Compare NOD32
Compare NOD32 to Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro
| NOD32 | Symantec | McAfee | Trend | |
| Comprehensive Protection | ||||
| Unified Anti-Threat Engine - protects against viruses, spyware, adware, identity theft | Yes | No, multiple components required in a large suite. | No, multiple components required in a large suite. | No, multiple components required in a large suite. |
| VB100% Awards for detection of all in-the-wild viruses in the VB test sets, and without any false-alarms. (virusbulletin.com) | 35 | 31 | 23 | 13 |
| Missed In-the-Wild Viruses in Virus Bulletin tests between May 1998 and May 2005 (virusbulletin.com) | 0 | 33 | 64 | 22 |
| Real-time protection against 16 zero-day viruses (source: virustotal.com) | 88% | 6% | 31% | 0% |
Retrospective/ProActive Test by AV-Comparatives.Org on 3-month old signatures. Combined trend of May and November 2005 tests. (http://www.av-comparatives.org) | 85% | 7% | 20% | 10% |
| Performance | ||||
| Executable scanning rate (December 2005, Virus Bulletin) on Windows 2003 Server x64 on AMD Athlon 64 processor | 30 MB/s | 6.9 MB/s | 13 MB/s | NA |
| Average scanning rate of executables & zipped OLE files (October 2005, Virus Bulletin) on Windows 2003 Advanced Server | 17,589 kB/s | 4,525 kB/s | 4,985 kB/s | 7,732 kB/s |