Panda AV looks interesting?

Buchanan0204 · 16 Nov 2011 at 08:25

Noticed OcUK are now stocking Panda AV. Had a read about it. Seems the database is stored online. Now I was thinking.... wouldn't this mean, if you weren't online then you would be at risk of becoming infected. For e.g. on a train and you put in a flash drive from your friend.

Apart from that obvious flaw. It looks pretty neat.

Hotwired · 16 Nov 2011 at 08:32

Heard someone talking about something similar, ones using an online database use heuristics when its not available. So typical malware activity is what it looks for rather than a specific virus signature.

Buchanan0204 · 16 Nov 2011 at 08:38

Hotwired said:
Heard someone talking about something similar, ones using an online database use heuristics when its not available. So typical malware activity is what it looks for rather than a specific virus signature.

Ah I see. I see on their website. It rates MSE to be at the bottom of the pile. It looks like a speed test. I've always found MSE to be the best by a country mile in terms of usability and actually finding viruses. It also doesn't pester you every 20 seconds with stupid popups.

mrk · 16 Nov 2011 at 09:17

Well, it's not uncommon for a 3rd party competitor to rate the 1st party competition as naff compared to their own products

wjfcomputers · 16 Nov 2011 at 10:17

Buchanan0204 said:
Noticed OcUK are now stocking Panda AV. Had a read about it. Seems the database is stored online. Now I was thinking.... wouldn't this mean, if you weren't online then you would be at risk of becoming infected. For e.g. on a train and you put in a flash drive from your friend.

Apart from that obvious flaw. It looks pretty neat.

That's not an obvious flaw, it's a myth.

http://research.pandasecurity.com/arguments-against-cloud-based-antivirus/

Panda blows away MSE, but there are better products than Panda on the market.

alle · 16 Nov 2011 at 11:08

wjfcomputers said:
Panda blows away MSE....

...??? According to?....

mrk · 16 Nov 2011 at 11:09

Panda

d_brennen · 16 Nov 2011 at 11:13

alle said:
...??? According to?....

Panda!

A friend of mine had Panda Internet Security a year or two ago and had no end of problems on her laptop. I looked into it, for ages, before stumbling over a "BSOD patch" on Panda's website. Any program that needs a BSOD fix does not get my vote, especially as they didn't push the fix to users of the affected product

wjfcomputers · 16 Nov 2011 at 11:14

mrk said:
Panda

Yawn.

DYOR.

LizardKing · 16 Nov 2011 at 11:42

d_brennen said:
Panda!

A friend of mine had Panda Internet Security a year or two ago and had no end of problems on her laptop. I looked into it, for ages, before stumbling over a "BSOD patch" on Panda's website. Any program that needs a BSOD fix does not get my vote, especially as they didn't push the fix to users of the affected product

Thats nothing in comparison to the Mcafee update that would brick your machine requiring a rebuild.

TheVoice · 16 Nov 2011 at 12:04

LizardKing said:
Thats nothing in comparison to the Mcafee update that would brick your machine requiring a rebuild.

Or Norton, which required a 'removal tool' downloaded from the Symantec website to actually uninstall it properly.

m4cc45 · 16 Nov 2011 at 13:07

TheVoice said:
Or Norton, which required a 'removal tool' downloaded from the Symantec website to actually uninstall it properly.

In all fairness the original version of the EPO agent for McAfee didn't have an uninstaller. The onyl way to get rid of it was from the command line.

M.

KIA · 16 Nov 2011 at 14:46

wjfcomputers said:
Yawn.

DYOR.

AKA you don't have an argument.

wjfcomputers · 16 Nov 2011 at 15:13

KIA said:
AKA you don't have an argument.

No, I've tried to help in many of my previous posts.

Sick of trying to educate people who are EMPLOYED as security experts. It's embarrassing.

Buchanan0204 · 16 Nov 2011 at 19:43

Oh dear. Looks like I caused quite a stir.

Well I installed the 30 day trial today. It took around 20 mins to do a full scan on my C:. MSE takes around 3-4 minutes.

It did flag up some spam email and a few of those tracker cookies. Nothing serious or nothing I care about.

Seems nice enough though.

d_brennen · 16 Nov 2011 at 22:40

wjfcomputers said:
No, I've tried to help in many of my previous posts.

Sick of trying to educate people who are EMPLOYED as security experts. It's embarrassing.

Recommending Panda av is quite embarrassing in my honest humble opinion

Dave85 · 16 Nov 2011 at 23:13

Been using panda clould antivirus free edition for a few months now and so far works flawless found a few dodgy items I expected it and is very light on resources and I was a diehard mse fan

Essexraptor · 16 Nov 2011 at 23:35

DAvE18 said:
Been using panda clould antivirus free edition for a few months now and so far works flawless found a few dodgy items I expected it and is very light on resources and I was a diehard mse fan

Same here. Been running flawlessly with the free version for months...

Online your sync'd up with the virus database... offline .. on your train etc... what's the problem?

... I would try it first before commiting to the full paid version. Simple... easy... nuff said

madindehead · 20 Nov 2011 at 22:20

wjfcomputers said:
That's not an obvious flaw, it's a myth.

http://research.pandasecurity.com/arguments-against-cloud-based-antivirus/

Panda blows away MSE, but there are better products than Panda on the market.

Of course they are going to back it on their OWN blog...seriously.

PapaLazaru · 21 Nov 2011 at 16:05

Might give this a go on my home desktop looks interesting.