We are extremely happy to announce that after many years we have started participating again in the VB100 tests. We have not done so before mainly because their testing methodology did not consider cloud-scanning. But they have recently implemented cloud-scanning in their test methodologies and we started participating again.
VB100 certification is granted to products that prove a 100% detection rate for malware samples listed as “In the Wild” by the WildList Organization. To display a VB100 logo, a product must generate no false positives when scanning an extensive set of goodware samples. The comparative review was conducted on a system running Windows 7 Professional. Testing was made up of three main parts: on-demand tests, on-access tests, and false positive tests. Panda Cloud Antivirus Pro obtained a 100% perfect result in the on-demand and on-access tests, as well as zero false positives.
Additionally, Panda Cloud Antivirus Pro recorded an installation time of 30 seconds, the fastest of all tested products. Virus Bulletin also praised the product’s interface and ease of use.
More information at http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/test?recent=1
AV-Comparatives has released their On-Demand antivirus test and we are happy to report that Panda Cloud Antivirus has achieved the top ranking of ADVANCED+.
The test compared Panda Cloud Antivirus to 19 other antivirus programs. Panda Cloud Antivirus successfully detected 98.6 percent of the more than 300,000 samples used by AV-Comparatives.org, performing better than free solutions from Avast, AVG and Microsoft and paid programs from Eset or Trend Micro, and reinforcing the product’s powerful protection capabilities.
The AV-Comparatives.org tests also examined false positives, which the lab recommends people consider when evaluating products as they can sometimes cause as much trouble as real infections. Panda only reported 10 whereas other antivirus solutions reported 54 false positives on average. The full report is available at http://www.av-comparatives.org/en/comparativesreviews/detection-test
We are happy to announce that AV-Test.org recently released their independent testing results of their latest January/February 2012 test runs. These tests put antivirus and security products through a thorough real-world testing scenario which is broken down in three big areas: Protection, Repair and Usability.
The results couldn’t be much better for Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.5.1 as we outscored all other free antivirus products tested (and many of the paid and full suites!). Thanks to all our users who are providing feedback in our Support Forum to help us make The Best Free Antivirus!
We are happy to announce the availability of Panda Cloud Antivirus version 1.5.2. If you are reading this after seeing a “Panda Cloud Antivirus has upgraded automatically!” message on your Desktop traybar, then you already have this latest version installed and running and you don’t have to do anything else. In case you are interested you can read about the fixes introduced in this version in this blog post. If your version of Panda Cloud Antivirus hasn’t upgraded yet to version 1.5.2 yet don’t worry. As we are releasing the automatic and transparent upgrade little by little in a few days your copy of Panda Cloud Antivirus will upgrade itself automatically.
Version 1.5.2 is a maintenance upgrade from version 1.5.1 which fixes some bugs reported by the user community. The bug fixes included are the following:
- Improved on-demand scanning speeds, specially under Windows 7.
- Improved integration with Collective Intelligence backend to obtain new malware variants even faster.
- New toolbar version 3.0 with Google search instead of Yahoo search.
- Fixed slowdowns while deleting files from the computer.
- Fixed BSOD under certain conditions when unloading one of the Panda drivers.
- Fixed synchronization erros (same as already released hotfix).
- Fixed issues scanning certain type of folders (as reported by AV-Comparatives)
- Fixed upgrade notification popup showing up every 20 minutes.
- Fixed problem of certain auxiliary files being written to the root of the drive when ProgramData directory could not be found.
- Fixed disinfection problem under certain conditions on malware running in memory.
- Fixed problem under certain situations when a malware detected without Internet connectivity was not recorded in the event report.
- Fixed problems disinfecting certain malware with specific format and characteristics.
Remember that if you have any problems whatsoever with Panda Cloud Antivirus you can always ask for help at our Technical Support Forum.
Also if you like Panda Cloud Antivirus don’t forget to help us grow the community of users. The more we are, the better protection we get. Make sure to click on the “I like CloudAV” button on the main window to easily protect your community of friends and family by letting them know about Panda Cloud Antivirus.
If you haven’t seen it already, Panda Cloud Antivirus cloud-scanning backend, Collective Intelligence, has reached its 200 millionth file analyzed in the last few hours.
Being one of the first cloud-scanning backends in the AV industry, Panda’s Collective Intelligence processes automatically over 250.000 new files every day. It is able to automatically analyze new files, determine if they are malicious or not, create signatures for the malicious ones and respond to threats on user’s PC’s in real-time without requiring AV signature updates. In addition it also is able to create heuristic determinations for completely new and unknown malware which it has never seen before without actually having the file, as well as using prevalence to make determinations and prioritizations, making Panda’s Collective Intelligence the most advanced cloud-scanning technology in the market.
