Panda Security Launches Panda Cloud Antivirus Beta2, Industry’s Only Free Cloud-based Antivirus

MADRID - Panda Security (www.pandasecurity.com), The Cloud Security Company, today announced the general availability of the Beta2 version of Panda Cloud Antivirus (www.cloudantivirus.com), the industry’s first and only free, thin-client, cloud-based antivirus which halves the impact on computer performance compared with traditional antivirus products. Users can download this new version for free from www.cloudantivirus.com or visit the official developer blog at blog.cloudantivirus.com.

Since its original launch on April 29, and with the participation of the product’s user community, more than three million new malware samples have been received at PandaLabs. This knowledge has been compiled and returned to the community in the form of greater protection, and has contributed to an even faster response time from Panda’s proprietary Collective Intelligence (www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/solutions/collective-intelligence) system. Each new file received by Collective Intelligence is classified automatically within six minutes.

Panda Cloud Antivirus includes local and remote antivirus protection, as well as anti-spyware, anti-rootkit, heuristic scanning and a goodware cache. On average, it consumes just 17 MB of RAM, and ensures a 50 percent improvement in computer performance compared to traditional antivirus products. To see a video of how Panda Cloud Antivirus operates, go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-JfW4Ut8kg.

Panda Cloud Antivirus represents a new security model based on ultra-light client/server architecture to process and block malware more effectively and efficiently than traditional products that rely on locally installed signature files. By shifting the process of analyzing and identifying malware (www.flickr.com/photos/panda_security/3723391446) to the cloud, and applying non-intrusive interception techniques in client architecture, Panda Cloud Antivirus delivers advanced protection against new and unknown viruses with an extremely light, resource-friendly agent.

For more information or to download the product, go to: www.cloudantivirus.com.

About Panda Security

Founded in 1990, Panda Security is the world’s leading provider of cloud-based security solutions with products available in more than 23 languages and millions of users located in 195 countries around the world. Panda Security was the first IT security company to harness the power of cloud computing with its Collective Intelligence technology. This innovative security model can automatically analyze and classify thousands of new malware samples per day, guaranteeing corporate customers and home users the most effective protection against Internet threats with minimum impact on PC performance. Panda Security has 56 offices throughout the globe with US headquarters in California and European headquarters in Spain. For more information, log on to www.pandasecurity.com

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