Technical overview

Each product version of NOD32 is built upon the same unique state-of-the-art engine, the performance of which dominates the antivirus world. NOD sets the standard for other virus infiltration detection systems to follow.

Key NOD32 features include:

• Utilizes a very low amount of system resources.


• Extremely high detection rates, leading to numerous prestigious Virus Bulletin 100% Awards for detecting all viruses listed by The WildList Organization International.


• Search speed maximized through associative multilevel cache and low-level code optimizations.


• Unprecedented heuristic analysis capable of exposing DOS, Boot, Win32, macro, script and other viruses.


• Uses fast "single point" samples and CRCs for precise identification.


• Built in powerful virtual emulator which detects the most sophisticated polymorphic and metamorphic viruses.


• Heuristic and algorithmic methods to clean viruses.


• Reconstructs the most important system areas (functions) in the event of an infection.


• Cleans macroviruses and restores documents to their original format.


• Detects viruses in encrypted password protected databases and documents.


• Detects viruses in compressed or protected executable files (PKLite, LZexe, Diet, Exepack, CPAV).


• Modularized native 32-bit code.