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Panda Security has launched a new beta version of Panda Cloud Antivirus, the first and only free antivirus (Thin-Client) cloud antivirus (common database continuously updated with data collected from all users), with a 50% less impact on PC performance.

This new version of Panda Cloud Antivirus introduces a new protection model that uses an extremely lightweight agent and a server architecture that processes and blocking malware more effectively than signature-based products.

By moving the entire process of analysis and determination of malware to the cloud, and applying non-intrusive interception techniques, Panda Cloud Antivirus can provide advanced protection against new and unknown threats with an extremely lightweight agent that hardly consumes any PC resources.

Panda Cloud Antivirus includes local and remote antivirus, antispyware, anti-rootkit and consumes on average only 17MB of RAM and has only 50% of the impact on PC performance compared with the average in the industry.

Warning: This software it is a BETA. Use at your own risk.

Panda Cloud Antivirus beta 3 (Windows XP/Vista/Win7):

Download [32bits]: Panda Cloud Antivirus 0.08.83 Beta 3 [ 19.00MB]
Download [64bits]: Panda Cloud Antivirus 0.08.83 Beta 3 [19.76 MB]

[via pplware]