Panda Cloud Antivirus Outperforms McAfee, Microsoft and Trend Micro on Malware Protection in its First AV-Test.org Product Review

In Panda Cloud Antivirus' first participation in av-test.org's evaluation of antivirus vendors, Panda outperformed McAfee, Microsoft and Trend Micro among others.

The AV-Test.org evaluation, conducted between July and August 2011, compared Version 1.5.1 of Panda Cloud Antivirus to 24 other home user security products. The full report is available at http://www.av-test.org/no_cache/en/tests/test-reports/test-reports/?tx_avtestreports_pi1 [report_no]=113111.

It's an interesting positive note for a cloud based AV, and lends creedence to other cloud based architectures as well. So maybe the next step is cloud, or a mix of on premise and cloud, otherwise known as hybrid.