* Panda Web Security 2010 protects you from viruses, spy ware, rootkits, hackers, online fraud, id theft and all different Web threats
* Scans information in actual-time and on-demand, with improved detection and disinfection rates
* Anti-spam engine keeps your inbox free from junk mail
* Parental Management function ensures your kids can use the Internet safely
* Panda USB Vaccine protects your USB drives from infection
Panda Internet Security 2010 is a brand new antivirus bundle from Panda. The software offers a firewall, fast virus scanning, identity safety, content filtering and backup capabilities.
Set up:
The Panda Web Safety 2010 provides some unique set up features. The primary one is that the software program routinely scans memory previous to an install. This is an excellent function because there are viruses particularly designed to hinder antivirus software. I also favored how a consumer has the choice to pick which parts are installed such as a firewall or backup capabilities. That is good if a consumer already has a firewall resolution etc.
The total download was only 68 megabytes and the install completed in less than 2 minutes. This is considerably higher than Norton 360 and FortiClient’s antivirus set up performance. A user will also have to setup a password after installation. This characteristic is extremely helpful for public computer systems and will be explained in the following options section.
I ran into one drawback throughout the antivirus installation. The computer suffered a massive slowdown when Panda initialized for the first time. Also, the Panda Web Safety wants a whole restart after installation. That is not like all the other free antivirus I have tested.
Virus Definition Updates:
The virus updates downloaded very quickly (no less than 100 kilobytes a second) compared to Kaspersky antivirus. The only annoyance was that the download virus definitions should be “reconstructed.” This process is taxing on the CPU and utterly slowed down the check computer.
Features:
Unfortunately, Panda Web Security 2010 doesn’t convey any real standout options to the market. Many free antiviruses have extra options and performance than this “full version”.
Password Protection. Customers can setup a supervisor password inside the antivirus and outline entry to sure components. As acknowledged earlier, this characteristic is excellent for a public, school, or internet kiosk computers. The online content material filter can also be by default password protected so a traditional person will only be capable to entry allowed sites not outlined within the content filter. As well as, the password setting will guard against users making an attempt to close down the antivirus resident defend, modify settings, and apply updates etc. The password performance could be modified within the Preferences, Restriction tab.
Truprevent Technology. That is basically heuristic know-how that prevents Zero Day attacks. TruPrevent additionally protects network information towards virus infection. Panda Internet Safety offers a second Heuristic option in addition to Truprevent, so I'm not precisely clear on the difference. The software doesn’t give a adequate clarification for these technologies.
Confidential Data Protection. This expertise scans to make sure that confidential data equivalent to financial institution data etc. doesn’t depart one’s computer. Once more this can be a normal feature on most free firewalls and web security software.
Dialer Protection. This characteristic protects against viruses utilizing a modem to dial out for distant attacks. These malicious software program known as Dialers, are virtually extinct so I believe that it’s surprising that such functionality is prominently displayed as a major feature.
Firewall. The firewall has auto configure guidelines which are handy for the novice user. Nonetheless, after the firewall was enabled I observed that streaming music suffered intermittent skips. Since this actually important to me, I take advantage of the software program with the firewall disabled.
Interface:
Panda Internet Security 2010’s interface is fairly lacking. To start with, when the antivirus is maximized, it takes not less than 10 seconds for the antivirus to grow to be practical on the check computer. The interface graphics additionally seem like they need to seem in a 2004 version not a 2010 version. There may be very limited or no tweaking means of many of the antivirus features. For instance, on the vulnerability protection settings, there's one test field to allow or disable. There isn't any mention of what vulnerabilities that it protects against or how it functions. The vulnerability scan additionally accomplished in about 2 seconds. Panda Internet Safety also utterly crashed upon startup regardless of it being listed as compatible with Home windows Vista 64 bit.
Virus Scanning and Detection:
Panda Internet Security affords no fast scan function only a “Scan Laborious disk” or a “Scan all of My Computer.” Nevertheless, virus scanning was very environment friendly and quick. My complete pc was scanned in forty five minutes (156 gigabytes of recordsdata). This enables Panda Web Safety to have one of the quickest scanning engines at 100 to 200 information per second (dependent on measurement).
The software program detected zero viruses and three false positives. It detected Ahn Labs Nprotect game detector, a element of FortiClient Antivirus (very fascinating), and the software Remove Faux Antivirus (said the software had a Trojan in it). |
