However, before you click Accept and Install on the same page note the ticked check-box under Automatic management of possible viruses: “I want to enable automatic management of possible viruses for my computer to automatically and anonymously send the information necessary to Panda Security”. The next screen contains a link to the EULA, and lets you choose the installation path. The 18.1 MB CloudAntivirus.exe first extracts itself into temporary file locations and then prompts you for the product language (English, German and Spanish). On the test computer running Windows Vista Panda Cloud Antivirus used approximately 56 MB disk capacity after the install, and the software was able to conduct a full system scan using less than 20 MB on average. Further minimum requirements for the installation are 100 MB of free hard disk space and 64 MB RAM. Panda Cloud Antivirus runs on 32-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows XP with SP2 or higher Internet Explorer 6 or later also has to be present on your computer. It remains to be seen though how well Panda Cloud Antivirus protects your computer in real-time when accessing objects, particularly when your Internet is not available. Users of Panda Cloud Antivirus on the other hand - according to the vendor - don’t need to worry about the latest anti-virus signature file as the cloud is always up to date. Advantages include that the Panda Antivirus cloud knows which computer infections are in the wild so that the software can be helpful to indentify and fight 0-days attacks. Panda’s computing platform, dubbed Collective Intelligence, gathers information from the community of users who are willing to share information regarding their computer’s health. Panda Cloud Antivirus, currently in beta stage, is the first anti-virus software which implements cloud computing: during scans of your computer the software connects to Panda’s powerful servers holding the anti-virus logic on the Internet, or cloud. The final, stable release has considerably been improved! More about the final Panda Cloud Antivirus can be found in Bright Hub’s article Cloud-based Anti-Virus Comparison: ThreatFire AntiVirus vs. Update 30 January 2010: The review below has been written when Panda Cloud Antivirus was in Beta stage.
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