Panda Cloud Antivirus

WinDefend, our newest Junior Moderator has posted a giveaway of 2-year PRO License Keys for 5 lucky users after we hit our 20.000 fan mark at our facebook page over at www.facebook.com/cloudantivirus.

Check it out:
http://www.cloudantivirus.com/forum/thread.jspa?threadID=62106&tstart=0

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.

Since the initial release of Panda Cloud Antivirus users could only purchase a single license for home use. Purchasing additional licenses was not very user friendly as there was no way to get a volume discount.

I’m happy to announce that we’ve reached an agreement with the very cool people from TrialPay who, in addition to being fans of Panda Cloud Antivirus, have been kind enough to set up a shopping cart with very attractive volume discounts.

So if you liked Panda Cloud Antivirus so far and are thinking about installing it in those additional home computers, on your mom’s or dad’s PC or any other family member, now’s the time to do it.

Simply head over to the official Panda Cloud Antivirus online shop and click on the “multiple licenses with volume discounts” link to get up to 58% discounts:
https://shop.pandasecurity.com/cgi-bin/pp?twds=cloud&ID=A12CAESD1&track=102324&ml=EN

We’re happy to announce that Panda Cloud Antivirus (both Free and PRO) are available for users of Toshiba AppStore over at http://apps.toshiba.com

The Toshiba AppStore is filled with very cool cloud-based applications made available to millions of Toshiba laptop users. They can now choose to install Panda Cloud Antivirus Free Edition or even subscribe on a monthly billing basis to Panda Cloud Antivirus PRO.

As you can imagine the entire Panda Cloud Antivirus team is very excited about the news!

Great news from our marketing team: buy Panda Cloud Antivirus Pro before November 26th 2010 and enter a chance to win a brand new iPad. We will be raffling the iPad between everybody who buys Panda Cloud Antivirus PRO from today November 4th until November 26th at 24:00 CET. In order to enter simly visit our store and complete a purchase. If you already have Cloud Antivirus PRO, buy more licenses for family and friends and you’ll have more chances of winning the iPad.

We are happy to announce that we just released Panda Cloud Antivirus version 1.3. This new version of Panda Cloud Antivirus has been made possible thanks to our large community of users and specially to our Support Forum Trusted Mods who have helped a lot of users and gathered enough feedback to incorporate major improvements as well as many different bug fixes. All new features have been included in both the Free and Pro Edition.

If you have Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.1.0, 1.1.1 or 1.1.2, you will get the upgrade automatically and transparently over the course of the next few days (see below for details). If you don’t have Panda Cloud Antivirus installed yet you can download it from www.cloudantivirus.com.

The main new features and fixes included in Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.3 are the following:

• Malicious Web & URL Filtering. This feature blocks websites that push malware, exploits and drive-by downloads. It is available both in Free and in Pro Editions and is installed by the toolbar. Unlike similar solutions, this web filtering works at a low level so it works under all browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc. For those of you that didn’t install the toolbar but would like to install the Web & URL Filtering, you can download it from here and install it manually.
• Unified Recycle Bin and Quarantine. Previously the Recycle Bin handled suspicious detections and the Quarantine handled deleted malware detections. This has been unified into a new Recycle Bin for ease of management. This is included in both Free and Pro Editions.
• Automatic and transparent upgrades to new product versions, previously only available in the Pro Edition, this is now available in the Free Edition as well. All users of Free Editions versions 1.1.0, 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 will automatically and transparently upgrade to the new 1.3. See notes below for the upgrade schedule.
• No more nagging advertising. After listening to many of you we have decided to turn off the nagging advertising popups prompting to upgrade to Pro Edition. If you want to support Panda Cloud Antivirus and wish to get the Pro Edition, you can do so from here, but we won’t bug you anymore from the popups.
• Hot updating of behavioural blocking rules. In order to increase protection on the fly against new vulnerabilities and attacks and to fix false positives, hot updating of behavioural blocking rules allows faster response time in both the Free and Pro Editions.
• Immediate notifications of virus detections. Previously if Panda Cloud Antivirus encountered multiple viruses, it would delay its traybar notification and show them grouped. This behaviour has been changed so that the notifications are shown immediately.
• Suspicious detection counter. Under the statistics window there’s some new counters for the different types of heuristics and behavioural detections.
• New versioning format. Unified versioning format in GUI and other parts of the program.
• Many bugfixes as reported by users in our support forum:
  – Fixed issue with Windows 7 Start menu slow-down.
  – Fixed Panda traybar icon disappearing.
  – Fixed “you are not connected to the Internet” message when there is connection.
  – Fixed issue when Free Edition users can activate behavioural analysis.
  – Fixed slow-down and conflicts while playing Allods Online and AION.
  – Fixed cloud-response time configuration which defaults to 30 seconds.
  – Fixed constant accesses to the floppy disk drive.
  – Fixed BSOD issue after install.
  – Fixed bug while exporting an empty report to TXT/CSV.
  – Fixed Conficker detection.
  – Fixed BSOD while compressing malicious PDFs.
  – Fixed translation errors.

