Panda Free Cloud Antivirus

[Guest]

[ganda]

http://www.pandasecurity.com/about/corporate-news/new-61.htm
http://blog.cloudantivirus.com/

It consists of a lightweight antivirus agent that is connected in real-time to PandaLabs’ Collective Intelligence servers to protect faster against the newest malware variants while barely impacting PC performance.

so we can scan the comp if we're not connected to internet? 

yep, confirmed.need to connect to internet when scanning so it can coonects to the cloud server.
guess i can't use it then 
ow, i ask a question to them (using "send us your comment" right click menu). it seems the AV will simply cure or delete the infected file/malware, then what if it's an FP?
the answer they gave me:

Please, we need you to send us the false positive file in a ZIP-password-protected attachment in order to share them with our development team.

i was just asking "what if". haven't got FP so far. has anyone test this AV againsts real malwares? 

[Petit]

Thanks for all answer.
But I'll not try it because it still in BETA.

[MetalShaun]

It sems like a good idea. Its main goal is to set and forget. it doesnt need update cause it sends exe's to the cloud for scanning and uses the sigs they have there.  But like you said if you dont have internet connected your screwed.

[LeoniAquila]

Panda Cloud reviewed by Matt from remove-malware.com: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAi57MTW5qM

Detected 4/10*, I'm not impressed by the results. It's all about detection and most of us know detection is not sufficient for complete protection.

* To be fair, I think reliable statistics require far more samples than just 10.

[Eljo]

Panda Cloud reviewed by Matt from remove-malware.com: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAi57MTW5qM

Detected 4/10*, I'm not impressed by the results. It's all about detection and most of us know detection is not sufficient for complete protection.

* To be fair, I think reliable statistics require far more samples than just 10.

Yes, saw that two and it did almost nothing... 

[jay2007tech]

It doesn't work with windows 7 (at least for me)

[Vettetech]

Two words....................Epic Fail. 

[LeoniAquila]

It looks like a failure to me, but I'd like to see more throughout testing (only 10 samples, and chosen on which basis?) and Panda out of beta before really judging. Somehow I suspect though that the final program won't impress on me, but I'll try not to make up my mind already.

[ganda]

Cons:
1) low detection rate
2) relies on internet connection (this might be cool for some ppl)
3) slows PC down when scanning

Pro:
1) nice GUI 

[LeoniAquila]

Cons:
1) low detection rate
2) relies on internet connection (this might be cool for some ppl)
3) slows PC down when scanning

More or less like all traditional antiviruses then.

[ganda]

More or less like all traditional antiviruses then.

yep, except almost all traditional AV can be updated manually if you don't have internet connection

[LaserWraith]

An article about it: http://www.brighthub.com/computing/smb-security/reviews/33738.aspx

He gives a thumbs-down.

[secureme]

Prefer "Hitman Pro 3.5"    to Panda Cloud. 

[muthusrinivasan]

More or less like all traditional antiviruses then.

Yes Absolutely.

yep, confirmed.need to connect to internet when scanning so it can coonects to the cloud server.

The bad thing is it relies on Net and the user needs some decent net connection speed and consumes more bandwidth.

[Kyle]

I will do some testing on this. I'll post back the results, Probably tomorrow.

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