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New Panda Antivirus Command Line 9.5.1

Pedro Bustamante at  04 July 08 01:04    
I'm happy to announce the availability of our new Panda Antivirus Command-Line scanner (PAVCL) version 9.5.1.00. This new engine incorporates interesting features over previous versions specially focused on detecting and deactivating active rootkits
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Panda Internet Security 2009 BETA

Pedro Bustamante at  19 June 08 09:47    
We've recently released the new Panda Internet Security 2009 to public beta. This is the first product to use "scanning from the cloud" technology based on Panda's Collective Intelligence [ PDF ] as the first line of defense against
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Anti-Rootkit Testing

Pedro Bustamante at  16 May 08 12:02    
DarkReading issued a note a few days ago titled " New Tests Show Rootkits Still Evade AV ". These tests, originally performed by AV-Test.org , are becoming more important every day as malware is making use of advanced rootkit and hiding techniques
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29A Labs has left the building

Pedro Bustamante at  27 February 08 04:03    
One of the most famous international VX groups, 29A Labs, announced yesterday they are closing shop. Following is a note that VirusBuster, the last standing member of the now defunct 29A, posted on the group's website yesterday: I tried to contact
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Back from AVAR 2007

Pedro Bustamante at  05 December 07 01:59    
We just got back from the AAVAR 2007 conference in Seoul, Korea (Association of AntiVirus Asia Researchers). I have to say that it was a great conference where members from AV companies from around the world got a chance to get together, discuss new malware
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Back from Virus Bulletin 2007

Pedro Bustamante at  24 September 07 10:47    
We had a really great time at VB2007 in Vienna. Not only were the talks extremely useful and interesting, but meeting many people from other antivirus companies and putting a face to their email address was worth every minute. I have to agree with Randy
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Winds of change

Pedro Bustamante at  12 September 07 01:05    
As you can see we've re-designed the entire blog and moved it from research.pandasoftware.com to research.pandasecurity.com . We've also changed our company name from Panda Software to Panda Security, our logo and our website which is now at www.pandasecurity.com.
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Hello from Black Hat Amsterdam

Pedro Bustamante at  30 March 07 11:13    
It is now the start of the second day of Black Hat briefings at the great city of Amsterdam. The most remarkable presentation so far has been RFIDIOTs !!! from Adam Laurie, where he showed how to clone RFIDs and even read biometrical information from
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eCrime 2007 Congress

Pedro Bustamante at  29 March 07 04:45    
Yesterday the 2007 eCrime Congress finished in London. We had a good time there, met some interesting people and learned a lot about how financial entities and banks deal with fraud and phishing attacks. For those interested in my presentation about the
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Panda @ Jotti

Pedro Bustamante at  14 March 07 05:41    
We're happy to announce the integration of the Panda engine into Jotti online scanning service. Even though the linux pav engine at Jotti is a bit old and doesn't have genetic heuristics, we'll soon be integrating version 1.4.3 .
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Vista compatibility

Pedro Bustamante at  13 March 07 10:52    
First it was Panda Antivirus 2007 for consumers and ClientShield for corporate desktops, now also Panda Antivirus+Firewall 2007 Beta (aka Titanium version 6.01.08) is compatible with Windows Vista. Check out our Vista Compatibility Information site at
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PandaLabs 2006 Reports

Pedro Bustamante at  05 March 07 01:43    
It's that time of the year again. PandaLabs has recently published its Annual 2006 Report . It's also very interesting to read the detailed quarterly reports for Q1 , Q2 and Q3 . I specially like the "day-to-day" reports section. Great
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Welcome to Panda Research

Pedro Bustamante at  12 December 06 01:18    
Welcome to Panda Research. Took us a while but finally we've managed to go live. Here we'll be sharing our ideas and code on proactive malware detection technologies we're developing. You'll have access to everything from conceptual ideas
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