I'm very happy using PCA for about 3-4 months. My laptop was frustratingly slow with Kaspersky - I mean half hour to get online with decent broadband, playing online games was almost impossible with the amount of lag. Now my laptop runs really smoothly and quickly and it hasn't caught anything nasty yet. Plus I can play WOW without getting killed because the screen has frozen. Fantastic!
Well, after using PCA for a while, I have to admit that I really am not all that impressed with the program. It initially appeared to be a "program of the future" with its cloud technology. But I find that it really did not find anymore "bugs" than other free AV software finds such as AVG or AVAST, etc. The other thing that I noticed is that it was using up a lot more memory. The longer the program was on my system, the more memory it seemed to be using. All that with no marked improvement in what it found. So I no longer use the software and will check it out later when they make a couple of modifications related to memory and storage issues. Perhaps I should have waited longer before making any comments about Panda. (OOPS).
seems to work well. i'm using it for last 2 weeks and it catches infections not found by avg. my first experience with cloud computing has been very satisfactory as requires minimal resources to function. offline scan may not be reliable, though online it catches infections even as i am downloading them! VERY GOOD!! the panda site also claims it to have very low false negative rate with minimal ( /no) strain on the system. if you have tried and liked online antivirus scanners you gotta try this one out!! : :roll
Reference my comments on the Panda cloud antivirus. I meant to mention that you are required to "sign in" in order to use the non-beta 1.0 version. It is free and requires your email and a password for activation. The software and sign in are free (with no fine print to worry about) but you should check their policy statement for your own satisfaction.
I have been using this program since v0.8 and it seems to be working well. It is difficult to tell because of the technology being used by Panda. The "cloud" concept is fairly new and involves feedback from the users into a central database where "evaluations" are conducted in order to generate a list of viruses considered to be potentially harmful. This method can be extremely valuable in that all sorts of "infections" will be sent to the cloud and be added or eliminated based on the information available. Version 1.0 is the recently released stable version provided to the public after a few "betas". This is not a si review but merely a comment from a satisfied user of the software. Try it - you may like it.
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