Since May 1998, NOD32 has been the only antivirus product in the world that has not missed a single (ItW) worm or virus in the rigorous testing conducted by the Virus Bulletin. This time the Virus Bulletin re-tested the Windows 2003 Server platform.

Since the last time the Virus Bulletin tested this platform, close to 90 new worms were added to the “In the Wild” (ItW) category. Once again, NOD32 won the 100% Award for detection of all (ItW) worms and viruses while getting no false positives. Additionally, NOD32 outperformed all 26 products tested by having the fastest scanning rates for the executable files!

As stated by the Virus Bulletin, “NOD32 continues to be entitled to quote its unblemished record of (ItW) detection”.

Eset's VP for Latin America, Ignacio Sbampato, received the Best Conference Award at the largest IT Latin America Conference in Panama for his excellent presentation of the latest trends and strategies in the battle against computer viruses. The lecture focused on the defense of the corporate networks and the unique characteristics of NOD32 combating the current threats. FITEC was held in Panama City, Panama, between September 30th and October 3rd and served as official forum for Micro Technology, ESET's exclusive distributor for the region, to launch the new version of NOD32 Antivirus on the Panama market.

Julio Miranda, President of Micro Technology commented: "The high interest shown by the attendants due to the great features of NOD32 Antivirus, low impact, speed, accuracy and advanced heuristics, indicates that NOD32 is quickly becoming one of the  most favorite antivirus products in Panama. Our clients are impressed by the world record number of Virus Bulletin VB 100% Awards that NOD32 holds".
"Micro Technology's IT security solutions expertise with local offices in Panama will provide our clients with state of the art protection and reliable services when needed.", commented Ignacio Sbampato, Eset's VP for Latin America.

NOD32 expands its record of being the only antivirus system in the world that has not missed a single “In The Wild” virus, in the comprehensive testing conducted by the industry’s leading authority, the Virus Bulletin. This record is over six years old and growing!

NOD32 for NetWare retains the distinction of functioning as two NLM’s, a module for the on-access scanner and one for the on-demand scanner. On-demand scans are performed via a command-line interface. NOD32 has had this configuration for a long while and it serves very well as a local solution on NetWare.

Of the ten (10) products tested, NOD32 was only one of two with all samples detected on both on access and on demand scanning, with no false positives. In addition, NOD32's scanning rate of the executable files was almost twice as fast of the other product with 100% detection and up to six times faster than some of the other products tested.

Once again, NOD32 sets records for detection and efficiency of operations.

In its November 2003 Antivirus Test Comparison, PC Chip Croatia rated NOD32 as the #1 performer in both speed and detection . . . ahead of antivirus industry heavyweights Norton, McAfee, TrendMicro, Kaspersky, AVG, eTrust, H+BEDV, Panda, and Sophos.

"Since the beginning NOD32 was rudely neglected in favor of "big names" - the famous web site Cnet went so far as to bury NOD32 as a third class program with doubtful quality - but they could not have gone further from the truth, because NOD32 is the winner of many awards and certificates from the most respected independent labs and groups in the antivirus industry." wrote the PC Chip Editor in his review.

NOD32 Antivirus extends its stunning performance in Virus Bulletin's tests and receives its unprecedented 24th VB100% award! NOD32 remains the only antivirus product in the world that has not missed any In the Wild virus in Virus Bulletin tests for more than 5 years and has received more coveted Virus Bulletin 100% Awards than any competing antivirus product.

NOD32's awesome scanning rate of 9.270 kB/s (which is more than twice the speed of the second competing product with 100% detection) beats the generally accepted paradigm: a product can be either fast or have excellent detection; NOD32 provides both with a minimal impact on CPU cycles.

Due to NOD32's Advanced Heuristics Technology Eset's antivirus product is able to detect a very high rate of the unidentified (and not yet analyzed) viruses without any need to update the virus signature database. This state-of-the-art feature provides the user an ultimate advantage protecting his computer against viruses that may hit the streets in the future.

