What are the benefits of using the free Panda Cloud Antivirus?

Grazed from AlphaWired. Author: Ivan Ivanoff.

The free Panda Cloud Antivirus software has been initially released back in November, 2009. Even though most people at the time thought that a cloud computing antivirus service would only be slowing down your personal computer more and more people are switching to using the antivirus software. However, what exactly are the benefits of using a cloud antivirus protection software?

What is Cloud Computing?

In case you have been living on Mars or are just not that interested into the way things work, cloud computing is a rather new hosting technology that allows developers to provide people with more sophisticated web applications. In cloud computing, instead of reserving a limited amount of computing power for a certain web application or user, the hosting service shares its computing power with all applications and distributes it in a way to let every user enjoy their experience with the certain web application…

How does the Panda Cloud Antivirus handle Security?

Using the cloud computing technology, instead of scanning your files locally, the free Panda Cloud Antivirus performs a constant file transfer and scans them on a remote server. Although this might be slowing down some users with slower internet connecting, the average connection speed and due to the software architecture of the free Panda Cloud Antivirus most users are barely feeling its presence. Moreover, even though it uses internet connection, it lets you enjoy your computing power to the fullest…

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