Panda added almost a million defs

Hi,friends.
I'm a new member and i'm using Panda Antivirus+Firewall 2008.
I bought it two weeks ago and as for now it runs pretty well on a Celeron 2,4.
Have no problems until now.The day before yesterday i did a manual update
and at the end of it , i had a message that Panda added 930474 malware descriptions, reaching
1500801 malware descriptions.Yesterday it also added about 78 thousand malware descriptions.
Why is this?
I mean,until 2nd of october Panda was able to detect about 500000 malware archives,and suddenly in two days it can detect over a million and a half,mallware..
Has anyone a clue or an idea about it?
Thanks.

 

Sounds like another one of Panda's extreme marketing campaigns.

 

I wouldn't be too surprised if each sig detects one piece of malware.

 

Is it possible that Panda adds to its 2008 products the ''megadetection'' engine,
that we know from nanoscan or totalscan?
In their homepage they are saying that their products are capable to recognize
over 2 million malware..

 

Panda must not believe in generic sigs, lol.

 

2008 does include the totalscan technology (megadetection)

but nobody really knows how good it is ...yet!

but even without that, panda is a good antivirus, its nice and light and does the job, some people can be too harsh on here, if something is not 99.97543% or whatever, it gets slated, this is the life of a forum bossoq.

megadetection will definately add detection, so this is only a good thing

and im glad its running well for ya, beware they dont give free upgrades though. (unless they have changed this policy)

 

I really don't but I know that I wouldn't trust it on my machine, the biggest stumbling block is the little bear icon in the sys tray ;-)

 

i like the icon, its be revised for the 2008 version and looks much better than previous versions

as good as a panda can look

 

Do you mean that megadetection is totalscan?
I thought that it would be included,like TruPrevent.
That was my first thought ,when i made my second post.

 

there ya go

just make sure you turn everything on, panda's defaults aint good enough

 

I've already had all of its options enabled.
Thanks for the advise and for your answers,too.

 

not a problem,

welcome to the forum

 

Hello,
It doesn't matter how many bad ones it catches.
What matters is how many bad ones it misses!
A-ha!
Mrk

 

right.

 

The bear has also become more functional...

 

The new Panda has been running smoothly on my other box. As far yearly upgrades I've learned my lesson. I keep my eye on softwareoutlet.com, the prices just can't be beat.

 

AFAIK Panda detects some cookies as malwares. This time they are probably trying to score good in the comparisons. I bet they added loads of junks.

But I think it offers decent protection for decent users.

 

I know what must be happening.. there must be a new Andreas Marx or Andreas Clementi test coming up.

 

Well Panda will not participate in Clementi's test until 2008 and unless I am mistaken, Marx does his tests at random. It is probably a scheme just to make them Panda look better, not a prep for anything.

 

But could it be a half and a million threats over the internet?
Other major security vendors like Kaspersky Labs have almost
400.000 signatures or less (symantec)..

 

I received a e-mail talking about MEGADETECTION... Downloaded and tried... Decepction... The same low detection... (with less resource usage).
Only marketing...

 

i doubt it will be the same detection

 

They may have added a million defs but it still seems pretty useless to me.
I used their on line scan as a test and all it showed was one false positive.
why anyone relies on AV/AS programs like this I don't know. You could spend years getting nothing but false reports and then if eventually something nasty
does get thru it will probably too new for the program to stop.

 

A million, how do you know, did you count them?

 

The number of definitions does not an AV make. Symantec received it's high detection rate using only 73,620 defs (as of August).