First, the conventional "identification by signature or file name" which is common to all current antivirus programs. Second, by using heuristics (standard or advanced) to check other file characteristics which may be indicative of malware.

Multiple platform, award-winning, standalone 32-bit antivirus system with easy-to-use graphical user interface for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, 2003 and Windows XP. Also available for DOS, Novell Netware (server), Lotus Domino, Linux mail and file servers (Linux, RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE, Debian, OpenBSD,...) on x86 platform. Centralized management of NOD32's network installations is provided by Remote Administrator (console&server).

All are centralized in NOD32 Control Center shown after double-clicking the white-green CC icon in the lower-right corner of your screen.

The NOD32 installers available on our website are indeed self-extracting archives. After you download the particular installer and save it to the disk, run it from that location. The files will be extracted (by default, to C:\Program Files\Eset\Install directory) and the setup program will be launched automatically.

NOD32 can be uninstalled directly from the Start menu - Programs (All programs) - Eset - Uninstall, or trough Start - Settings - Control panel - Add / Remove programs

Scanner (conventional scanner, command-line scanner, on-demand scanner) - a program that looks for known viruses by checking for recognisable patterns ('scan strings', 'search strings', 'signatures'). TSR scanner - a TSR (memory-resident program) that checks for viruses while other programs are running. It may have some of the characteristics of a monitor and/or behaviour blocker.

It depends on the type of the Internet connection you use and the size of the particular update. Usually, it takes just few seconds.

Since use of heuristics extends the detection capabilities beyond a specific set of known viruses, there is no exact total number of viruses detected by NOD32. Of course, there is no antivirus program that detects absolutely all viruses in the world. To improve detection of not yet known viruses, NOD32 uses a sophisticated heuristic techniques. If you find a suspicious file which is not reported by NOD32 as infected, please send it to samples@eset.com for analysis.

For an antivirus product to work with the Antivirus Filtering service, it needs to support command line scanning. Ocean Mail server can also scan the raw email data before scanning each of the constituent parts. Therefore, SMTP Gateway and corporate antivirus products with SMTP and MIME scanning intelligence are the most effective products to use. Please contact your antivirus vendor for more detail.

Many antivirus products automatically intercept email traffic to your computer with no changes required to your email programs. However, many still use a "proxy" mode, similar to how K9 operates, that requires changes in your email program settings to tell it to use the antivirus program to check your emails.

ID AntiVirus is an absolute protector of your PC's health and well-functioning status because it is a virus detecting and eliminating guardian.

There are a variety of antivirus software packages that operate in many different ways, depending on how the vendor chose to implement their software. What they have in common, though, is that they all look for patterns in the files or memory of your computer that indicate the possible presence of a known virus. Antivirus packages know what to look for through the use of virus profiles (sometimes called "signatures") provided by the vendor. New viruses are discovered daily.

If you have NOD32 installed and Koala client is closing unexpectedly, then it should be NOD32 Anti-virus package which causing this. Uninstalling it solved these problems, however the following should allow Koala to run while retaining anti-virus functionality: NOD32 module AMON - Exclude the folder containing your JRE from on demand scanning, on recent Sun installations it is c:\Program Files\Java<\li> NOD32 module IMON - Exclude javaw.exe.

EMON is installed automatically provided that installation of MS Outlook 97/2000 in corporate mode is detected. MS Outlook 2002 (XP) and 2003 will be supported in the upcoming version of EMON, currently available as beta.

Since NOD32 no longer fits on a single floppy due to increased size of the virus signature database, we suggest you use the freeware utility AV Disk available for download at www.avdisk.org, or create a bootable CD with NOD32 for DOS.

The preferred method of payment is by IDEAL. IDEAL can process Rabobank, ABNAmro, SNS bank, ING bank and Postbank payments. Later on this year payment by Paypal is possible. Paypal can process credit card payments (VISA, MasterCard, American Express, Discovery).

The version number of the currently installed virus signature database appears in the status window of all NOD32 modules as well as among NOD32 System information. If your NOD32 is out-dated, a pop-up notification window will appear at NOD32's startup. To make sure you have the most current version installed, visit our website www.koopnod32.nu and compare the version number provided by your NOD32 with that listed on the website.

The NOD32 on-demand scanner provides an on-demand virus checking of your disks. It is recommend to carry our a full system scan of all disks on a regular basis.