Panda Cloud Antivirus - Version 1.0 Final Released

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  1. pegr

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    Congratulations to Panda for achieving such high scores in PC Mag's comparative AV test but how can PC Mag award Panda Cloud Antivirus an "Editors' Choice for free antivirus" when it appears that AntiVir and Avast! weren't included in the testing?

    IMHO all of the main players in the free AV sector should have been included in the test. The footnote to the test explicitly states that Panda Cloud Antivirus was compared with: "other recent and relevant products". Had Panda also scored highly against AntiVir and Avast! then the award definitely would have been merited.

    Just to be clear, this is a criticism of the way the PC Mag testing was carried out, not a criticism of Panda or their products. Panda may well have deserved an award, but the decision by PC Mag to exclude AntiVir and Avast! from testing places a question mark over the validity of the result.
     
  2. Brocke

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    Are there plans to create a roadmap of things to be added into PCA?

    it would nice and helpful to see what plans are maybe something along the lines of Q1, Q2 etc. so its not a timeline but where the goals are
     
  3. pbust

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    Yes we will probably release some bug fixes before version 1.1.

    Not yet, it's mostly interface bug which counts total files to be scanned. Some files however are archives which contain lots of files inside it. These archived files are not taken into consideration in the counter, so it appears as if the scan is stuck for a long time, but in reality its scanning. You can turn on advanced logging to see exactly what is going on behind the scenes and which compressed archive it is scanning.

    You're right Brocke, I'll try to give more visibility. But please keep in mind that in development there's many unforseens and schedules do change. For now we're mostly in bug fix mode and required protection technologies mode (behavioural, self-protection, etc.). Until the basic protection stuff is done we probably won't go into other developments. Version 1.1 is scheduled for Q2 but we might make it to end of Q1 if everything goes right.
     
  4. hamzah95

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    Great product PCAV, but there are many bugs that need to fixed. Detection rates are good but could be improved, about 50% or more signatures should be saved on the computer because, you never know when a malware might disconnect u from the internet. No internet No protection:thumbd:
     
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    Did you see my previous post? https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1582714&postcount=267
     
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    No internet 10 % protection :D However, I'm online 24 hours a day :)
     
  8. pbust

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    This is not quite correct. The 10% applies to the actual amount of signatures/intel that Collective Intelligence holds which is held in the local cache. The amount of real life protection this 10% of sigs represents however is the key, as it protects against everything that is circulating according to the community of users. So it won't protect you against DOS/Win98 types of viruses but it will protect against the latest threats that are circulating and which are the most important.

    To quote from the Softpedia article:

     
  9. progress

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    That sounds great :)
     
  10. iwod

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    A full scan of my computer told nearly 7 hours while the same contect took little more then 4 hour with NIS 2010. Is this because the scanning speed of Panda is slower or is this because the connection with the Cloud?

    After a Full scan and 1 days of running it. It is finally running smooth. Consuming 15Mb of Memory.

    My Suggestion for 1.1 would be an improved GUI. It is Simple enough, but it has a very Toy feeling to it. Something simple and elegant would be great.
     
  11. robinb9

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    I came on tonight for the same reason. I did a full scan and it took over 8hours on a 40gig HD and it never finished. I started it at 8:30am at 3PM it got to 86% and just sat there till about half hour ago when i canceled it.

    I have had AVG Free on this computer prior and a full scan took 1 1/2 hours to do the whole drive.

    Also i unblocked one of the files which happens to be the WDGM manager from my Western Digital HD Manager and I know that one is not infected. But no where in this problem does it give you an "allowed list" so i have no idea if it allowed unless i redo another scan.

    Also when it scanned the whole computer it sat at 90% CPU the whole time. AVG never went over 40% when it did a full scan.
    My machine was to a crawl. I could not do anything else.

    You really need to fix this and also put something in the new version that shows exactly what is being "allowed" like an "allow list"

    robin
     
  12. pbust

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    @iwod, this is normal behaviour right after install. Perform another full scan and you should see a big difference now.

    @robinb9, it should not take this long to scan only 40gb. This sounds like it's encountering a file that is not being process correctly. Please activate advanced logging to see where it is getting stuck at. If you find the file in question please send it to me.
    http://www.cloudantivirus.com/forum/thread.jspa?threadID=51102&tstart=0
     
  13. Edwin024

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    I found out that Panda Cloud, even after three times a full scan, brought my very fast system in a slow motion. The startup took minutes and now, with Panda off and G-Data on, seconds. It also halted many things that are no threat at the startup, like my gadgets in Win7. I really hope that new versions will become very less heavy.
     
  14. pbust

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    Do you have both GDAta and Panda installed at the same time?
    If this is not the case and GData is the replacement of Panda, did you have any other security software installed when you had Panda on your system?
     
  15. Hugger

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    I had tried Panda after it went final and found that the scan was done in an acceptable number of minutes but that in general my pc slowed to a crawl.
    Removed Panda and went back to very fast.
    No other av's were installed at the time.
    Good program just not for me.
    NIS 2010 and Sandboxie is causing no noticeable slowdown.
     
  16. pbust

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    The program takes a little while to "get to know your PC" after initial install. After that it should be barely noticeable. Give it some time after install & run a scan. You should see it's less resource intensive than most other programs.
     
  17. Edwin024

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    This was my setup at the time:

    Outpost Firewall Pro
    Panda Cloud
    Threathfire
    Spywareblaster
    Firefox (latest with keyscrambler)

    And without Threatfire nothing changed. Panda made my system startup very slow.
     
  18. pbust

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    I'm not aware of any incompatibilities with Threatfire. But I don't know about Outpost or Spywareblaster. Can you try uninstalling Spywareblaster altogether, rebooting and installing Panda to see if that makes a difference?
     
  19. Edwin024

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    I make it even nicer for you (and me) :) I have reformatted the system and the first program to install after the ATI video driver was Panda. So far so good, so I might have to go for Panda Cloud and Win7 firewall. Although that might be a risky combination. I don't know how save this setup is, but hope for the best with some programs in the back as backups for possible infections, if any.
     
  20. codylucas16

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    I believe it's called biased testing. Either Panda paid them, or they're just mentally retarded.
     
  21. Edwin024

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    A bold statement in your sixth posting. And only one sentence. Can you tell us all where your opinion comes from. What test have you done to see the working of the program?
     
  22. pbust

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    That's what I have (Panda Cloud + Windows FW) and no problems so far, but of course I'm biased :)
    If you want to add other layers of security let me know if any of them makes the system unstable or slow so we can check incompatibilities.
     
  23. Edwin024

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    The system with Panda Cloud as AV becomes slow when it cooperates with the current Outpost Pro.... So maybe your company can look into this.

    I now use Panda with Look 'n Stop 64bit and that works like it should. No real slow downs. And a real firewall ;)

    MSE had no problems with Outpost, for the record.
     
  24. pbust

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    @Edwin024, I tried but couldn't replicate with Outpost Pro but couldn't replicate it. Not even with maximum host protection level.

    Can you disable Host Protection and Anti-Spyware Real-Time Protection in Outpost Pro to see if that eases thing?
     
  25. pbust

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    @Edwin024, you can also try to modify the Host Protection rules for the Panda processes (PSANHOST.EXE & PSUNMAIN.EXE) to allow all activity.
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