Panda Cloud Antivirus: A Free Cloud Antivirus

Posted on | March 13, 2010 | 2 Comments

Panda Cloud Antivirus is a free antivirus offering by Panda Security using a new method called Cloud-based computing. In a nutshell, Cloud computing is a technology that allows services to be offered across the Internet.

Panda Cloud Antivirus connects to the Collective Intelligence servers in the cloud to protect your computer, without requiring traditional updates or penalizing the performance of your system.

Collective Intelligence is a security platform with database servers hosted in the cloud, storing all the information needed to detect and neutralize threats on your computer.

These servers are provided with information by the community of users about virus detections. Collective Intelligence processes and classifies all this information, allowing Panda Cloud Antivirus to consult these servers and maximize detection capacity, without affecting resources on your computer. This way, Panda Cloud Antivirus can detect millions of viruses, much faster than if it had to depend on traditional updates. Your computer will therefore have greater protection without affecting performance.

Just like a regular antivirus, Panda Cloud Antivirus protects your computer permanently, monitoring files that you open or run at any time (including those that execute automatically), and provides your computer protection against malware. Initially I deployed it on the main computer at my Internet / Gaming Cafe which is an AMD Athlon X2 powered computer with 2GB of RAM. The PC is used for printing and scanning purposes which wherein accessing several infected USB drives is a normal scenario.

I’ve been using it for almost a month and I can say I’m pretty satisfied with it wherein it protected the PC from 135 viruses, 2,616 Worms, 330 Trojans, 27 Adware, and 8 other malicious contents.

You can get it at www.cloudantivirus.com