NanoScan beta is awarded five stars by SVM magazine

The French magazine SVM has awarded its highest rating of five stars to NanoScan beta, Panda Software’s online scanner that can detect all active malware in computers in less than a minute. The magazine indicates that “Panda Software has gone for an original approach regarding virus detection, even unknown viruses, very close to the Web 2.0 concept.”

“NanoScan beta is extremely fast: Everything is done in less than a minute, that’s the time it takes from the start to the end of the scan,” says the magazine.

“You don’t need to install a thing to use the program,” points out SVM, “In fact, only a small 400KB control is downloaded. The signature file, an antivirus’ heaviest component, is hosted on Panda’s servers.”

The magazine concludes by saying:  “This is a quick scanner for the computer memory, and allows you to immediately find out if your PC is clean just before performing some important action (access online banks, registrations, etc.).”

NanoScan beta detects over 700,000 examples of known malware and constantly updates against new threats. It also detects unknown malware thanks to the intelligent anti-malware technologies TruPrevent.

NanoScan beta’s huge detection capacity lies in the ‘Anti-malware Collective Intelligence’, a system developed by Panda Research. Unlike traditional antiviruses, NanoScan does not need to install a virus signature file on the computer, as it has online access to Panda Software’s malware knowledge base hosted in a network of datacenters.

The new security approach developed by Panda Software is based on 3 factors:

1. Collection of data from the Web community. The system centrally collects and stores behavioral patterns of programs, file traces, new malware samples, etc. This data comes from Panda users, and from other companies and collaborators.  This extensive capacity to collect information provides greater visibility of active Internet threats.

2. Automatic leverage of data. The system automatically analyzes and classifies the thousands of new samples received every day. To do this, an expert system correlates the data received from the community with PandaLab’s extensive malware knowledge base. The system automatically returns verdicts (malware or goodware) on the new files received, thereby drastically reducing the manual workload at PandaLabs.

3. Making the knowledge available. This knowledge is delivered to users as Web services or through signature file updates.

Thanks to this new approach, NanoScan can detect malware that has slipped past other antivirus solutions and is carrying out malicious actions on the computer.