D'oh! Panda Security mistakes itself for malware, quarantines crucial files
Antivirus provider, Panda Security, was left scrambling for a solution after it mistakenly flagged itself as malware.
Jared Newman | 14 Mar | Read more
Antivirus provider, Panda Security, was left scrambling for a solution after it mistakenly flagged itself as malware.
Jared Newman | 14 Mar | Read more
Antivirus suites are only as good as their latest tests. And in AV-test.org's latest roundup for July and August, the usual suspects--BitDefender, Kaspersky, McAfee, and Symantec--came out on top.
Mark Hachman | 30 Sep | Read more
It's generally accepted that antivirus programs provide a necessary protection layer, but organizations should audit such products before deploying them on their systems because many of them contain serious vulnerabilities, a researcher warned.
Lucian Constantin | 31 Jul | Read more
Panda Security is the plucky Spanish antivirus firm that stormed the international market nearly a decade ago as malware threats boomed, beating most of its rivals to the idea of cloud security as an alternative to signature scanning. Well regarded technically and apparently successful, around 2010 the firm suddenly hit a sales wall.
John E Dunn | 16 Jul | Read more
US firm Malwarebytes has announced a security product it believes can do something that has eluded even the best-resourced security firms in the business – block all zero-day attacks known and unknown against popular Windows applications.
John E Dunn | 13 Jun | Read more
The good news is that Collective Intelligence (CI), the engine for Internet security created in 2006 by <a href="http://blogs.csoonline.com/1581/one_of_the_worst_quarters_ever_for_security">Panda Security's malware research laboratory</a>, recently processed its 200 millionth malware file via the cloud. That's also the bad news.
Taylor Armerding | 12 Nov | Read more
Panda Cloud Antivirus is a unique entry in the free antivirus race. Most free antivirus products still rely on signature updates to detect new malware, but Panda's program instead uses fresh data about malware direct from Panda's servers. As a result, Cloud Antivirus put up some excellent results in some malware detection tests, but its scan speeds were slower than we would have liked to see.
Nick Mediati | 30 Nov | Read more
Attacks on the Mac are now significant enough to warrant Apple users investing in an anti-virus product, security company Panda Security said as it launched a new product that offers such protection.
John E Dunn | 22 Oct | Read more
Everyone knows that the Mac OS X operating system is just inherently secure. Any Apple loyalist will gladly explain to you everything that is wrong with Microsoft Windows, and how happy they are with not having to worry about malware and exploits on their shiny new Mac. So, I guess Macs don't need security software and we have nothing left to talk about...
Tony Bradley | 21 Oct | Read more
The self-styled campaigners who launched DDoS attacks on a range of prominent copyright and anti-piracy organisations last week has threatened further attacks in an interview with security company, Panda Security.
John E Dunn | 06 Oct | Read more
The use of Tabnapping, the recently-identified phishing technique, is on the rise, says Panda Labs.
Carrie-Ann Skinner | 02 Jul | Read more