Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.1 Beta Released

This is a known issue with the beta. It'll be fixed shortly.

 

I thought Titanium was a paid product? Both Panda and Immunet have the main functionality for free.

 

I think the context-menu icon would look much better if it wasn't transparent and matched the tray icon.

 

Can this be run alongside avast! with both in real-time?

 

They are both full-fledge AVs, so it's not a good idea to mix them .

 

See this post by Pbust regarding running PCA along with another AV.
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1673227&postcount=236

 

Can I trust this AV as standalone one?

 

Yes, the detection is at most times excellent. Be careful for rouge AVs as that's the weak spot of PCA.

 

Thanks for the info shadek. Appreciated.

 

Bear in mind that rouge AVs is the weakest spot of nearly all anti-malware applications. Prevx with its popularity/age-heuristics however is a good complement to cover that area.

 

What's up with red x in the tray icon every now and then?

Windows 7 screams for protection when red x appears raping poor Panda.

Or is this known issue:

- The service remains "Start pending" randomly

EDIT: Also internet connection is gone when red x appears. I have to uninstall.

 

Why not use it alongside with PrevX as you seem to already use according to your sig?

 

Please check my post above you.

 

The red x is a known issue, but I haven't seend the "connection is gone when red x appears" before. Do you have any other security software other than Bit9 such as advanced firewall, HIPS, etc.?

 

None. ONLY Prevx.

 

PCA with Prevx... I can't seem to get infected at all.

Very light combination.

 

Can you try the workaround from here and let me know how it goes:
http://www.cloudantivirus.com/forum/thread.jspa?threadID=51898&tstart=0

 

Well, nanoservicemain is visible via task manager, but not via services.msc (I could not stop the service). I might have missed something...
So replacing .dat file failed.

I reinstalled PCAV and all seems to be pretty stable now.

Thank you pbust!

 

@Cyrano2 / SweX: Thanks for the replies. I thought this was more like Immunet Protect or PrevX than a full-blown A/V. Looks like I need to do some experimenting in my VM.

 

I'm running Panda 1.1 on Win XP SP2 together with Prevx and Windows Defender. They seem to play well together.

I'm seeing my first problem, however. It seems that Panda has been hoarding private memory. Just after rebooting, it has 57 MB. After two days, however, it had claimed about 1.2 GB.

Perhaps relevant is the fact that I'm running without a paging file. The machine has 4.0 GB memory. Could the lack of a paging file be causing this?

 

What I'd like to see in the full 1.1 version is;

-Better quarantine system which moves detected files to a certain area. Not the way it is now, where 'detected' and 'suspicious' files are left all over your computer.

-Possibility to send new malware samples which are not detected as 'suspicious' but you know are infected via PCA and not by e-mail.

 

I agree with the first one at least.

Though I think I got an better idea.

Wouldn't it be better if Panda developed a new TAB section called "Suspicious" next to the Quarantine/recyclebin Tab?

So everything PCA finds as Suspicious goes under that Tab.
And everything else that's for sure malware goes under the Quarantine Tab.

Thoughts?

 

Absolutely! Try creating one (and have it allocated automatically by the OS) and you should see a big change.

 

@pbust

Thank you for the very prompt response. However, I really don't want a paging file. It's a security issue. I'm especially concerned re crash dumps.

Are there workarounds?

 

Sigh. Enjoy your broken Windows then. Security issue... yeah. You know, you can encrypt the entire disk if you are paranoid about people digging something useful out of several gigabytes of random junk. Who would bother with this goes beyond me. You can also set Windows to clear pagefile on every reboot (another pointless excercise which only slows down reboot, but... no "security issue" then).