the best antivirus

hey everyone. just wanted to let y’all know the best antivirus is called nod32, by a company called eset, and it is their only product. they have very good tech support, and their product is practically flawless. it does a better job finding viruses and other malware than any other antivirus, yet it is also faster than any other antivirus, having the smallest impact on system performance. sounds too good to be true, but it actually is true. you see, these are not the new kids on the block. their company was founded in 1992, so they have been developing a better and better antivirus product for 14 years. all this, from a small company in slovakia. you can get the nod32 antivirus here. it costs about the same for a yearly subscription to updates as norton antivirus... but nod32 is much much better. or, you can use it for free... but after 1 month, it stops giving you updates. not to worry, since you can uninstall and reinstall again, once a month, and keep using it again and again for free, legally. but, these people actually deserve your money, unlike the bastards who make other antivirus programs like norton or mcafee. i am just frustrated with the fact that people are still wasting money on norton and mcafee and then wondering why their computers are so slow and why they still get infected. especially norton... it is quite bad. unless you have the newest version of norton, you only get weekly updates. everyone else in the antivirus industry has updates at least once a day. nod32 still works on old versions of windows, and also works on other operating systems like linux and dos too. with programs like norton, the system requirements keep getting higher and higher with every version. isn’t it good that at least someone cares enough to make sure their program still works in windows 95? and nod32 is mostly written in assembly language, for optimum performance. if you go without updates for a long time, you can still catch a remarkably high percentage of new virii, because nod32 has the best heuristics for detecting virii. so even without updates, it can still keep you relatively safe. so, please, do not waste your money on an inferior antivirus product. if you ever buy an antivirus, just get nod32, because i would hate to see people install inferior software on their computers.

that being said, there are also excellent free antivirus programs, too. the main ones are avastavg. i am not really sure which one is better, but they are both quite good. neither can compare with nod32 of course, but they are both pretty good considering they are free. they are both probably better than norton or mcafee, too. if you don’t want to go around wasting money, then go ahead and get one of them.

symantec, the company that makes norton antivirus, does actually make a pretty decent antivirus program, called symantec antivirus corporate edition, and it is only for large organizations. it is still not as good as nod32, but certainly better than anything you can get for free. symantec antivirus corporate edition is what cornell university uses. it is pretty good. certainly much better than norton antivirus, the crap aimed at consumers. unfortunately, there is a security flaw that exists in symantec antivirus 10.0.x but is fixed in 10.1.x, or something like that, except it is more complicated than that, since i think you might be able to patch 10.0.x to fix the flaw, and the earliest versions of 10.1.x might still have it, but anyway, it is pretty bad. but symantec antivirus 9.x and earlier are totally safe. and so are the newer builds of 10.1.x. still, maybe symantec antivirus corporate edition might not be quite so safe after all. you never can tell with this sort of thing. then again, who really knows if nod32 has any security flaws, because it is not a major target for hackers or virii. but i read online somewhere that nod32 is the main antivirus they use internally at microsoft now. and if someone says it on the internet, it must be true! that being said, microsoft has its own antivirus now, but it is pretty new. i think they use nod32 as the thing they test theirs against, since it is like the gold standard.

anyway, please, people, do not buy any other antivirus products besides nod32. you are simply a part of the problem and not part of the solution, if you waste money on other crap. think before you spend! compare the wikipedia entries for nod32 and norton antivirus, for example. which one is a glowing review and which one is full of harsh criticism? now there are a million other antivirus programs out there nowadays, such as panda, trend micro, f-prot, kaspersky, etc. please do not get distracted by all that nonsense. the reason there are so many is, the biggest 2 players in the industry, norton and mcafee, are crap, so other newcomers can come along out of nowhere and write something far superior to the best-selling product. but only nod32 has a proven track record of consistently being the best, since before some of those other antivirus programs had ever been written. does it always come out as #1 in all the newest comparative tests of antivirus products? no. but it is #1 more often and more consistently than any other product. i just find it very frustrating to observe that such a superior product has such a small market share, while the most inferior product has the most market share. why are consumers so ignorant about this?!?