Its protection for Windows and Android is excellent, and the password manager is worth the upgrade to Panda Dome Complete. By contrast, Norton 360 Deluxe will include an unlimited VPN for significantly less.īut if you can live without the unlimited VPN, you can have a great deal at Panda.

However, if you want the unlimited VPN, you’ll need to buy Panda Dome Premium, which is quite expensive.

Its design is beautiful and intuitive, its protection features are extensive, and it has beaten all its competitors in AV-Comparatives’ real-world protection tests. Panda Dome Antivirus for Windows is outstanding. Most people won’t notice that they have AV software running on the system, except when a scan is being run, so the results from our test should be read alongside those from AV-Test, which looks at the difference between AV software sitting idle on a PC and it not being installed.Panda is ranked #3 out of 20 antivirus software. This is a clear indication that not much fingerprinting is being done and the software is still retesting a lot of files.Ĭopying a 1GB file with and without a background scan running took 51s and 41s, respectively, a 24 percent increase and very close to that fromīitdefender’s free antivirus. What was more surprising was that our secondary scan, of the same set of files, still took 1 hour 17 minutes to examine 426,178 files. This is not an undue worry for a first scan, as it’s during this task that most AV programs create a fingerprint of the files and know which ones not to retest unless they’ve undergone change between scans. Panda Free Antivirus 2016 review: performanceĪ 50GB scan took 1 hour 57 minutes for a scan of 455,748, the second longest of all the free antivirus programs we’ve tested recently.

This is something more and more of its competitors are now copying, but we didn’t notice any evidence of a low impact in our tests. Panda makes considerable claim for running most of its scanning in the cloud and having a very light touch on the PC platform its run on.

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