One of the most critical aspects of managing your malware protection is keeping up to date. Failing to download vital updates to definition databases means that the latest viral threats will go unnoticed for the main part.

Once this happens you will start to witness the typical symptoms associated with viruses and spyware. If you’re lucky this will be a worsening in the performance of your PC. On the other hand, if you’re unlucky, then it can easily mean the freezing of software, an increased number of errors and, eventually, fatal errors that lead to the crashing of your computer. Unfortunately with some anti-virus applications it may not be your fault that your virus definitions do not cover the latest threats.

1. Installation and platform requirement

 2. The main characteristics of a product

User Friendly And Simple To Understand

The biggest challenge with anything this innovative, powerful, and quick is making it simple to understand. Fortunately, Nod32 has this covered as well. The single user interface is incredibly intuitive. For the most part everything is and can be completely automated. This lets you set up the software how you want and then leave it to run on its own according to the schedule you set. Not only does this leave you free to do something else it means you won’t forget to run your virus scanner and your anti-spyware.

Proactive Protection With Nod32

The problem, of course, is that these types of anti-virus products are very much reactionary as a pose to proactive. However, Nod32 works in a proactive manner to detect viruses before they strike and before any signature has been recognized and released to other software applications. Instead of using a constantly updated database of threats, Nod32 uses ThreatSense technology. Instead of looking for specific viruses, worms, Trojans, and other malware ThreatSense enables the Nod32 program to look for any process or software on your system that looks and acts like malware. This way you are protected even from the very latest threats.

Complete, All-Round Protection From Malware

Another sad fact of anti-malware applications is that they are generally very specific to one certain type of malware. Anti-virus applications protect against a range of viruses. Anti-Trojan software protects against and removes Trojans and so on. However, because of the ThreatSense technology Nod32 is a completely integrated solution to all of your malware problems. From one interface and one software application you can manage your virus, worm, Trojan, spyware, and other malware protection quickly and simply.

Nod32 uses module structure that allows flexible control over protection process:

• AMON - the resident (running in operating memory at all times) or "on-access"antivirus monitor. This program is the most crucial antivirus defense tool.

• NOD32 (also referred to as the "on-demand" scanner) - this is the scanner executed manually by the user, or automatically by the scheduler.

• IMON - this scanner provides the first line of defense by monitoring Internet traffic (SMTP, ftp, http and other Winsock protocols).

• EMON - the Nod32 Mail Scanner provides protection from email-borne viruses.

• DMON - scans Microsoft office documents and files directly downloaded from Internet Explorer.

Scanning And Running Speed

Nod32 is a highly advanced piece of software. Despite this it performs and scans up to five times quicker than other anti-malware applications because it is largely written in assembly language. Another advantage of being written in this way is that it takes up very little room on your hard drive and is easily one of the most unobtrusive applications available.

3. Conclusion

Virus detection is becoming more and more complex. This has become necessary because of the equally enhanced nature of the viruses themselves. Other malicious software and malware like spyware is also becoming more difficult to recognize for the majority of applications. With many anti-malware programs users need to wait for a definition update to be released, which can take as long as three to four hours after the virus is released. While this may not sound much, ThreatSense technology used by Nod32 will recognize the behavior of any malware and clean it before most online security specialists have even recognized that there is a new threat.