How your laptop would be protected from viruses

Though according to the anti-virus comparatives, ESET NOD32 anti-virus rates highly amongst virus scanners in terms of available features, NOD32 also have some advantages and disadvantages and those are.

Advantages: - Based on its features and protections that are given to the users ESET products remain the best virus protection available in 2009, whether it's ESET NOD32 Antivirus or ESET Smart Security.

Those advantages are:

• Comprehensive protection: NOD32 was awarded by the Virus Bulletin
• for detection of all in the wild viruses in the test without any false alarms, that means it can protect your pc from most harmful viruses.
• It can proactively detect viruses and remove them from your pc.
• Can monitor incoming and outgoing traffic over the network with
• It's firewall software.

The ESET NOD32 Antivirus is considered to be practically faultless and provides you with fast, easy-to-use and effective protection without disturbing the other programs that are running on your computer. It is provided with the latest features like the smart proactive detection that has the capability to detect and block most known and emerging dangers and threats within a short period of time.

With the help of this fast and light software, you get to protect your computer and browse the high speed internet without your system getting slowed down because of the scanning process of the antivirus.

Disadvantages: - ESET NOD32 anti-virus software's only disadvantage that I found is that it may not work or work slow in Win98.

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