Panda antivirus free offer back on

[Tony]

Panda have there free antivirus and firewall offer back on here
http://www.pandasecurity.com/survey/

[minacross]

but it's not owrking :(

[Madsen DK]

Works fine here Mina

[Gigabyte]

I downloaded it last night fine. My pc crashed. I tried to download it again today and i get the same thing.

[optigrab]

Hi Gigabyte

Your PC crashed during download or during install? The difference in the problem/solution is potentially vast.

Regards,
Optigrab

[Shelb]

I get the same error message as Minacross..

[Gigabyte]

{QUOTE-> Hi Gigabyte

Your PC crashed during download or during install? The difference in the problem/solution is potentially vast.

Regards,
Optigrab <-QUOTE}
Neither.I should of explained more. It installed fine and I was using it. For some reason my pc crashed and the program was removed. My system was reinstalled from an emergency disk. That was the last thing that i installed,so it wasn't on the disk.

[Weber]

i got the error too...

[AMRX]

Panda people didn't update their software since July 2003. i'm not talking about the database though. i'm talking about the core files and the engine. so its pretty normal that it still have those bugs. i used it for somedays untill it crashed, hanged, cried, did everything to force me to uninstall it.

[Blackcat]

In fairness to this 'free' Panda, it has been installed on my daughter's laptop (Win XP, 512mB Ram, 2.3Ghz) for about a month now, with no problems so far.

Very stable and more importantly for my daughter, it runs straight out of the box with the default settings and automatic updates set. Easy to use GUI and relatively fast scanner.

For newbies who want 'to set and forget' I think it is a very good program, particularly with the present offer of 12 months of free updates.

[c0ltran3]

{QUOTE-> Neither.I should of explained more. It installed fine and I was using it. For some reason my pc crashed and the program was removed. My system was reinstalled from an emergency disk. That was the last thing that i installed,so it wasn't on the disk. <-QUOTE}

What Av are you using?

[Gigabyte]

{QUOTE-> What Av are you using? <-QUOTE}
I reinstalled Panda.The site is working now.

[vvvvvvvv]

Is that FREE version for 1 year???

If its FREE is that some new version?

[bob_man_uk]

i downloaded it last week and have been told to uninstall it and resinstal mcafee (we paid for it so we MUST use it) anyway I was unable to uninstall it, WHY? i ask I endded up having to leave my machine full of holes and non traceable links, registry keys etc, a message to panda, you have a good av but come on you cant force us to keep it if we dont want it.lol

matty G

[bigc73542]

I downloaded a copy last night and the download worked just fine. ;)

The AV is not necessarily a one year and then it is gone offer. See screen shot

[bravesrule]

what is the latest program version

[Stephan123]

the latest program version is 7.05.03.This is a really good AV i think ::)

[Pigman]

Does this thing have good heuristics?

[Stephan123]

i don't know but i think it have good heuristics

[AMRX]

a large number of false positives couldn't be considered as good heuristic. Panda heuristic is strong but not good. but i love their daily updates. the latest version is 7.05.03 and the date goes way back to July 2003.

[Pigman]

Okay, how much RAM does this take up? If it's not too RAM-intensive, I'll try it as my primary AV - but if it's a hog, it will only crash my poor obsolete computer.

[Pigman]

Wow. This is very slow on old machines. It takes up an amazing amount of RAM and hard drive space. It might be good, but it's too much of a hog to run properly on older computers.

Edit: Still, it only slows things down a bit more than Avast. If you can run Avast without any trouble, I suggest you replace it with this.

[kloshar]

And how can you register Panda and get free username and password? 2 months ago when you typed in your name, email adress on "survey", you got registration code on your email and some details. Now there is no any registration information. Can anyone explain registration?

[VikingStorm]

Apparently there is suppose to be an "Online Registration" link in the help menu. It wasn't there in mine (though my comp froze at the end of Panda's installation, so it's like half-installed).

[kloshar]

Hello!

I don't have "Online registration" in my help menu. And now? What to do? How can I get username and password?

[AMRX]

last time i checked Panda they said they are providing service for 3 months only. when i registered it was 1yr. check out the site and read it carefully.

[Stephan123]

I have a registration to 15/05/05
Why have you sayd that it 3months was

[AMRX]

because i saw it on their website. now i can't even find the promo offer page.

[bravesrule]

who else is using panda platinum 7.07

[AMRX]

now this is creating major confusion. the promo offer is offering version 7.05.03 where the evaluation version is 7.05.04. now you telling me about 7.07. did you buy it? how did you get that version?

