We’ve received quite a lot of reports lately from people who have managed to install Panda Cloud Antivirus Beta2 under Windows 7 based on a post from the DownloadSquad.
Basically the method used to install Cloud Antivirus Beta2 under Windows 7 consists of uncompressing the CloudAntivirus.exe installer file using WinRAR, 7-zip or any other capable un-compressor and setting the compatibility mode of the SETUP.EXE to Vista.
You may then run the installer by double-clicking on SETUP.EXE and this will install Cloud Antivirus Beta2 happily on a Windows 7 system.
During some quick testing both the on-access and the on-demand scanner seem to work normally.
However please be advised that Cloud Antivirus Beta2 has not yet been certified by our QA team and therefore is not fully Windows 7 compatible. We’re still working on Beta3 which will be fully compatible on both 32 and 64 bits Windows 7.
Panda Security specializes in the development of endpoint security products and is part of the WatchGuard portfolio of IT security solutions. Initially focused on the development of antivirus software, the company has since expanded its line of business to advanced cyber-security services with technology for preventing cyber-crime.
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I know what cloud computeing is.. but how are you utilizeing the technology. how are all the pcs shareing the load? or do they not?
Are you truely a cloud computeing anti-v.. meaning its users share the load of cpu,ram..
Or is this more of an Internet AP or software run on a server over a network to the end user?
from the video and other explanations of your software, it sounds like your doing what alot of companies are doing.. falsely labeling their internet service provider or application as a cloud computeing enviroment..
@paul I think you might be confusing the term “cloud computing” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing) with the term “distributed computing” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing).
What we do with Collective Intelligence and Panda Cloud Antivirus is basically to offload the scanning (signature & heuristics) from the PC resources to the “cloud” resources. “Cloud” refers to our PandaLabs Collective Intelligence servers which do all the processing for you.
There are other things CI does, you can read up on this in the following paper if you’re interested in the details:
http://research.pandasecurity.com/archive/Technology-Paper_3A00_-From-AV-to-Collective-Intelligence.aspx
i did it…working fine on Windows7 RC…no problems yet…
good job…waiting for beta3!
i know ist’s not good use 2 antivirus softwares at the same time, but i’m testing panda cloud with Microsoft security essentials…no conflicts yet…no bad experiences…both on windows 7 RC1
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@thiago interesting. If you do run into problems running both PCA & MSE at the same time let me know please.
I really like the idea. Too bad I am running Windows 7 RC x64. Didn’t get it to run … yet
Yes… I’ve been waiting for compatibility for quite some time. Just out of curiosity, what’s the ETA of Beta3? I’m just trying to figure out whether it’s worth it to download this now or wait a little bit longer.
@Mr.Fab yes this only works with x86 of Win7.
@mmmatthew ETA of Beta3 is September. So far no problems reported under Windows7 x86 if you’re thinking of installing.
i’m running in Windows 7 RC x32….so far no problems
no support yet for any x64 version of Win(XP, Vista, 7)??
Hi
I looked at the FAQ of the product, seems like a good idea. I have few questions, do you send running snapshots of the current applications in-order to detect malware? Plus, can users configure their own private grid and use them instead of public servers? If you are scanning running processes, there might be some proprietary product whose information I don’t want to send across to the network, is this use case handled?
you know when the setup fails vista and windows 7 detects this so when the set up exits it ask if you click and it installs no problem (as i just did i am guessing it does what you just did but far less complicated)
so any one trying panda cloud just Run the setup when it fails the pop up will come out asking you to do the above and it installs no fuss
other things
is there an site or sites (not email) that i can use to upload virus files so they can be detected as panda cloud or all anti virus company’s has no options to do that not even in the bin (be nice when adv options come around, when you scan 10 or less files you can pick out and submit them to panda as its an fuss to have to go into the program)
@lee
dono if it was edited out, after the (if you click part) it should say (Use recommended settings)
@Sreekanth Re snapshots: yes we send info about running processes, but are not storing snapshots just yet. It’s something we’d like to implement in the future.
Re: private grids instead of public servers. This is something we’re thinking about for networks but not for standalone machines.
Re: proprietary products, there is no use case for that just yet. It’s a possibility we might introduce at a later date as advanced configurations.
@lee Regarding a site to send a file to Panda or all AV vendors, I recommend http://www.virustotal.com. The files are automatically submitted to all AV companies.
Any know conflict when runnig along pc tools suite?
@Ben None reported. If you run into one please let us know!
@Ben Hey again Ben. Some guys from beta team have checked compatibility of CloudAV with PC Tools and have not found any incompatibilities.