Panda Software has launched a new free online antivirus scan which can find more than one million spyware and viruses on your PC in record breaking time : less than a minute !
“With this launch, Panda Software is contributing to the rapidly expanding Web 2.0 user community,” says Jeremy Matthews, MD of Panda Software SA. “Portals such as iGoogle, Windows Live, NetVibes or Protopage, already have custom versions of NanoScan, where visitors can benefit from the speed and detection capacity of NanoScan.”
Since NanoScan detects all the malware that could be running on the system (viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware, etc.), it provides a highly useful 'second opinion’ that complements any anti-virus installed on a system, he adds.
Currently, NanoScan is claimed to detect more than one million samples of known malware and is continually updated against new threats, with almost 2500 new samples a day. It also detects unknown malware thanks to the Genetic Heuristic Technology, Matthews adds.
NanoScan uses a Collective Intelligence approach. This approach is designed to include automated processing of large quantities of information about programs and files, in an infrastructure managed by PandaLabs, and real-time communication with users’ computers. This way, the malware scan and detection is performed on Panda Software’s servers, not on the system itself, he says.
Thanks to this approach, NanoScanis claimed to be capable of detecting even malware samples that slipped past other anti-virus solutions, and which are actively carrying out
malicious actions on the computer. |
