Eset have ceased to supply updates for versions of NOD32 Antivirus below 10 on 19th September 2022. What to do?
I love using version 8.0.319 because it retains the classic GUI, it is light on system resources, and it has some advanced features like anti stealth technology and advanced heuristics, so I would prefer to manually update it rather than upgrade to version 10. Here are some options I would like to discuss:
- Manually Update Version 8.0319. There are several sites that provide regularly updated NOD32 updates which can be found using a Google search for upd.ver. It is possible that servers for version 4 also include updates for versions 5,6,7, and 8. Here is the most recently updated one I could find. It contains hundreds of files with file names with the nodxxxx.nup format including those with the same file names as those in my installation except more recent. If I wanted to copy over files from this online archive to the AllUsersProfile\Application Data\ESET\ESET NOD32 Antivirus\updfiles folder should I always choose files with file names the same as those I currently use? The file names of the contents of the updfiles folder were different when I first installed NOD32 with trial updates.
- .Downgrade to version 6.5 and utilize offline updating and the updates provided every three days by this Facebook user.
- Upgrade to version 10 and either pay for a subscription or else try to copy files from an online archive to the updfiles folder. If using version 10 under Windows XP it means that some features will not work.
- It may be possible to edit the registry settings of version 8.0.319 to change the server to a location on your hard drive.