Panda Offering Free, Cloud-Based AV
PrintAfter nearly three years of development, Panda Security today released the public beta of its Panda Cloud Antivirus, which the company claims is the first free cloud-based antivirus thin-client. By taking AV duties to the cloud and combining it with local detection technologies, Panda says it can do a better job at protecting your PC than a traditional virus scanner.
"Thanks to Panda Security's Collective Intelligence malware and goodware online database, Panda Cloud Antivirus detects more malware than traditional signature-based solutions which take longer to detect the most recent, and therefore most dangerous, variants," Pedro Bustamanta, Panda Senior Research Advisor, wrote in a blog entry.
The local portion of the program takes up roughly 50MB of hard drive space while consuming about 17MB of RAM, according to a Cnet report. By the time Panda Cloud Antivirus exits the beta stage, Bustamante hopes to have the RAM consumption down to 12MB.
One potential downside to relying on the cloud for antivirus protection is that your PC would be left vulnerable without an internet connection. But not to worry, says Bustamante, who clarified that a local cache copy of Collective Intelligence is kept on the PC for just such scenarios.
Panda Cloud Virus Download (Beta)
Image Credit: Panda Security
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May 07, 2010 at 10:00am
This has got to be the best AV I've ever used (and I've used them all.) Not only that, their forums have the smartest people I've ever seen in AV marketing. Definitely a good download.
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The Canadian
April 29, 2009 at 7:59am
I am running Vista x64, as you know x32 applications get installed to:
C:\Program Files (x86)\
Which emulates having a x32 system on x64…however after trying to
install this, I get this error:http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/1160/cannot.jpg
They may want to fix this problem, as this is not impressive and you’ll
lose a lot of endusers because of it!Well, even trying to run it in Compatiability Mode does not work, as
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Shalbatana
April 29, 2009 at 6:24am
Though it would seem like there might be more attempts to disable internet comms, or even the panda servers.
Generally if it works and actually reduces the footprint of the antivirus on my machine then I'm all for it.
Let's see how it fares in testing.
All that aside though, high props once again for Panda thinking outside the box.
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Vano
April 29, 2009 at 6:09am
I don't know...Panda is one of the worst AV software available...I wouldn't trust it even with the cloud.
dag1992
April 29, 2009 at 11:44am
In my experience Panda is pretty good at what it does, if not a touch bloated, but then again aren't most AV?
Vano
April 29, 2009 at 5:10pm
I'm not sure what "good" you are talking about, but I ment not the performance and that kind of not very important aspects, but the security itself. Panda is one of the worst AV by malware detecting percentage.
dag1992
April 29, 2009 at 6:07pm
Well yes, I use Avira now, the program has gotten progressively worse with detection (Panda I mean).
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