 128MB Ram - AGP 8x
Lite-On DVD + R/RW
Memorex 52/24/52 R/RW
Soundblaster Live 5.1
Wireless/Wired LAN
DSL @ 3/384
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You will certainly notice an increase in system performance as the
program (NOD32) consumes little processor time and physical memory. As
far as detection is concerned you will benefit from heuristic
detection which in the past 2 years at least has detected most of the
ITW worms without any updates at all.

I have McAfee Enterprise 8i on a machine here too. I think this is an
excellent antivirus solution. It's detection is better overall in
comparison to NOD32 when you start to bring over all detection into
consideration.... not just ITW.
 
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I switched to Norton for a few years but it just kept getting to be
more of a pain so I changed to F-Prot which has been OK for the most
part.

About 4 months ago I switched to NOD32 and have been completely
satisfied with it. I highly recommend it.
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What made you decide to dump F-Prot?
 
Ian JP Kenefick said:
You will certainly notice an increase in system performance as the
program (NOD32) consumes little processor time and physical memory. As
far as detection is concerned you will benefit from heuristic
detection which in the past 2 years at least has detected most of the
ITW worms without any updates at all.

I have McAfee Enterprise 8i on a machine here too. I think this is an
excellent antivirus solution. It's detection is better overall in
comparison to NOD32 when you start to bring over all detection into
consideration.... not just ITW.
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Thanks for the OPINION.
 
Andrew Price said:
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I switched to Norton for a few years but it just kept getting to be
more of a pain so I changed to F-Prot which has been OK for the most
part.

About 4 months ago I switched to NOD32 and have been completely
satisfied with it. I highly recommend it.
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What made you decide to dump F-Prot?
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I haven't dumped F-prot completely. I'm still running it on my non
critical and/or non E-mail systems.

I've run into a few little annoyances with F-Prot over 4-5 years of
use. I still have the DOS version as a backup scanner on all of my
systems.

My most recent beef is that the latest versions, 3.16+ have an
auto-update feature that requires going into MSCONFIG or the registry
to disable. It should be easy to configure these kinds of
features/annoyances from within the program settings.

F-Prot updates are around 3MB and can take quite a few minutes even
with a fast cable connection. NOD32 updates usually never take more
than about 20 seconds to run.

I had a few serious issues with F-Prot Windows 3.16 and 3.16a on
several Win98 systems. I went back to 3.15b and they went away.

I use several versions of a free program called InCntrl from PC
Magazine to monitor software installs, updates, uninstall and system
changes. I have to disable of turn off the later versions of F-Prot
with InCtrl and several other utilities that access the registry when
I run them or the systems will lock up.

I have several F-Prot subscriptions that will be running out soon and
I'm pondering whether to renew them or bite the bullet and get a
$129.00 5 pack license for NOD32.

Overall F-Prot is a pretty good AV program and I'd recommend it over
NAV, McAfee or KAV but I've been extremely impressed with NOD32.

I do a lot of technical research in engineering and manufacturing on
the internet and quite a few searches take me to Eastern European web
sites where I've frequently get blown over to porn sites or hijacker
sites.

So far the NOD32 IMON feature has blocked all of these malware
infiltrations including assorted viruses and trojans.
 
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Overall F-Prot is a pretty good AV program and I'd recommend it over
NAV, McAfee or KAV but I've been extremely impressed with NOD32.

I do a lot of technical research in engineering and manufacturing on
the internet and quite a few searches take me to Eastern European web
sites where I've frequently get blown over to porn sites or hijacker
sites.

So far the NOD32 IMON feature has blocked all of these malware
infiltrations including assorted viruses and trojans.
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Thanks for an interesting and very informative reply.
 
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