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Finding the Best Antivirus

Antivirus programs are essential to running a safe and stable computer. Lately however, many virus producers have discovered codes that not only allow the virus to infect the computer, but are able to cause an antivirus malfunction. Both Symantec and McAfee need to reconfigure their software to prevent infection by these new super viruses. The NOD32 anti virus software program from ESET remains totally unaffected by the series of internet security problems experienced by Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro. It is unknown how long it will take these three internet security software companies to respond to the malicious code so that all of their customers have any true element of protection. Even when they do issue patches for the most recent recognized flaws, they will still be reactive products.

In the meantime it leaves consumers in a precarious situation of having an antivirus program that is unreliable. This poses a serious threat for corporations that rely heavily on internet security. The problem is that the Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro products primarily protect users against KNOWN problems and viruses. But the user is always playing catch up and crossing their fingers that they aren?t hit by Malware in that window of time from when the threat is released into the wild and their Anti-virus vendor sends them an updated signature.

Unlike these other antivirus products, NOD32?s Threat Sense technology uses advanced Heuristics that scans, detects and blocks security threats even before the competitive products knows of its existence.
In 2004, Scott Brown Information Security Analyst for Colby-Sawyer College performed an in-depth evaluation of the top 13 Anti-Virus products. Brown concluded that NOD32 is the best antivirus product on the market and in the testing, NOD32 excelled in speed and low usage of resources. The NOD32 anti virus software program excels because it is proactive rather than reactive and it blocks Malware - Spyware, Adware, viruses, Phishing attacks, Trojans Worms and more.