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ESET NOD32 Anti virus and ESET Smart Security, commonly known as NOD32, are anti virus packages made by the Slovak company ESET. The following Operating Systems are supported by different ESET products: Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Novell Net Ware, Solaris, Windows Mobile platform, and others. ESET NOD32 Anti virus and ESET Smart Security are each sold in two editions, Home Edition and Business Edition. The Business Edition packages add ESET Remote Administrator allowing for server deployment and management, mirroring of threat signature database updates and the ability to install on Microsoft Windows Server operating systems.

ESET NOD32 Anti virus
NOD32 was created in the early 1990s when computer viruses were becoming increasingly prevalent.

Initially the program gained popularity with IT workers in Eastern European countries, as ESET was based in Slovakia. Though the program's abbreviation was originally pronounced as individual letters, recent worldwide use of the program has led to the more common single-word pronunciation, sounding like the English word nod.[2] The company reached its 4000th update to virus definitions on April 10, 2009.

The acronym NOD stands for "Nemocnica na Okraji Disku" (hospital at the edge of the disk), a pun related to the Czechoslovakian medical drama series Nemocnica na okraji mesta (hospital at the edge of the city).