"The Checkmark certification of NOD32 for Windows 2003 to AV [Anti-Virus] Levels 1,2 and Trojan, is the hallmark of a company whose philosophy is to be a cutting-edge AV developer," commented Chris Thomas, Operations Director of West Coast Labs, in a statement announcing the results.
“West Coast Labs’ certification process represents the true test of an antivirus product’s capability to detect viruses, worms, and Trojans. Eset is pleased to provide its growing client base even further proof of the top detection qualities of NOD32 Antivirus on the Windows 2003 platform,” commented Miroslav Trnka, Eset’s Chief Technology Officer.

Unprecedented Virus Detection
NOD32 Checkmark certification comes just after the product received its record 23rd Virus Bulletin VB100% Awards granted by Virus Bulletin, the “Antivirus Industry Bible”. Analysts have confirmed the company’s claim of having the only product to never miss an ‘In the Wild’ (ItW) virus during its Virus Bulletin testing since May 1998.

About Checkmark:
The Checkmark provides a clear and unambiguous indication of attainment of a relevant standard for users of computer security solutions. The Checkmark standard is a real-world, industry accepted test. Users can very easily tell if a product possesses a Checkmark certification by ensuring that the Checkmark logo appears on the product package, by contacting West Coast Labs, or by visiting the Checkmark web site, www.check-mark.com.

NOD32 Antivirus System receives a 2003 InfoWorld Readers' Choice Award from InfoWorld Media Group, responsible for delivering award-winning technology and product news, research and analysis to the IT community for more than 25 years. More than 1000 readers voted this year's Readers' Choice Award.
NOD32 has also received the InfoWorld Test Center's top rating of Excellent, a mark given by InfoWorld editors and analysts to products that have shown top quality and market readiness. "NOD32 provides excellent functionality and simple administration in a package that won't tax computer or human resources." (InfoWorld, July 2003)

InfoWorld is a division of IDG, the world's leading technology, media, research, and event company. IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers and offers online users the largest network of technology-specific sites around the world through IDG.net, which comprises more than 330 targeted Websites in 80 countries.

Popular public website, the Powertools forum, selected NOD32 as this year's recipient of the Power Tool Award. The readers and participants of the forum select the most powerful application in a number of different areas. NOD32 became the best Power Tool antivirus. To see the list of all awarded applications, click here.

NOD32 wins Australian PC User's "Best Antivirus" Award for the second consecutive year !!! Popular Australian PC User magazine, with readership base of several hundred thousands, has been the premiere source of PC information for home and small business users in Australia for more than a decade.

Croatian edition of the PC Chip magazine has selected NOD32 as the Best Antivirus program of 2002. Prestigious PC Chip award has been granted to NOD32 shortly after the largest Australian magazine, the PC User, selected NOD32 as the Best Antivirus the second consecutive year.

The NOD32 Antivirus System has again demonstrated its unprecedented detection efficiency in the latest exhaustive test comparative of 21 antivirus products performed by the prestigious international journal of the antivirus industry, Virus Bulletin. The tests were carried out on the Windows 2000 Advanced Server platform, and were published in the November 2002 issue.
Detection capability and scanning speed are the two key parameters of an efficient antivirus system. Of the 21 participating products, only two were able to match NOD32's detection level of "100% clean sweep" ... but the second and third best contenders took 4.5 times and 14 times longer than NOD32 to complete the scans ... once again confirming NOD32's position as the world's fastest and most accurate scanner.
Since its first submission for testing in May 1998, NOD32 has not missed a single In the Wild virus in Virus Bulletin tests. Now the holder of an unequalled 20 Virus Bulletin 100% Awards, NOD32 is well on its way towards its fifth consecutive year of worldwide leadership in virus detection.

"NOD32 remained speedy ... full In the Wild detection for both boot and file viruses was sufficient to garner another VB 100% award. Misses were, in fact, absent in any test set." (Virus Bulletin, November 2002, p.20)

In the September-October issue of the computer magazine MikroDatorn, NOD32 was chosen the fastest antivirus program out of ten products tested.

"The antivirus program that clearly distinguished itself from the rest was NOD32 […] NOD32 was the antivirus program that stood out the most in our performance tests. A full virus scan of the whole hard drive only took two minutes and two seconds, compared to the majority of the other antivirus programs that needed between five and seven minutes for accomplishing the same task."

