Panda Security 2015 solutions released

If you go into Settings you will find it at the bottom of the General settings options.

 

No worse than avast in my experience.

 

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Even with Panda news disabled, the advert box still appears on my parents old laptop running XP SP3. And yes, I have the latest version of Panda Free installed (v15.1.0). And that's a pretty clean system, just installed last week.

 

Well, Panda always has that massive tall popup. Avast! only had it recently for their business lineup. The rest are those tiny popups that aren't really annoying.

 

How does Panda work with your parents old laptop--does it slow it down much?

 

Yeah, I had taken a hiatus from avast and just recently returned to it. I was astounded at the size of the business advert.

 

I've not seen popup from Panda after turning off News. It may show once (depending when you set it off) but after that it has been clean.

 

No slowdowns at all. The overall system speed is the same and that's a 7 maybe 8 years old Toshiba laptop with only 2 GB of ram and an ancient processor only for Facebook, Skype, email and similar stuff, nothing special.

 

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Thanks for the information. I have an old laptop that I presently have Avast on, but I am considering Panda so it is good to get your experience.

 

So, "Monitor the URLs accessed by each process" has no real function other than to see what URL's are being accessed by a specific process. It NEVER blocks anything even if URL is found malicious. The info on this is so sparse (not even on panda page, they just mention what it is but not exactly what it does). You absolutely need URL blocking part of the toolbar in order to get URL protection?

 

For URL blocking you need URL blocking (you can remove toolbar after install). The URL monitor ads up to reputation scoring. Why do you think it performs so great in real world tests (and Yes Avast has it also). Try downloading from malicious URL's and executing the downloads.

 

You don't need the toolbar. It will come with it, but toolbar and URL scanning are separated so you can uninstall the toolbar but keep protection.

I've done it but sometimes I get redirects to Yahoo search claiming that page "X" was not found - so it "Yahoo'd" it... Sometimes gets irritating. Other than that, great protection and minimal slowdown.

 

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A. Panda Free AV does respect opting out of News. Zero News for months, after unchecking the related option in Settings->General.

B. There is no need to install-then-uninstall the toolbar in order to get the URL Filtering. Simpler (cleaner?) way to get it:

1. During the installation, opt out of installing the toolbar.
2. After installing PAV, navigate to Program Files\Panda Security\Panda Security Protection\Tools
3. Open PandaSecurityTb.exe (toolbar's setup file) as an archive, i.e. right click->your archive manager->open archive, go to $PLUGINSDIR folder and drag-drop the PandaURLFiltering_setup.exe to your (e.g.) desktop. Run it.

• It gets installed in ProgramData\Panda Security URL Filtering [=heads up to anyone using a path-based Whitelisting approach - 3 files (exe, dll, sys) have to be whitelisted]. Its updatable lists are stored in ProgramData\panda_url_filtering.
• It creates an erroneous autorun reg (HKLM) entry [points to (non-existent) ProgramData\Panda Security URL Filtering\Panda_URL_Filtering.exe (expected image path in the case of "proper"/toolbar's installation? - not sure) instead of ProgramData\Panda Security URL Filtering\Panda_URL_Filteringb.exe - easily fixable, but not needed->], but it gets auto-started anyway, as it is loaded as a service.
• To test if it's working, go to http://www.cloudantivirus.com/testurlfilter. URL Filtering does block the test page (checked it right now), even though, according to a Panda's official moderator (http://support.pandasecurity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3629&p=15162), that page was intended for the old Panda Free Cloud Antivirus and the new test page for the 2015 product line is at http://www[dot]amtso[dot]org/check-desktop-phishing-page (false positive by definition VT 5/63 score, as other vendors also use amtso's test phishing test page). Regardless, URL Filtering does block that page also (checked it right now).

C. URL Filtering aside, i 'm interested in Panda's offline capability. I know it stores locally a small db, but, judging by a harmless random incident, i guess it relies heavily on its behavioral blocking. Any more knowledgeable info/insight?

Anyhow, all in all, i think that Panda Free AV is the best choice for a FSFFFSS (=Free Set & Forget Friends & Family Security Setup - trademark pending ).

PS. If the latest offline installer is always preferred , then download it from http://acs.pandasoftware.com/Panda2015/FREEAV/Promo/FREEAV.exe (picked it up from Softpedia).

 

I know you can do that, but I still don't understand why can't they integrate it within the URL Monitor functon as "URL Blocking". I have OCD for certain things and just knowing they are not a complete package as it should be bothers me even if it essentially still does the job done in the end. I just don't like relying on some 3rd party component, that is entirely disconnected from the main program.

 

If it bothers you so much, the easiest solution, don't use it.

 

1. What you say (integration with the HTTP Monitoring) makes sense. I guess they "had" to bait the visicom toolbar...

2. Regarding Process Monitor, one thing they should definitely add is the complete path of a process.

 

I thought full path shows when you hover a mouse over it or something like that?

 

Still, for a free a/v... but there are others if these little things bother you.

 

It turns out that you're right. Hovering over doesn't show the file path, when on "Process Monitor" screen, but entering "View full report" changes that mouse behavior. Strange inconsistency...

 

Oh, I was so tempted to say that too lol!

 

what does panda devices agent do ?

 

http://support.pandasecurity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=2340