[bravesrule]

i just went to updates on the panda site to get 7.07

[AMRX]

i'm using the promo offer. i updated it yesterday and the version was still 7.05.04. from where did you get your copy of Panda Platinum? what was the version then?

[bravesrule]

i'm also using the promo version.just go the updates on the panda site

[AMRX]

so when you were updated to version 7.07?

[bravesrule]

I UPDATED AROUND MAY 20-21

[AMRX]

now i know what went wrong. the upgrader didn't work. now when i manually checked the site it says version 7.07 was sitting ducks here from 20th May. sorry if i was bugging you and thanks for letting me know about it.

[Tony]

Thanks for the heads up bravesrule :)
I only checked just a week ago for any program update and there wasnt one then .

[AMRX]

there is nothing new in this 7.07 version....all the same. i noticed that now it takes some more time to boot up. so i uninstalled it. they didn't even fix those false alarms i sent.

[NAMOR]

{QUOTE-> Hello!

I don't have "Online registration" in my help menu. And now? What to do? How can I get username and password? <-QUOTE}

the reigistation link is in the email they send you after you fill out personal info and download it the program.

{QUOTE-> Thank you for choosing Panda Platinum 7.0, the world's best antivirus and integrated firewall.

Your code above can be used to activate your product download.

To register your Platinum 7 antivirus protection, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Panda Software registration page and follow the registration instructions:

http://www.pandasoftware.com/support/register


2. On the final registration page, enter your information and activation code (shown above in this email).

3. Your Username and Password will be mailed to you within 24 hours. <-QUOTE}


sorry its a bit late I just downloaded it a few days ago, so far no problems. I also found a link "to resolve several compatibility problems in Windows XP and improve the stability"..

dunno if its already been posted, but anywho...

http://www.pandasoftware.com/support/card.aspx?Id=100000&IdIdioma=2&ref=MicroWerxp

[deadmanschest]

Hi all;

I just d'led and installed (and updated) the Panda free AV yesterday ( june 9). Couple of comments;

1. I did give a user name and email addy on the 'Survey' page to get a code and do the download, but I did not need to enter the code into the app or go to the website and Register. All that have been entered into the app is my 'user name' - I just ran the Update manually from within the app and it did two updates - one a program update and one a db update - to get me to 7.05.07 ...(I don't like auto updates, so I don't know it it would work as well);
I do not know about 7.07 as it says I am current with 7.05.07?

2. I have AVG Free (light and fast) installed and active, and use ETrust ( a resource pig as resident) as a back up on demand scanner. I also use F-Prot for Dos (light and fast) as a back up system scanner. All I needed to do to install the Panda was to stop AVG running as resident, and then Panda installed fine....Once Panda was installed, it would run and scan happily with AVG either on/off. I haven't dicked around with any other AVs at the same time, but I doubt there is any great conflict.

I have no view on how good the prog is. I simply wanted an on-demand scanner to integrate into the shell (right-click context) to compete against ETrust.

Summary - the sign-up for 'download' with user name and email, then the Code, and Then the 'registration' process is confusing and somewhat stupid....The 'Warning screens' on Disintall all other AVS, or Shutdown and Cancel are irksome and smack of bulls**t - Why does it not say Disinstall other Firewalls for example? Thats where there would be conflict and all kinds of trouble in my view.. I disabled the Firewall at the Install stage under Custom anyway.

Conclusion - you can install and run the Panda AV (and get manual updates of db and program) without registration. You can install and run without disinstalling other AVS and Firewalls....

Have fun

dmc

[chia]

You DO have to register the product in order to recieve the free year of updates with this offer. If you dont you will be able to manually update it but that will expire after 30 days if im not mistaken. So without reigistration you got your basic evaluation copy of Panda.

Also Panda doesn't seem to play well with other AV products installed, so that's probably the reason for the warning they give. I know I've had email scanning conflicts when I had another AV along with Panda. I never installed the firewall that came with it so I have no clue how effective it is.

As far as the product version number, mine too is 7.05.07, it just updated to that a few weeks ago but I don't know if this is their most recent version as I think i've seen 7.06 somewhere.

Nice product that has given me no problems so far, very happy with it.

Cheers!

[Acadia]

How big is the download?

Acadia

[NAMOR]

about 25-26 megs, for panda platinum.

[RejZoR]

So this is a full free version of Panda Antivirus (just a bit older version)?
Good days of free sofware are not so far away i guess.
Alwil offers fully featured avast! Home Edition which is always up to date as payable Pro version,GriSoft offers one version older fully featured AVG6 for free,H-BEDV offers AntiVir PE for free (it only lacks mail scanner) and now Panda too? Its somehwo cool that software companies offer older technologies for free. Its still better protection than without antivirus i guess :)

[Mannaggia]

I also have the promo version of Panda Platinum 7, but I am not running it at this time.

