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| | The ABHP - A Bit of Humble Pie Network is not currently active and cannot accept new posts | | Cloud Anti-virus | Views: 550 | | Dec 29, 2009 8:48 pm | | Cloud Anti-virus | # | 
Ron Sam | | Can this be too true? Collective Intelligence?
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Panda's Collective Intelligence servers have analyzed 88,690,438 viruses and known goodware. Panda Cloud Antivirus connects to Collective Intelligence in real time. On this page you can see the new viruses that are being analyzed in real-time by Collective Intelligence as well as the viruses that Panda Cloud Antivirus is most frequently detecting on users' computers.
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Cloud anti-virus from Panda that happens to be free. It's open-source SW and updated by its constituents, you the user.
Watch a video explanation or download it.
http://www.cloudantivirus.com/en/
Question: Can I trust the situation of being in a bee hive?
(In a cloud environment, all security depends on the security of the cloud provider.)
RonPrivate Reply to Ron Sam | | Dec 29, 2009 9:04 pm | | re: Cloud Anti-virus | # | 
Scott Wolpow | | Panda is a very reputable company. Private Reply to Scott Wolpow | | Dec 30, 2009 3:19 am | | re: re: Cloud Anti-virus | # | 
Lamar Morgan 954-603-7901 | | Scott,
I watched the video. Very clever and informative. Now, here's a question. I have AVG on my computer. Panda Cloud is free. If it weren't for the fact I recently renewed my AVG subscription, would you recommend using Panda Cloud for anti-virus protection? Would you rely on a free software program to protect your computer from viruses? You did say Panda was a very reputable company. However, you and others here on Ryze have decried my use of free programs. I would not be using this program to service a client's needs. I would be using Panda Cloud to protect my own merchandise - a computer.
Lamar Morgan
CDMM - Synergistic Business Marketing
(707)709-8605
Need PR?...Call Lamar! Private Reply to Lamar Morgan 954-603-7901 | | Dec 30, 2009 2:33 pm | | re: re: re: Cloud Anti-virus | # |
Scott Wolpow | | I use AVG the free version. There is nothing wrong with free products. What you are confused is when to use it.
If AVG or Panda decided to charge for their product, I could easily find another product or pay for it.
If I built a business around offering free AV with only a minor charge for installing, and then they started to cahrge, my business model goes out the window.
Lets say tomorrow Squidoo.com decided no more ads, you had to pay $X per month to maintain your lens. And you can not save your data, your business model is now dead.
You are not protecting the computer, most viri will not hurt the physical machine. It just fouls up the OS.Private Reply to Scott Wolpow | | Dec 30, 2009 2:41 pm | | re: re: re: re: Cloud Anti-virus | # |
Lamar Morgan 954-603-7901 | | Scott,
I see you point - even though I did not ask for it. But, you really did not answer the question I asked. So, let me ask it a different way - Would you use both Panda and AVG on the same machine? Would that be a wise or a foolish thing to do - two anti-virus programs associated with the same machine? Does it even matter?
Lamar Morgan
CDMM - Synergistic Business Marketing
(707)709-8605
Need PR?...Call Lamar! Private Reply to Lamar Morgan 954-603-7901 | | Dec 30, 2009 3:03 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: Cloud Anti-virus | # |
Scott Wolpow | | No, why would you use both? There may be conflicts, but would not harm your machine. Private Reply to Scott Wolpow | | Dec 30, 2009 4:45 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: re: Cloud Anti-virus | # | 
Kurt Schweitzer | | The more programs you use that do the same thing, the more difficulty you have managing them.
For example, suppose you use both MS Outlook and Gmail for email. When someone asks if you received a message from them you have two places to look.
(By the way, I have five different email addresses, due to the multiple domains I own. Even though I only use one email program, I still have multiple inboxes to check when someone asks "did you receive my message?")
Back to your AV question: I use Zone Alarm as my principal firewall program, mainly because of the way it works with the firewall hardware on my network. Zone Alarm includes AV and AS components.
My computer also comes with Windows Defender. Then there's Norton AV that came piggybacked on some other piece of software.
A friend of mine put together the Security Tango (http://securitytango.com/) which has instructions for cleaning an infected computer. It used to use Ad Aware and SpyBot for cleanup, both of which include AV/AS "protection" modules. He has since switched to other programs which to the best of my knowledge don't spawn off background programs.
The problem here is that each piece of AV software you have running slows down your system. Everything coming in from the Net gets scanned by each program before it gets opened. Sure, it keeps your computer clean, but so does simply turning it off!
If I were you I'd pick one AV program and leave it at that.Private Reply to Kurt Schweitzer | | |
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