# Panda Cloud Anti-Virus?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 19, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panda-cloud-anti-virus/529659 "2010-02-19T18:33:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panda-cloud-anti-virus/529659/1 "2010-02-19T18:33:06Z")

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Does anyone have an opinion on [Panda Cloud anti-virus?](http://www.cloudantivirus.com/en/) How does it compare to other anti-virus programs?

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**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panda-cloud-anti-virus/529659/2 "2010-02-19T18:59:14Z")

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IMO, the only anti-virus anyone needs is (assuming you’re running Windows, which is a good assumption if you’re asking about anti-virus programs) Windows Defender. It has a good built in anti-virus, spyware, and firewall. It works well with other programs, gets updates just fine, and does everything you need.

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**Author:** ![lalenin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@lalenin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lalenin)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panda-cloud-anti-virus/529659/3 "2010-02-19T19:07:50Z")

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> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> Does anyone have an opinion on [Panda Cloud anti-virus?](http://www.cloudantivirus.com/en/) How does it compare to other anti-virus programs?

I’ve been using Immunet, another cloud anti-virus, in one of my computers and have no problems to report. By the way, it replaced Microsoft Essentials on the same machine because ME would occasionally spike the CPU to 100% and that just bugged me.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panda-cloud-anti-virus/529659/4 "2010-02-19T22:53:01Z")

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Nobody uses Panda Cloud?

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**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panda-cloud-anti-virus/529659/5 "2010-02-20T17:14:31Z")

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I’ve read reviews of it in _PC Magazine_ and it rated 99% in detection. It was a bit less accurate at detecting bad sites online, in other words link scanners, but I’ve never had an issue with it.

I like AVG, the only issues I had were the link scanner and email scanner which slows the computer down to a crawl, but makes sense, since it’s looking at the links first.

What I would do is go an install it and see how it works for you. Since it’s free what have you to lose. The only thing is anti-virus software usually conflict with each other so you will have to remove any other anti-virus programs first, most likely

A lot of times virus detectors are personal preferences. I know people who love AVAST, but I can’t stand the way it works, but it’s detection rate is similar to AVG so it really doesn’t matter.