ESET NOD32 Antivirus for Mac OS X Review

(Note: An updated review post is now online)

So, this is one of the last things I thought I’d ever do on my mac. But I installed the beta of ESET antivirus on my laptop this last week after it was available.

It’s seems to be just as good as the Windows version, in fact if I could say so I think it’s even better than the Windows version GUI wise. But in fact it’s really much the same.

There’s only one improvement I could suggest, and that’s a way to disable the icon on the apple menu bar. The dock icon is plenty enough.

Wait! There’s more.

It seems that Truecrypt is not able to mount a volume with ESET running, even if the real-time auto protection is disabled. You see an error message that reads “hdiutil: attach failed – Permission denied”
The only solution that I’ve found is to uninstall ESET NOD32, which I’ve done. And I’m running OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

Finally one more thing that I believe could be improved upon, is the real-time protection disablement. In order to disable real-time protection you should be prompted for administrator authentication. Currently that is not the case.