Pah - no need
Dont need it - I've got Vista Internet Security which I got for free and it's much better at finding infections than any of the others...
(Yes, I am joking)
Avira has added cloud technology to the latest version of its popular freebie anti-virus scanner. Version 10 of Avira AntiVir, released on Tuesday, adds cloud-based detection to a free-of-charge security scanner that competes with similar products offered by (Czech-firm ALWIL's) Avast and AVG. All three firms aim to move …
I don't get it... "clouds" are a bunch of VMs on boxes, they aren't magic. If they are having trouble sending definitions to users, then how does a cloud help? If they are sending people's files *to* a cloud to check them, surely that's far more traffic than sending out the updates (plus there's the troubling privacy issues of this technique). And, the cloud would need to have up-to-date definitions for it's scans to do any good either so it doesn't remove the burden of producing updates. Is it just using a "cloud" to distribute updates? That's a pretty round-about way to say you are using a content distribution network, bleh. Or is it to scan files *in* a cloud (i.e. in reality scan files inside VM images?)
Ha, that reminds me, Symantec are trying to sell my company NetBackup at the moment. As part of the bribing process I was offered their Anti Virus solution for home use. I politely told them it was a piece of shit and it'd only get used as a door stop. And by politely I mean I said it in them exact words.
I never did get my copy. Gutted
panda cloud anti-virus is nice in the sense that it takes virtually no resources away from my machine.. unfortunately, it's not keen enough to catch the majority of network worms. I'll give avast a whirl, hopefully it will gain the title of "First cloud AV to get the job done"
ciao mates
-xenu
distinguishing the wheat from the chaff with regard to anti-virus programmes is the Shadow Server Foundation (http://preview.tinyurl.com/yetkdb4 ) - scroll down the left-hand panel to the virus stats. Which provider leads the pack in percentage of Day0 attacks detected varies from day to day, but over the longer term, Avira has consistently been a winner. The pop-ups which try to convince users to subscribe to the paid-for version are rather intrusive, but can be disabled by following the instructions in this WikiHow article (http://preview.tinyurl.com/5j6jna )....
Henri