NOD32 Version 4

wiggy2k7 · 2009-03-17

Hi OCN, Ive just noticed that NOD32 version 4 has been released, has anyone tried it yet ?? If yes, are there any improvements over version 3 ??? The guy in this review doesn't think much of it: http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/...ity-v4-review/ Thanks

Bellatrix

· #2 · Mar 18, 2009

Try it out man. I've heard it's Supposed to be more improved than V3.

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Ghostscript

· #3 · Mar 18, 2009

I'm using it on my computer at home. Must say I do like it a lot, think it's quicker to do deep-scans of the computer and have some few more nice features - and it seems to be faster on detecting threats. I also like the minor changes in the design also, not that it really matters though compared to it's objectives.
It also seems more stable, and gives some handy features for email protection that I especially noticed right away. The Smart Scanner is also a handy feature.

Imo it is better than v3, but not that much to go all crasy about - but worth a shot! I find it quite nice.

Using NOD32 v4 on my laptop and Eset Smart Security v4 on my computer.

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wiggy2k7

Discussion Starter · #4 · Mar 18, 2009

I think ill give it a try then, thanks

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ericeod

· #5 · Mar 18, 2009

Hey wiggy, if you have v3 you can install v4 and use the v3 user name and password. it gives you the same activation license.

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wiggy2k7

Discussion Starter · #6 · Mar 18, 2009

Yep thanks eric, thats what ive just done. Do you prefer v4 to v3 ?

I see you can create a rescue disk now (dont know if v3 had this feature) it says i need windows AIK, what is this windows AIK ??? Is it worth doing ?

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ericeod

· #7 · Mar 18, 2009

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Originally Posted by wiggy2k7

Yep thanks eric, thats what ive just done. Do you prefer V4 to V3 ?

I see you can create a rescue disk now (dont know if v3 had this feature) it says i need windows AIK, what is this windows AIK ??? Is it worth doing ?

IDK there was an option for that. I personally just create a backup image of my OS using Vista 64 Ultimate's built-in feature and it is amazing. it even resotes a RAID setup. It takes me about 5 minutes to make a backup, and about 10 min to restore it. I recently had a BSOD with a USB Driver error message. I got a "MBR missing" message and couldnt run the startup repair. So I just ran the repair option from the disk, selected the image from my storage HDD, and in 10 min was 100% again.

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wiggy2k7

Discussion Starter · #8 · Mar 18, 2009

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IDK there was an option for that. I personally just create a backup image of my OS using Vista 64 Ultimate's built-in feature and it is amazing. it even resotes a RAID setup. It takes me about 5 minutes to make a backup, and about 10 min to restore it. I recently had a BSOD with a USB Driver error message. I got a "MBR missing" message and couldnt run the startup repair. So I just ran the repair option from the disk, selected the image from my storage HDD, and in 10 min was 100% again.

wow, i didn't know vista had any built-in options for doing that(i must have overlooked it). Is it the backup and restore center, ill have to check it out... Thanks

Did you do a backup of your entire computer, my OS partition has about 300GB of data id need a lot of dvd's... lol

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ericeod

· #9 · Mar 18, 2009

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Originally Posted by wiggy2k7

wow, i didn't know vista had any built-in options for doing that(i must have overlooked it). Is it the backup and restore center, ill have to check it out... Thanks

Did you do a backup of your entire computer, my OS partition has about 300GB of data id need a lot of dvd's... lol

Yeah, it is only available in Ultimate and Business editions. You can run a backup of the OS partition, or you can also select other drives to backup. Once I figured out how to use it (couldnt find any documentation), it was easy. The trick is after creating the image, you need to load the Install DVD, select the repair option, then select "backup from Image". It is that easy.

I will point out that if you make a backup image of a RAID and try to restore to a single HDD, it wont let you. it gives you a message stating you need 2HDDs. So you have to resore a RAID image to 2 formatted and RAIDed drives. But you can load the image on a completely new HDD. I did this with my laptop a few months back. I bought a bigger HDD, so I made a backup on an external. I then swapped the HDD, connected the external HDD and ran the restore. The new HDD was partitioned to the same size as the previous HDD, but that was easily fixed by expanding the C volume in Disk Management.

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