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Free is good: No-cost Panda Software tops AV-Test's rankings of antivirus software

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<p>Antivirus suites are only as good as their latest tests. And in AV-test.org’s latest roundup for July and August, the usual suspects—BitDefender, Kaspersky, McAfee, and Symantec—came out on top.</p><p>The same holds true for the free options. If you’re a cheapskate, you can download Panda Security’s free cloud antivirus (http://www.cloudantivirus.com/en/) and have a good chance that it will catch everything that the shadowy corners of the Web can throw at it—as it did in AV-test’s own proving ground.</p><figure class="large "><a class="zoom" href="https://cms-images.idgesg.net/images/article/2014/09/av-test-best-consumer-antivirus-aug-2014-corrected-100463291-orig.png">(https://cms-images.idgesg.net/images/article/2014/09/av-test-best-consumer-antivirus-aug-2014-corrected-100463291-large.png)[/url] <small class="credit">AV-Test.org</small> <figcaption>
<p>AV-test.org’s rankings of the various antimalware suites for July and August. We’ve highlighted the free options in red, and Microsoft’s built in Windows Defender in yellow.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2689232/free-is-good-no-cost-panda-software-tops-av-tests-rankings-of-antivirus-software.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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