[blind-it] A brief review of Nod32 Antivirus
- From: "Al Puzzuoli" <alpuzz@xxxxxxx>
- To: <blind-it@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:19:42 -0500
I have used Nod32 for years, first as my personal AV of choice and now,
as the antivirus deployed on all the desktops in our office.
Some pros of Nod32 include:
Consistently one of the industry's most highly rated detection rates of
viruses in the wild.
Light on system resource utilization.
Reasonably good accessibility, though in my mind, accessibility of the
UI was set back a bit with the release of version 3. It's still very
usable, there are just more places in the UI where you will need to
utilize your screen reader's mouse movement commands, Jaws cursor, WE
cursor, etc. The UI is broken down into two main areas, the basic
screen, and the advanced setup tree view, which is still fully
accessible via the keyboard. You can press f5 at any time from the
basic screen to access the advanced setup options.
The product comes in several flavors, a home edition and a business
edition. It will run on Windows servers, and an Exchange server
monitoring add on is also available. There are also versions that can
be run under Unix, dos, and perhaps a few other operating systems I'm
forgetting.
If you purchase the business edition, you gain the ability to utilize
the remote administration console, available as a separate download.
The console allows you to monitor all your clients, and schedule tasks
such as scans, updates, etc. The Remote Administration console is also
relatively accessible. It is divided up into a number of windows, such
as clients, threats, remote installation... You can navigate into these
windows via the menu bar, or by pressing predefined hotkeys, for
example, alt 1 takes you to the clients window, alt 2 takes you to
threats, etc. The only catch is that once focus is on a given window,
in order to interact with the data in that window, you need to mouse
click once in that window's list view. However, the list views
themselves are SysListView32s, which means they utilize Active
Accessibility and are completely usable once you've gotten focus to
them.
In short, I see Nod32 as a very solid choice in the enterprise arena.
Our current subscription is up at the end of November, and yesterday, I
submitted a recommendation that we renew it through November of 2010.
If you have any questions about the product, feel free to post them.
For trials and purchasing info, see:
http://www.nod32.com
Al Puzzuoli
Information Technologist
Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities 517-884-1915 120 Bessey
Hall East Lansing, MI 48824-1033 http://www.rcpd.msu.edu
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