Panda Cloud Antivirus Free

Panda Cloud Antivirus is the most known cloud based antivirus. The advantage of a cloud based antivirus like Panda is that the Antivirus is very light and it is always up to date.

Who would not like the idea of having a very light antivirus and at the same time a antivirus that is always up to date.

When one of my RAM died, I needed to free up some RAM since 1GB is barely enough. So I tried it and here’s my review on it.

The computer I’m using is a Pentium 4 with 1GB RAM (sadly one of my RAM died so I’m stuck with only 1GB until I can replace the other RAM) running on Windows 7 Ultimate.

The Antivirus is truly very light. It also doesn’t affect your internet speed even when it is synchronizing with the server. It consumes the least amount of RAM among all Antivirus I tried (AVG, Avast, Nod32).

But sadly, my computer got infected with a virus and it can’t even detect it. All the flash drives I inserted ended up infected by the virus hiding all the files in it replacing it with a shortcut. I tried to do a scan and it really can’t detect the virus. I installed their dedicated cloud based scanner to scan my computer and it did detect a virus. I needed to restart my computer 3x during the scan and it even allowed me to clean the temporary files. It deleted it’s detected virus but it seems what it deleted was only part of the virus and not the whole virus. Now it seems to get worst causing the memory card I inserted to get corrupted and losing all the files on the memory card.

Now I’m going back to Avast after having this kind of experience with their product. Yes it is light, but it doesn’t seem to actually work. My computer is always connected to the internet so it should be able to connect to the server and it is also doing a real time scan. But still, I got infected with a virus and it can’t even detect it. The dedicated scanner they made detected the virus was not able to really delete it.

Conclusion: Panda is light; but it doesn’t work