Finally the new Panda Cloud Antivirus Free Edition and the new Panda Cloud Antivirus Pro are here!
After only 7 months since the release of PCAV 1.0 in November 2009, which has been download by almost 10 million users, the next major release of PCAV is finally available in two flavours: Free Edition and Pro.
Download your copy from http://www.cloudantivirus.com. NOTE: there’s no need to uninstall the previous version. The new version will automatically upgrade the one you have installed.
New features and changelog:
- Behavioural blocking. Proactive, signature-less, protection against malicious actions typically used by malware. Generic blocking of malicious PDF/DOC/XLS/PPT/WMV/etc. droppers. Compatible with both 32 and 64bit Operating Systems.
- Behavioural analysis (PRO only). Runtime analysis and blocking of running processes. Compatible with 32bits Operating Systems as well as for 32bit processes under 64bit systems.
- Advanced configuration. Ability to turn on/off and tweak the behaviour of the different engines, cloud responses, advanced logging, recycle bin settings, exclusions, etc.
- Self-protection of the AV processes and configurations.
- Re-do detections that were previously un-done so that they are detected again.
- Automatic upgrades (PRO only) to new engine versions and new features automatically and transparently.
- Improved offline protection. Default deactivation of Windows Autorun.
- USB vaccination (PRO only) Automatic vaccination of USB memory keys and hard drives.
- Ability to run alongside other AVs and Anti-Spyware. Can now be run alongside other security tools and scanners.
- Full scan option.Added option to run a full PC scan easily.
- More languages. Added 9 new languages. PCAV is now available in a total of 20 languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Greek, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Hungarian, Japanese, Slovak, Norwegian and Finnish.
- Quicker download & install experience thanks to new stub-installer which is 300kb in size.
- More options for restoring neutralized files. More flexibility when recovering neutralized files, allowing for automatic and manual recovery, exclusions, configuration of the Recycle Bin automatic emptying, path to recover, etc.
- Improved handling of known good files to reduce false positive rates by the new behavioural engine and automated classification from the Collective Intelligence servers.
- Optimized installation background scan by using adaptive low-priority scans.
- Improved scanning progress information by showing when a large compressed file is being scanned to avoid the perception that the stuck is stuck.
- Fixed certain situations when the PandaCloudTestFile.exe was not being detected even though the PC was correctly connected to the Internet.
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.
107 comments
Congratulations Pedro and the rest of the PCAV Team for making a great Product!!!!
I am confused by the products page. Will the free version not update/upgrade itself from now on?
good to know that we can have full featured truprevent in cloud av pro, its time to switch from PIS 2010 to pav cloud pro.
Congratulations for the next release..:D
but didnt the Automatic upgrade come to the free version to ?? i dont think people wants to check every week and install a new version whole time if it could be automatic? and a other question Why did you put an nagging screen in it and when does this nagging screen come? ( just asking )
Congratulations and a great product, this will make waves in the security field..
@Casper Thygesen & @Tim the automatic upgrades are only for new versions of the program. These will not happen every week. If you are using the free version and we release a new version in x months, you will see a little notification which you can click and it will point you to the upgrade. The pro has this completely transparent.
@TIM
See here:
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1688542&postcount=43
The “nagg” screen will only show it self if you try to use any of the Pro features, for eg you push the behavior analysis button inside the GUI wich will trigger a nagg screen but that’s about it.
So basically > As long as you don’t try to activate any of the Pro features the Nagg will stay invisible.
@J_G
@Pedro Bustamante
Thank you for your quick answers 🙂 great that the there will be a notification then when there is a new version ready:)
sorry for all the trouble..
we all (whole PCA Community) have been looking forward to this! congrats & thanks! 🙂
siszpe32.exe
what´s this?.
siszpe32.exe is located in the ‘C:Documents and SettingsAdministratorStart MenuProgramsStartup’ folder and has a size of 29696 bytes.
@sogima looks a little suspicious. Did you scan it with PCAV? If you can, post the MD5 has of the file.
@Pedro Bustamante
siszpe32.exe 30 kB 14/04/08 02:12:36
ive scanned with panda cloud: C:Documents and SettingsAdministratorStart MenuPrograms and everithing is ok.
Texto: siszpe32.exe
MD5:
762c56c30348ca64d58818d02278df68
Hi there,
Congratulations to Mr.Bustamante and all Panda Cloud Team, Great job you did!!
did I read it right that:
“Ability to run alongside other AVs and Anti-Spyware. Can now be run alongside other security tools and scanners.”
