LazyLion
King of de Jungle
I was given a free copy of this Anti-Virus suite at the MyBroadband conference last Thursday. Been running it since last Friday here at the office.
1) Not heavy on the resources, but makes boot-up muuuuuch longer... especially as Windows is loading its start-up items... sometimes by an extra minute or two. Once I had to reboot because it hung at that point.
2) Interface is nice and modern, settings are easy to find.
3) It also wants to delete my keygens and other "generic malware". It deleted a few of them before I configured it not to look for jokes programs or hacking tools.
4) I e-mailed tech support about the exclusion list. The guy from Tech support told me that the version I was running was very out of date. so I asked him how that can be when It is labeled "Global Protection 2009"? He wanted me at first to install a new trial version. But then later said no he had made a mistake and misread the version and I was actually OK.
5) The suite has a self-analysis mode that checks if all part of the program are working which is nice... except that it keeps popping up every five minutes telling me to enable the firewall. Only problem is... the firewall IS enabled. Eventually I had to turn off the Panda firewall, re-enable the Windows firewall, and turn off the self-protection mode to keep it from bugging me.
so, all in all... not a suite I would recommend to people.
anybody else tried this?
1) Not heavy on the resources, but makes boot-up muuuuuch longer... especially as Windows is loading its start-up items... sometimes by an extra minute or two. Once I had to reboot because it hung at that point.
2) Interface is nice and modern, settings are easy to find.
3) It also wants to delete my keygens and other "generic malware". It deleted a few of them before I configured it not to look for jokes programs or hacking tools.
4) I e-mailed tech support about the exclusion list. The guy from Tech support told me that the version I was running was very out of date. so I asked him how that can be when It is labeled "Global Protection 2009"? He wanted me at first to install a new trial version. But then later said no he had made a mistake and misread the version and I was actually OK.
5) The suite has a self-analysis mode that checks if all part of the program are working which is nice... except that it keeps popping up every five minutes telling me to enable the firewall. Only problem is... the firewall IS enabled. Eventually I had to turn off the Panda firewall, re-enable the Windows firewall, and turn off the self-protection mode to keep it from bugging me.
so, all in all... not a suite I would recommend to people.
anybody else tried this?
- Mine is still in the bag I got on the day 