Over the weekend I decided to pit NOD32 4.0 against my highly infected PC. The previous version of Nod32 (version 3.0) left behind quite a bit of adware (vundo) running. I was railed by the Nod32 groupies for putting Nod32 in a “negative light” for exposing it’s anti-adware “deficiencies” .
Anyway…Version 4.0 of Nod32 is a lot better at dealing with unknown threats and adware (and this is only beta 1). I was going to use Nod32 4.0 for my ad-aware 2008 tests, however NOD32 4.0 remove too much of the adware 
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NOD32 4.0 looks like a great choice if you’re looking for a traditional antivirus application. Version 4.0 blocked all 5 malicious URL downloads in my prevention tests and provided excellent detection / removal abilities against some of the worst threats out there.
Congratulations to the Nod32 development team for this much improved release
