Disable NOD32 temporarily?

[ZDiablo]

I just installed Nod32 on one of my computers (2 more to go). Looking at the Nod32 control panel I was not able to find a way to disable the program from running in the background for a short time. Whenever I install anything on my computers I disable the antivirus first, this really helps eliminate programs and/or hardware corruption. Is there a way to disable Nod32 for 15 to 30 minutes?

-Zarra

[Wiz]

If you want to disable the file system monitor for a short while then select AMON and uncheck the "File system monitor". Then the realtime scanning of files should be disabled. I never found it necessary to do so when installing stuff though and neither have that ever given me any problems.

[spt60]

Neither have I ever disabled the AV before installing anything, to me it would not make sense, because sometimes/most of the time the AV monitors things that accessing/installing on the pc better than things that already been there.

Last time I was using Kaspersky installing Nero and it caught a Trojan in the installation file as it decompressed. Disabling the monitor wouldn't have caught anything

Good luck

[ryengineer]

Neither have I ever disabled the AV before installing anything, to me it would not make sense, because sometimes/most of the time the AV monitors things that accessing/installing on the pc better than things that already been there.

Well, few programs do really recommend to have antivirus and firewall be disabled during installation.

Last time I was using Kaspersky installing Nero and it caught a Trojan in the installation file as it decompressed. Disabling the monitor wouldn't have caught anything

It all depends on where you got that Nero installation from.

[ZDiablo]

Thanks Wiz. I will check that out.

Maybe I have the worst luck. When I got my desktop with XP five years ago I had problems with loosing sound and the search in IE would get corrupted after installing something. I learned to disable AV first and I never had a problem since.

What I do is disable AV, download whatever to the desktop, then I right click on that icon and do a AV scan. If AV does not find anything I install it.

I have to say I'm impressed with Nod32. It found a trojan that Norton never found.
File: C:\WINDOWS\hide_evr2.sys
Threat: Win32/Rootkit.Agent.NAM trojan

-Zarra

[Wiz]

Installation programs might have a single file (.exe or .msi) that contains several compressed files which is decompressed during the installation. So scanning the compressed installation file might not detect virus, worms, trojans and stuff like that if the files inside the archive is infected. Because Nod32 might not be able to decompress the installation file and scan the contents of the installation package. So if you install something you know is safe or from a safe source i guess turning off the av is safe, but if you install something from a source you don't trust or don't know if you can trust i would recommend to leave the av on so Nod32 can scan the files when they are decompressed and installed. Most installation programs don't have a problem with av software running during the installation....actually i cannot think of any examples where that would be required at the moment. Those installations where it's recommended usually also mention that in the installation guide, during the installation or release notes. Also most installations where it's recommended to turn off the av software it's usually not because the virus detection engine, but more related to security suites where things like antispyware is included which is more likely to block operations that is required for the installation to be successful. For av software like Nod32 that is a av software only i doubt you will ever encounter such problems.

At least i never had that problem with Nod32 or Symantec AV corp edition which is used before i switched to Nod32.
Antispyware programs is more likely to be an issue though since some of them might block operations like registry change, system files change and stuff like that. Nod32 won't block such operations unless a virus, worm, trojan or something like that is detected.

But if you found a way to install programs that work for you i guess there is no need to do it different:)

A lot of software today also include stuff like toolbars (like some Nero installation packages) that Nod32 detect as malware (depend on your settings). I don't want those toolbars so i find that detection to be useful, but some want the toolbars so those warnings isn't necessarily a real threat.

Yes Nod32 is a good av software. I used Symantec Corp Edition before and after i started to use Nod32 i realized all the resources sym av actually use. I guess there are other av software that is just as good as Nod32 to detect virus, but i have never seen another av software that use so few resources and is that fast.

[ronbo613]

I asked this same question at the NOD32 support forums and was told there was no need to disable the program to install software(like I did with Norton AV). So far, I've installed a bunch of software with NOD32 running and never had any issues.