What's up with NOD32?

Peter wrote:

> I see the number of glowing reports for NOD32 in this newsgroup BUT there
> seems to be a general aggreement that while the program is excellent at
> catching virus's, it is only very average at detecting Trojan's.
> Considering the similarity of the two, how can it be so good with one and
> not the other.

what makes you think they're so similar?

we have very good functional definitions for what a virus is - we
aren't so lucky when it comes to trojans... whether something is a
trojan or not depends very much on context, not on the code... as such
anti-virus vendors steered clear of trojans for a long on the basis of
it being a much murkier problem space and the fact that any given
trojan is far less likely to pose a threat to a wide audience than a
virus would... and of course some just said 'we make anti-virus
software, not anti-malware software'...

by now, of course, a number of vendors have started to address the
problem of trojan detection - some have been tackling it longer than
others and as such are expected to be better at it than others...

> I have seen some mention they have an "anti-trojan" (what
> program is this?)as well as "antivirus" program. Surely a program as good as
> NOD32 should do the lot.

no... why should it?

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