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Brand new FREE Panda Cloud Antivirus

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Today's Money section of the USA Today newspaper had a writeup on a new type of Antivirus protection for you PC. The protection comes in the form of something new called Web-based "Cloud" computing. Other antivirus programs must be down loaded on your computer and updated and run on a reqular basis. This slows your computer down and ties up hard drive space. Web-based "cloud" computing works by moving it into a data center sitting in the internet cloud. To tap into this free service, you download a small pop-up dashboard from www.cloudantivirus.com . The dashboard connects your PC to Panda's data center, which monitors suspicious coding that comes into contact with your PC. While the data center keeps track of anything that looks remotely suspicious, it will only take action if an unauthorized program begins to execute on your PC. Panda says a virus is basically harmless until it's loaded into memory and executed. Sounds to good to be true. HAS ANYONE TRIED IT YET ??? Bye the way, I emailed Panda and asked what else on my PC they would be monitoring. :shrug:
KCI's Wingman
 
too many questions and issues for me to even think about trying it.

For example, what happens when my PC is not connected to the internet?

-David
 
I don't trust Panda software. A couple of years ago, I was trying to find a replacement anti virus suite for that useless Microsoft Live One. I used Panda's online virus scan and it came back to tell me it found viruses in several folders and named the programs. It also wouldn't clean them until I bought the program.
I spent quite a while trying to find these programs. They did not turn up in any searches, they were not hidden, no other company's online scans turned them up, they just did not exist. I figure it was a ploy to scare people into purchasing their product. I ended up going back to McAfee. When we switched to DSL and after McAfee's contract ended, I started using F-Secure which is provided free from my service provider. I have been pleased, so far.
 
I contacted Panda from their web site and asked what else they were going to be tracking in my PC besides virusus. They provided the following response:
"Thank you very much for sharing your experience at this Beta with us". Needless to say I won't be joining them with that response.
KCI's Wingman
 
Don't you just hate it when tech support give you a meaningless answer like that to your valid questions.
A couple of months ago, I contacted tech support at Zyxel about using one of their wireless routers with a laptop. The answer I got back was something like "Is there any thing better than the...(model #)."
I replied with the original message and his answer in the body, "That's all well and good, but you didn't answer my question!"
 
Don said:
Don't you just hate it when tech support give you a meaningless answer like that to your valid questions.
A couple of months ago, I contacted tech support at Zyxel about using one of their wireless routers with a laptop. The answer I got back was something like "Is there any thing better than the...(model #)."
I replied with the original message and his answer in the body, "That's all well and good, but you didn't answer my question!"
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Then the next e-mail reply is another canned response, dealing with another topic that again has nothing to do with your original question.

Often I know the first steps to take to fix a problem, and I've done those steps. I describe the results in the e-mail what I should do next. Then I get an e-mail back that starts at step 1, which I've already done (as well as steps 2, 3, and 4).

One of my favorites was when I got a totally off-topic reply and replied that it was not relevant and indicated they hadn't read my original e-mail. I then received a canned response saying they were sorry their service hadn't met my expectations and asking me to fill out a customer satisfaction form.
 
Or you ask for further assistance because you've tried everything in the troubleshooting section that pertains, and they send you a cut and paste of the same TS section you have already tried. I guess this is supposed to make you out to be an idiot because you can't read.
 
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