TotalScan Pro was launched in South Africa at Panda Security Day in Cape Town last week.
The product is a new online anti-virus that detects and disinfects over two million strains of known malware (viruses, spyware, Trojans, rootkits) and is continually updated against new threats, with more than 2 500 new examples every day. It also detects unknown threats, thanks to TruPrevent intelligent technologies.
The enormous detection capacity of Panda TotalScan Pro means it can even detect and eliminate threats that can slip past anti-viruses on computers. According to a study carried out by Panda Security at http://www.infectedornot.com, at least a quarter of computers with updated anti-virus are infected by some kind of threat.
TotalScan Pro is an excellent tool to use as a second opinion, periodically checking if there are viruses on a system. This new anti-virus from Panda Security is compatible with any other security products that users have on computers.
Similarly, it is an ideal tool to use before shopping or banking online. Thanks to the scan carried out by TotalScan Pro, users can make sure there are no keylogger Trojans on their computers, or any other active threats waiting to steal confidential data.
TotalScan Pro scans all system devices, hard disks, compressed files and all e-mail, rapidly seeking out all threats hidden on users` computers. TotalScan Pro lets users perform three types of scans:
* Quick (scanning critical sectors of the PC)
* Full (scanning total PC)
* Custom (scanning selected areas)
TotalScan Pro uses the most effective technologies for detecting both known and unknown rootkits. Rootkits are programs designed to hide files, processes or registry entries. Although they are not malicious in themselves, cyber criminals frequently use them to hide malicious code.
In order to detect active rootkits on computers, TotalScan Pro checks all of the processes that are running, comparing them with a knowledge base generated by Panda Security, and which is hosted in a network of data centres. In this way, any suspicious process is classified as malicious or not malicious. This tool can also pinpoint rootkits installed on the computer but not running at the time.
TotalScan Pro is compatible with Internet Explorer and Firefox. In the case of Firefox, a specific plug-in is used to achieve optimum performance.
TotalScan has already received international acclaim. The Finnish magazine, Finnish Micro PC, awarded the beta version of Panda TotalScan Pro - launched barely four months ago - the `Editor`s Choice` seal in a comparative review of 12 security solutions, including Symantec Security, Check, Windows Live Onecare and F-Secure Online Scanner.
New security focus
TotalScan Pro uses a new `collective intelligence` approach. This approach includes automated processing of large quantities of information about programs and files in a new infrastructure managed by PandaLabs, and real-time communication with users` computers.
This way, the malware scanning and detection is performed on Panda Security`s servers, not on the system itself. Thanks to this new approach, TotalScan Pro is capable of detecting even malware samples that slipped past other anti-virus solutions, and are active, carrying out malicious actions on the computer.
TotalScan Pro is complementary with all of Panda Security`s consumer products, but is also available as a standalone from the Panda Security online store at: https://shop.pandasoftware.com/.
If you want to try this application free and see if your computer is infected, you can get the demo version of TotalScan Pro at: http://www.pandasecurity.com/totalscan
PANDA SECURITY One step ahead.
Share
Editorial contacts