MikroDatorn also tested how much impact the different antivirus programs had on the overall performance of the computer. NOD32 distinguished itself in this test as well:

"NOD32 performed best with a barely noticeable performance impact that we rounded down to zero percent... The program required so little resources that it hardly could be measured by our benchmark program Sysmark 2000."

There is no question about it, the developers at Eset have done a remarkably fine job in developing NOD32. Not only does NOD32 do an excellent job in detecting viruses, it does it with lightning speed as well, and without having negative impact on performance.

Eset, congratulations!

The NOD32 Antivirus System has won its 19th VB100 Award from the prestigious "Antivirus Industry Bible", Virus Bulletin, after making yet another "clean sweep" of 100% of all viruses in every test set, combined with the fastest scan rate.

"NOD32 retained its impressive performance history, detecting all files in all test sets. This, combined with no false positive detections, gains NOD32 yet another VB 100% Award." (Virus Bulletin - August 2002)

A total of 2246 viruses were missed by the nine participating products in the August Comparative Review. NOD32 was the only product which did not miss a single virus in any of the four tests sets used.
NOD32's combined hard disk scan rate of the executable, zipped executable, OLE2, and zipped OLE2 files was by far the highest. NOD32 was more than 6.9 times faster than NAI McAfee NetSheild to scan all files, for example ... yet McAfee did not receive the award.
NOD32 continues to be the only product on the market which has not missed a single "In the Wild" virus since its first submission to the Virus Bulletin test labs in May 1998, and has maintained its stranglehold on the record number of Virus Bulletin 100% Awards.
Symantec have no version capable of working with Novell NetWare 6, and they were allowed to withdraw their Norton AntiVirus v7.60 Corporate Edition version product from the August Comparative Review due to "some problems". Symantec's strategic withdrawal means that NOD32 has again increased its lead over its largest competitor in terms of the number of VB100 Awards won.
In the past, some people may have questioned the seriousness and validity of Eset's bold advertising statement :

"You can have a virus or an Antivirus. Make your choice NOD32."

These latest test results from Virus Bulletin, the world's #1 independent antivirus testing authority, prove it's not just hype and Snake Oil !!!

The September 2001 Virus Bulletin test results have confirmed NOD32's place at the top of the 100% Award winners list. Analysts noted not only NOD32's detection performance but also the program's overwhelming speed of execution. Based on the results (Virus Bulletin, September 2001) NOD32 had an Executable File Throughput rate in excess of 5 million B/s, the next best was measured at 2 million B/s and most of the other 11 competing programs staggered along at less than 800,000 B/s. As an example, NAI McAfee NetSheild tested at approximately 7 times slower while missing 9 viruses and failing to win a 100% award.

"With no misses and an excellent overall scanning speed, there is little in the way of comment to make which is not blatantly obvious to even the most myopic observer", commented Matthew Ham of the Virus Bulletin (February 2001).

"... NOD32 does what it claims extremely well" summarizes NOD32 performance the Virus Bulletin.

PRESS RELEASE - July 2001 Virus Bulletin tests (July 16, 2001)

 NOD32 excels in July 2001 Virus Bulletin tests, detecting 100% of all the samples in all test sets and achieving impressive Hard Disk Scan Rates of the executable files, outperforming all other products by overwhelming margins (2-53 times!).

July 2001 issue of the Virus Bulletin (international publication on computer virus prevention, recognition and removal) features June 2001 results of the regular Comparative Review of the leading antivirus products. Four products achieved remarkable virus detection rate. Among the four products with highest (100%) detection efficiency, NOD32 turned out to be 18-36 times faster! NOD32 not only continues to provide 100% scanning efficiency but combines it with the highest possible scanning rate of the executable files. It took NOD32 52 seconds to scan all the test executable files (and not miss a single virus) while other products needed up to 46 minutes to do the job.

"The full detection of all samples in the test set is almost expected now, but the speed of scanning was even more remarkable." (Matthew Ham, Virus Bulletin, July 2001)

Cumulative results of the test results (July 2001, Virus Bulletin)

 NOD32 detects 100% of all infected samples in the About.com tests and achieves the highest detection scanning rate.