2.5 may be even faster?

I don't have enough info to do a definitive test... nor do I want to take the effort... but For anyone paranoid about getting the new version for fear it has gotten heavy laden you the OS.... I will brag on NOD and say I am impressed!

I set it to the max... turned on everything I could turn on and ran this test...
Number of scanned files: 205758
Number of threats found: 0
Time of completion: 03:12:45 Total scanning time: 971 sec (00:16:11)

Not too shabby?.. thats an average of 211 files scanned every second!
Running an Athlon 64 3.2

 

Same time here
As a previous Norton user, i still remember the 85 minutes scanning

 

When I was using the beta 2.5.9, on-demand scans took over half an hour with all the settings maxed, compared with about 12 minutes in version 2.12.3. It seemed to spend ages scanning some things in the Mozilla Thunderbird directory. I don't know if this speed decrease is due to me selecting "potentially dangerous applications" or something.

Any ideas?

 

I too! am very pleased with this new version of Nod32---it's faster! and meaner!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/Saphirex/scan.jpg

 

Maybe you enabled scanning of self-extracting archives in version 2.5 ?

 

As long as we're comparing scan times, here the last from my scanning log using v2.5. Everything set to max per Blackspear's instructions.

454,893 files scanned - 1684 secs (28m04s)
..........thats 270files every second

pretty impressive

regards Jim

 

It has been a LONG time since I have used Norton BUT 85 MINUTES!!! WOW!

 

That could very well be it. When I buy the final release of 2.5 I'll give disabling that a try.

Cheers.

 

We keep one of our fileservers at close to 200Gb of data almost half of that being a backup of the primary data-source drive - I seem to recall Norton used to take 4 1/2 hours to scan... it was ridiculous...

 

Humm.. I wouldn't spend too much energy until you first update to the latest 2.5.16.... thats what I'm using. If you have a slow hardrive, or a fast one on a slow bus because your system is old and only running at 85ish or less.. than you may experience slower runs than me... but when you compare... that should be the real test?

 

I too have that enabled and it does well.. I haven't tried it without...

 

Very nice!!!

Kinda like NOd is a drag car and we all get to race!

 

Well I haven't forgotten my old one taking around 40 minutes or so.... a little better but still rediculous?

 

Hello Ronjor.. I agree it becomes like chickens all jumping on the weakest member when defaming other AV programs...

When a new person on the forum checks in.. its tough for them to compare thier AV with the prospect of purchasing NOD if they don't have some type of way to compare with thiers.

The web sites that give ratings with all the names listed are rareley trusted too much.. and are too bias... so folks like to hear it from other users....

Too bad human nature is to exploit the weakness at the other AV's once its discovered.....

I think with me I"ve gotten so ((^*^$ frustrated with my old one before.. it was like living with taxes.... you know you need them.. you know they do good.. but you hate them cause their use could be so much better?
Even so with my old AV?

NOD32 is a breath of fresh air in the AV world... I know that sounds a bit corny.. but when you come from being so frustrated to so delighted... I am always amazed and I cringe when I am in the store and I see someone buying "brand X" for thier AV!........ Those programs cost good money and twice to three times the amount for far less performance!!!

***Then I'm equally frustrated when I look at the rack they are looking at and I see that NOD is never available for them when they are trying to decide.. or I would slap some sense in to them verbally?

We need to get NOD exposed more and available commercially for consumers, so they have a choice. Most folks don't know how to find NOD?, so it makes us try and awaken them in the forums as much as possible so they "come to the light"

(Gospel of NOD: Ch 3 verse 14) - Come to the light... come on board brothers and sisters... your redemption draweth nigh!!! Listen to the Good News!!!

 

NOD32 does well. Scanning speed wasnt really a matter for me - just an added bonus. I am happy to have that bonus with NOD32

NOD32 is like 50x faster during an On-Demand Scan than my old eScan based on KAV engine!

The real time components are the lightest I've ever seen in any AV so far.

 

I've used alot (ALOT!) of AV programs over the years and none compare to NOD32. I have it installed on all my friends' and family's machines.

One mate of mine inparticular couldn't go a month without me needing to format his machine due to viruses (using "industry leading AV solutions" - we all know who I mean). Since installing NOD32 last year it has stopped hundreds of attempted infiltrations and kept his system running nicely.

A few weeks ago I installed NOD32 on another friend's computer and within 10 minutes it had detected about a dozen viruses, and to be blunt about it, it cleaned the living sh*t out of his sytem.

He's a greatful bugger now!

All hail NOD!

 

The new NOD32 v2.5 scanned 127,000 files in 21 minutes. If i've got my maths right, thats 100 files per second. The same scan using KAV 4.5 takes 65 minutes so i'm happy with NOD's scan speed.

This system is an Athlon 1ghz with 512mb sdram. I was also running BOClean, Cookiewall, Ad-Watch, Regrun Gold, NOD's Amon and Browser Sentinel at the same as i carried out the scan. I'm sure running all these apps resident will have slowed down the scan. Even so, i'm very pleased with it's speed.

Big thumbs up.

muf

 

Just out of interest in this thread I scanned my C Drive. All options set to the max and no exclusions. Version 2.5 scanned at the rate of 130 files per second and that's good enough for me.......

Elray

P4 2.4Ghz: 512MB DDR3200 RAM: 80GB HDD: Nvidia GeForce MX440:
XP SP2: NOD32 2.5: ZoneAlarm: AdAware: Spyware Blaster: Spybot S&D:
Ewido: MS Antispyware.

 

Number of scanned files: 361768
Total scanning time: 2093 sec (00:34:53)

And that's around 172 files per second (or 172.8466316292403248924988055422, which is much slower than the others, because during the scanning I was doing other stuff

 

Hmm... seems that an engine written in Assembly does have considerable benefits over higher level programming languages
BTW I fully agree with all posts about NOD32's relatively poor marketing. I decided to scrap Norton, and reviewed lots of threads on my favorite Hungarian IT forum, where someone threw up NOD32. Some people did say it's splendid, but the debate quickly reverted back to flapping gum on Norton's poor performance. This was enough for me to start searching info about it, but it's not the same as going into a shop and getting a boxed copy off a shelf.

 

Agreed. Also, I believe the user interface should be split into "simple" and "advanced" modes. The simple mode would be for noobs who just like to know it'll work out of the box with settings etc all tweaked to (Blackspear) perfection.

The advanced options would be the usual NOD interface.

And getting NOD32 boxes on the shelf is essential to increasing market share.

 

Perfect!!!

 

Cheers! Can't give a guy much more praise than "perfect"!

 

Please refrain from critising NOD32's interface here. It's been said numerous time it will be changed completely with NOD32 3.0 and, what's more, it will offer a different interface (options) for advanced and common users.