Panda goes virus-busting in the cloud

UNVEILED AT at this year’s Infosec security show in London was the world’s first free cloud-based virus-buster from Panda security.

Other companies, with yellow and red logos *cough* do have quick fix offerings based online if you become infected but these are really only one time deals. Panda now has a black and white, clear-cut solution to online security with an almost thin client approach to the running and upkeep of this software.    

Panda claims the offering takes up less than half the system resources than others, but that would surely depend on what system and OS is running said computers, with netbooks being taken into account.  With a very low install base with all the process and processing being done at the server end, this can be achieved Obviously, you do need to stay online for the latest updates and its running of course, that’s where the vulnerabilities lay – all of which is a Catch 22 process, in itself.

Without throwing too much technical garbage your way, normal solutions rely on a variety of different methods of virus recognition and scanning resulting in heavy heavy processing usage and the install base for the software. Whereas ‘Pandas In The Sky’ (not their name, but ours) can do all of this without killing the computer's resources – a solution which could be ideal for small SSD based netbooks, as it’s only 17MB.
 
This new cloudbuster, which includes everything from AV, Anti spyware and rookit detection can be obtained here. µ