Panda quits, changes lingo, news at 11
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ceagleToday, when I started my computer at work, Panda Security Anti-Virus went postal :/
I've been testing it for about three years, and being that it's somewhat anthropomorphic in name, I was rooting for it. Despite a few minor issues, it's been pretty dependable... until today. Firstly, it went completely Spanish and wouldn't let me set it back to English. ;P .... Also, it refused to start or run properly.
I am wondering if this has anything to do with the main company completely updating its base verion to 2.0 within the last week or so.
In fact, the New Programs listing showed that it was listed as a new program, so it must have auto-updated to 2.0 and lost functionality. Another case of one of the modern day worst epidemics: POOR FIELD TESTING BEFORE RELEASE. I see this all the time in my business, and it's a sad testimony to the current mindset in much of technology.
Summarizing, I can no longer recommend Panda as an anti-virus option -_-
The newly updated list is:
1) MSE
2) AVG
3) TrendMicro
The following are secondary options:
4) Avira
5) Avast
6) Comodo
7) eSet
For sheer bloat and slowness, I do not recommend
8) McAfee
9) Kaspersky
One more note.... Norton had also become an unwieldy behemoth over the last decade, but the last installation I encountered on a Win7 intel-i7 machine seemed to handle it quite well, so perhaps hardware has finally caught up to match Norton on a manageable level once again, so I will half-recommend Norton if this trend continues.
Best Wishes, and compute safely :>
I've been testing it for about three years, and being that it's somewhat anthropomorphic in name, I was rooting for it. Despite a few minor issues, it's been pretty dependable... until today. Firstly, it went completely Spanish and wouldn't let me set it back to English. ;P .... Also, it refused to start or run properly.
I am wondering if this has anything to do with the main company completely updating its base verion to 2.0 within the last week or so.
In fact, the New Programs listing showed that it was listed as a new program, so it must have auto-updated to 2.0 and lost functionality. Another case of one of the modern day worst epidemics: POOR FIELD TESTING BEFORE RELEASE. I see this all the time in my business, and it's a sad testimony to the current mindset in much of technology.
Summarizing, I can no longer recommend Panda as an anti-virus option -_-
The newly updated list is:
1) MSE
2) AVG
3) TrendMicro
The following are secondary options:
4) Avira
5) Avast
6) Comodo
7) eSet
For sheer bloat and slowness, I do not recommend
8) McAfee
9) Kaspersky
One more note.... Norton had also become an unwieldy behemoth over the last decade, but the last installation I encountered on a Win7 intel-i7 machine seemed to handle it quite well, so perhaps hardware has finally caught up to match Norton on a manageable level once again, so I will half-recommend Norton if this trend continues.
Best Wishes, and compute safely :>
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Date: 2012-07-24 06:28 pm (UTC)EDIT: I should add that for Mac folks, the free version of Sophos Antivirus for OS X is pretty good.
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Date: 2012-07-25 03:36 am (UTC)Yesh... it's not perfect.. heh... In fact I had a horrendous time when going from v8 to v9, but I resolved it eventually, for the most part.
Interesting about the visual stuttering... I think I've noticed that on both avg and mse systems, but not on Panda ones. Oddly enough, I went to fix one of my client's machines today... one that has one of my rare Panda installations on it, XP service pack 3 .... and it did that crazy auto-update it's been doing this week, going to Spanish interface, and flashing a message icon.... but after a few minutes, it recovered!! My own machine with Panda did not recover.
I guess it's possible they fixed the issue from a few days ago with an update by now.