Panda Cloud Antivirus

I agree max. Not all computers have an active internet connection at all times, especially laptops

You forgot one important thing in your poll, It should be as light as possible and not resources hungry. I must tell you that the beta you issued before had a problem , after leaving it to work for some time on a PC that works 24hrs a day it caused the system to become heavy.

If it won’t be very light then despite of any features no one would want to install it.

Will I also need a firewall with the panda Cloud anti virus program?

I agree with Yuval. You need to keep it thin. That’s why I switch. AVG was getting to Resource hungry. I also just want an anti-virus. I don’t need all the firewall junk slowing me down and blocking everything under the sun like Mcafee and Symantec.

This would be a nice program for my in-laws…

But I’m already using Panda Global Protection 2010 (just renewed for 2010). So obviously this will not be necessary, but one thing in your video concerns me: You state that it takes or can take up to 48 days for virus signatures to be updated with tradition anti-virus software. My current Panda updates me daily and I’ve always assumed that it’s up-to-date and state of the art, but…it seems like you’re selling your Cloud Anti-virus against your current products.

I’m probably missing something obvious, but please, if you could, clarify this for me.

With Panda Cloud antivirus, all my connection go through Panda cloud and are analysed (per your video). So Panda Cloud has access to all my transferred data/ connections and passwords transferred etc…? sounds dangerous to me.

This will be like an ideal antivirus for netbooks. Thin in resource consumption, but still offers effective protection.

One thing I did not understand is that what exactly gets sent to cloud. Till now I thought that all the files are being sent, but in the last comment you mention that only signatures of program are sent. Could you clarify this.

Hi, I think we’ll need a behaviorald detection, USB Vaccine.
I agree with Max, not all PCs connect to the internet (like me ).

I think we need an effective firewall but keep this perfect performance on my Pc the same .

I need also more information about what exactly gets sent to Panda ??? tell me something makes me feel safe .

also i forgot to tell you something .. my pc gets frozen for bout 2 or 3 minutes every time i open it .

Something I see in all these comments that scares me is the apparent number of folks that think they need an integrated firewall with their AV.
The “suite” concept though “handy” is dangerous and in most cases, troublesome.

First, in many cases, single source total defense can leave single sourcepoint for attack to leave system with dropped security.

Second, take lessons from the Norton/McAfee model… suites invariably place an UNDUE overhead on systems. Much better running smaller, independent apps. Do you want a Radio Shack stereo or a component system?????

Firewalls…The windows firewall CAN be configured to do EVERYTHING you need a software firewall to do. Again, no need to throw potentially problematic, 3rd party suites on top of Windows… (it has a hard enough problem managing itself lol)

Firewalls like ZoneAlarm etc were the cats meow in the early days. EVEN Zonealarm free has become bloated, incorporated too many modules, and so, problematic.

Since you are in this forum, it would seem that you are interested in effective and speedy performance. If that’s so, don’t go requesting module upon module be incorporated into a base product. Leave the firewall and other things as separate products!

Mike :I agree with Yuval. You need to keep it thin. That’s why I switch. AVG was getting to Resource hungry. I also just want an anti-virus. I don’t need all the firewall junk slowing me down and blocking everything under the sun like Mcafee and Symantec.

@Mike
@mike,
sorry mike your wrong. Symantec antivirus is so fast and so light now that you wouldn’t even know it was running. In the past symantec slowed my pc to a halt, even the best PC’s. Symantec purposefully revamped its AV to be the current lightest available, even lighter than nod32. They even made a gaming version of Norton that is even faster/smaller. here is a great review: http://www.av-comparatives.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=139&Itemid=164

Hi i have a question! does this Panda antivirus work for the Windows vista? By the way i find this very interesting! i am trying it with my desk top that has the windows 7. So far so good.

I need Indonesian Language in Language install Option please..

@Terry
Panda Cloud works great with Windows Vista I’ve been running it for over 6 months and zero problems. I have it running in conjuntion with windows defender turned on. panda has caught one virus and windows defender caught one. So, two, in total, in 6 months, and computer is great running smoothly.

I have tried to down load the Panda Cloud Anti-Virus and my computer states all files were successfully downloaded. On the bottom of my computer it still says that my beta period has finished and that it no longer protects my computer. When I restart my computer a prompt appears saying that I can download a free version. What do I need to do ??

@The blog entry – lightweight is good. Those with older computers need a working antivirus too! AVG and Avast forget this at times. However, Avast in particular balances this out with a rich feature set that I can individually enable and disable as I need to.

I’m concerned that I don’t see it even listed in the communities that let me read the studies myself. Yes, it will take a moment for the community to catch up.

As for the firewall issue:

Many of these suites are from companies that specialize in Antivirus *or* Firewalls, but found they could increase their profit margins by slapping together the piece they’re “missing”. There’s only one place that I know of that publishes thorough reports on firewalls: matousec.com. They’re recommending a free firewall from PCTools.com or a Comodo internet suite, based on the tests they do. Note that it would take testing each firewall against every virus *Ever* to truly test a firewall to the fullest, and this would be impossible. Matousec has chosen wonderfully what viruses, malware, etc they test based on what’s infecting people, and what’s coming out. They updated their list of tests pretty recently.

The Comodo suite, who’s firewall passes 100% of the tests from Matousec, is a prime example of why suites just don’t work. Comodo is wonderful for firewalls. They always have been competitive and recently free, and always come out as a top-rated firewall. However, their antivirus is a joke! The problem with their suite product is the hassle of disabling the antivirus, which can sometimes *still* fight with the antivirus users intend to use. Two Fighting antivirus products ruin your protection and slow your computer down. Not a happy time.

With Comodo’s standalone firewall less scrutinized, we don’t know how much of the firewall’s functionality we lose by dropping their antivirus. Until next quarter’s tests come out, the PCTools firewall is the way to go.

The main thing is that it stays lightweight.

The number one reason people are ditching other free AV solutions and are switching to pandacloud is the fact that it stays out your way and just does it’s job, it doesn’t try to overwhelm you with ‘features’ and take over all your system resources.

If it were to lose this aspect then it’ll just become another one of those “Used to be great but was killed by bloat” kind of software titles.

Can Panda Cloud be installed on to windows 2003 server.

Thank you
Cheryl

this is the very fantastic softwear for computer security.thanks for free download option……………..

I run Windows Vista and my antivirus was working fine now it keeps reading error and I cannot get to funstion anymore. Any ideas? It says Error 11 by the way.

tiny as it posible, light as paper. advanced config needed to leave the file I wont to virus or no virus. I like to ask me to delete the file or not

Mike :I agree with Yuval. You need to keep it thin. That’s why I switch. AVG was getting to Resource hungry. I also just want an anti-virus. I don’t need all the firewall junk slowing me down and blocking everything under the sun like Mcafee and Symantec.

A nice feature would be to have the option to automatically scan removable media once it is connected