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- Panda's Free Antivirus Adds New Malware Blocking
- Panda Security Expands Free Cloud Antivirus Protection
- Panda's free antivirus adds new malware blocking
- Panda Security Expands Free Cloud Antivirus Protection
| Panda's Free Antivirus Adds New Malware Blocking Posted: 04 Jun 2010 12:49 AM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Panda Security has bolstered the features available in its free antivirus product, Cloud Antivirus, adding a new behavioural engine and Windows autorun control. The company seems content to give away features the majority of rivals still charge for, starting with a behavioural engine capable of blocking common exploits based on malformed files such as PDFs, Excel files and, of course, malevolent executables. As with the previous version, it manages what to block using its connection to the company's Collective Intelligence system, a cloud-based database of what is affecting the Panda community as a whole. The new Cloud AV can also be set to disable the Windows autorun feature, a common malware exploit, and comes wrapped in a disarmingly simple interface that runs happily in silent mode without the user being aware of it bar the need to update. The software can be set to block files from running until they have been checked against the cloud database. Panda does offer a paid 'upsell' version, Cloud Antivirus Pro Edition, which has also been overhauled slightly to include automatic vaccination of USB drives and a second behavioural engine that analyses running processes. This costs $29.95 per annum and includes automatic upgrades to future versions (these are manual on the free version). "Since the debut of Panda Cloud Antivirus last year, nearly 10 million home users have selected the free service as their antivirus of choice," said Panda security senior researcher, Pedro Bustamante. Panda also sees the migration from most users paying for AV to one where only a minority does as an opportunity, as well it might. The big three of McAfee, Symantec and Trend have the most to lose in this change. "We want to make sure that Panda is taking the market share from that migration," said Panda Security CEO, Juan Santana. Panda security's innovation here is probably not that the software is free - others including Microsoft offer basic free AV software - but to have done it without chopping out the useful bits. Antivirus suites are becoming more complex as vendors compete with one another to add features such as backup, encryption and virtual keyboards for text entry. All of this increases complexity, downs performance, and generally ups cost. Panda is also a pioneer of the cloud approach, which is likely to gain traction in the security space. That PCs can secure themselves by downloading large signature files is accepted by everyone in the software industry as having no future and the cloud appears to offer a new model based on rapid and collective malware analysis. Further out, an application whitelisting model beckons though it's hard to see how that can be offered without some form of charge. The global data centres needed cost money. Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Panda Security Expands Free Cloud Antivirus Protection Posted: 03 Jun 2010 06:01 AM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Panda Security blazed new trails in PC security when it launched its free cloud-based antivirus protection last year. Now, Panda Security is expanding the protection provided in the free version, and adding a Pro Edition with additional features and capabilities. Panda Cloud Antivirus delivers malware protection that small and medium businesses need, and the price is right. Panda Cloud AV takes advantage of the cloud with Panda's Collective Intelligence technology. This innovative security model can automatically analyze and classify thousands of new malware samples per day, guaranteeing corporate customers and home users the most effective protection against Internet threats. Because the signature updates and scanning are handled in the cloud, Panda Cloud AV guards against malware with minimum impact on PC performance. Our own PCWorld testing in the summer of 2009 was unable to give a comprehensive score to the free Panda Cloud AV because the service was still new and feature incomplete, and the Panda scanning methodology used in the cloud did not fit with the testing model used by PCWorld. However, our review did find that "Panda's app produced an impressive 99.4 percent overall detection rate." In a press release announcing the updates to the cloud-based antivirus, Pedro Bustamente, senior research advisor at Panda Security, said "Since the debut of Panda Cloud Antivirus last year, nearly 10 million home users have selected the free service as their antivirus of choice. With today's launch, we've created two options for users, both featuring major enhancements that make safeguarding your PC even easier and more transparent. The Free Edition gives users the best basic no-cost protection available on the market thanks to Panda's cloud-based Collective Intelligence malware analysis technology, while the new Pro Edition offers more robust automated security capabilities and support at a very affordable price." Changes to Panda Cloud Antivirus Free Edition include new configuration and exclusion options that allow customers to modify certain features like behavioral blocking and analysis to find their own balance between protection and performance. The new behavioral blocker function adds heuristic detection to guard against new malware and targeted attacks, and Panda added a feature to ensure malware attacks can not disable the Panda security software. I spoke with Juan Santana, CEO of Panda Security, about the new Panda Cloud AV Pro Edition. Santana stressed that Panda felt it was important not to limit the protection provided by the free version, or remove any functionality in an attempt to "bait and switch" customers into buying the Pro Edition. Panda Security hopes that the additional features in the Pro Edition, combined with the value Panda Security is providing in the Free Edition, will endear customers and lead them to support Panda Security by purchasing the Pro Edition. The Pro Edition primarily adds more automation and better support for $29.95 per PC. With the Pro Edition, customers get automatic and transparent upgrades--eliminating the need to manually reinstall Panda Cloud AV every time a new version is released. Panda Cloud AV Pro Edition also provides additional offline protection of hard drives and USB storage devices, and improved behavioral analysis that dynamically analyzes running processes and blocks any determined to be malicious. Perhaps the most important feature customers get for the $29.95 cost of the Panda Cloud AV Pro Edition, though, is someone to call when issues arise. Panda Cloud AV Pro Edition provides 24/7 multilingual tech support. The peace of mind of having a support network is well worth the investment for many small and medium businesses that don't have the resources or technical expertise to deliver security support internally. Businesses in the market for a solution to guard against malware should check out Panda Cloud AV Free Edition, and if the protection is sufficient consider investing in the additional functionality and support of the Pro Edition. Larger businesses may also be interested in looking at Panda Cloud Internet Protection, which provides more comprehensive security features and centralized administration. You can follow Tony on his Facebook page , or contact him by email at @Tony_BradleyPCW . Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Panda's free antivirus adds new malware blocking Posted: 03 Jun 2010 07:34 AM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Panda Security has bolstered the features available in its free antivirus product, Cloud Antivirus, adding a new behavioural engine and Windows autorun control. The company seems content to give away features the majority of rivals still charge for, starting with a behavioural engine capable of blocking common exploits based on malformed files such as PDFs, Excel files and, of course, malevolent executables. As with the previous version, it manages what to block using its connection to the company's Collective Intelligence system, a cloud-based database of what is affecting the Panda community as a whole. The new Cloud AV can also be set to disable the Windows autorun feature, a common malware exploit, and comes wrapped in a disarmingly simple interface that runs happily in silent mode without the user being aware of it bar the need to update. The software can be set to block files from running until they have been checked against the cloud database. Panda does offer a paid 'upsell' version, Cloud Antivirus Pro Edition, which has also been overhauled slightly to include automatic vaccination of USB drives and a second behavioural engine that analyses running processes. This costs $29.95 per annum and includes automatic upgrades to future versions (these are manual on the free version). "Since the debut of Panda Cloud Antivirus last year, nearly 10 million home users have selected the free service as their antivirus of choice," said Panda security senior researcher, Pedro Bustamante. Panda also sees the migration from most users paying for AV to one where only a minority does as an opportunity, as well it might. The big three of McAfee, Symantec and Trend have the most to lose in this change. "We want to make sure that Panda is taking the market share from that migration," said Panda Security CEO, Juan Santana. Panda security's innovation here is probably not that the software is free – others including Microsoft offer basic free AV software – but to have done it without chopping out the useful bits. Antivirus suites are becoming more complex as vendors compete with one another to add features such as backup, encryption and virtual keyboards for text entry. All of this increases complexity, downs performance, and generally ups cost. Panda is also a pioneer of the cloud approach, which is likely to gain traction in the security space. That PCs can secure themselves by downloading large signature files is accepted by everyone in the software industry as having no future and the cloud appears to offer a new model based on rapid and collective malware analysis. Further out, an application whitelisting model beckons though it's hard to see how that can be offered without some form of charge. The global data centres needed cost money. Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Panda Security Expands Free Cloud Antivirus Protection Posted: 03 Jun 2010 06:33 AM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Panda Security blazed new trails in PC security when it launched its free cloud-based antivirus protection last year. Now, Panda Security is expanding the protection provided in the free version, and adding a Pro Edition with additional features and capabilities. Panda Cloud Antivirus delivers malware protection that small and medium businesses need, and the price is right.
Our own PCWorld testing in the summer of 2009 was unable to give a comprehensive score to the free Panda Cloud AV because the service was still new and feature incomplete, and the Panda scanning methodology used in the cloud did not fit with the testing model used by PCWorld. However, our review did find that "Panda's app produced an impressive 99.4 percent overall detection rate." In a press release announcing the updates to the cloud-based antivirus, Pedro Bustamente, senior research advisor at Panda Security, said "Since the debut of Panda Cloud Antivirus last year, nearly 10 million home users have selected the free service as their antivirus of choice. With today's launch, we've created two options for users, both featuring major enhancements that make safeguarding your PC even easier and more transparent. The Free Edition gives users the best basic no-cost protection available on the market thanks to Panda's cloud-based Collective Intelligence malware analysis technology, while the new Pro Edition offers more robust automated security capabilities and support at a very affordable price." Changes to Panda Cloud Antivirus Free Edition include new configuration and exclusion options that allow customers to modify certain features like behavioral blocking and analysis to find their own balance between protection and performance. The new behavioral blocker function adds heuristic detection to guard against new malware and targeted attacks, and Panda added a feature to ensure malware attacks can not disable the Panda security software. I spoke with Juan Santana, CEO of Panda Security, about the new Panda Cloud AV Pro Edition. Santana stressed that Panda felt it was important not to limit the protection provided by the free version, or remove any functionality in an attempt to "bait and switch" customers into buying the Pro Edition. Panda Security hopes that the additional features in the Pro Edition, combined with the value Panda Security is providing in the Free Edition, will endear customers and lead them to support Panda Security by purchasing the Pro Edition. The Pro Edition primarily adds more automation and better support for $29.95 per PC. With the Pro Edition, customers get automatic and transparent upgrades--eliminating the need to manually reinstall Panda Cloud AV every time a new version is released. Panda Cloud AV Pro Edition also provides additional offline protection of hard drives and USB storage devices, and improved behavioral analysis that dynamically analyzes running processes and blocks any determined to be malicious. Perhaps the most important feature customers get for the $29.95 cost of the Panda Cloud AV Pro Edition, though, is someone to call when issues arise. Panda Cloud AV Pro Edition provides 24/7 multilingual tech support. The peace of mind of having a support network is well worth the investment for many small and medium businesses that don't have the resources or technical expertise to deliver security support internally. Businesses in the market for a solution to guard against malware should check out Panda Cloud AV Free Edition, and if the protection is sufficient consider investing in the additional functionality and support of the Pro Edition. Larger businesses may also be interested in looking at Panda Cloud Internet Protection, which provides more comprehensive security features and centralized administration. You can follow Tony on his Facebook page , or contact him by email at tony_bradley@pcworld.com . He also tweets as @Tony_BradleyPCW . Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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