
Oh, and they want your email too.Panda Wednesday unveiled a beta of Panda Cloud Antivirus, a free security offering that uses client software and cloud-based scanning to protect PCs from viruses, spyware, rootkits, and other online threats.

And, if that wasn't enough, there's now a news ticker for some reason at the bottom. At one time, they were also nagging you daily to upgrade and\or leaving a nag at the top of the screen when it opened. If left unchecked, your home page will be Panda's personalized page, your search will be changed to Panda, powered by Yahoo. Panda is now $35 all the way up to $117 a year.

Improved performance and 50% faster scans.Process monitor allows seeing Internet connections on a per process basis.New behavioral analysis engine in the free edition.Community-based firewall (pro edition only).

Otherwise, Panda still uses little resources and works well. We might not mind a weekly pop-up or email, but antivirus should be set it and forget it. Panda has been marked Ad-Supported because of this. While we have enjoyed using Panda as one of our go-to antivirus apps, they started popping up ads almost daily for their products. Panda Free Antivirus provides you with the fastest protection against the newest viruses thanks to its cloud-scanning from Panda servers. It is extremely light as all the work is done in the cloud. Panda Dome Free Antivirus is cloud-based antivirus application designed to protect you without wasting resources.
