Panda antivirus pro 2012 rating

Certified Buyer , Visakhapatnam. Certified Buyer , Lucknow. Certified Buyer , Gautam Buddha Nagar. Explore Plus. Panda Antivirus Pro Price: Not Available. Panda Antivirus Pro Reviews. I bought this product for my brother. It installed in easily and the configuration was easy , the firewall component needs to be installed separately. The product works silently popping out occasional alerts when threats are blocked.

The antivirus is extremely light and as i read on the panda site it can be upgrades to latest version this one is to go if one wants a great product at VERY low price. WS retail need to be congratulated for excellent packaging and timely delivery of the p Akhil Bajpai Certified Buyer , Kanpur. Who cares, people say this is not good screw that.. This software has so many inbuilt functions available which are not in many others It can be upgraded to version absolutely free which other softwares might not allow Best deal ever Extremely light on pc What else do you need I don't think giving try to new software is a bad deal..

Saurabh Deo Certified Buyer. Panda detected just six of them, identifying three by name and three based on suspicious behavior. Norton Version 5. It's true that none of the exploits actually penetrated security, as the test system is fully patched. Still, if a website is attacking me I want to know about it.

As far as resistance to direct attack, Panda hasn't changed since the previous edition. All of its important Registry values are protected against modification, and you can't kill its processes using Task Manager. However, settings the status of its eight important Windows services to Disabled and forcing a reboot wiped out its protection. Considering that most antivirus products don't include any firewall protection, what you get from Panda is a nice bonus.

It's just not up there with top firewalls like Norton and Kaspersky. Safe Browser Safe Browser is another optional feature that requires a separate install.

It's actually a free tool that anyone can download. Safe Browser is a modified version of Firefox that runs inside Sun's VirtualBox virtual machine software, which is free for personal and evaluation use. All history and private data is discarded at the end of a Safe Browser session, for privacy and security.

I can see why Panda chose not to install it by default. By measuring free space before and after installation I determined that it takes nearly MB of disk space. During the lengthy installation of VirtualBox I got six distinct prompts asking whether to install a particular driver.

You set Safe Browser's window size x, x, or x and language at installation; neither can be changed afterward. Like SafeCentral 2. The browser runs under Linux within the virtual machine, so Windows-targeted malware is powerless even inside the isolated environment.

The sandbox feature in avast! Free version 6. Internet Security 6. Compared to the other tools mentioned here, Panda's Safe Browser is huge and unwieldy. SafeCentral's safe desktop slides into place quickly, and the avast! Launching Safe Browser requires initializing VirtualBox and reloading the virtual machine, which takes an appreciable amount of time. In testing, it didn't always launch correctly. More than once it displayed two contradictory messages reporting that the guest OS does and does not support mouse integration.

At times the launch succeeded, but reported that it failed. Shutdown was rough too. Clicking the X icon in the caption bar brought up three choices: save the machine state, send the shutdown signal the default , or power off the machine. The default choice did nothing, and the choice to save state sometimes failed.

Power off worked, but apparently the correct way to shut down Safe Browser is by choosing Quit from its main menu. I don't really consider this a bonus feature, since you can get it free without purchasing a Panda product. It definitely keeps Web activity from having any permanent effect on your PC, and it protects privacy by discarding all history.

However, it's just plain awkward to use in its current state. This tool needs some refinement. Like Safe Browser, it's freely available for download. It can totally disable autorun for all devices and drives on your computer, thereby thwarting malware that propagates using USB drives. If that seems like overkill, you can use it to "vaccinate" individual USB flash drives, making it impossible for any other process to install an automatically-launched process on that drive.

In addition to the expected full, quick, and custom on-demand malware scan choices, Panda also offers a vulnerability scan. This scan rates the severity of each vulnerability it finds and identifies specific threats that exploit it. A button opens Windows Update online, so you can correct problems. The network manager displays all PCs on the network, identifying those that have Panda protection installed and flagging any of those that are out of date.

A separate feature within the firewall lists computers that have connected to the network by name, IP address, and MAC address. You can blacklist any device to totally block its access to the protected PC. If you enable the firewall, you'll have the most important components of a security suite.

However, some of the bonus features are actually available free to anybody, so they're not much of a bonus. Safe Browser definitely does its job of discarding browsing traces and keeping Web threats from making permanent changes, but it's awkward to use. Though the independent labs gave Panda Antivirus Pro good ratings, in my hands-on testing it only did a so-so job of cleaning up malware and protecting a clean system from new infestation.

It's a decent product overall, but you'd get better malware protection from either of our Editors' Choice products, Ad-Aware Pro Internet Security 9. PCMag India staff Oct 24, Good 3. Bottom Line Panda Antivirus Pro includes a number of features you'd normally expect to find only in a suite. In particular, it offers a full-blown firewall.

However, for actual malware protection and cleanup you can do better. Pros Can install and scan in Safe Mode. SafeDisk bootable rescue CD available. Includes full firewall protection. Optional Safe Browser protects privacy, foils Web-based malware.

USB Vaccine and vulnerability scan. Cons Didn't thoroughly clean found malware. Some rootkits still running after alleged removal. So-so protection against new malware attack. Firewall blocked few exploits. Safe Browser is bulky and awkward to use. More Inside PCMag.