Today is a very special day for us at Panda Security for two reasons. First because today marks the two-year anniversary since we released the first beta of Panda Cloud Antivirus, the first free antivirus from the cloud. To celebrate this, we’re releasing another beta version today, Panda Cloud Antivirus Beta 1.9.
The objective of this beta version is to test the interception of networking traffic in order to build cloud-based firewall functionalities in future versions. In this beta the networking interception is applied to both HTTP and POP3 traffic. Even though the program incorporates a Process Monitor which keeps track of HTTP web traffic requests on a per process basis and allows for per-process blocking, no traditional firewall functionality is provided in the beta, only interception.
In order to promote thorough testing of this version, we are giving away 10 Amazon.com $100 gift certificates to the most active beta testers who report bugs in the Panda Cloud Antivirus Beta Support Forum. The winners of the gift certificates will be selected at the close of the promotion by the Support Forum Moderators amongst the users with the most amount of new (unknown at the time of posting) bug reports. Note that the beta may still be ongoing after be promotion ends on August 1st, 2011. In addition there will be PRO license codes given away to other active beta testers as well.
New Features
– Process Monitor functionality and traffic history reporting.
– Ability to block a process by sending it to Recycle Bin.
– Blocked processes can be restored from the Recycle Bin.
– Ability to disable/enable BackgroundScan after signature cache synchronization.
– Ability to exclude file extensions from the on-access scanner.
– Exclusion of Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP) detections.
– New graphical installer. Logs are kept under %TEMP%StubInstaller.log.
– New Toolbar without ID Protect & Shopping and with Toolbar Cleaner.
Read more about this beta, download and install from http://www.cloudantivirus.com/forum/forum.jspa?forumID=50202
Panda Security specializes in the development of endpoint security products and is part of the WatchGuard portfolio of IT security solutions. Initially focused on the development of antivirus software, the company has since expanded its line of business to advanced cyber-security services with technology for preventing cyber-crime.
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GENIAL PANDA. Una pregunta esta version beta luego seguira ofreciendo gratis el analisis de comportamiento? Gracias espero respuestas porque de ser asi dejo Avast y me paso al cloud que me parece fantastico, en cuanto incluyan analisis de comportamiento gratis me paso a PANDA CLOUD…
hi panda cloud users i have been using the panda cloud antivirus Beta 1.9 since yesterday saturday april 30 2011 and i must say that it is a lot improved over the 1.4 latest version of panda cloud antivirus i used the free version recently and the 1.9 Beta Version Looks Better and the interface of the program especially the Reports section Looks Real Nice Big Inmprovement over 1.4 version better graphics and reporting about Executed Processes on your computer!! I Like the Green Graphics Ball Nice Picture and also Big Improvement On The scan with panda cloud antivirus Right Click scan feature i have been testing it on all kinds of software downloaded from websites and i must say that the Speed of Scanning Files is Much Faster than in version 1.4 i will keep testing it till it comes out of Beta Stage!! so far Love the Look and new features of 1.9 Beta can,t wait to see new features you keep adding till the final version comes out of Beta a happy panda cloud user!! thanks panda cloud developers for this much improved Beta
¿Y para los que usamos una VPN como conexión?
Normalmente me conecto por el puerto 443 tcp para evitarme problemas con
el ISP que es bastante restrictivo.
Muchas gracias.
Thanks guys………………..!!!
thanks you panda cloud antivirs
why hasn’t the Cloud anti-virus program caught the xp anti-virus 2011 virus that is screwing up my computor. It has not even detected the virus never mind deleting or quarantining it
Cant wait for 1.9 to be stable its gotten better and is great on older computers and netbooks or notebooks.
thanks
Thanks for the new release, I love Panda Cloud and I know it already has one of the highest detection rates around. The extra features which keep appearing only add to it’s appeal. It will be a huge player in the near future. I’d like to see some extra behavioral analysis features such as a shield which monitors/blocks malware from adding itself to things like the startup group, services, ini.files, winsock, sensitive areas (ie. system32 directory, hosts). Some other programs do this but not very effectively and it takes lots of system resources.
Hi, I agree with all the praise, Panda is the best. I also use Immunet 3 and sometimes when I have it running with Panda Cloud at the same time, Panda disables itself. I’m not sure why this is, but I like using both and it would be good if these programs could work alongside each other.
Why antivirus works?
A: They keep upgrading their virus databases to keep up with NEW infections.
Why Panda is better than the rest?
A: It uses CLOUD database, so that theirs will ALWAYS be the latest, without users’ interference.
Why am I typing this?
A: Nope, I’m not an employee or paid by them..but..but..
I feel indebted..therefore this testimonial!
I am from Indonesia..where expensive imports vs weak locals products forces us to go pirate..lol..excuses excuses.
