Thus the original program was re-written and christened "NOD32" to emphasize both the radical shift from the previous version and its Win32 system compatibility. With the increasing popularity of the Windows environment, advent of 32-bit CPUs, a shift in the PC market and increasing popularity of the Internet came the need for a completely different antivirus approach as well. ![]() Besides the virus scanning and cleaning functionality it only featured heuristic analysis. ![]() Due to the limitations of the OS (lack of multitasking among others) it didn't feature any on-demand/on-access protection nor most of the other features of the current versions. ![]() It was created in 1987 by Miroslav Trnka and Peter Paško at the time when computer viruses started to become increasingly prevalent on PCs running DOS. The first version of NOD32 - called NOD-ICE - was a DOS-based program. The acronym NOD stands for Nemocnica na Okraji Disku ("Hospital at the end of the disk"), a pun related to the Czechoslovak medical drama series Nemocnice na kraji města ( Hospital at the End of the City). 2.3 NOD32 for Mac OS X and Linux Desktop.2.1 File Security for Microsoft Windows Server.1.2 Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server.
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