Does it mean that I can install and run Panda Cloud with my current MSE AV with no conflicts?! (Please confirm, it’s like dream come true!!!!)
Thank You So Much!!
@sogima weird, no info whatsoever on that md5 in any of the regular places. Can you please compress the .exe inside a .zip with password protection (“infected”) and send it to me to pedro.bustamante’at’pandasecurity.com?
@Daan thanks for the comments Daan. Even though you can install PCAV next to other AV and antispyware, we always recommend to only have 1 running at the same time.
I have a question and I brought it up in the forum it would be nice if you could clarify panda clouds ability ability to run alongside other AVs and Anti-Spyware. (Can now be run alongside other security tools and scanners.) This may be misinterpreted by some users and since I’m a beta tester of the 1.1 version and was also testing out Immunets new version 2.0 both were closed Beta’s I see some users asking already will it run fine along side MSE or avast free. I would hate to see anything happen to any community users since its common knowledge that two Av’s are very bad to run at the same time with realtime protection but cloud based detection seems to be different.
Besides the comment I posted before this and having been a beta user through the whole process from two major bug issues and having to reinstall windows to the last beta which had no issues to speak of but a minor licensing issue that wasn’t a matter of a system bug. I’m very happy to have been part of this Beta. Panda came a long way and all the coders and software developers deserve a congrats for an excellent job done. Way to go panda security.
Spectacular av version again. Congratulations Panda Team!!
Why, oh why did you decided to place it on CNET?! It takes hours of endles refresh clickin’ and looking at “We’re sorry, but the page you requested could not be found.” message, before you can actually download! Does they pay you for forcing users to look at their banners and press F5?
@Kams No, we don’t get a dime from this, but it helps show the new version to people who do not know it. Maybe they are overloaded, try again in some time or through a different line if possible.
I´ve download paid version. I can only say again: “Best av in market” Congrats Panda. Cloud computing power!
thanks.
I like this product; but now, Cloud Antivirus PRO? Sadly, not all features are being added to the free version anymore.
i would surely buy the pro version for my laptop if it has the HTTP scanner, any how have to stick with PIS 2010 and upcoming 2011
@Just for my Memory
Panda did add new stuff to the free version and I don’t think they are going to stop adding stuff to the free version from now on.
@Buddee I think Panda is looking into a HTTP scanner like Panda Internet Security for Panda Cloud 🙂
i resolve the problem siszpe32.exe whit FreeFixer
@Pedro Bustamante
Sorry, that is for all downloads from that site and for years. None of people I know uses that site, if there is an alternative. So please – at least make small “Alternative location” link or something!
@ibrad09 i think they will introduce the Cloud internet security next , just imagine Cloud based firewall, cloud based AV, cloud based spam filter, cloud based content filtering . . .
and cloud based user tooo 😉
@Pedro Bustamante
Thanks for advice, you’re the man!! 😉
@Kams
Try this link: http://www.filehippo.com/download_cloud_antivirus
BUG: Stopping Cloud Antivirus from the system tray icon and then starting it enables both behavioral options.
See screenshot: http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/4827/snap00360506180016.png
I don’t have the Pro version.
@Kams download is now available directly from Panda. Check the PCAV site and press download! 🙂
@buddee I think the Cloud Based Internet Security would be nice, I want to use a cloud based firewall 🙂
Automatic upgrades should be enabled to Free users too… 🙁
PCAV is blocking media player from playing a file. Is this a bug? I am sure that my PC is not infected.
what is the point of this prd. way too buggy, and you guys could compete with awast free, coz the basic law for any av fails on it. ie “the av should not freez during its exn” better switch to NOD32, way too better..
forgot something.. most of the virri spread through USB stick, so if you find file names like update, window, cmd or any weird names in the root of the drive better delete it and look for hidden folders with weird names, they are possibly virus too, and ALWAYS OPEN YOUR USB DRIVE THROURG ADDRESSBAR, DO NOT DOUBLE CLICK AND OPEN THE USB DRIVE , otherwise DISABLE AUTORUN OF USB DRIVES’ by doing so you can make sure that you dont get infected AND DOWNLOAD CRACKS/KEYGENS FROM REPUTED SITES ONLY. if you are able to do this , then you probably dont need an av, cheers Kevin mailme @ itskevinsam@yahoo.co.in
Hmmm. I’m 64% into running a scan on a data drive, and it’s shown up file with Trj/CI.A. Not a problem. I can delete it, it’s surplus to requirements, and it’s never been used.
