Panda Free Antivirus
Gives you antivirus protection with low memory and CPU usage, and collective intelligence cloud security.
License:
Free (Private/Educational use)
Pros & Cons:
- Low memory & CPU usage thanks to cloud protection
- Tiled UI with customizable interface and nicely rendered Settings interface
- Collective intelligence cloud security - Downloading virus definitions is history
- Good detection rates and behavioural analysis program
- Fairly good web protection and hardware resource handling
- Dependant on internet connection leading to weaker offline protection
- Slow scanning speed, no fingerprinting (successive re-testing same files) and at times issues with virus removal
- Not really light, performance impact in web browsing, installation and copying
- Certain false positives despite the information available at cloud
- Watch out for Panda security toolbar during install
Panda Free Antivirus was reviewed by Gizmos Freeware on based on version 16.1.1.
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