NOD32 and Comodo Antivirus Review
Aug 10th, 2008 by dipankar
Whenever we are entering the web, we all have a fear of virus, spywares and hacking. To get out from this nightmare we use different antivirus and firewall for our security purposes.
I have used many antivirus software and test their performance, power, resource usability, update frequency.
At the very beginning I’m just remove the name of Norton, as my own opinion Norton sucks; it uses a high resource and after installation the performance of my system decreased.
From the last two years I’m using Eset NOD32 version 2.7 and I’m satisfied with its performance. It is very powerful and rich with features. The update option is there and it can be scheduled as you can also schedule the system scan. There is 4 different modules for threat protection along with the antivirus, AMON- for file system monitor, check files at their runtime; DMON- MS Office document monitor, check the MS documents such as word, excel etc.; IMON- Internet Monitor, monitor every page you open and warn you if found any threat or spywares. It uses low resource compare to other antivirus softwares. But it is not free.
In between I install another antivirus software named Comodo Antivirus. It is totally free. Comodo is mainly popular for their Firewall which is really a good product and free. The antivirus software is in BETA mode, still It works fine to detect and remove the viruses. It is also reach in features. It has a option of HIPS, first time you open any program, it wile ask for permission if it is not in the safe list database of Comodo, i.e, if you are opening a word document, it will ask to allow executing the winword.exe file. There is a option to submit the file to Comodo lab directly and they will test and mail you the result. There is also a choice to disable this option as it may be irritating to you to allowing all the programs. This option I didn’t found in any other antivirus software. And the main feature is Its resource consumtion, you dont believe it uses minimum resource, which is lower than NOD32.
Now choice is yours; If you are looking for a free antivirus and you are using a system of low processor and RAM, then go for Comodo, otherwise NOD32 is the best.