More information:
http://www.cloudantivirus.com/en/threat-information/
http://press.pandasecurity.com/usa/news/panda-security-processes-200-millionth-malware-file-via-the-cloud/
NOTE: if your Panda Cloud Antivirus has upgraded successfully to version 1.5.1 and you are getting constant notifications on the traybar about the upgrade, please reboot your computer to finish the upgrade and these notifications will stop.
We are happy to announce the availability of Panda Cloud Antivirus version 1.5.1. If you are reading this after seeing a “Panda Cloud Antivirus has upgraded automatically!” message on your Desktop traybar, then you already have this latest version installed and running. If you don’t have version 1.5.1 yet don’t worry. As we are releasing the automatic and transparent upgrade little by little in a few days your copy of Panda Cloud Antivirus will upgrade itself automatically.
Version 1.5.1 is a maintenance upgrade from version 1.5.0 which fixes some bugs reported by the user community. The bug fixes included are the following:
- Fixed problems disinfecting Google Chrome cookies.
- Fixed problems disinfecting certain compressed malware.
- Fixed Blue Screen of Death problem after upgrading or installing version 1.5.
- Fixed bug which prevented re-enabling autorun.
- Fixed errors when redirecting to webpages from the “I like CloudAV” window.
- Security Toolbar and URL Filter version 2.0.0.17 with Firefox 5.0 compatibility.
Remember that if you have any problems whatsoever with Panda Cloud Antivirus you can always ask for help at our Technical Support Forum.
Also if you like Panda Cloud Antivirus don’t forget to help us grow the community of users. The more we are, the better protection we get. Make sure to click on the “I like CloudAV” button on the main window to easily protect your community of friends and family by letting them know about Panda Cloud Antivirus.
Shadowman, one of our technical support forum moderators, has created a contest called “Summer Picture with Cloud Antivirus“.
Basically the five most creative users will get a 3-year license for Panda Cloud Antivirus PRO. The contest runs from July 1st to August 31st, 2011, so make sure to read up on the rules and dust off your nice camera.
We are happy to announce the availability of Panda Cloud Antivirus version 1.5. If you are reading this after seeing a “Panda Cloud Antivirus has upgraded automatically!” message on your Desktop traybar, then you already have this latest version installed and running. If you don’t have version 1.5 installed yet don’t worry. As we are releasing the automatic and transparent upgrade little by little in a few days your copy of Panda Cloud Antivirus will upgrade itself automatically.
This keyword of this release is improved performance. In addition new features suggested by the user community have been added as well.
- Scanning speeds have been improved dramatically.
- CPU consumption has been reduced thanks to improvements in the BackgroundScan.
- New graphical installer.
- Ability to close the banner.
- New advanced configuration options for exclusions of files by extension, Potentially Unwanted Programs and more.
- Activity monitor shows scanned files and last virus detected.
- Report now includes entries for Collective Intelligence cache synchronizations.
In addition there are a lot of bug fixes, most notably:
- Fixed error when trying to open Panda Cloud Antivirus right after install.
- Fixed problems registering with Windows Security Center.
- Fixed access violation in PSUNSuspects.dll when opening console.
- Fixed protected Lost&Found directory privileges which prevented restoration of files.
- Fixed Error Code 11 when trying to undo an exclusion for a file which has been deleted from the drive.
- Fixed Error Code 11 when trying to insert into the Recycle Bin a file which was also excluded from the scan.
- Fixed error which prevented opening the GUI and showing the traybar icon.
Don’t forget to help us grow the community of Panda Cloud Antivirus users. The more we are, the better protection it provides. Now there’s a “I like CloudAV” button on the main window to easily protect your community of friends and family.
Panda Cloud Antivirus and other Panda products have been selected by popular community votes to be one of the finalist in the About.com Reader’s Choice Awards. Thanks to all that helped us get there. Now we need more help from the community to vote for Panda Cloud Antivirus one more time to become the #1 choice for “Free Antivirus”.
So what are you waiting for, point your browsers to http://antivirus.about.com/od/antivirussoftwarereviews/l/bl-bestantivirus2011.htm and vote for Panda Cloud Antivirus!
Mary Landesman and the editors of antivirus.about.com recently launched the “Reader’s Choice Awards 2011″ for favorite antivirus by the community.
The first step is a call for nominations. Help us promote Panda Cloud Antivirus by nominating it under the “Best Free Antivirus” category.
Follow this link to nominate Panda:
http://antivirus.about.com/library/bl-readers-choice-awards-2011.htm?nl=1
Make sure you submit your nomination by February 4th as that is the deadline.
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