Panda Research Blog

New Panda Research Blog Style

As you will notice we’ve migrated the Panda Research blog to a new platform, which I’m hoping will take less time to manage, specially moderating comments and filtering spam, which took a lot of time with the cumbersome Microsoft blogging platform. If you’ve posted a comment which hasn’t made the migration, please post it again. I’ll [...]

Panda Security Compatibility with Windows 7

I'm happy to announce that all our consumer and most corporate products with full Windows 7 compatibility have been released. You can download them from: http://www.pandasecurity.com/windows7

Panda Security Days in Sweden 09

Just as we did last year and other years before that, last week we had our Panda Security Days in Sweden. This year we started in Malmö, followed by Gothenburg and ending up in Stockholm. There were very good speakers from Panda presenting different topics; Cecilia Carlsdotter talked about Panda's corporate social responsabilities innitiatives. Sebastian [...]

Panda USB Vaccine – Version 1.0.1.4

We recently released version 1.0.1.4 of Panda USB Vaccine. This version includes a few bug fixes plus multi-lingual support. The MD5 of the executable is 58cc5b530fc552c8e31870f90db425ed. As always you can get it directly from download.com:

The Perfect Antivirus!

From web.splesh.net.

Cool video

Cool dragonball-like video from our partner in Taiwan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_kfddS_Tyc I specially like the part about TruPrevent.

Compatibility with Windows 7 – Part 2

As you may remember at the beginning of the year we released a Panda AV 2009 compatible with Windows 7. We are now releasing Windows 7 compatibility of our Panda 2010 products in a beta program. Be sure to check out http://www.pandasecurity.com/windows7 or simply download Panda Global Protection 2010 for Windows 7 directly from here.

Microsoft to disable AutoRun… maybe

Interesting news from Redmond:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/14/more_microsoft_autorun_fixes/ On Friday, Microsoft announced the availability of updates to the XP, Server 2003, Vista and Server 2008 versions of Windows that removes the AutoRun popup window when some types of removable media is connected. The change doesn't affect optical media such as CDs and DVDs, a shortcoming we'll get to in a moment.As we [...]

Panda SafeCD 3.4.3.5 Released

We just released Panda SafeCD version 3.4.3.5. This useful utility comes in handy when you need to clean a friend's PC (or your own) from a malware infested state. It is specially useful for detecting and disinfecting malware infections which give regular AV products running within Windows a hard time. Automatic detection and removal of all types [...]

Law enforcement = 0 / Bad guys = 1

It's a sad day for all of us when bad guys get caught, yet are allowed to walk freely. As reported by TheReg, James Reno, involved in the creation, distribution and scams using Rogue Antivirus such as ErrorSafe, WinAntiviurs and XPAntivirus, was allowed to "walk" with just a small fine of $116K. The article suggest he [...]