I appreciate all your valuable input but come on, always been a top brand? That's just straightup nonsense my friend. It's always been a so so company with a so so product wich right now happens to rock at avc but that's basicly it. Not saying it's a bad or average product tho.
After working with them (trough my job) pretty much since they started, and knowing the full background of Panda i can tell you that you are the one not knowing what you are talking about. (No disrespect intended)
However i will say that Panda did have a lesser time as they changed some things around which did not work out the way they intended.
But fact is that Panda antivirus has brought many innovations to the antivirus community that even Symantec and Mcafee cannot claim. Many AV companies today base their engine technology on trueprevent and other innovations that Panda introduced.
Now i am not a fan of them, but like it or not they are a top brand as the antivirus part is just a tiny bit of what they really bring to the antivirus community. you might wanna read
this wiki
So before you make sensational statements please remind yourself that there are people here on MT that might know the companies mentioned.
Cheers