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.
Hot off the trails of the great debut of Panda Cloud Antivirus at AV-Comparatives with an Advanced+ rating, now Panda Cloud Antivirus Free Edition is also taking part of the Full Product / Real-World tests of AV-Test.org.
The results are pretty good. Both Panda Cloud Antivirus Free Edition and Panda Internet Security 2012 achieved some of the top scores in protection. In addition Panda Cloud Antivirus achieved very good scores for usability, with very little slowdown of the test computers and zero false positives (when the industry average for this test was 17 false positives).
The full reports can be read online for both Panda Cloud Antivirus Free Edition and Panda Internet Security 2012.
AV-Comparatives.org just published its latest detection test. This test takes into consideration detection of recent malware as well as false positives. This is the first time that Panda Cloud Antivirus Free Edition participates in AV-Comparatives.org independent tests.
We’re happy to announce that the results couldn’t be much better. Panda Cloud Antivirus Free Edition achieved the highest rating (Advanced+) by being one of the AVs with the highest detection and lowest false positive ratings of the 20 products tested. Panda Cloud Antivirus Free Edition even got higher scores both in detection and false positives than paid-for security solutions from Kasperspky, ESET, McAfee, Trend Micro and Symantec and also higher scores than other free solutions by Avast and AVG.
You can read the full report at AV-Comparatives.org testing site.
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.
Softpedia just published a review of Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.5 and has awarded its “excellent 5-star” rating. The review highlights Cloud Antivirus automatic and transparent upgrades, the improvements in system resource usage, scan speed and improved malware detection rates.
The review concludes that “Panda Cloud Antivirus is indeed easy to use, very light on system resources and manages to offer protection a
gainst all sorts of malware. Despite being a free product it manages to provide a lot more than just basic protection.”
The full review can be read here:
http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/Panda-Cloud-Antivirus-Free-Edition-Review-207624.shtml
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.
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