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1. Comment - Eset Antivirus Beats Leading Vendors to the Punch

   (Aug 26, 2004 - 1:18 PM)

   The "code analyzer" option in KAV means it will detect at least 90% of all unknown viruses; KAV scanner can be started in the command line(modify shortcut) with the parameter -redundant (the swiss version has this option in the interface) which will enable an in depth analyzis mode in which KAV can detect almost all unknown malware, but the scan process will slow down considerably; in the new SP2 compatible version, NOD32 includes an "advanced heuristics" option(currently available only for "internet monitor" module) and an in depth analyzis mode which is equivalent to KAV's redundant mode, but a lot faster. NOD32 was not always as good as it is now; I hope Kaspersky Labs will do something to optimize KAV because there has to be an alternative to NOD32 and no product except KAV can be a competitor. If somebody has Norton, please set bloodhound to high and see if you have any false positives :) By comparition, NOD32 with deep heuristics(no adv heuristics - this is only available in the new version) and KAV with code analyzer(no redundant mode) will only give false positives for processes which are directly accessing/modifying the system resources in a potentialy dangerous way where Norton gives false positives for many normal windows processes. I belive false positives is acceptable instead of no detection of unknow malware, but Symantec is exaggerating with this.

2. Comment - Eset Antivirus Beats Leading Vendors to the Punch

   (Aug 25, 2004 - 1:24 PM)

   I said that NOD32 is curretly almost as good as Kaspersky(in terms of detection), but in the future(final version of the current beta) it will be better than Kaspersky because advanced heuristics will be available for all modules and because of the low system resources required to run, when Kaspersky takes up to much resources which could be used when running demanding applications and games(we'll se how much has Kaspersky optimized KAV Personal Pro 5 which will be out in september). My bet is that KAV will not be able to keep up in terms of performance despite its good detection rate.
   Don't try F-Secure because it's not as good as Kaspersky despite its use of the KAV engine and it eats a lot of system resouces.

3. Comment - Eset Antivirus Beats Leading Vendors to the Punch

   (Aug 22, 2004 - 8:26 PM)

   The next version of NOD32 comes very close to Kaspersky's detection rate if it is configured properly(advanced heuristics activation), but no antivirus in the world is better than Kaspersky; the current one closest to Kaspersky is F-Secure which uses the Kaspersky engine among others. Kaspersky uses an advanced heuristics engine which is able to detect 90% of the unknow mallware and was the only antivirus in the world to detect loveletter(Symantec struggled for hours) without any signature update. It didn't score 100% for all Vbulletin tests because if an antivirus has any false positives, it automatically fails the test; rest assured, Kaspersky never detected less than NOD32, on the contrary. The records reported by Kaspersky are not equal to the number of known viruses; a record represents a signature needed to detect a virus all the other viruses with similar code up to a level where a new virus code requires a new record due to its major difference from the initial signature and so on.
   I subscribe, Symantec is something like a Microsoft of security; many people use their products because the think that Symantec's products are the best, but in fact they no nothing about quality security products.
   NOD32 is my favorite antivirus and it has became an integrated part of windows; I never had to unload it from memory and I recommend it to everyone. NOD32 got 28 vbulletin 100% awards, but that means very little to me.