Does NOD32 work with Microsoft Windows Vista?
Ive heard that other antivirus programs are not compatible with it. The key issue with Vista for most AV vendors is the enhanced restrictions of Kernel Patch Protection (sometime referred to as PatchGuard). Kernel Patch Protection is not a new security feature in Vista it was originally implemented in the first Windows 64 bit systems. This is not a problem for ESET and NOD32, since these issues were addressed for the first NOD32 versions compatible with 64-bit Windows in 2005. Other, mostly larger AV companies rely on patching the kernel directly, or kernel hacks, to operate. This has ALWAYS been discouraged by Microsoft as inherently unsafe. As NOD32 does not require taking over or bypassing the Windows Security Center, as do other AV products, Windows Security Center integration will pose no additional problem for v2.7. NOD32 is compatible with the Windows Security Center in Microsoft Windows Vista. It does not take over, bypass or otherwise interfere with it as do some other anti-vi