I tried EVERYTHING..yep, ALL antivirus products. Even those without free-trials and cracked them..lol
Till..I got headaches and heartaches from vicious attacks. Data and time lost..never to be replaced. Re-format and Re-install aint a solution anymore.
Why? How come?
A: Outdated virus databases to circumvent trial periods..lol
Hence..this THANK YOU to Panda..hope you guys keep updating the virus database to catch up with the blackhats..lol
Psst..I am using the free version..and also, if you guys can do a drWeb liveCD/liveUSB options and then Panda WILL be Numero UNO and prolly I will/might/possibly/uhm uhm..upgrade to the pro version..when I can afford it..lol excuses again (nah, trully..from my conscience..I will truly buy yours..almost bought eset and kaspersky, till I realized their dsyfunction GRR)
siyo ya tengo panda cloud el cual esta exelente porque de verdad si elimina los virus puedo tambien instalar el panda beta 1.9 gratis
Hola estoy probando esta nueva version beta 1.9 me gusta mucho mas que la antigua 1.4 ademas aunque no soy profesional me gusta probar los antivirus de panda en especial los cloud. Me gusta su nuevo concepto de analizar desde la nube, me parece muy inoovadora admas el cloud lo uso en mi notebook, ademas estoy probando el beta del panda antivrus global protection 2012 en mi pc ambos me gustan. Me gustaría mucho que cuando se termine el periodo beta del cloud poder usar la version PRO de esta nueva version del antivirus. muchas gracias gente de PANDA.SON LOS MEJORES
P.D. El panda es el mejor anivitus.
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I was surprised when Panda cloud 1.9 beta let “security tool” walk straight onto my PC during a recent test I did.I looked in the processes and Panda decided that security tool was safe (?) 1 green bar, I’ll put that down to being in beta. Otherwise I feel Panda cloud is a great product and Ideal to put on someones PC who is a newbie.Panda cloud will isolate any viruses or PUP’s automatically.Thank you for a great free product.
Andy.
Hello Pedro. I have noticed that panda cloud slows down regular disk reads a lot. for example deleting 2500 emails from deleted items was fast with AVG with panda the process slowed down to probably 30% slower than with AVG. Also when doing windows grep and searching files i have to stop panda for it to be at normal speeds of 100s per second. With panda on i barely do 20 per second.
Please advise of any configurations I could make to improve this.
powerful functions and little size ,and thanks，i really really enjoy it
Soy un fiel seguidor de los panda cloud, esta nueva version de panda cloud 1.9 me funciona de maravilla, excelente presentacion muy ligero, tiene una excdelente tasa de dteccion de virus que mas puedo pedir, se lo recomiendo a todos mis amigos, gracias panda cloud.
NEED YOUR HELP. you say that a file is infected and that we should follow the steps to remove it – but you don’t leave any steps. at least none that work. i can’t simply delete this file. when i try to delete it says that the file is in use. what can i do??
@jeejee Please post your problem at the Tech Support Forum at http://www.cloudantivirus.com/forum
Kaixo.
Soy un usuario de su producto Cloud antivirus, que llevo utilizándolo desde hace un año aproximadamente, y quería agradecerles el esfuerzo que hacen porque este producto, tan moderno y tan eficiente, sea gratuito para todos aquellos que no podemos permitirnos comprar la versión pro. Apenas utiliza recursos del sistema y puedo utilizarlo perfectamente en mi viejo ordenador de casa. Muchas gracias por esta aplicación y por favor seguir trabajando así de bien.
Saludos cordiales.
article published quite interesting & informative so that adds new value to me
I thought I was a beta tester. When I downloaded this there was a page on how to test and how to report. Later the layout changed to include an ad for reporting bugs for the wrong reason, i.e. to win $100. All I seem to be able to do now is report a bug in a SUPPORT forum (I do not want support, I wanted to report a bug) and it seems that the original page is gone. To some extend I can imagine why this happened, but I now wonder why I have enabled the possibility to store extended reports. What happened to the original page that explained how to test and how to report? I have now wasted so much time on this that it’s getting hard to recollect all that happened precisely so now I’m going: “Ah well, never mind” and feeling less motivated to report again. It only happened once anyway that Cloud AV 1.9 froze almost everything on my system as soon as I did something, including working with the UI itself and changing settings, for as long as the max wait time to receive results was specified. It seems a conflict with Sysinternals Process Explorer and I planned to be more attentive at time and circumstances and try to reproduce it but if I don’t even have the possibility to include a report, what use can it have but just some general talk? I’ll leave the forum to those that are in it for the money. I’m personally more interested in getting better software.
@Rob I think you are referring about the following link to the Beta 1.9 announcement:
http://www.cloudantivirus.com/forum/ann.jspa?annID=50228
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