The Panda 2009 Line Is Out

PCMag reviews Panda Global Protection 2009. Gives it 3/5 :
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2329274,00.asp

 

Ah, yeah... Poor parental control (don't bother installing this feature) and 3/5 (a.k.a. not-yellow-enough-syndrome). I'm getting sick of this Neik Rubenking guy, his reviews are the exact same piece of junk every time apparently.

 

ROFL. Then why read them. The more people read them the higher the traffic is to the site. The more PCMag thinks this guys reviews matter.

 

Well, NFC why people keep pointing to those... My impression is that every product gets 3/5 or 3.5/5 no matter how much it rocks or sucks, and it gets 4.5/5 at minimum when produced by the yellow brand.

I'm by no means a Panda fan, in fact I'd say this product would deserve 2/5 PCMag rating at best, it really sucks, but the whole point here is the guy should really start doing something else, enough junk released to cyberspace.

 

But until pcmag figures out people don't care for his reviews he will keep writing them. register on the site and knock his review.

 

He sure got a lot of imagination, trying to find new kind of problems in all non symantec products, and also trying to "guess" those detection rates..
But the weak parental/antiphishing/antispam thing was getting old...and Ta-da! In Panda he finally realises that Tuneup features are useless.

 

I have some doubt over the PC-Mag review. It says that the Panda over-the-cloud technology (cognitive intelligence) has no improvement in detection.

But in my own personal tests and that done by matt of remove-malware.com, having a internet connection allowing over-the-cloud analysis gave stellar results.

Since Neil of PC-Mag, also uses VM. I am wondering if he too like Matt didnot enable his network card/connection prior to testing ??
Matt enables network connection and tested again Panda 2009 after a barrage of comments from people on his site. Since you never know what Neil tested, Its hard to know if he goofed up !!

 

Incase anyone is interested, Panda has announced 10-20-30 offer:

1. Discount of 10% on Panda Antivirus Pro 2009
Use coupon code : PANDA10

2. Discount of 20% on Panda Internet Security 2009
Use coupon code : PANDA20

3. Discount of 30% on Panda Total Security 2009
Use coupon code: PANDA30

Offer valid till 31 Dec, 2008.

https://shop.pandasecurity.com/

 

Thanks for the info, vijayind. But no thanks, IMO Panda is one of the worst out there, so even if they paid me to install, it would still be a no thanks.

Merry Christmas

 

JasSolo, I agree with you to a large degree. Panda is decent at best and at the price they charge (w/o discount) its just not value for money.

But usually people renew/buy subscriptions in Dec. Maybe someone would find it helpful, If not on earth ... Atleast at an Galaxy far far away.

You get the coupons code after finishing an easy & fun game:
http://www.pandasecurity.com/promotions/virusterminator/

(Thats the only silver lining I can see )

 

i see a magazine has a free panda internet security- PIS? with 3 months of updates.

 

no free upgrades to new versions still?

oh dear oh dear, have they still not fixed this dreadful idea of theirs?

 

They could give it 1 year.It has 15 running processes.I don't hate my PC so much to use this product

 

I totally agree I believe that F-Secure suffers from the same policy?!


Merry Christmas

 

nope, f-secure is fine.

 

Runs fine on my VPC. Impressive heuristic detection.

 

i can confirm every word you say about panda 2009 is true, i am so astonished you can stand it for a few hours.

 

It scans for malicious IE scripts.

 

My one year and 3 weeks old computer has plenty of horsepower and I know Panda has resource management but this program was like pulling a sleigh full of gifts through the snow.... Maybe I am just spoiled by Avira with its lightness and tightness but I just don't want that Panda thingy dragging my computer down...

 

They say every man has his price.

 

True.....but this one is going to be one of the higher ones


Merry Christmas

 

A 6 month subscription buy option not bad if your strapt for cash and cant aford 12 months

 

I think Panda is out of touch not offering free program upgrades, within a license period. Mcafee is nearly as bad by only offering free program upgrades to those who have purchased on-line, not for retail Boxed editions.

 

already only choose to install antivirus components:
updating:
http://www.host-images.com/u/files/v0tw6iyi5hkbefkkf50v.jpg
after update:
http://www.host-images.com/u/files/ru6qor6jdjs3qyru53g3.jpg

 

When Idle its ok, but if you enable its resource hungry if you enable TruPrevent you will see a lot of drag.

Here are the system requirements as stated by Panda:

Accurate, I would say.