Panda 18.04 - New Design and Name; Panda Dome

[amico81]

Panda Free 18.04 released and renamed to Panda Dome.

http://acs.pandasoftware.com/Panda/FREEAV/190612/FREEAV.exe

Chancelog:

- Creators Fall compatible ( security center)
- Quarantine file restoration changes.
- New: VPN

 

[Sunshine-boy]

What about some security features?! changing the Gui won't help me! they should change their name to coala because they are too lazy in the term of protection

 

[TairikuOkami]

I would say, it is even lighter than before. I think, they have added gaming mode and option to disable notications.
URL filtering does not seems to do/block anything, at least not on Yandex. In a quick test, it blocked 8 out of 10 threats.

 

[amico81]

thx a lot for your quick test. yes panda free is light for years.
with firefox the web protection is very agressive ( i think the reason for the good scores @ av-test and av-comparatives)
Game mode exists in older versions too
the toolbar is crap

 

[bribon77]

The product is not bad. What I can not understand is the name of Panda. Panda is Av Spanish and here in Spain there are no pandas. There are other animals but Pandas do not.

 

[TairikuOkami]

Do you know why is Panda called Panda? - Panda Security

But why the name Panda for a security company? Have a guess! Is it:

a. Because the panda bear is not native to China, as believed, but to Spain, the country of origin of Panda Security.
b. Because the company was founded by a bunch of friends, and bunch of friends in Spanish translates as “panda”.
c. Because one of the creative’s favourite stuffed animal was a panda.

P.S.: I have actually liked it more, when they used the cute panda icon. If they were still using it, I would use it as a realtime AV, just for that alone.

 

[amico81]

yeah the old cute panda icon was great

 

[bribon77]

I can assure you that I have not seen any panda loose here in the Zoo, sure ... If it is true that a panda is a group of friends.
Well now I'm calmer. Thank you

Do you know why is Panda called Panda? - Panda Security



P.S.: I have actually liked it more, when they used the cute panda icon. If they were still using it, I would use it as a realtime AV, just for that alone.

 

[Antimalware18]

Think I might give this a spin. I used to like panda cloud years ago then on the past 2 machines ive owned for some reason the popups for a detection will lag around 1-2 minutes behind removal of file (same with Bitdefender free) wonder if this might be gone in this version.

 

[alidan]

I have a panda antivirus pro key but it does notwork with new version. Why???

 

[amico81]

the new version is for the moment just the free version. the paid versions are rolling out soon

 

[RoboMan]

What is this childish like theme with picture backgrounds? I seriously dislike the GUI... I hope they improved the product...

 

[amico81]

The GUI is a little bit laggy...like the interface from avast. No security improvements...just collecting data for their panda 360 adaptive defense (endpoint)

 

[woodrowbone]

I would say, it is even lighter than before.

I concur, only 9MB here.
The only thing now is that Windows Defender did not "deactivate" itself, MsMpEng.exe still running at a new world heaviest champion record 101 MB!!!
This is very bad when running it by itself, extremely sluggish, but a real pain in the A.. alongside Panda.
Anyone knows the best way to disable this " feature" from Microsoft?

/W

 

[Arequire]

For those who like the background picture, the place is called Moraine Lake.

 

[Lobito Punky]

One question, when you scan for malware also see the registry keys scanned? Greetings friends.

 

[blueblackwow65]

Hi anyone know if detection has increased ? Also how is the vpn a new part of it? Thks

 

[Arequire]

One question, when you scan for malware also see the registry keys scanned? Greetings friends.

I don't remember keys being visually scanned in the previous version and as far as I'm aware the scanning process hasn't changed.

Hi anyone know if detection has increased ?

Noting new detection wise. Still the same mediocre signatures and slow-to-react behaviour blocker.

 

[Mr.Wave]

What about some security features?! changing the Gui won't help me! they should change their name to coala because they are too lazy in the term of protection

Then sloth will be a much more suitable for them

 

[TairikuOkami]

Hi anyone know if detection has increased ?

It seems good enough, listed as #1.