DRWEB vs. NOD32...My conclusion.

I just bought dr. web a few days ago. I have tried so many different antivirus' in the past and I must say that this is the best one I have ever used. It is fast, quick, and doesn't bog me down. I can surf a nnd play games without even aware of its presence. By far the best I have used yet. Maybe one day I will get the opportunity to try out nod 32. I know a lot of people in this forum really look highly towards that program.

 

I switched from NOD32 to DrWeb and DrWeb leaves my system just as responsive. Hopefully it won’t have as many problems removing trojans from my system as NOD32 did the only time I became infected and actually needed it.

 

I ve been trialing Dr.Web for a couple of days and must admit that I am very impressed.I do like it a lot,so far this Av has proved the best concerning everything.(resource usage,update frequency,symplicity,and its engine including its virus and tojan database)Cheers

 

Comparing both DrWEB and Nod32, I would have to say that I have been much happier with drweb. I find that the virus removal is much simpler and more effective. In the past when I was using Nod32, after receiving a virus alert, I would often have a very difficult time removing the virus. I would constantly hit "delete" and the stinkin virus would remain. Drweb on the other hand was much more "to the point". When I clicked "delete", the virus would be GONE!!!. DRWEB is by far the easiest and lightest antivirus out there. Period!!!

doctor44

 

I completely agree about DrWeb. It runs very light and is very easy to operate. I have used the good Doctor for 2 years now without a hitch. The combo of Ewido Plus and DrWeb has so far been rock solid and very secure on my computer.

 

Hey everybody, I heard that DRWEB has a beta version of a malware signiture database designed to target spyware, malware, etc. Does anybody know whether DRWEB outperforms Nod32 using these new signitures. I know Nod32 is definately good in this area of detection.

 

I think this would very difficult to verify, because all the AV's only add selected spyware/adware to there signatures, a program like Spy Sweeper has 75753 signatures, which probably rivals Nod's total amount of virus, worm, trojan etc signatures.

However i can tell you that DrWeb with the beta-sigs has around 3000 (2935 as of today to be exact ) more files.

 

i signed up for the drweb beta risky/nasty bases too. of course my pc is clean so it didnt find anything (well except mirc - now excluded)

do anyone know anything about the drwebs future plans? i love the minimalistic approach, but it doesent seem like theres been much development since 2000 or so

 

Maybe I missed it, but does anyone know if FireFighter includes the beta sigs in his scans?

 

I am not sure whether he included these additional bases in his past tests with Dr Web, but I know that he no longer has this AV installed on his computer.

However, since these beta bases are for adware/spyware, http://info.drweb.com/show/2583 I doubt whether they would have made much difference to his overall results with Dr Web.

 

Adware/Spyware/Riskware, and theres about 3,500+ definitions in those added to the list, and i'd bet they would make a fairly big difference.

 

Maybe to his individual category detection lists, such as Trojans Spies/BackDoors, Adware, Keyloggers but probably not that much in the overall detection rate of Dr Web with his test-bed.

For example, in one of his last tests he has only 283 Riskware/Adware samples out of a total of 3649 samples. So I would expect the "increased" detection in this small Riskware class not to make much of an impression in the total detection rate.

But obviously these additional bases will be a great help in Dr Web's total malware protection abilities.

 

The last time I tested DrWeb, it has that beta spyware module, but it has gone a couple of weeks of that test and the "AdWare" category doesn't exists then yet.

Best regards,
Firefighter!

 

I notice that DRWEB has a new version out? Is this better than the newest version on NOD32? I always assumed that NOD32 was always a little bit better than DRWEB.

 

The Doctor is going through a few growing pains but their tech folks are ironing them out. The next round of AV comparative tests will be interesting to see late this month. This forum link gives a little info on DrWEBs new release. Page 2 gives a bit of info Firefighter posted on the improved heuristics and databases near post 46 or 47. Check out: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=99475

All in all I am pretty happy with this release of DrWEB. I have NOD32 on my work laptop and I would place these two pretty close right now..cheers

 

Unfortunately the next Av-Comparatives test just can't test the new 4.33 version of DrWeb, because they have to "freeze" signatures up to 3 months, but the release of the new DrWeb 4.33 was about 5 weeks ago.

Best regards,
Firefighter!

 

I forgot about that time frame, it would of been quite an interesting horse race this time with this new version...

 

Of course they can use 4.33, it's just a matter of saving the signatures and replace them when testing.

 

I'm not sure if they can use the old ones anymore, when the new DrWeb has reorganized all their signatures in the new 4.33 version, the number of signatures were decreased a bit but they covered the same nasties. Maybe IBK can answer, if he is testing DrWeb 4.33 too?

Best regards,
Firefighter!