Panda Free Antivirus has several scanning options. A Critical Area scan checks the most commonly infected areas of a PC in around five minutes; the Custom scan only inspects the files or folders you specify; and the Full System scan, of course, checks everything.
If that's not enough, you can also set multiple scheduled scans. These start with a Critical Areas, Full System or Custom scan, but you can also exclude particular folders or file types handy for speeding up scans.
We noticed one unusual omission. Panda Free Antivirus doesn't integrate with Explorer, so right clicking a file or folder doesn't get you a 'Scan with Panda' option.
The only way to check a specific item is to manually open the app, choose the Custom scan and select a folder manually. That's a hassle we don't see elsewhere. Scan times were reasonable during testing. Panda Free Antivirus checked our 50GB of test executables in 39 minutes for the first scan, within the 15—minute range we typically see.
There's some optimization for subsequent scans, and Panda took 24 minutes for scan 2. Others go further, though: Bitdefender checks only new and changed files, and in a recent review its second scan completed in less than a minute. AV-Comparatives' Real-World Protection Test is a comprehensive benchmark which pits 17 top antivirus engines against the latest malware.
There's a potential issue in Panda's relatively high number of false positives: 25, the second highest in the report. That's important, because it's much easier to block all threats if you stop every process which looks faintly suspicious.
Most companies are much more precise in their targeting; Kaspersky reached 4th place, blocking We typically test antivirus by checking how it handles our own custom ransomware. That's less important here, as Panda says its free software doesn't have full ransomware protection. We put it to the test, anyway, and the company turned out to be absolutely right: Panda Free paid no attention to our threat, and allowed it to successfully encrypt thousands of documents.
And that's no great surprise. Although commercial products from Bitdefender, Kaspersky and Trend Micro all detected and blocked our test ransomware, Avast's and Avira's free products also missed it. We tried accessing a range of malicious URLs, too, with mixed results. Panda once again did a good job of spotting dangerous downloads when they hit our hard drive. It didn't block threats at the URL level, though, leaving us exposed to phishing sites or other browser-based dangers.
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