However 🙂 it shows a not neutralized link. When I click on it, I get an excellent link to a description of the little monkey. But when I click on ‘See recommended solution’ I get a web page that begins “Introduction to”
“is a security service that protects your PC without affecting performance: It always offers maximum protection and only comes into action when it is necessary.”
S’right, nothing after “Introduction to” except a blank line. No recommended solution. Not really a problem here. But….
I’m using the free version.
@Murugesh: Panda security is looking into it.
i agree with you it should show some technical details to remove.
Hi Pedro…I am using the new free cloud AV, but I have a problem/question. When I disconnect from wifi or turn off my wifi altogether (thus having no valid internet connection) Panda keeps on happily saying that I am “properly connected to the internet” at the moment. This is concerning…if it always says that and never can be thrown off, how would I ever know that it doesn’t connect properly?
before all, is is not clear to me whether Panda Cloud AV may run as standalone, or that a realtime AV-scanner (I use Norman) is required.
did u wait for 3 to 5 min.
how can i have code for panda cloud for free?? thanks
I have a very slow connection of about 1MB. Will this affect how Panda works?
@cotty
nops coz i’m also using 1MB connection in home and i never face any problem coz it uses very low bandwidth, in my test i scanned my whole system and it take nearly 1mb of data with thousands of virus in my test folder too.
You don’t need a code (I think you mean license?) to be able to use Panda Cloud Antivirus Free.
Just go to this link and download the program right away.
http://www.cloudantivirus.com/en/download/cloud-antivirus/free
Pleased as punch — especially since the full scan didn’t find anything on my system. 🙂 Spyware cookies are now being detected. Cool! I also love the ability to exclude certain folders, at last! A little confused about whether subfolders are selected by default or not though.
The only other thing I’m waiting for is scheduled scanning.
Thanks for the hard work and the commitment to keep everyone safe. I install Panda on every computer I fix, replacing all the other crappy bloatware.
What’s the best way to put 1.1 on a computer (win xp pro sp3) with 1.0 already installed? Do you first need to uninstall 1.0, clean the registry, then reinstall 1.1? Or can 1.0 be upgraded to 1.1 without leaving a lot of detritus behind? Great product by the way.
It’s easy, you just need to run the installer of 1.1 and it will automatically uninstall the old 1.0 version.
PCA Team:
Great product, as always. I was wondering if there was a way to modify the amount of data stored in the log files. The one that’s accessed by going through Event Viewer and then to Nano. Every time my computer’s rebooted, the amount I set previously would reset itself back to the default 20 megabytes. Is this a glitch or something?
No protection in real-time the browser :S?
THE real “CLOUD” tiem is coming !
@Asfa Panda cloud has real time protection
Why do we have to pay for better security i thought they said it will always be free and full security 🙁
Where is the pricing information?
thanks
@Zaww you don’t have to pay for better security, you can keep the FREE EDITION installed and it plenty of security (anti-malware + heuristics + behavioural + usb). The PRO version is mostly for more convenience and VIP support.
@David Sherman Go to:
http://www.cloudantivirus.com/en/download/cloud-antivirus/free
I’ve been happily using the free product since last year, and haven’t seen any nags. The feature list for new versions says only the pro version has no nags. Does that mean the new free version does have nags?
I am getting a message to “upgrade now” & “free download” but the message doesn’t say WHAT to download and WHO is offering it. Could this message be referring to the Panda Cloud AV? I am not going to click on a message with no identivication:
“You can now get the new version! Why wait? Download it now and check out the improvements. FREE! Download now. FREE!”
I thought I finally found an AV I didn’t hate, but if this is Panda Cloud, then I guess my search is still on.
filehippo.com has offered Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.1.01 but no news on Panda official blog!! anybody?! Mr.Bustamante?
http://www.filehippo.com/download_cloud_antivirus/
@Brock Savage barely any. Try it out and see for yourself.
@John this is a known problem in version 1.0x only. It has been fixed already. Download and install version 1.1 and this problem won’t appear anymore.
@Daan This is the same 1.1 version with some internal fix of a behaviour blocker rule and some minor stuff. Not even a minor version, just some internal fix.
