Free cloud-based antivirus

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Free cloud-based antivirus

Panda Security launches world’s first free cloud-based antivirus

 

[gilani777]

hmmm not compatible with 64Bit

 

[noswal]

Installed it and giving it a try

 

[w1z4rd]

Intel believes Government should create the environment for broadband deployment

Not ours, thanks to our dearly departed telecoms tyrant, most people cant afford to use bandwidth for cloud computing

 

[arf9999]

I'd be interested to see the bw usage. For netbook type devices, this may be ideal.

 

[Boerewors]

Any news on the BW usage? I pay 25c a meg and having this thing eat up my budget would not be good.

 

[kronoSX]

So it updates automaticallySO with my ppdb it would be expensive.
Downloading it now and setting up my firewall to not allow it internet access

 

[iDenTiTy]

If I understand correctly, the scanning engine resides on the panda servers?

So theoretically, we don't update, they do?

 

[ebendl]

My questions would be:
a) How much bandwidth? According to their blog (http://blog.cloudantivirus.com/), they send all the EXE and other executable files to "the cloud" for scanning. They prioritise the ones you actually run, so it might be not that much. The background scanner sends the rest periodically. However, might add up to quite a bit, and what about ZIP files and Word docs etc.?

b) Does this mean no scanning if you don't have an open, active internet connection? Netbook guys on the road without 3G might run into a problem...

 

[pkid]

If I understand correctly, the scanning engine resides on the panda servers?

So theoretically, we don't update, they do?

The client software would still have to be notified if a file is dangerous. So it would have to send a hash of the file to their servers and get the response. I think it also caches some signature info on the most popular threats for when you are offline...

 

[Tns]

this would chew up bandwidth ?

 

[Boerewors]

oh yes, if it sends the exe to the cloud, that will use a large amount of bandwidth. Thanks Telskelm for making us fall behind the world.... again

 

[semaphore]

sounds like way to much overhead, and very time consuming. No thanks.

 

[tjunyat]

While everyon worried about bandwidth, perhaps I'm being paranoid, but I'm more worried about security.
Why do I want my files sent elsewhere to be scanned? Sensitive documents etc being uploaded to a possibly insecure 3rd party offsite platform to be scanned? Thanks, but no.