Panda 2007 Lite BETA has been released...

Richdog · 12 Jul 2006 at 14:47

Well, Panda anti-virus 2007 Lite BETA has just been released and from what I have seen it's a real "back to basics" product and is essentially a solid anti-virus component with advanced heuristics engine... and no troublesome firewall or other cumbersome features. I've had a quick play around and it seems very fast and stable.

This looks like a great product for gamers and the resource usage and footprint is very small... In fact it's pretty damn similar to NOD32 in that respect. It's minimum specs are crazily low (150mhz pentium and 64MB RAM) and the scanning speed is very quick.

Download it here http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/beta/particulares/?sitepanda=particulares

Username: betatest

Password: betaclient

Rich.

Meatball · 12 Jul 2006 at 15:39

Richdog said:
Well, Panda anti-virus 2007 Lite BETA has just been released and from what I have seen it's a real "back to basics" product and is essentially a solid anti-virus component with advanced heuristics engine... and no troublesome firewall or other cumbersome features. I've had a quick play around and it seems very fast and stable.

This looks like a great product for gamers and the resource usage and footprint is very small... In fact it's pretty damn similar to NOD32 in that respect. It's minimum specs are crazily low (150mhz pentium and 64MB RAM) and the scanning speed is very quick.

Download it here http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/beta/particulares/?sitepanda=particulares

Rich.

My anti-virus subscription has just finished so I might change over. What are people's thoughts on Panda anti-virus?

mrk · 12 Jul 2006 at 15:40

is it a trial?

mystery continues ¬_¬

lee87 · 12 Jul 2006 at 16:07

mrk said:
is it a trial?

mystery continues ¬_¬

Just installed it, I don't think it's a trial but it says the update license will expire on 10th August.

Used to use panda in the past and I found it very good. So far it's been fine it seems to scan faster than AVG.

mrk · 12 Jul 2006 at 16:16

Bugger, AVAST it remains I guess

btw, AVAST sys req is:

Pentium class Processor, 64MB RAM (128MB recommended) and 50 MB of free hard disk space

Richdog · 12 Jul 2006 at 16:20

Lost-Prophet said:
My anti-virus subscription has just finished so I might change over. What are people's thoughts on Panda anti-virus?

My advice: give Panda 2006 a miss for the moment and just trial the BETA version of 2007 for a few months until the new product has been released. In conjunction with a decent 3rd party firewall I think it's going to be very nice indeed.

From what I can gather the 2007 version is going to be miles ahead in performance-terms compared to the 2005 and 2006 versions... it's going to be one for the gaming community to watch very closely I think.

EDIT - Sorry I forgot the username and password... added them to the first post now!

rickyt · 12 Jul 2006 at 16:40

I had used Panda Platinum for three years till May when it expired . Found it very good indeed .Never had any serious problems or virus's in this time .But ,I could'nt buy it locally ,so I checked on line and they wanted £49.00 . No way am I going to pay that every year.So ,I ditched it and I'm back on the basic version of Norton and ZA as a firewall . Everything seems fine .

Richdog · 12 Jul 2006 at 16:46

rickyt said:
I had used Panda Platinum for three years till May when it expired . Found it very good indeed .Never had any serious problems or virus's in this time .But ,I could'nt buy it locally ,so I checked on line and they wanted £49.00 . No way am I going to pay that every year.So ,I ditched it and I'm back on the basic version of Norton and ZA as a firewall . Everything seems fine .

Try this BETA and compare it to Norton... think you'll be pleasantrly surprised.

After all, Norton is the worst major AV in existence.

GSDog · 12 Jul 2006 at 19:07

I have had very bad experience with Panda in the past. The 2006 version is terrible, it suddenly randomly uses 100% CPU for no reason, it thought MIRC was a virus and completely messed it up, it would not even uninstall.

I will be sticking with NOD32, but I am pleased it is now just an antivirus, without all there other crap included that hogs the system.

Richdog · 12 Jul 2006 at 19:15

Zildjian said:
I have had very bad experience with Panda in the past. The 2006 version is terrible, it suddenly randomly uses 100% CPU for no reason, it thought MIRC was a virus and completely messed it up, it would not even uninstall.

I will be sticking with NOD32, but I am pleased it is now just an antivirus, without all there other crap included that hogs the system.

Yeah unfortunately certain system configs can cause Panda 2006 to go a bit crazy, but it doesn't often happen.

These 2007 products look like they're going to just "work".

sativa · 12 Jul 2006 at 19:24

Zildjian said:
I have had very bad experience with Panda in the past. The 2006 version is terrible, it suddenly randomly uses 100% CPU for no reason, it thought MIRC was a virus and completely messed it up, it would not even uninstall.

I will be sticking with NOD32, but I am pleased it is now just an antivirus, without all there other crap included that hogs the system.

I had exactly the same problems.

Richdog · 13 Jul 2006 at 08:51

Anyone else tried this last night then? Comments on performance while gaming etc? Effectiveness?

Dutch Guy · 13 Jul 2006 at 10:32

I installed Panda Titanium 2006 whotsit a few months ago on a mates system and there were ~13 processes that were installed :eek:

and it made the system horribly slow.

I have never seen such a shocking amount of crap being installed.

I hope for all the people installing the 2007 version that it is a lot different than the 2006 full version.