Large Update

The best of both worlds. A very good signature database and NOD's great Advance Heuristic detection.

 

No arguement there Marcos.

 

Well there is also another thing in NOD32...
Those a variant of... are derivates of signatures,so more signatures they have,more similar malware (modified) can be detected. Of course not 100% of it,but there is probably a greater chance to detect it.
So signatures still play a big role...

 

but where did this big update come from? just over 3800 signatures must take a while to put together. thats my only question - WHERE DID THIS BIG UPDATE COME FROM?

 

my guess would be Eset Virus Labs but...

 

Yup, me too. but WHY one big update and not continuous updates over time? 3800+ signatures must take a while to put together, so why have they just appeared in one big update. and apparently another big update is on its way. they LOOK good, but why have eset been sitting on them till now?

 

Maybe Eset has expanded their reach over the world recently and its adding lots of sample due to better manpower

Remember, even others (e.g.BitDefender) did things like this sometime in the past (adding lots and lots of malware in huge updates). We could ask them the same question - why were you sitting on these samples till now?

 

I think one reasons why some companies do that is e.g. the following:
Every update has to checked before release (e.g. to see if it delivers false positives etc.). Checking a big update intensivly is probably faster and more efficient then doing it on smaller updates (as there would not be enough time to check them against the whole set of clean files). As those updates are not a first priority they can be done by releasing them in big parts. At least I know that some other companies do it for such reasons.
it is interesting that finally eset followed the wishes of its customers to improve their detection rates and signatures for trojans and backdoors (and hired more personal) and some people are not happy with that. i would wish also some other companies (most do, but some seems not) would also work more on the samples they have and do not detect...
i would say: better late then never

 

I think threat sense "early warning system".

 

Well as long as NOD continues to have it's impressive speed and low resource use, I'll keep using it.
It's a joy to scan your entire computer in less than 10 minutes

 

I will ask again........can these be bought ?

 

Why should AV companies buy something they get for free? AV companies get samples from customers, AV companies share together the samples they get (+/-), and they get the missed samples after the tests of various test centers.

P.S.: the short answer is: NO!

 

Thanks for your very hard work

 

I total agree with this!

The best heuristics and strong signatures will be the best...

 

There were a lot more then AV sigs in that update............
BTW...you don't have to yell ...sorry about upsetting you.

 

Catch up is fine,but when will the next update be to protect against lthe last few days threats.

 

Yes, i agree, better late then never.

I have a question, Andreas: "When is the deadline for the august On-demand comparatives".

 

Tomorrow at midday or in the afternoon.

 

Thanks.

 

This sounded like: when is the deadline for NOD to submit another (promised) update?

Regards,
vee

 

Today. And it will be with icing on the cake

 

@Marcos

OK, I am made a robot that is clicking update button 1000x/s
I am just afraid I will run out of space on my HDD

Regards,
vee
-- can't wait to get to the cake part

PS. is this 485kb icinig or the cake already

 

Hm, I see... e.g. improved heuristic for trojans.

 

Advanced heuristics module version: 1.017 (20050804)
Advanced heuristics module build: 1087

yay

 

NOD32 is becoming a serious threat to all big names (Kaspersky,Symantec and McAfee). Can't wait to see new comparatives test results