The top independent test and review organizations all agree that NOD32 is better than the competition at detecting and neutralizing both known and unknown threats.

Best Detection of Known and Evolving Threats

• Approximately 88% of threats are proactively detected using ThreatSense heuristics. For example, all variants of MyDoom, Netsky, Bagle and Mytob were detected heuristically by ESET NOD32 - before most other vendors even had a signature.

• ESET NOD32 receives the highest awards (ADVANCED+) in retrospective testing, due to its high proactive on-demand detection rate and low rate of false positives. NOD32 includes one of the fastest scanners in the industry, earning the status of Overall Anti-Virus product winner of 2006 - the most recent time the award has been presented.. (source: www.AV-Comparatives.org )

• In tests by the independent test and review organization Virus Bulletin, ESET NOD32 has not missed a single virus. All the other vendors missed at least 30 different viruses as shown below!

• In-the-Wild Virus Detection - ESET is the record holder of 45 VB100 awards collected over the last 9 years. These tests validate the products ability to detect known malware. (source: www.virusbtn.com ).