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New advanced configuration options such as asking for confirmation before neutralizing.

Improved performance and 50% faster scans.

Process monitor allows seeing Internet connections on a per process basis.

New behavioral analysis engine in the free edition.

Community-based firewall (pro edition only).

Otherwise, Panda still uses little resources and works well. We might not mind a weekly pop-up or email, but antivirus should be set it and forget it. Panda has been marked Ad-Supported because of this. While we have enjoyed using Panda as one of our go-to antivirus apps, they started popping up ads almost daily for their products. Panda Free Antivirus provides you with the fastest protection against the newest viruses thanks to its cloud-scanning from Panda servers. It is extremely light as all the work is done in the cloud. Unfortunately, we can't recommend it: protection is only single-layered, the VPN is of very limited use, and when it comes to false positives the whole suite is just too trigger-happy to fully win our trust.Panda Dome Free Antivirus is cloud-based antivirus application designed to protect you without wasting resources.

Its 100% protection rating is eye-catching to say the least, and the Process Monitor is a real strength. Panda Free Antivirus - or Panda Dome, or whatever they want to call it - is certainly a security solution with a character all of its own. A nice touch is that each process shows the date when it was first detected, so you can instantly spot anything that's freshly arrived on your PC. At first glance this looks like a simple copy of the Windows Task Manager, but it's actually more similar to a firewall, exposing which processes are accessing the internet, assigning each one a trust rating and letting you block any unwanted items with a click. Since the USB autorun feature has been disabled in the OS since Windows 7 it's questionable how necessary this is, though it doesn't hurt to have that option.

One slightly surprising inclusion is the USB Protection module, which 'vaccinates' flash drives to ensure they can't be infected with autorun viruses.

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