Thursday, November 19, 2009

Panda Cloud Antivirus, The first free cloud antivirus against viruses, spyware, rootkits and adware

Edit: Nix on Panda. It needs reinstall too often. I'm back to AVG if Microsoft Security Essentials can not be installed.

 

Panda Cloud Antivirus
The first free antivirus from the cloud

Panda Cloud Antivirus, The first free cloud antivirus against viruses, spyware, rootkits and adware

Comments:

I’m trying this out. Panda has never been high on my love list but the whole “cloud” thing is cool. The jury is out on how well this works. I had to uninstall Avira before Panda would install but this is standard for antivirus installs. You must set up a free Panda account before it will work (don't forget the email verification).

While Panda is scanning it takes considerable memory.

Here is memory consumption at idle. Not bad.



Here is a review showing Panda less than stellar but acceptable.

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