You buy antivirus software to protect your computers
and data . . . but how effective is it ?

Do you turn protection off because it slows you down ?

Virus Bulletin is an independent testing organization staffed by full time professional antivirus experts and is widely recognized within the antivirus industry for its rigorous comparative tests focusing on virus detection rates, scanning speed, and the generation of false positives.

Virus Bulletin's VB100% Award is the one every antivirus vendor strives to win. To earn this award an antivirus product must detect all current "In the Wild" viruses and must not produce any false positives.

NOD32 is the only antivirus program in the world that has never missed a single "In the Wild" worm or virus in Virus Bulletin testing since May 1998. 

ESET's NOD32 Antivirus System has held the world record in Virus Bulletin Awards for more than 10 years . . . winning its 51st VB100% in August 2008.

The table below is based on the number of times antivirus products have been tested on various operating systems by Virus Bulletin since May 1998, when NOD32 was first submitted for testing.

(August 2008; www.virusbtn.com)

Where antivirus software is concerned, consistency is the key to successful virus protection.  Symantec is shown in second place in this table, but it failed the 3 Virus Bulletin tests prior to NOD32 making its debut, which brings Symantec's actual overall success ratio down to only 88.23%. 

NOD32's scanning times are considerably faster than Symantec's, despite the fact that NOD32 has a much smaller system footprint and uses far less system resources.

(Figures correct as at August 2008 E&OE)