Today is the last day of the Ghacks Christmas Giveaway. We were able to hand out lots of licenses to popular commercial software programs to our readers. The application for today is ESET NOD32 Antivirus, a antivirus software by the Slovakian company ESET. NOD32 is offered as a 32-bit and 64-bit edition for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista.
Installation is pretty straightforward and comes more or less with the usual choices. It is a little bit surprising (positive that is) that no reboot is required after installation. NOD32 will place its icon in the Windows System Tray and the first thing the user should do is to right-click it and select Update from the options provided. This ensures that NOD32 will download the latest virus definitions from a company server.
The interface of NOD32 comes with two display modes. Standard mode is the default mode of the security software which will hide options in the interface from the user. Advanced mode can be enabled to display all options in the interface. One example would be access to logs which is only visible when advanced mode is activated.
One interesting aspect of the interface of NOD32 is the possibility to switch menus while scanning. Most antivirus software applications do not permit this and block any attempts to switch menus during scans.
Antivirus software has to do well both performance- and detection-wise. It is beyond of the scope of this article to evaluate the capabilities of NOD32 but there are a few independent organizations that regularly test security software. NOD32 is usually ranking very well on tests performed by sites like AV-Comparatives or CheckVir. Those tests suggest that NOD32 has a low false positive rate, a good detection rate (both signature and heuristic) and a fast scanning engine.
ESET is proving an online scanner based on the NOD32 antivirus engine on the Internet which is unfortunately only compatible with Microsoft Internet Explorer.
We have five licenses for ESET NOD32 Antivirus. If you want one leave a comment and let us know what you use to protect your computer system.
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Hello I Currently Use Rising Antivirus 2008. i would love eset antivirus please hapy christmas everyone
at the moment i am using symantec antivirus because its a work laptop but at my own laptop i use avast antivirus. i tried nod32 and i thought it is a good piece of software but as soon as my licence ran out i looked for another protection. i would be glad if i would get one licence from this giveaway
Hope I will have a licence for this wonderfull antivirus. I’m currently using a time limited version & it seems this one is the best.
hi there
would like to have a licence please :).
currently use time limited kaspersky AV
thanks
srini
The best Antivirus solution I’ve met. I want my free license! Current TrendMicro system eat too much of RAM
I want a license for Nod 32
I used in the pas Avast but it seems with the trial version I’m currently testing that Nod is much lighter and less ressources consuming.
Merry Christmas
thanks and merry x-mas to all
I would really like a Licensed copy of this product.
I currently used Avira Antivir Personal.
Thanks in advance.
Hi. Currently use trial version of great NOD32.
This license would be nice christmas gift for me :)
Happy Christmas!
Wow, nice prize! Count me in.
Currently using avast!
Used nod32 in the past.. loved it
count me in
I would love to get a license for this one. I use Kaspersky today but it will expire very soon… :(
Happy holidays everybody and good luck to you all. :)
This is great, it’s a pity there are only 5 of them. I’ve been using nod for years and I am very happy with the protection I received. I am using keys from promotions or short term ones :)
So I would LOOOOOVE a license :)
Merry Christmas!
im currently testing nod32 v4 beta, im proud of it and i’d like to receive a licence for the full version as christmas present :PP
i would be so naisss……:)
yes please
I use it at work on a Windows 2003 server. NOD32 is a great antivirus. The installation is very simple, and it does its work pretty well.
Norton and free Avast!
I very need this lisense for my computer. Thanks for ur info.
Merry Cristmas
hello am currently uasing avira free av and i would like to get it this nod 32 light antivurus
I currently use Sophos and some common sense, I’ve tried Nod32 before and thought it worked well, so a free copy would be great :)
I’d like to be entered for this giveaway please :)
Currently using a NOD32 trial – at the moment I basically just change AV between the top few depending on what 3 month keys/promotions the various tech blogs stumble across. I was using Avira before switching this time..
At the moment I don’t have any protection for my pc. So I would love to have this light weight antivirus program.
Merry Christmas!
Wow! At the moment I’m using Dr.Web for a few years.Subscription will end at the beginning of next year. Would be nice to get this great AV.
Using Avira free did have Nod32 trial but has ran out and cant afford licence : (
AAAAAAAAAAHHH! Please, i’d love to get one
I use Avast home edition.
On the moment i am using ZoneAlarm Security suite but i realy want to give ESET Nod32 a try. This because ESET Nod32 looks like a great product.
I currently use kaspersky trial on my pc which is running out in 7 days. I would love to have license for Nod32 because my trial for it already ran out and I find it way lighter and better than Kaspersky.