Software Test: Panda Cloud Antivirus

The big panda 

To use the feature, you must first select whether you want to create a recovery USB drive or create a so-called recovery boot sector. If you choose the latter, the boot sector scan option will appear in the list of systems each time you start your computer, and if you select the former, you will get a flash drive that can scan multiple infected PCs.

The first option was also tested in real time, the protection works properly, the investigation took place in a surprisingly short time. We also personally made sure that after removing Panda, the boot file will return to its original state.

This protection can be effective against the blackmail viruses that unfortunately come to the fore today, which lock certain files and folders. We rightly hope that we do not have to use this weapon many times, I think it is a kind of last refuge.

The little panda 

Finally, we need to say a few more words about the parental control service. Again, we got a useful, and among the free antivirus, a truly unique implementation. In the image above, you can see that you can narrow down the list of web pages you can view through a number of categories, and you can also enable and lock addresses and address ranges. If everything is set up correctly, the image below will greet us. It's a good idea to password protect your antivirus before using this feature, but after that, a profile with administrator privileges will be no exception.

Parental Controls has also got a great summary page where you can track exactly what web addresses a looper has opened by day, week and month - Panda can also display links by category (such as news portals).

In the meantime, we realized that these settings may not have been hidden by accident.