I was using it for several months, then decided to try some other AVs just to see what's out there. I went back to Panda Platinum and that is when this strange problem started happening.

I use My.MSN as my homepage. Lately, when I had Panda running, when I would click on the IE icon to take me to My.MSN, I would get a blank page with "moved here" in the upper left corner. The word "here" is a link that would take me to My.MSN. This does not happen when running any other AV. Only Panda Platinum 7. Any ideas what may be causing this to happen? I've asked this question at a couple of other forums. No help so far, so I figure why not try one more time. ;)

[AMRX]

dears, the latest Panda Platinum version is 7.07.00 use your username and password to login and download the latest version from their site.

http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/updates/

sorry Mannaggia, couldn't reproduce your problem. does it happen again when you change your homepage to ...say Google? or the problem persists only with MSN. a mail to Panda support will be nice.

[Mannaggia]

{QUOTE-> dears, the latest Panda Platinum version is 7.07.00 use your username and password to login and download the latest version from their site.

http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/updates/

sorry Mannaggia, couldn't reproduce your problem. does it happen again when you change your homepage to ...say Google? or the problem persists only with MSN. a mail to Panda support will be nice. <-QUOTE}

AMRX........The problem was only with MSN. I tried other sites as my homepage, but no problem. Well I decided to install Panda again. This time I tried something different. I have SpywareGuard running. I dissabled it, installed Panda, and rebooted. I configured Panda and clicked on the IE icon to take me to my.msn. It actually openned. :) Maybe that took care of it.


As far as updating Panda Platinum, I went to Panda's site, clicked on Download Product>Entered my username and password. A New Software Versions window openned, but all that was availible was an update for Quick Remover and New Virus Signatures. Nothing about version 7.07. I'm still version 7.05.07

[AMRX]

dear Mannaggia, glad to hear that you solved your problem all by yourself. if you want to download the latest version please click here (http://acs.pandasoftware.com/software/platinum7uk/platinum7.exe).

[controler]

I am also runnng Panda with sygate firewall. On manual update it saye updates are avalaible but it has the latest defs.
confusing.

[Mannaggia]

{QUOTE-> dear Mannaggia, glad to hear that you solved your problem all by yourself. if you want to download the latest version please click here (http://acs.pandasoftware.com/software/platinum7uk/platinum7.exe). <-QUOTE}

Thank you very much AMRX for that link. I was able to upgrade to 7.07, and I'm still able to get to my.msn with no problems.;D

[Rollinco]

I tried the free offer and updated to 7.05.07 but my DSL connection would become useless after the first login to AOL. If I rebooted it would work again for 1 login to AOL then no connect after. Any ideas??

[NAMOR]

hmmm. maybe try shutting off the firewall that comes with Panda... If that doesn't work try logging in with resident protection off. I read on some forum that the resident protection was giving people problems on sites. Can't verify this though...

[phatkid77]

my version is 7.05.03,........whats with the updated ones??????
should we use them???? are they better..... i am using mozilla and msn, when i click on the links it wants the password, user...which doesn't work, but the link that was posted for 7.05.03 for windows xp worked w/o password/reg.?????
can you upgrade free trial?????

if i have probs with updates and such, or they cancelled the trial updates i guess i will install the platinum internet security i just received from softwareoutlet!!!!

phats

[bravesrule]

HERE IS A LINK TO DOWNLOAD THE LATEST PANDA PLATINUM

http://acs.pandasoftware.com/software/platinum7uk/platinum7.exe

[phatkid77]

trial? how long

[phatkid77]

i'm getting that stupid password and username window...:(

[bravesrule]

DIDN'T YOU SIGN UP FOR THAT 1 FREE YEAR

[Mele20]

I got the free one year for Platinum 7 last year this time. It sounded great until I installed it and rebooted and had no mouse and then my computer crashed. I rebooted and still had a frozen mouse and a very unstable W98SE. I had an awful time uninstalling it.

[phatkid77]

i thought i registered, and when i went to register(if i didn't) it said my username and such was already in use......so i'm thinking i registered
when i go to there site and they ask for the info, it doesn't work

phats

[+SECRET837]

[ QUOTE=AMRX]so quando você foi atualizado à versão 7.07?[/QUOTE ]

[AMRX]

duh, what was that? can you please use English?

[Hyperion]

I think it's portuguese.I 'd say he asks if you know rumours about when version 7.07 will be done.

[AMRX]

in that case version 7.07.01 is already available.