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Industry tests and data to show the differences in detection, size and speed of NOD32's top competitors. Compare the data against Symantec, McAfee and Trend. Find out why NOD32 is the Safest, Fastest, Smallest solution.

Best Detection of Known and Evolving Threats

• Approximately 88% of threats are proactively detected using ThreatSense heuristics. For example, all variants of MyDoom, Netsky, Bagle and Mytob were detected heuristically - before most other vendors even had a signature. Compare to Symantec, McAfee, Trend, and Kaspersky.
• AV-Comparatives.org validated in two separate tests in 2005 that NOD32 offers the best all-around proactive protection against zero-day threats. NOD32 detected 90% of new In-the-Wild viruses in May and 62% of all new malware samples tested in November on proactive benchmarking, beating the 'leading' vendors by 95% on average. (source: av-comparatives.org)
• In-the-Wild Virus Detection - ESET is the record holder of 35 VB100% awards collected over the last 7 years. These tests validate the products ability to detect known malware. (source: www.virusbtn.com).

• NOD32 has missed fewer In-the-Wild viruses than any other vendor in VirusBulletin testing, as shown below.

Fastest Performance

• 19MB/sec scanning rate on Windows 2003 Server for executable files. The closest competitor was less than half as fast. (Source: Virus Bulletin)
• In RedHat Linux testing, NOD32 scanned at 14,000 kB/sec, nearly double the closest competitor. (Source: Virus Bulletin)
• On-Access Scanning performance impact of 6% (source: Cannon)

Lowest Resource Utilization

• NOD32 is by far one of the smallest applications in the industry, especially for providing protection against such a wide range of threats. The NOD32 v2.5 installer is just 8.6 MB
• The program utilizes approximately 15 to 22 MB of RAM. This, along with intelligent caching reduces disk access and memory paging, adding to performance. (Source: Scott Brown, Colby Sawyer Case Study, November 2004)