MADRID, July 20 /PRNewswire/ --     Panda Security (http://www.pandasecurity.com), The Cloud Security
Company, today announced the general availability of the Beta2 version of
Panda Cloud Antivirus (http://www.cloudantivirus.com), the industry's first
and only free, thin-client, cloud-based antivirus which halves the impact on
computer performance compared with traditional antivirus products. Users can
download this new version for free from http://www.cloudantivirus.com or
visit the official developer blog at http://blog.cloudantivirus.com.

Since its original launch on April 29, and with the participation of the
product's user community, more than three million new malware samples have
been received at PandaLabs. This knowledge has been compiled and returned to
the community in the form of greater protection, and has contributed to an
even faster response time from Panda's proprietary Collective Intelligence
(http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/solutions/collective-intelligence)
system. Each new file received by Collective Intelligence is classified
automatically within six minutes.

Panda Cloud Antivirus includes local and remote antivirus protection, as
well as anti-spyware, anti-rootkit, heuristic scanning and a goodware cache.
On average, it consumes just 17 MB of RAM, and ensures a 50 percent
improvement in computer performance compared to traditional antivirus
products. To see a video of how Panda Cloud Antivirus operates, go to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-JfW4Ut8kg.

Panda Cloud Antivirus represents a new security model based on
ultra-light client/server architecture to process and block malware more
effectively and efficiently than traditional products that rely on locally
installed signature files. By shifting the process of analyzing and
identifying malware (http://www.flickr.com/photos/panda_security/3723391446)
to the cloud, and applying non-intrusive interception techniques in client
architecture, Panda Cloud Antivirus delivers advanced protection against new
and unknown viruses with an extremely light, resource-friendly agent.

For more information or to download the product, go to:
http://www.cloudantivirus.com.

About Panda Security

Founded in 1990, Panda Security is the world's leading provider of
cloud-based security solutions with products available in more than 23
languages and millions of users located in 195 countries around the world.
Panda Security was the first IT security company to harness the power of
cloud computing with its Collective Intelligence technology. This innovative
security model can automatically analyze and classify thousands of new
malware samples per day, guaranteeing corporate customers and home users the
most effective protection against Internet threats with minimum impact on PC
performance. Panda Security has 56 offices throughout the globe with US
headquarters in California and European headquarters in Spain. For more
information, log on to http://www.pandasecurity.com