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In case you still have some questions about Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.3, here are some frequently asked questions. If you don’t find an answer to your question please contact us at the support forum.

When will my Panda Cloud Antivirus upgrade itself?
The automatic and transparent upgrade to the new Panda Cloud Antivirus version 1.3 will happen progressively over the next week or two. Initially users of version 1.1.0 will be upgraded automatically and some days later users of 1.1.2. Finally users of version 1.1.1 will be upgraded automatically.

What if I don’t want to wait for the automatic upgrade?
Simply go to www.cloudantivirus.com, download the new 1.3 version and install it on top of you current one. As you run the installer, it will prompt you to unsintall your current version and, after a reboot, will install the new one. If you have any problems please contact us at the tech support forum.

My Panda Cloud Antivirus has been upgraded but I cannot see the Web & URL Filtering Toolbar
The Web & URL Filtering component is installed by the toolbar. If you don’t already have the toolbar installed (or you uninstalled it) then the automatic upgrade will not install the new toolbar (the automatic ugprade keeps the same config as you currently have). If that is the case, you can manually download and install the new Web & URL Filtering Toolbar from here.

I know I’ve installed the Web & URL Filtering Toolbar but want to “see” it in action
There is nothing visible in the toolbar like a button to “see” the Web & URL Filter. Simply make sure there is a process running on your computer called panda2_0dn.exe and you’re good to go. If you don’t see the panda2_0dn.exe process running, install the Panda Security Toolbar manually from here. You can test that the filter is working by trying to visit http://www.cloudantivirus.com/testurlfilter

How do I disable the Web & URL Filtering?
– Go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs and uninstall “Panda Security Toolbar URL Filtering”.
– If you only want to disable the filtering for a short time, simply kill the “panda2_0dn.exe” process.
– For those of you wanting to visit malicious pages and/or to manage potential false positives, very soon we will add an exclusion button in the blocked pages so that you can bypass the Web & URL filter.

I have and older Panda Cloud Antivirus, version 1.0.x. What should I do?
You can do one of two things:
– Wait for an automatic upgrade. We are developing an automatic upgrade for users of 1.0. It should be released in a few weeks.
– Manually upgrade to the new version 1.3. Simply download the new version from www.cloudantivirus.com and run it. It will prompt you to uninstall the previous version and, after a reboot, install the new one. If you have any problems please contact us at the tech support forum.

So what’s the difference between Free and Pro now?
You can see the feature-to-feature comparison in the following table. As you can see we have added many new things to the Free Edition to make Panda Cloud Antivirus the best free antivirus available anywhere!

We just published version 1.1.2 of Panda Cloud Antivirus. You can get it from http://www.cloudantivirus.com.

This minor release includes some basic fixes:

* Fix for error 1603 during install or upgrade from previous versions.
* Fix for behaviour blocker FPs of WMP, VLC, OpenOffice, fubar2000, etc.
* Corrections of certain string translations (italian, japanese, etc.).
* Search reset fix during installation.
* Fix for problems with outdated Silverlight installations.
* Updated traybar notifications to show that they come from PCAV.

Users of the Free Edition can upgrade to this new version by simply downloading the new installer and executing it. The installer will uninstall the previous version and install the new one after a reboot.

Users of the Pro Edition do not need to upgrade to this new version as their installation will be upgraded automatically and transparently as needed.

Wow, that was one nerve-breaking never ending game, but finally Spain came out victorious after a brutal gloves-off match… OLE OLE OLE OLEEE, OLEEEE, OLEEEE!!

I have received literally hundreds and hundreds of emails from people around the world for the Panda Cloud Antivirus Pro Edition give-away. Seeing how much Spain had to overcome to win the World Cup championship, we have decided to give away 100 license keys instead of the original 20 we had announced.

If you are one of the lucky 100 winners, check your email as your license key is waiting in your inbox. If you’re not one of the lucky winners but still sent an email, check your email as well for a consolation prize

Juan Santana (Panda’s CEO) and I had to watch the game faaar away from home, in Palo Alto, California. Fortunately the people here were wonderful, almost everybody cheering for Spain. Thanks Palo Alto and VIVA ESPAÑA!!!