Thank You 🙂
@Pedro Bustamante
Well, I spoke too soon. The old version started throwing up CONSTANT nags about upgrading, and as the other person said, it didn’t make it clear what product wanted an upgrade, so that was dumb. And now that I have upgraded, my Win7 is hosed. Most of my pinned taskbar icons are gone, and when I right-click on a file in Explorer and then click on “Open with…”, the list of programs to use is empty. That’s what I’ve found just in the first five minutes since upgrading; I hate to see what else you have messed up.
Five thumbs down on this. Upgrades should be optional, and should not make you have to reinstall windows.
i recently updated to the new version of Free, and ever since then PSANHOST.exe has intermittently spiked in CPU usage for a few seconds. doesn’t affect web browsing, but it causes slowdown/stuttering in things like games and videos. nothing coming up on scans, only thing that is amiss is PSANHOST’s memory and CPU usage. more annoying than anything, but if there’s a way to fix it i’m all ears
I wonder if it is Panda Cloud that pops up a little blue message window on my PC screen and solicits without telling who it is to download and get a new version? A new version of what? I seriously doubt who with a little common sense will download without knowing what it is. It is really annoying.
I got this message too and immediately thought it was spyware infecting my computer. Who was the genius that forgot to put the name of the program on the message? Anyone with half a brain will not even think about clicking that ‘mystery upgrade’ link. Everyone knows you NEVER click on a link in anything connected to the internet that has no identifying information. This is day one basic computer class stuff here. Does this antivirus company not know how viruses are spread?
This only makes me wary of putting cash out for the product.
Next are you going to send me an email with an executable attachment from a hotmail address telling me about the new version of ‘something’ (click to find out what!)?
no ,the older version was greater ,this version is improper,it hangs out and is hackable.but for the free version,its not the best anymore
I’ve just send email to you thanking you for letting us Anti Vieus 4 free
@Brock Savage This sounds a little more serious. PCAV shouldn’t do anything with your pinned-down icons nor the “open with” list. It doesn’t sound like anything related to PCAV, but we’d be happy to help you troubleshoot it. Simply post at the “New Issues” area of our Support Forum at http://www.cloudantivirus.com/forum.
@Gabriel Please run an optimized or full scan of your machine so that the new PCAV “gets to know” your files and caches them.
@okunodoi & @KB yes this has been an error on our part. We are trying to fix it right now and the fix will be pushed down to all users automatically.
It breaks my heart to see these people criticizing you. This is such an amazing product. But, yes, that was an oops not to put the product name on the update notice. That stupid Registry Booster scam is on EVERYONE’S computer now and has a very similar popup which you REALLY DON’T want to click. It is virtually impossible to uninstall once it has its claws in your computer. And it really screws up your registry if you use it. I don’t know how I knew my popup was Panda but I did.
I am going to try the beta Global Protection next because I really trust you guys never to screw up my computer.
@Brock Savage: Maybe I can help. It sounds like you deleted your MRU, menu order, and Recent cache. Usually this is a result of using a system/registry cleaner like the evil Registry Booster I mentioned above. I accidentally did this once with a good product called Ccleaner. So just don’t mess with these products unless you know exactly what it’s doing and can pick what you want cleaned.
The good news: this is not serious at all. Just a little bit of a PITA to get back to normal. However, I would definitely do a spyware scan with Spybot S&D and Panda. Because something cleaned out your registry and temp files.
The best way to get back to normal if you don’t have a Restore Point or ERUNT backup saved (look it up) is to simply set everything up again manually. As you open your programs, right click and put them back on the Taskbar. For open-with, you can get some of the defaults back by using windows default programs wizard — type default in your start menu. For the rest, you’ll have to click open with > choose default program > browse > and hunt for the program you want to use, one-by-one. It will be there the next time you click open-with. (Pay attention to whether you want the “Always…” box checked or it will change your default program association permanently.)
If you do restore from a backup, reinstall Panda and any other programs you might have installed since that backup, just so nothing is screwy with your settings. (Minus the “Registry Booster – System Optimizer” spyware please!)
It is a good idea to get ERUNT and let it do it’s backup thing. Read the instructions in the ReadMe file to learn how to restore from it. The quick guide: let it install with all the defaults. It will automatically backup every reboot. To Restore: Go to C:WindowsERDNTAutoBackup and pick a date. Open that folder and click ERDNT.exe. Reboot and your registry is good as new. Can’t tell you how many times this has saved my butt. http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
Oh, all the above is done in Adminstator mode of course! Type “change user” under start and you will see the options to change User Account Control settings. Temporarily turn off UAC and set your profile to Administrator.
