Comments on: Panda Puts Antivirus Software in the Cloud

By: Antivirus

Antivirus — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:40:08 +0000

I am wondering where they got their figures for this article ( I am assuming directly from Panda). I am specifically referring to this line “it cuts memory usage from 52MB to 17MB.” I can only speak for myself based off of many years of Antivirus experience, but I have never enjoyed (except for maybe in pre-Windows 98 days) an AV program with a footprint of at or below 52MB. Typically they hover at least at 64Mb and usually much higher. Still, the proposed 17MB usage sounds promising. I still have some lingering concerns about taking my data and exposing it to a cloud environment. I think I will wait and see on this one. It sounds fantastic in theory, but I think that becoming an early adopter of this new architecture may prove a bit risky.

By: Mark Pemburn

Mark Pemburn — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:07:03 +0000

You should be aware that the Panda Cloud anti-virus is Beta software. If you read the license agreement it states that you must remove the free version from your PC once the general-release version becomes available.

By: achugh

achugh — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:52:33 +0000

When you are connected to the Internet, scanning is done from the cloud, not locally. When you are not connected, the scanning is done through the locally cached definitions. I have written small description in my blog regarding this and provided the URL where they answer questions related to Panda.

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By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:14:26 +0000

There’s no useful information on the Panda page – how much is done in the cloud, and how much on the PC? If you lose your internet connection (perhaps due to a zero day virus) it’s useful if you still have some residual antivirus capability left on the PC. I can also see this being quite slow in some cases.

There are already products such as Kaspersky and NOD32 that are pretty low impact in CPU and memory, so I’m not sure that adding an Internet connection dependency is really worth it, other than as a marketing gimmick.

The only value of this is if the Panda cloud software can detect new threats more quickly because it’s a centralised scanning resource.

By: bob

bob — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:42:13 +0000

Many competitors already use such solution. Hope Panda will be faster, latest versions are quite slow.

BTW, be careful not to run anything from USB sticks when not connected to the internet.

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By: bdogg

bdogg — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:21:42 +0000

This is a bold move by Panda and I’d like to see it work. Looks like a lot of AV vendors are moving in this direction with cloud scanning, but Panda’s taking it a step further by prioritizing scans of files attempting to execute to keep PC performance high. Interesting.