Fuck Nod32

[JGB]

I've been obliviously and happily running nod32's security suite(antivirus+firewall etc)
no viruses ever,:D
it updates often so I thought I was good to go.

On a whim(after a program appeared pinned to my start menu, I clicked it, it minimized itself to my tray, refused to respond and on reboot appeared to have vanished from my system) I installed SuperAntispyware
still happy and nice and clean:)
Then after getting more weird errors I said to myself, self you ought to try a different one just in case.

as of right now Avira is just over halfway through my system with over 40 detections, and even more warnings

:angry::angry::angry::angry::angry::angry::angry:

many of them in the system recovery partition and randomly throughout my system.
Needless to say I'm not renewing with Eset, I've heard some people run their antivirus and other programs in parallel since its gets along well with antispyare programs.
I think I'm switching even though I like the layout and firewall interface better, I can't see any reason to keep both unless eset has firewalls that are miles better then the competition?

[Sanka113]

Maybe, you were just doing it wrong. Nod32 fo' life!

[HMthePM]

Dont know man. I also loved nod32, but now my system has suddenly slowed down drastically. Specially boot time. I will check with some other anti vir to be sure.

[peat moss]

Maybe, you were just doing it wrong. Nod32 fo' life!

Makes me wonder what version of Eset , what crack their using ( Nodlogin or Nodenabler) , what update site etc. Two posts tonite is quite a kowinkydink .

palestsinian's post :

http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-software-23/t-which-antivirus-314813/page2#post2990386


I'm running on 5 computers in my home , two at my in laws and countless friends computers with no ill affects . :huh:

[JGB]

I left it running completely normally, just updated the login/password as they got banned by Eset within a few days to a week each time(usually just long enough for an update or two) I had the full security suite running all the time with everything enabled so I'm not too sure how I was"doing it wrong";)

I didn't think I had any ill effects either:( I assumed that since it scans everything coming in I was good to go.

unfortunately I've now found everything from a keystroke logger geared to banking information to piles of trojans and even some nasty word macros.

I ran a in depth system scan every week.

[bartson]

Used to use Nod and loved it until..it began to suck for unknown reason. :(

[IdolEyes787]

No anti virus detects everything .Nod is able to detect some things Avira or KAV cannot(and visa versa).
Realize that even a 99% detection rate means that there are literally 1000's of things that might get through(and those are only the ones that they know about).

Generally Avira is going to be a bit better at detection and removal but it also gives more false positves( ill advised deleting of which can screw up your comp at least as bad as any virus) so there's a trade off.

I personally don't think it's worth changing AVs.If you do a lot of unsafe browsing I'd consider running a virtualization program like Sandboxie or ShadowUser first.

[JGB]

So the final count is:
Nod32: detected one issue in over a year.
It's replacement: detected 60 nasty surprises in a day.

False positives are ok by me, it advises me on what I've got, I make the decision.
I got one possibly false positive(which avira even stated could be a false positive on a crack) and 2 positives on things I want to keep since they are designed to be unpleasant.
Since the cleanup I've stopped getting the random explorer crashes and the errors I was seeing frequently.

I'm not saying I've found the ultimate antivirus and won't hear any other points of view, however I am saying that Nod32 will not be in my system again anytime soon.
I think I'll try kaspersky just for kicks now.

[xantra]

Nod sux big red balls, try and get your hands on something else as soon as possible... only caused me troubles!!

[Sanka113]

Dont know man. I also loved nod32, but now my system has suddenly slowed down drastically. Specially boot time. I will check with some other anti vir to be sure.

Hmm, I have noticed that nod is making my computer a little slower when it boots. Hopefully, it'll be fixed in subsequent virus updates.

[C-mos]

Nod32 the best and you say fuck it :P..hmmm you did something wrong :-?

[dimutri]

Yeah Nod32 is by far the best...

[JGB]

It might be the best, but the record of who found what shows me different.

[Acid_death69]

well maybe you should be more careful of what you have downloaded in the future. Ive used NOD32 for about 3-4 years and it has saved my ass countless times in the past.

[Something Else]

I was using it for a while, in conjuction with SpySweeper and I did find that it let through a few things. I've switched to Spyware Doctor with Anti-Virus, which seems good and has star reviews on the internets.

[JGB]

well maybe you should be more careful of what you have downloaded in the future. Ive used NOD32 for about 3-4 years and it has saved my ass countless times in the past.


While that is true about being careful about downloads, I don't see any reason to use something that let through nasty things into my PC.
The whole point of putting up with the antiviruses drain on system resources(however small and awesome it may be)
Is for it to stop that. If it doesn't, it isn't actually useful.

[Adidas]

Nod is not that much effective ...its good to use kaspersky

[100%]

Have been using it for 3 years now. I never had the feeling of wanting to fuck software. Is it a geek thing? And please do not elaborate on how one performs the act.




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[woodg8]

Nod32 is rubbish. I'm living without one now.

[Chewie]

Nod32 is rubbish. I'm living without one now.
:lol:

[sumvell]

it has made my startup a bit slow over time. but i'm quite happy with it otherwise.

[Tiffany12]

Nod is not much effective .its good to use kaspersky...

or Norton

[Acid_death69]

lol norton is a bag of wank, it's big and waaaaaaay to slow

[ShadowScout379]

I have been using NOD forever now and it hasn't had any problems and my PC never had a virus or any other similiar problems.

[Dr0]

The people who write the viruses know what anti-virus software is popular and write new viruses to hide from them.

Secondly, most virus software scans for known viruses. Meaning they'll all fail to find the new ones.

Just accept, your never 100% protected.

[Axoric]

AVG 7.5 FTW
or avast or avira

[maverick_andy]

lol norton is a bag of wank, it's big and waaaaaaay to slow
that's not true mate. NIS 2008/2009 is really gr8 ones:happy:. even kIS and Nod failed to find few viruses which NIS did. I m happy with NIS 2008:happy:

[jaszypoo]

NOD32's pretty good. Been using it for almost a year now. :ermm:

[::seeder::]

maybe you try kis?

[Frankthetank1]

Is Nod32 free? I have used it before but it wasnt free, was a pain to install but worked like no other, really fast and very good.

[j2k4]

I've been using Comodo Internet Security on all my PCs for quite a while now.

Very highly rated, and free, to boot.

http://www.matousec.com/projects/proactive-security-challenge/results.php

[MagnaZombie]

Nod32 is great, though. :C I have it for 24,000 more days.

[Jega]

i love nod it has caught so many viruses for me.

[gmfig]

Yeah Nod32 is by far the best

[klinta]

i do not like nod 32

[Moksu]

i love nod it has caught so many viruses for me.

Would it be better to not have them in the first place? :P

[Johnny10]

I don't like NOD 32

[beansis]

Nod32 is great, though. :C I have it for 24,000 more days.

Yo where do you get your free licenses? My favorite website - nod32sky - just went down:(

[peat moss]

@beansis , just install Nodenabler 3.2.3 works great .

[beansis]

@beansis , just install Nodenabler 3.2.3 works great .

thanks I have to try this some time;)

[biba]

this shit gave me a fucking bluescreen

[iDEA]

duno;]
nod32 is greate antivir...

[invitestor]

Hm...I think Nod is good but you have to reinstall it once in a while...else your computer gets slow...

[anon]

Fuck Nod32

Don't fuck it, it's a great piece of software - at least v2.7 is.

[Speedo]

I do sometime wonder where consensus comes from? Nod has been a consensus for a while but as to how good it preformes there has been little discussion.

Every idea you hear about is an idea in corporate development. How much can you rely on ideas?