well i was useing kaspersky anti-virus till i got an upadte for there lastest one and it screwed up on installing things and it wouldent work proper now i am useing nod32 and i dont have any problems with it. Iam thining of going back to useing kaspersky anti-virus when they finish there new virsion til lthen am sticking with nod 32 as i do not get any problems with it and its verry fast and hardy uses any ram

well i use both of them lol, but i am going to uninstall kaspersky, because when i am trying to scan my computer, it start scanning, but after it is about 20% finished, it stop scanning..
it has finished scanning only one time, but then it didnt find any viruses... but when i tried right after with nod32, it found around 10, i think...

so for me NOD32 is much better

This post has been edited by 96than: Oct 4 2006, 09:47 PM

Hi friends, I am working as an web developer since last 9 years. I am qualified with Master degree of Computer. I have used both NOD32 and kaspersky. Both are excellent. There is not doubt. But at present NOD32 has not good GUI and so I have used kaspersky. NOD32 takes some less memory compare to kaspersky. But this difference is not important because there is very littel different. Both are same. What you like just use it.

-Atul

As an avid tester of security programs let me furnish my to cents. No more vague bullshit. Lets get a few things nice and clear.

NOD32 is THE fastest and lightest AV out of all the top AVs. Hueristics checked, monitor enabled, it doesnt matter... its the fastest and lightest on system resources among all AVs worth mentioning.

Anyone who says NOD is "pretty" fast/lite, or "one of the fastest", is not being clear enough and is underestimating! So Once again NOD32 is the smallest/fastest/ among all of the top AVs! The entire setup file is abt 10 megs, which is unheard of for top tier AV scanners. NOD is everything you need with no bloat.

As far as effectiveness through overall detection, Both NOD and Kaspersky lead the pack. However NOD was by far the faster scanner.


For the life of me I don't understand why anyone would continue to claim Kaspersky is in anyway better. Better in what exactly? KAV is slower, heavier on resources, and presents some conflicts with your programs (which NOD never does).

I was a Kaspersky user for years before I discovered NOD32 and tested it myself so I am not just talking out of my ass like most posters who only support a program because they are trying to justify having it on their computer.

In addition, Here are some credible and interesting comparisons
http://ask-leo.com/whats_the_best_popup_blocker_antivirus_software_antispyware_software.html
(pretty straight forward testing).


http://www.consumersearch.com/www/software/antivirus-software/
(as you can see the only reason kaspersky is rating higher here is because it was easier to use for the average user. I find this disburbing for to reasons. 1 because the average user is a moron and we are not (the fact that we in a forum questioning AVs suggests that we have some knowledge on how they work and how to use thme). to it acknowledges that there is absolutely no area where KAV is better than NOD and at the same time completely ignores the shortcomings of KAV in comparison to NOD32 (speed, size, efficiency, conflict with software) yet still puts it ahead to due popularity reasons.)

Also, since NOD32 is never in conflict with any software you can download any firewall of your choosing. This way you can run the best firewall out here and maximize your protection from all sides. Why would anyone not want NOD32 over KAV (which I must acknowledge is certainly good enough for second place no doubt).

I couldn't make this any more clear.

-Nigel B

I came on this site because I wanted to know what other people thought of kapersky my systems is sooo slow.

I thought I had spyware or something that hadn't been detected,I had Nod32 for 3 months but the trial ran out and I wanted to try kaspersky's trial as well and then pick one,

Using Nod32 I have never ever in 3 months had a virus detected, my system ran perfectly and Nod updated every 10-20 mins which I love. With kaspersky my system is sooo slow that it takes almost to hours to complete a scan and nothing works properly Im deleting it and buying NOD32

-Meagan

I highly recommend Kaspersky (The latest version is 7 , right ?). It is one of the best Anti-Virus software in the market today. I am not really sure about NOD32 since I don't have much experiance with it.

I have of course tried both of them in the past and the one I chose was Kaspersky, it has a really powerful protection that most other softwares can't beat.
NOD32 is good, too, it doesn't take much CPU resource.

If you are seriously annoyed by viruses/spywares then Kaspersky is your best friend. Otherwise, NOD32 will come in handy

This is just my personal opinion, anyway I hope it could help you.

i think that the best one its kaspersky it gives lots of protection and no virus traspasses the protection of kaspersky. Kaspersky it's a little bit cheaper but it gives much proteccion that nod32 so i think kaspersky is the best one

i will choose kaspersky becouse its power full n friendy user .....easy to use also ...protection also strong

hello,
As I see it, NOD32 is much much better than Kasp. for the following reasons:

NOD32 has the following superiorities :

1. It does not slow down the computer and still scanning all accessed files.
2. It has a good HTTP trafic scanning.
3. It has an excellent virus detection and handling(clean, delete, etc.).
4. It has easy-to-use interface(user friendly).
5. It has a very good thing and that is, It can scan for threats and viruses on the network if the PC. was among a local area network.

Thats what I know and any correction and update for the above information is most welcomed.



thanks

Tacho

Dumb Question, Definetly Kaspersky!