Advice Request Does Panda Free now comes with Firewall?

[ChoiceVoice]

It also comes with "100% virus detection rate"

it may not be in the top tier but it is still respectable. in PCmags feb 2019 review, when they computated an aggregate score of all AV software and the 4 major testing lab results, panda scored a 8.9. for a comparison, windows defender scored a 8.7. fsecure scored a 8.6 and gdata scored a 8.9. these are aggragated independant lab studies putting panda in a respectable crowd. panda scored better than windows defender.

and when pcmag ran their own personal malware test, panda scored a 9 (90 percent). windows defender scored an 8 (82 percent detection). eset scored 8.8.

and considering how light it is, that makes it attractive.

Panda Free Antivirus Review

Panda Free Antivirus has an attractive user interface, but it lacks protection against dangerous and fraudulent websites and its test scores vary from excellent to dismal.

www.pcmag.com

 

[Ink]

Someone is lying... This is one of reasons to go away from Panda. When Antivirus Company ensures 100% Protection is shame, and come on everybody knows that is pure marketing.

Stay away from bunch of liars, Panda is one of them.

Check for the small print, click image below.



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[roger_m]

No, it is not, it is neither light nor has good protection.

Maybe it wasn't light for you, but it is one of the lightest antiviruses there is.

it may not be in the top tier but it is still respectable.

It's terrible at detecting new threats, because it is slow to add signatures for new threats and has very poor behaviour blocking. However, it's good at detecting older threats.

 

[EndangeredPootis]

Maybe it wasn't light for you, but it is one of the lightest antiviruses there is.


It's terrible at detecting new threats, because it is slow to add signatures for new threats and has very poor behaviour blocking. However, it's good at detecting older threats.

From my personal experience, both when using it on my host and later my virtual machine it slowed down both of them a lot, and its resource usage isnt even that great, its on par with ESET.

 

[amico81]

since they were bought up by watchguard, it has become quiet.
no new updates, no improvements....this does not look good

 

[roger_m]

From my personal experience, both when using it on my host and later my virtual machine it slowed down both of them a lot, and its resource usage isnt even that great, its on par with ESET.

I've used it a number of computers and it was very light on all of them. I ditched it long ago because of its poor detection rates.

 

[alakazam]

You also get ads they come freeView attachment 215136

To be fair, those are ads for their own products. They didn't just place random Google Adsense ads.

 

[ZeroDayDefender]

To be fair, those are ads for their own products. They didn't just place random Google Adsense ads.

That's true but they are still annoying nonetheless

 

[ForgottenSeer 89360]

Panda is not heavy and has a fairly good malware detection, due to several partners it still (surprisingly) works with.
However, support is just a new level of low, web blocking is abysmal, almost non-existent (in premium products), the whole experience from the website and across various parts of the product is inconsistent, which is an indication of poor and careless management. Panda is full of bugs, frequently it happens that you can't even install it. Its architecture is still 32-bit, which shows the minimum effort they put to stay current.
And did I mention no automatic version upgrades?

In an ocean of quality products, some of them free, Panda is just a hard pass.