Is Panda actually a virus?

After having more than my fair share of battles with Panda Antivirus I begin to wonder, is Panda as much of an anti-virus as it is a virus in itself?

I have, over the course of the last 6 months analyzed every application crash, BSOD and alike on the computers at work (20 all in all) and reached the conclusion that 96,8% of all crashes are caused by, yes you guessed it, PAV. No only does it crash the applications, once everything is running, it’s only running on about 75% of the normal speed due to the fact that this little ill-willing bear rummage around in the background and eats system resources. I have even tried to remove it, worked like a charm, except for one thing, it still leaves some files behind, which will contact our main file server, fetch itself and install itself silently in the background, time and time again.

So, in short, here we have a program that will:

• Slow down your computer.
• Prevent you from accessing some files that you actually know are harmless but the Panda doesn’t.
• Crash your applications and even Windows itself forcing you to restart and lose vital data.
• Fetch itself and install itself silently in the background without any involvement from you as end-user.

And how do we notice we have a virus?
Well, mainly it will:

• Slow down your computer.
• Prevent you from accessing some files that you actually know are harmless but the Panda doesn’t.
• Crash your applications and even Windows itself forcing you to restart and lose vital data.
• Fetch itself and install itself silently in the background without any involvement from you as end-user.

See the similarities?

~ by itwtf on July 25, 2008.