Nod32 Security Suite v3.0 Screenshots from cebit

I'm certain that Eset, Distributors and Resellers alike will be furiously pushing out emails as soon as it hits the market

Cheers

 

I hope they don't wait too long, as my ZA Pro expires in 26 days, and I don't want to re-subscribe to it with the NOD32 FW coming soon. I guess I will just sit behind my router, and use the XP FW until the suite does become available.

I am trusting Eset not to turn their suite into a bloated mess of code as all the others have done.

Z-Man

 

Latest news from customer services is they're now looking to release v3 at the end of Summer 2006, which I suppose will be the end of July/August. They have also confirmed a beta will be released before the final.

To top everything off, they recommended I visited Wilders Security Forums for the latest information.

 

End of July/August maybe too rush. They need to have at least some months to get it final, and the beta is not yet available. I think October would be more likely.

 

I talked to tech support the other day about a different issue, and was told that the firewall has been installed on Eset employees computers for a while now and is being...I guess you would call it "Alpha" tested in the office.

 

We've covered the bases about the big items with NOD32 3.0...
New interface, firewall, anti-spam
...and those seem really nice. But I am wondering what we can find out about the inner workings. What kinds of optimizations are being made to the scan engine, heuristics engine, etc? Are any being made? How is the heuristics development going with one team member moved on? What other kinds of new items or improvements can we expect to see?

I know the answer will probably be "wait for the beta and find out"; is there anything new and meaty we can be told that hasn't already been covered?

 

Approximately one week ago I read an article on one slovak website. There was an interview with one ESET's founder. He said this (sorry for poor english translation):

 

Thanks for the update...
NOD32 3.0 should be much better than the new McAfee Total Protection and VirusScan Plus beta, which simply mixed up all components in a confusing way.

 

That disappoints me. The interview makes it sound as though you need the entire suite in order to see an improvement in detection; I hope that's not the case. Spamihilator has been tuned to my liking and I use a hardware firewall effectively, so I have no real need for either of the two new modules. Am I to take this to mean I won't see any improvement in detection over 2.5?

Don't worry, I'm not joining the lemmings jumping ship. Eset has earned plenty of equity with me over the past couple years and I plan to keep the little green icon in my toolbar for the foreseeable future. I'm just mildly concerned and overly curious about what's coming down the pipe.

 

Which lemmings?

... and what are Lemmings doing on a ship?

Fairy

PS- I'm very interested in seeing what ESET do next although I am not sure I need these additional features.

 

If the additional features are not needed, just don't configure them, as in all security suites. I thinks it's great that the 'good' av products now, are developing complete suites......so more 'home users' will be buying a very good complete product with a very good name and reputation. A complete suite, which gives the right protection, just out of the box......at least I hope installing is being made just as simple without having to configure the whole thing in order to get the 'proper' protection!

 

thanks fosius and Z-Man for the news. Hope it will be out (the beta) at the end of July.

 

I will be very interested in this suite when it is released.

The inclusion of the firewall sounds an excellent idea. It would enable me to finally get rid of zone alarm and with the modules having this inter-connection it is surely bound to make for a tighter all round secure system.

Any other modules would be an added bonus.

Looking forward to getting to try it out when it appears.

 

You can find whole interview here. But it is slovak. I can try translating parts you'll ask for.

 

The problem with IS-suites is that they aren't neccessarily inhouse developed products, but often licensed from other companies. They look like brand A on the surface, but under the hood is actually brand B. And most companies are not too open about that.

 

Yes, that's right. But ESET gives the Info, that they will develop their own Suite, so their own Firewall, too.

Maybe some short words from Marcos ?

 

after developing nod32 as a single optimized engine i doubt they would just take anothere companies firewall and stick it together

 

thanks for all the info, guys
but could it be possible to use simple GUI as version 2.5(from what i saw here, version 3 seem to have GUI that similar to other AV)? i hate other AV because there have tone of GUI which may confuse user and that i would say eat up many system resource. anyone can send a feedback to ESET? i personal think that version 2.5 GUI is good enough. and i like Nod32, Nod32 rock!!!

 

Well, I don't personally need a "suite", but, given that Eset is releasing a suite,
I'd say they will have a good suite, that is light on resources.
I've never had any issues with NOD32 since the first time I used it when it was
suggested on a newsgroup, when I was looking for something that would work with the beta of XP. You never know it's even there, unless you stumble onto a website, or download something from a P2P program that has a nasty included in it. I'm sure their suite will be like that too. And, unlike some vendors, I'm sure it will be as bug free as possible. But, considering the millions of combonations of
hardware, software that people have, the only way to know will be to release it and see what happens.

 

I hope to hell that as a reseller, I will at least find out about its release (and hopefully have a chance to test drive it) BEFORE my clients get it.

Otherwise what does that say about our (resellers) customer service?

 

I’m glad to hear that ESET is going to offer an AV only, as well as a ‘suite’. I really don’t like security suites as once the suite is shut down, you are S.O.L. Yes I’m going against the grain here, and given past experience with pointing out something I disagree with, people will jump on me as if I said ESET was the worst thing to happen to the internet. Don’t get me wrong, I’m just in the “A layered defense is the best option” camp. I could be wrong, and I hope I am. We’ll just have to wait and see what ESET puts out, but for now, it’s NOD32 for AV, ZA for a firewall, Ad-aware, Spywareblaster and Spybot for spyware for me

Neil

 

Unless you have posted under a previous guest account I can't see this, beside which I have no issue with those that only want an antivirus, then again there will also be those that want a suite. Personal choice is all it comes down to.

Cheers

 

Yes I used to post under my real name Gauthreau with a guest account. It's been awhile since I've posted here and have noticed that you have to have an account now. No biggie.

I agree with the personal choice. A security suite is better than nothing at all and is a good place to start for those who wouldn't run anything otherwise, but I just don't see it as the best option .

I know that ESET has only released a few details about the new version, but do you know if there will be a stand alone AV or will it be a bundle with a number of features shut off? I would prefer a stand alone, but will take what I can get.

Neil

 

Nothing confirmed, but from what I understand there will remain a stand-alone NOD32.

Cheers

 

That would be my prefrence as well. Guess I`m old fashion and still like to set up my security piece meal.