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 Pedro Bustamante, senior research advisor at Panda Security. With todays launch, weve 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 Pandas 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.
Acknowledged as the first free in the cloud security service for home users, Panda Cloud Antivirus delivers instantaneous protection against real-world threats with next to no impact on computer performance. This minimal resource usage is a major benefit of Collective Intelligence, Pandas proprietary technology for automatically collecting and processing millions of malware samples in the cloud instead of locally on the users PC. The result is efficient, accurate malware protection that consumes only 15MB of RAM, compared with 60MB for traditional signature-based antivirus products.
Collective Intelligence is proven to deliver superior detection against both known and unknown malware, or zero day threats. In a recent comparative test of leading free antivirus programs conducted by AV-Test.org for ct Magazine, Panda Cloud Antivirus outperformed the average zero day detection score of the other products tested by 42.5 percent.
Panda Cloud Antivirus, now available in 20 languages, has been lauded by PCMag.com, PC World and CNET as the first free anti-virus product completely built on a cloud infrastructure. Pandas innovative reverse signature analysis approach, which feeds information about goodware and malware characteristics to the Collective Intelligence database, ensures rapid scanning for the newest and most dangerous malware.
According to Neil Rubenking, security analyst at PCMag.com, Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.0 is the best free antivirus software availableand is our Editors Choice for free antivirus.[1]
New functionality in Panda Cloud Antivirus Free Edition includes:
Additional features in Cloud Antivirus Pro Edition include:
Panda Cloud Antivirus has received numerous awards, including:
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Pricing and Availability
Panda Cloud Antivirus Pro Edition is priced at $29.95. Both products are available now and can be downloaded at http://www.cloudantivirus.com.
About Panda Security
Founded in 1990, Panda Security is the worlds leading provider of cloud-based security solutions with products available in more than 23 languages and millions of users located in 195 countries around the world. Panda Security was the first IT security company to harness the power of cloud computing with its 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 with minimum impact on PC performance. Panda Security has 56 offices throughout the globe with US headquarters in Florida and European headquarters in Spain.
For more information, visit http://www.pandasecurity.com/.