Panda Cloud Antivirus software is the first FREE cloud-based antivirus software. Panda Cloud Antivirus Free Edition 1.0, is also a recipient of Editor’s Choice award for Best Free Antivirus from PC World.  This antivirus software connects in real-time to PandaLab’s online database for protection against virus and malware.  Therefore, Panda Cloud Antivirus software could detect the latest virus faster than the traditional signature-based antivirus.  Plus this cloud based antivirus does NOT need to download virus updates, because the virus signature database is online!   Panda Cloud Antivirus is a lightweight antivirus. The download size is only 21.9MB. The installation is very simple, all you need to do is click on the big “ACCEPT and INSTALL” button and you are done.  To launch Panda Cloud Antivirus software, you need to sign in your Panda Cloud Antivirus account. Create your free Panda Cloud Antivirus account here.

The main window of Panda Cloud Antivirus is very simple and clean. By default, it shows current security status. Beside the Status button, there are only 3 other buttons on the window: Settings, Scan, and Report.

• Under “Settings”, you can set enable/disable automatic management of possible viruses and send anonymous information to Panda.
• Under “Scan”, there is only a big “Quick scan” button to do full system scan, and another smaller button to scan selected folders/files.
• Under “Report” shows all the detected threats in the last month, last week, last day, or all.
• A small blue color “Recycle Bin” icon is at the bottom right for you to recover a false positive.

Panda Cloud Antivirus uses only less than 500KB memory when idle in background. When scanning, it only uses around 8MB of RAM and almost no CPU resource which is very cool and impressive!  Even the first full system Quick Scan took around 23 mins to scan 18,424 files (10GB).  According to PC Mag review, Panda Cloud Antivirus is “extremely effective at keeping malware out of a clean system” but “failed to remove huge amounts of malware traces from threats it detected” (but still better than other free antivirus software).  I say if  you are not connected to the internet its a bummer.  So just in case do keep/install another antivirus software on your system for fails safe.  You can check out other top 5 antivirus software that are also free download.

Panda Cloud Antivirus is the simple, lightweight, effective free antivirus software.  Just make sure you install Panda Cloud Antivirus on a clean system and connected to internet, then you would be well protected from most of the future threats.  So what do you think?  Do post your thoughts on Panda Cloud Antivirus at comments section.

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