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Panda Security says it detects viruses, Trojans, worms, spyware, dialers, hacking tools, jokes and security risks.
Panda Cloud Antivirus relies on its "Collective Intelligence" and the cloud for up-to-date information. It normally uses an Internet connection to access up-to-date information; if the Internet cannot be accessed it will use a local cache of “the most common threats in circulation”.
Privacy concerns
Sending files or even checksums of segments of files out to a remote server to be processed is a severe privacy concern. The only guarantee of privacy in this case depends on both the goodwill of the company and security at their end. If Panda’s servers are compromised, either by a criminal who works for them or by a hacker, users’ security is compromised.
However this concern is not only exclusive to cloud-based products. Any antivirus or security product can push out a malicious update by a criminal working at the AV vendor or by a hacker who has compromised the AV update servers.
Features Panda Security says it detects viruses, Trojans, worms, spyware, dialers, hacking tools, jokes and security risks. Pa...
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