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Originally Posted by underscore
^ what is it that makes them better? I always felt like buying an antivirus to get all the features of something but AVG is expensive IIRC
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Better/more active protection, more regular product updates, better protection against new/unknown viruses, better at disinfecting and/or removing infections, more protection agents (firewall, anti-spam, anti-phishing, etc.), free technical support, lower memory footprint, better PC performance (NOD32), considerably better protection against complex viruses (i.e. polymorphic viruses), etc.
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Originally Posted by syee
Kaspersky is supposed to be one of the best detection engines out there. Both NOD32 and Kaspersky AV (obviously) use the same Kaspersky engine.
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NOD32's and Kaspersky's engines are practically polar-opposites ... NOD32 relies heavily on heuristics and very little on signatures while Kaspersky relies heavily on signatures and very little on heuristics. Both do an excellent job, though. Overall, Kaspersky is a little better in terms of overall protection (NOD32 is better against new/unknown viruses, but considering Kaspersky has a <2 hour outbreak response time, it's not likely you'll ever run into a situation where you're vulnerable to new outbreaks w/ Kaspersky), but NOD32 offers better performance.