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40hz:
Panda Cloud Antivirus: You've heard about it, you've read the reviews, waded through the surrounding hype - and maybe even thought about testing it.

But has anybody at DoCo actually tried it? Or better yet - is anyone currently using it?

Please share your experiences with the rest of us. :)

Link: www.cloudantivirus.com

Press release link: www.pandasecurity.com/usa/about/corporate-news/new-61.htm

With Panda Cloud Antivirus, Panda Security is introducing a new protection model that utilizes a thin-client agent and server architecture which processes and blocks malware more efficiently than locally installed signature-based products. By moving the entire malware scanning and determination process to the cloud and applying non-intrusive interception techniques on the client architecture, Panda Cloud Antivirus is able to provide advanced protection against new and unknown viruses with a lightweight thin-client agent that barely consumes any PC resources.

Traditional antivirus products for PCs rely on multiple locally installed technologies which intercept each file at different layers (entry vector, file system and execution) and scan them using various techniques (antivirus, heuristics, intrusion prevention, behavioral analysis, etc.). This process results in heavy usage of local PC memory and CPU resources, negatively impacting performance. The Panda Cloud Antivirus thin-client agent introduces a new philosophy for on-access asynchronous cloud-scanning. It combines local detection technologies with real-time cloud-scanning to maximize results while minimizing resource consumption. This optimized model blocks malicious programs as they attempt to execute, while managing less dangerous operations via non-intrusive background scans.

Panda Cloud Antivirus includes local and remote antivirus, anti-spyware, anti-rootkit, heuristics and goodware cache, while only consuming an average of 17 MB of RAM and 50 percent of the PC performance impact as compared to the industry average.
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a_lunatic:
No 64 bit support  :down:

40hz:
Well...I decided to give it a run.

Installation went smoothly. Nice interface. Made it to 7% completed before it quit with an "Unexpected Error." No additional information was returned. Event log shows scan started, and one detection: a benign technician's password cracking utility which I already knew about.



I guess this is to be expected, since the product is still in beta. :-\

yksyks:
I spent 24 minutes watching the review video and saved much more by avoiding the subsequent installation. Too early, I guess.

barney:
I loaded it on an XP/SP3 installation a couple of weeks ago.

I'm now running Win7 RC as primary OS, 'cause the XP install loses all Internet connectivity ~10 min. after reboot.

In fairness, I also installed some other apps about the same time, but none of them had any net function(s) of which I'm aware.

I've booted back into the XP partition several times, but still cannot track what's causing the network shutdown.

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