The platforms used for testing were Windows 20 Server on Intel and Windows XP Professional on AMD64 and Intel. With comparative reviews in the months before and after this review both featuring NOD32, the detection capabilities of the software were not investigated in this test. The administrative features were thus investigated in this review as a point of major interest. Administration tools are now fully supported, having been non-existent initially. While two years ago NOD32 was little known outside the anti-virus industry, it now features strongly when users are asked to name well-known products.Īs for the product's feature set, this has improved markedly from the point of view of a larger organisation. The company now has a much more global presence even than two years ago, with aggressive marketing having worked well from the point of view of sales and general product awareness. While the effectiveness of the product has remained more or less constant, the company and product feature set have experienced several changes. No doubt ESET's marketing department is pondering this very point as I write.ĮSET is a Slovakian company which has enjoyed a long and successful presence in Virus Bulletin's comparative reviews over the years. (As next month's comparative review will cover the 64-bit version of Windows 2003 Server, there will not be long to wait for the product to be tested on that platform.) One thing that occurs to me is that the product's name may be a problem in future, since calling a 64-bit program ' NOD32' seems something of an anachronism, while renaming to ' NOD64' might cause loss of brand awareness. Due to time constraints, the tests were performed on both 32-bit and 64-bit hardware, but the test operating systems were exclusively 32-bit.
That is to say, the executable supplied should run on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the operating systems noted, detecting the appropriate software to install automatically. The '圆4' part of the product description is inclusive rather than exclusive. Secondly, a few words about the product title. I must also point out that, given such a tight schedule to perform the review, there were some areas where I could not perform quite as many tests as I otherwise would have done. Before I begin, I must thank the folks at ESET who offered their product for review at very short notice after the software I had originally planned to review was withdrawn.
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