Free Panda Anti-Virus and Firewall for IT Professionals

[Wildcats]

Just got this message from a Winnetmag e-mail..... Valid for IT Professionals only. It appears they assume that if you use it at home and like it, you may influence your company to buy it someday. Reviews are mixed. http://www.scmagazine.com/scmagazine/sc-online/2002/review/31-/product.html
http://www.zdnet.com/supercenter/stories/review/0,12070,563560,00.html


Details:

YOU DESERVE FREE PROTECTION AT HOME! Tired of spending up to $50 on
AV and firewall licenses every year for each machine in your home?
Qualify on our industry perks program and never pay again! (Cover all
of your home machines too - for free.). You'll get Panda Software's
professional AV + firewall, the one that catches More Viruses,
Faster(tm), even on machines you thought were protected! (Limited
time, US-only program for qualified entrants only.)

Click here now:
http://list.winnetmag.com/cgi-bin3/DM/y/eREo0DD3qB0CBw0BAft0Au

 

[aircooled]

Linked

 

[TexDotCom]

Thanks for the post. I am going to evaluate this at home, of course, but may recommend it to the rest of the Information Security department here at work if it's good.

 

[Fant]

Just a warning:

"As a condition of this offer, I agree to receive educational and promotional updates from Panda Software. "

I dunno if you can unsubscribe afterwards.

 

[Kreggo]

Originally posted by: Fant
Just a warning: "As a condition of this offer, I agree to receive educational and promotional updates from Panda Software. " I dunno if you can unsubscribe afterwards.

That's why you never, never, ever use your real email/contact/address info on these forms!

 

[mboy]

I use their global AV for fileservers and workstations on my LAN at work (about 55 nodes).Been working well for past year (just signed on for another 3 years of updates). NOT 1 virus has gone thru since I implemented it and they have updates just about every single day.
I am gonna sign up for the free stuff for home, hehehehe!

 

[weepul]

hehe, i got one of their t-shirts awhile back.

//krunk (^_^x)

 

[Tonix]

how 'bout cutting the bullcr@p from filling out the form and get the d/l here: http://216.240.153.30/files/platinum7.exe (note...that's panda's site)

 

[Doomer]

Thanks Tonix. That made it an even hotter deal.

 

[cremefilled]

Tonix, is that a version that gives you a year of updates? Download.com has had both the Platinum and Titanium versions of Panda available for a long time, but neither will give you any updates. Panda requires a username and password to login and update.

 

[cremefilled]

Here's the page on the offer that describes how to register for updates: panda says thanks

PCMagazine rated Panda #1 out of all AV programs around December of 2001. It slipped a bit in the rankings the next year, but was still highly rated. Norton came in first in 2002, so if you have access to it, you might want to stick with that. Norton is noted for using low system resources if monitoring is left on, which I like.

 

[cremefilled]

OK, one more addendum. You have to sign up with the Panda at the link in Wildcats' post. They email you a registration code, which you will then enter from within the AV program. Panda then emails you a username and password, which entitles you to free updates as long as you "qualify."

Without the signup procedure, no updates.

My spammail address has already received three emails in the last 10 minutes, none in the few days before that, so prepare to be saturation-bombed with spam if you sign up for this.

 

[SgtZulu]

this thing sounds like a virus all by itself
no thanks

 

[Keltron]

Are the virus defenition updates free forever or just for one year ?

 

[thommy]

Good deal...takes about 12 hours for the processing and email to go back and forth and to finally get your username/password for updates.

 

[Buckett]

I called and was told that it is free for one year. If you recommend the software to your company and they buy it, you get it free for longer. Looks like one year of Panda, and back to AVG and ZoneAlarm.

 

[rasputinj]

I use hardware based firewall, but for software I do like the zone alarm.

 

[Keltron]

Originally posted by: Tonix
how 'bout cutting the bullcr@p from filling out the form and get the d/l here: http://216.240.153.30/files/platinum7.exe (note...that's panda's site)

If you dont sign up at panda website and get a user id, you wont be able to get the updates. Panda will be keep asking for your user id

 

[craftech]

Isn't Panda the company that was linked to the Church of Scientology?
I don't particularly want to get spam from Waco, Texas. Or am I wrong regarding Panda? Anyone know?

 

[Tab]

Originally posted by: SgtZulu
this thing sounds like a virus all by itself
no thanks

LOL! That does sound right!

 

[mboy]

Originally posted by: craftech
Isn't Panda the company that was linked to the Church of Scientology?
I don't particularly want to get spam from Waco, Texas. Or am I wrong regarding Panda? Anyone know?

I highly doubt it considering they are HQ'd in Spain and I think their US presence is in Cali.

The only spam I have received so far from signing up for it, is some type of Windows/Networking newsletter they put out about vulnerabilities (could also be their newsletter Oxygen, but I subscribe to that anyway) so not sure if they auto sending out that too.

 

[Macro2]

panda link to church of s

 

[AAjax]

Originally posted by: Macro2
panda link to church of s

Eeeeeek! :~

 

[Wildcats]

I don't think that I'd take too much stock in an article from Mr. John Leyden at The Register. Instead of being afraid of the Church of Scientology, he should be afraid of the Catholic church and its $$ and influence (or Islam and its psychcos).

I have to admit, this Scientology stuff looks interesting. At least they don't spend their time bombing innocent people or molesting children.
Church of Scientology

Religeon: The root of all hatred and evil. How ironic.

I use Symatec AV that I get "free" each year at tax time, but here's the link to the Panda AV.
Link to Free Panda AV Software

 

[Farhood]

WARNING-
I downloaded the file from Panda, but upon extraction - Norton Corperate Antivirus detected a virus in my temp file - the same location WInZip extracted to! Coincidence - probably.

Make sure you give your real email or else you won't recieve a software lisense. You can also ask for more lisences.

Good move.