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Panda Software Panda Platinum 2006 Internet Security

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Pros
Superior heuristics
Cons
Expensive

$1.50 - $7.00
From 4 Merchants

Performance
Cost of renewal when reviewed	$60
Performance	Very Good
WildList viruses	100%
AV-Test threats: back doors	92%
AV-Test threats: bots/zombies	96%
AV-Test threats: Trojan horses	95%
Heuristic detection with three-month-old signatures	91%
Detection of malware within file archives	100%
Detection of malware within runtime-compressed program files	53%
Adware detection	77%
Successful cleanup of malware files, Registry entries, and Hosts-file changes	38%
Rate of false positives	0.00%
Detection of malware embedded in Microsoft Office OLE objects	100%
Detection of malware in password-protected Microsoft Office OLE objects	100%
Firewall tests: protection from inside attacks	90%
Firewall tests: protection from outside attacks	100%
Scan speed (minutes)	6.65
Percentage slowdown of WorldBench 5 application tests
ACD Systems ACDSee PowerPack 5.0.0.0025	2%
Adobe Premiere 6.5	2%
Ahead Software Nero Express 6.0.0.3	9%
Microsoft Office 2002 SP-2	6%
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0.0.2980	14%
Mozilla 1.4.0.2003062408	10%
Musicmatch Jukebox 7.10.1057	0%
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5.545.0	8%
WinZip Computing WinZip 8.1 SR-1 (5266)	3%
Ease-of-use score	Good
Support policies
Daily support hours	13.5
Free phone support	No
Cost of phone support	$20 per incident
Saturday support hours	None
Sunday support hours	None
Toll-free support	No
E-mail support	Yes
Live chat	No

User Reviews for Panda Software Panda Platinum 2006 Internet Security

Reviewed by: whyme

Duration of ownership: 12 Months

Strengths: Panda found and removed a virus that plagued me and the best McAfee techs. After that I removed all McAfee products. Panda has done a great job detecting/stopping problems before they crept into my computer. Panda seems to also be overly protective and a pain at times.

Weaknesses: Twice I've had major problems accessing the internet on my desktop and wireless laptop and spent countless hours with techs only to discover the lastest Panda weekly upgrade screwed up everything and held me hostage. The solution was to uninstall and reinstall Panda Internet Security 2006. Frustrating.

Overall Evaluation: I'm cancelling Panda Internet Security 2006 and try Norton. Besides Panda techs take forever to respond to e-mail support and phone support isn't much support.
Reviewed by: Donovan

Duration of ownership: 2 Months

Strengths: Good protection, self-diagnosis, automatic updates.

Weaknesses: None that I have found so far.

Overall Evaluation: I've had Panda's antivirus software for a little over 2 months now. I absolutely love it. It's very user friendly; clean cut, no big macho words or anything like that. It rarely interrupts me with dumb reports, etc. but does tell me when it has found viruses and updated, which is very nice. It does a very good job, and works well with my "layered" protection. Panda doesn't hog CPU usage, unlike other antivirus programs, you don't even know it's there. Recommended for the ease of use, protection and the features.