This article suggests what we already knew (and what our customers quite often suspect) - Norton's products grinds your machine down to a snails pace while "Nod32 gets good security reviews and seems to leave the system fairly nippy".
The article and it's conclusion.
Simple flash animations on how to update NOD32 with new license details.
We also have a PDF version which details the main steps to update NOD32 Version 3.0.
Just click on the Yellow Next button to move to the next step.
We also have a PDF which details the main steps to update NOD32 Version 2.7.
And remember, if you need to buy NOD32 licenses, You can buy NOD32 direct from runPCrun.
After the virus signature database update on 25th April NOD32 started to detect TightVNC (usually at c:\Program Files\TightVNC\WinVNC.exe) and an associated .dll as a threat.
By way of a solution disable 'Potentially Dangerous Applications' in the NOD32 Control Center under AMON > Setup > Options
There is a Flash demonstration for it here - Show Me
If you're on a domain and you can log onto a machine as administrator, here's how to quickly update each PC.
Update one machine and export the
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Eset\Nod\CurrentVersion\Modules\Update\Settings\Config000\Settings]
key, and edit and delete all except the un/pw (example below)
Download Psexec from Sysinternals.
then go to the cmd line and type.
psexec -d -s \\thepc c:\windows\regedit.exe -s \\server\public\av.reg
where:-
The advantage to this is when onsite and people are logged in as users you have to log them off and log on as an admin to update, this bypasses all this and they don't even get interupted.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Eset\Nod\CurrentVersion\ Modules\Update\Settings\Config000\Settings] "Username"="AV-123456" "Password"=hex:12,d7,ef,e9,be,f0,8f,f2,2e,64,09,ad, de,c8,2d,75,9e,31,5d,bc
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