Panda Security’s Cloud Antivirus beta
By: Alan Ng | May 7, 2009
Panda Security recently released Cloud Antivirus Beta, which is the first full-featured cloud-based antivirus software. It offers various features that make it unique and stand out from their other competitors on the market.
As reported from Cnet, Cloud Antivirus beta will perform two main tasks on your desktop PC or laptop. The first is prioritizing threats based on type and secondly, reducing the work load that that security programs place on your system resources by moving definition files to a community-based cloud.
Cnet performed a test to see how Panda’s Cloud Antivirus would handle the results. They used a ThinkPad T42 with a 1.7 GHz Pentium M chip, 1.5 GB RAM, and running Windows XP SP2. They concluded that Cloud Antivirus used about 23 MB of RAM when idle.
If you’re in need of a new antivirus solution and are willing to try out a different approach, why not try out this Cloud-based program.
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I am an intense fanboy of Cloud applications in general, but for AV specifically. It seems clear to me that this is the future of antivirus, anti-malware, anti-spyware etc. Still, I have to say that I have some misgivings about how Panda is approaching it. I want to see much more control put in the hands of the users. There needs to be a community system in place where threats can be identified and solved all within the context of the user community. Once the bureaucracy of upper management or even lower techs get involved, the process slows painfully and the whole purpose of the cloud (not speed of the system, but of turnaround time from detection to solution) becomes negated.