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I read thru replies in another thread re AV scanners. Between that
and some online reports, it looked like NOD32 would be the best first
choice. The others that looked good were Kaspersky, Trend,
Bit-Defender, in roughly that order. (Anyone else have different
experience?)
So...I tried the NOD32 eval. Nod32 does look like it's very good with
system resources, CPU usage, etc. It did find some suspect files that
were not located by AVG, so it looks like it's probably a very good
choice all-around (I prefer not to have systems slow down
unpredictably).
Nod32's control panel also allows temp-disabling of 'AMON,' their file
monitoring program. I would love to know how to do the same with
DMON, EMON and IMON as well. Their disable buttons caution that their
entries will be removed from the registry. I presume that would
require a reinstall. Anyone know about this?
Another couple NOD32 anomalies: It sometimes reports "Error occurred
while scanning active boot sector of the 1 physical disk." (or the "4
physical disk"). Not sure what that's about, as I've run chkdsk
several times w no problems reported.
Also, NOD32 often reports problems opening some ZIP or RAR files. It
seems to get to others OK. Not sure why it would be inconsistent.
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Another suggestion from this group: Supplement a primary scanner with
online scanners. So I decided to try the online versions of the other
three.
Trend worked pretty quickly. It located about 10 files that were not
caught by NOD32. I was surprised at this. Of course some may be
mistriggers, but some were pifs embedded in .tbb files (Inbox
messages). That's stuff that I would not have opened, but I was
impressed that Trend caught this when NOD32 did not.
I decided to leave the suspect files in place and try Kaspersky
online. The current scan has been running for hours and only
registers 58% complete (I take it that Kaspersky is not the fastest
scanner). BUT so far it claims to have found 33 viruses in 392
infected objects (!!!!!) I admit to some skepticism, but I haven't
seen the final list yet. If it has found that many files that were
missed by both NOD32 and Trend, then it must be the best scanner
hands-down. Again, the jury is out.
I'll check back after completing other tests. Meanwhile, if anyone
knows about temporarily disabling the secondary NOD32 modules, or
about the other NOD32 problems, please feel free to follow up.
and some online reports, it looked like NOD32 would be the best first
choice. The others that looked good were Kaspersky, Trend,
Bit-Defender, in roughly that order. (Anyone else have different
experience?)
So...I tried the NOD32 eval. Nod32 does look like it's very good with
system resources, CPU usage, etc. It did find some suspect files that
were not located by AVG, so it looks like it's probably a very good
choice all-around (I prefer not to have systems slow down
unpredictably).
Nod32's control panel also allows temp-disabling of 'AMON,' their file
monitoring program. I would love to know how to do the same with
DMON, EMON and IMON as well. Their disable buttons caution that their
entries will be removed from the registry. I presume that would
require a reinstall. Anyone know about this?
Another couple NOD32 anomalies: It sometimes reports "Error occurred
while scanning active boot sector of the 1 physical disk." (or the "4
physical disk"). Not sure what that's about, as I've run chkdsk
several times w no problems reported.
Also, NOD32 often reports problems opening some ZIP or RAR files. It
seems to get to others OK. Not sure why it would be inconsistent.
-----
Another suggestion from this group: Supplement a primary scanner with
online scanners. So I decided to try the online versions of the other
three.
Trend worked pretty quickly. It located about 10 files that were not
caught by NOD32. I was surprised at this. Of course some may be
mistriggers, but some were pifs embedded in .tbb files (Inbox
messages). That's stuff that I would not have opened, but I was
impressed that Trend caught this when NOD32 did not.
I decided to leave the suspect files in place and try Kaspersky
online. The current scan has been running for hours and only
registers 58% complete (I take it that Kaspersky is not the fastest
scanner). BUT so far it claims to have found 33 viruses in 392
infected objects (!!!!!) I admit to some skepticism, but I haven't
seen the final list yet. If it has found that many files that were
missed by both NOD32 and Trend, then it must be the best scanner
hands-down. Again, the jury is out.
I'll check back after completing other tests. Meanwhile, if anyone
knows about temporarily disabling the secondary NOD32 modules, or
about the other NOD32 problems, please feel free to follow up.