BY
NEIL J. RUBENKING Having two distinct lines can be tough for an antivirus vendor. Your products can wind competing with one another. Panda Security is no longer in that position. Before now, the company offered both Panda Cloud Antivirus Free Edition 3.0 and Panda Cloud Antivirus Pro Edition 3.0in parallel with Panda Antivirus Pro 2014$23.19 at Amazon. Panda Antivirus 2015 is now the entry-level product, and it's both easy to use and extremely effective. It uses Panda's cloud-based scanning technology, though "Cloud" no longer appears in the name, but you still go to
www.cloudantivirus.com to download Panda Free Antivirus 2015.
Simple Install
Two clicks gets Panda's installer running. If you accept all defaults, it sets Yahoo as your default search provider and changes your home page to Yahoo-powered MyStart. If you allow this, Panda gets a little income from Yahoo, but you're free to opt out. The installer for ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus + Firewall 2015 doesn't let you bypass its similar requirement. A full scan of my standard clean test system took slightly more than 30 minutes, which is about average. A repeat scan ran slightly faster, but nothing like the super-fast repeat scan I experienced when testing Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2015 $39.95 at BitDefender.