The Panda 2009 Line Is Out

For those interested, the new line of Panda 2009 products are available...

http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/

 

Thanks, will take it out for a spin.
I had some major issues with their beta ver 3 & 4. Hope its all solved.

 

Looks like Panda has revamped its line for 2009.
Plain-AV solution Panda Antivirus is gone . Now we have Panda Antivirus Pro which like McAfee VirusScan Plus bundles AV & Firewall.
Taking on those all-in-one (360 type) suites, Panda Global Protection throws in PC-Optimization to the AV suite. Includes Backup,Tune-up and online-storage.

Could it be that Panda too, is headed towards bloatware city ??

 

In the review made at by Mrizos at youtube it has performed very well.

 

Yes, but it was beta version. And the real-time protection of Panda 2009 beta kept crashing on start-up and had to be started manually everytime.

So he hasn't rated panda as 5-stars. Even though it removed all threats ( when using internet for Cloud Computing a.k.a. Collective Intelligence ).

 

Used to test Panda AV some time ago, few years actually. I just can't get myself interested to those "AIO"-bundles ..

 

can anyone tell us little about the product when installed?
how well is it on resourcess and how many ram does it use>?
any screenshot or something ? anything.

 

I tested Panda Pro 2009 for a few hours then removed it. It's a snazzy looking setup and it has a firewall and no web guard but it runs real heavy and really seemed to pull alot of ram when I browsed. It is a big download. The AV and Firewall was nearly 200 megs in my programs folder. There are pics of the 2009 suite in the AV screenshots thread. I'll stick with the lightness, speed and strength of Avira on my Desktop...

 

Quite the opposite here, I am running Panda Internet Security 2009. It has HTTP scanning, if that's what you mean. See shot below:



For me its running light. The incompatibility bugs I had raised with my BT drivers and some apps is solved. Runs quite light. See snap below:



Overall much better and improved product IMO in-comparison to Panda 2008.

 

true.
i like ver 2009, true prevent is very good

 

Tried the Zemana Tests to check Panda's TruPrevent.
Key Logger -- Fail
Screen Logger -- Pass
WebCam Logger -- Fail
Clipboard Logger -- Fail

( Fail : The test was successful and Panda didn't prevent it).
So TruPrevent is probably best to handle worms,trojan threats. No replacement for HIPS.

 

panda's true prevent is not hips
its hips with decision brain

its look like norton antibot, tf

if you wanna antikeylogger, you may use zemana

 

Yes, thats true. Just wanted to see if TruPrevent 2.0 had any HIPS abilities. Since the original TruPrevent had none.

Better fireup, DW.

 

To bad Panda doesn't allow you to have a free upgrade from 2008 to 2009.

 

nope they have to make sure they make the money off the 2 customers they have. they lose one there goes half there profits.

 

OK so I'm giving it another try and think I found what the resource hogger is. When I browse with Firefox it really seems to carry a load. Using Internet Explorer or Opera and things go much smoother. Overall this is a really nice setup. I'm testing Panda AV Pro 2009...

 

Panda TruPrevent moves in mysterious ways, my friend
You never know how it will work. It may work now, but decide to go fowl later.

Note: I removed Panda IS 2009 and went back to Avira . It seems TruPrevent and DefenseWall don't mix. I enabled both, system went to a spin. Had to restore from earlier image.

 

Agreed, that is IMO completely lame.

LOL...Maybe Mongol will be their 3'rd costumor?

Please let us know how things turn out with your trail, Mongol


Cheers

 

I always buy Panda, has nothing to do with detection or cleaning...just like the icon in the sys tray

 

It is a cute little Panda ain't it?. Hey I could be in line to be their 5th customer, that makes me eligible for a free upgrade next year. Honestly though its hard to give up the incredible lightness of being that is Avira Security Suite. This is a snazzy program though, hmmm...

 

Wow thats a lot of processes.

 

They really want to make sure they make money but it has always been like that . I have used Panda 2004,2005 and 2006 and it was always like that - they never allowed for free upgrade to newer version . One always had to renew in order to get the new version - obviously this hasn't changed.

One more thing - as far as I have read , officially Panda has a lot clients (4th place after Symantec,McAfee,Trend) , much more than ESET , Kaspersky , AVIRA (more popular here)

Last but not least , I have seen Panda 2007 and 2008 on clients' machines - it was awfully slow and big . I don't know how 2009 could run light especially when Panda's site says that the new 2009 products require 200+ Mbs of hard disk space and at least 512 Mb RAM (1 Gb or more recommended) for full run - AV, AS , Firewall , TruPrevent , etc . The install exe is too big , either.

IMO , the problem with Panda is that it is too BIG , I don't know if there is some kind of communication between their developers and the marketing team. I wonder who would buy it when it is so heavy ?

 

Yikes that sounds more like a requirement to run a OS like vista

 

Its called Pre Installed.... if the user only knew what was out there. they might smack the panda in the face.

Most people don't know there is different out here they just see the word Anti Virus and they expect it to protect them. most dont even know it slows down a system because it came pre installed on the computer in the first place. and they just blame the computer.

the list goes on and on as I'm sure you know

 

Yes, but that normal these days. But the memory usage seems to be lower than previous versions.