- Apr 16, 2017
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oldschool's cheapo laptop configuration
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- Mar 29, 2018
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- Mar 29, 2018
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Installed Panda Free AV just for kicks. Tell me your thoughts.
- Mar 16, 2019
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- Apr 16, 2017
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At least it will be light.
Quoting @Dave Russo "So light on your system, it's almost like it's not there"
- Jul 14, 2015
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Also use trafficlight in your browser 
- Apr 16, 2017
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you installed Panda because you have this photo or you generated it with AI? Are Panda bears that large compared humans. I thought they were smaller...? So how is Panda AV
EDIT: many corrections today, @SeriousHoax has the photo (or generated it)...
- Dec 12, 2016
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Definitely one of the better extensionsAlso use trafficlight in your browser
Detects a ton of pishing sites
- Mar 29, 2018
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Added VoodooShield to watch over Panda Free.
- Dec 12, 2016
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how much ram does panda use ?
currently using hitmanpro.alert on one of my low ram pcs as it takes very little ram and comodo instead of VoodooShield (voodoshield has more false positives due to not having as large whitelist else i would use VoodooShield as its probably more secure )
- Mar 29, 2018
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- Dec 12, 2016
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eh too much for my system XD but lower then most av software
hitman takes less then 6mb and comodo around that
anyway nowadays opening a news site will take 50MB so panda is very light
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- Apr 16, 2017
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well I dunno... for me voodooshield aka cyberlock has very few false positives, I probably see more in CF when I look at its blocked & unrecognized files.
PS Panda Dome Advanced ($41.99US) recently got 100% at AV Lab.pl...!
PS2 I'd rather hear @oldschool 's thoughts about panda. "just for kicks" not enough info. what led you to panda free? I tried panda a long time ago, IIRC buggy.
- Mar 16, 2019
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A photo like that doesn't exist in reality
It was generated using Grok AI of Twitter/X.Talking about Panda AV, it's definitely light as a feather. It could sometimes cause a slight delay in app launching due to its high cloud reliance but won't be noticed in most cases.
- Mar 29, 2018
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Really just for a change out of boredom with my setup. I'll go back to Defender sooner or later. It's definitely light. The GUI is funky and not easy to read. Navigation has to be done with keyboard arrows. Already flagged as "suspicious" one FP (startallbackcfg.exe), and when I clicked on the notification to follow instructions, nothing happened. Somehow it was allowed, but not manually by me.
- Mar 29, 2018
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Check that. Panda uses 9MB.
- Dec 12, 2016
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That's insane basically only hit man pro alert and panda has that little ram usage as they are both full cloud based and wow to get panda free Wich has similar results to the paid version and can work on very very low end machines is incredible and panda seems to actually improve as or example bitdefender and ESET missed a sample that panda didn't in the most recent test panda was part of
Didn't see it's use before but now I can recommend panda for those who can't use windows defender due to having a very low end machine as only for machines with 4gb of ram I can recommend having a full av like defender , bitdefender , ESET , Kaspersky etc (8+ for zone alarm because of the huge signatures)
But for those with 2gb of ram panda is perfect
- Mar 2, 2023
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Still laughing at this one. IMO, post of the year for 2024, especially since you created it, generated it as well
- May 13, 2017
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As long as you are using a secure DNS, AV does not really matter. Still Panda Free always gets about 99% in AV comparatives tests, miraculously beating even paid AVs, so I see no problem.
- Dec 12, 2016
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Actually DNS , extensions etc
Aren't enough but yeah they can help stop a lot of malicious sites but not enough having an av is definitely useful ( with the registry tweaks TairikuOkami uses malware will have a hard time in his system so he is a different case )
Using a light security product (comodo , panda , voodooshield) , a light extension, good DNS is really good advice for those that have a system that has 2gb ram or less and can't run defender because it eats too much ram (as well as too many IO as these systems usually have emcc , hard drives)
