Detection Advantages

When new viruses, worms and other malicious attacks strike, traditional signatures are insufficient. Every minute you wait for an update is another minute that your computer and network are vulnerable to damage, infection, or identity theft. ThreatSense® Heuristics closes the window of vulnerability by safely identifying and stopping malware as it attempts to run on your computer.

ESET NOD32 Antivirus and ESET Smart Security (built with the same ThreatSense engine as ESET NOD32 Antivirus) have consistently been rated as the best protection against zero-day threat and attacks by the world's leading proactive antivirus testing organizations:

AV-Comparatives.org
The independent testing institution, AV-Comparatives.org, is an antivirus research project coordinated by Andreas Clementi with the support of the Innsbrucker Kompetenzzentrum / Computernotdienst. The AV-Comparatives.org May 2009 "Retrospective/Proactive Antivirus Test" compared 16 different antivirus products' abilities to proactively identify the increasing complexity and nature of the zero-day threat. The stringent testing used recent "In-the-Wild" samples and a variety of other malware, Trojans, viruses and worms affecting Windows and other operating systems. To effectively test the products for proactive detection, the organization used new malware samples, and tested them against the products without updating the antivirus signatures.