@Gabriel
Yeah, that’s happened to me as well (Win XP SP3). Made the sound keep skipping – had to take Panda off.
@Melaney Thanks for your comments and your help Melaney 🙂
@Trishia The fix for this will be pushed out very soon.
I love your product, it save my computer from a couple of rookit, trojan that my AVG failed to find. I’ve always used AVG, but their quality just isn’t as good as before.
As this is a free product, i hope the quality stays, it is not free to keep engineers to work on it. I really hope you can have profit out of it.
@michael satisfied and happy users are the profit
Hello,
Any way to make the CPU usage lower ?
With Panda Cloud AV even when I scroll or write on a webpage my computer laggs.
@Pedro Bustamante
Perfect – will definitely try it again once that’s resolved.
i cant do nothing with my panda cloud,this what happen when ive press on the icon
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/4638/notworkin.jpg
and its not letting me reinstall it at all… see
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/4638/notworkin.jpg
what should i do?
@Germar This is a known problem of the older version. Just uninstall (from Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs), reboot, and then download and install the latest version from http://www.cloudantivirus.com.
Whenever I click on the Panda with the red X on it in the ‘Message Center’ I get this message:
Unexpected error
Unexpected error. Error code 11.
If you want to help us improve, send us a suggestion with information abut this error and how it occurred.
Links don’t work.
Panda will not uninstall.
It looks really great and simple to use but what i want to know is if it is finally compatible with SpybotSD with both its flavors. Back in 2006, I read that Panda wasn’t compatible with Spybot and so I come here today curious whether this issue has been fixed or not.
I need specifics on installation Panda Cloud AV. I’m now running avast free on a PC with a Windows XP SP3 as the OS. At the moment, avast’s hanging out in my task bar telling me my system is secure. Do I disable avast before installing PCAV?
I ask because when trying to install Zone Alarm as a replacement for Comodo (which caused a *huge* memory leak), ZA’s technical writer didn’t include the part about uninstalling the old software first lest disaster occur. Unfortunately, disaster did. I managed to fix the problem a few days later, but am leery of the same thing happening again.
Also, can I run PCAV with SUPERAntiSpyware? Or do I even need the latter?
I want a trial of Panda Cloud PRO.
I think that everything composed made a ton of sense.
However, what about this? suppose you were to create a killer
post title? I mean, I don’t want to tell you how to run your website, but suppose you
added something that grabbed a person’s attention?
I mean Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.1.0 – Panda Security Mediacenter
is kinda vanilla. You might peek at Yahoo’s front page and watch how they create article headlines to get people interested.
You might add a video or a related pic or two to grab people interested about what you’ve got
to say. Just my opinion, it could bring your posts a little bit more
interesting.
Thanks for reading us and for your feedback!
Best regards,
Panda Security.
wow amazing post thanx for sharing this beautiful post about Panda Cloud Antivirus, this post is very helpful for me. and also thanx for sharing this new features
panda update is very most important update in google history thanx for sharing this information about panda update
i am using panda antivirus since 2 years, very easy interface, like it and i refer this brand to my friends ,gud luck
Thanks a lot for choosing Panda to protect your devices!
Kind regards,
Panda Security.
i am using panda antivirus from long time, its best.
Thanks a lot for choosing us Mukesh!
We will keep working to offer our users the best cybersecurity protection.
Kind regards,
Panda Security.
I love your product, it save my computer from a couple of rookit, trojan that my AVG failed to find. I’ve always used AVG, but their quality just isn’t as good as before.
As this is a free product, i hope the quality stays, it is not free to keep engineers to work on it. I really hope you can have profit out of it.
Thanks a lot for sharing your feedback with us!
Our users opinions really matters to us so we can keep improving and offer the best cybersecurity solutions.
Kind regards,
Panda Security.
I think that everything composed made a ton of sense.
However, what about this? suppose you were to create a killer
post title? I mean, I don’t want to tell you how to run your website, but suppose you
added something that grabbed a person’s attention?
I mean Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.1.0 – Panda Security Mediacenter
is kinda vanilla. You might peek at Yahoo’s front page and watch how they create article headlines to get people interested.
You might add a video or a related pic or two to grab people interested about what you’ve got
to say. Just my opinion, it could bring your posts a little bit more
interesting.
good to know that we can have full featured truprevent in cloud av pro, its time to switch from PIS 2010 to pav cloud pro.
thank you sir for your pro feature app
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