Free Anti-Virus releases Based Cloud

Confused choosing antivirus? Try Cloud bid Panda Antivirus free public beta version of Panda Security. Antivirus consists of a light version of the antiviral agents that connect real-time with the servers PandaLabs' Collective Intelligence servers.

PandaLabs servers' Collective Intelligence works to automate malware protection cycle by collecting samples, analyzing, categorizing, creating routines detection and disinfection, and deliver protection to each node. Local part of Panda Antivirus Cloud requires 50MB hard disk space and 17MB RAM consuming.


RAM consumption is expected to be down to 12MB when Panda Antivirus Cloud out of beta stage, so said Pedro Bustamante (Panda Senior Research Advisor).

The combination of local detection technology with cloud-scanning capabilities, plus the application of non-intrusive ambush on the client architecture can be described as the Panda to better protect the PC compared to traditional virus scanner.

On his blog recently, Bustamante claimed Cloud Panda Antivirus detect more malware than traditional signature-based solutions because traditional solutions require more time to detect variant-newer variations.

One of the advantages of Panda approach, users do not have to bother to update the signature files. In addition to cloud-based detection, Panda to claim the lag time from detection to protection has been shortened. According to Panda, Collective Intelligence takes only less than 6 minutes to analyze and classify a new file is received.

Panda Collective Intelligence to use correlation to improve the detection of new variants. Armed with information from nodes different, Panda Collective Intelligence can provide protection against new variants by linking activity has been detected in one node.

Not that this cloud-based antivirus is not a weakness. Its main weakness lies in the need to connect to the Internet. Without the Internet, you are not protected. But these worries ditepis Bustamante with the explanation that a local cached copy of Collective Intelligence is stored in the PC for this purpose.

Cloud Panda Antivirus will scan the files on the local PC based on Collective Intelligence and its local cached copy. To provide protection, is used three types of on-access scanning is different.

Scan on-access scanning resident is the maximum priority that is applied to the files that are executed or used. Prefetch Scan launches cloud local and asynchronous queries on files that have a great chance to be executed.

Prefetch Scan will scan the files "as soon as possible" without affecting performance. If a file is called to be executed before they could be scanned, the file will be intercepted and scanned on-access will soon be done. Finally, the Background Scan run on those files in your hard drive when the PC is idle.

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