I am still rooting for this AV to take hold and do well because of its clean and simple UI so I can refer it to my relatives. I feel this would be a great product for non-IT people that cannot be trusted on the web alone, let alone perform system and AV updates.

Dear Betatester:

Many thanks for your collaboration.

Please, open Panda Cloud Antivirus console, click in the “?” that is in the right corner, select “About Panda Cloud Antivirus” and tell us what is the version you have installed.

We are tracing this problem back to an interaction of the new synchronous OnAccess cloud-scan with the BackgroundScan. This interaction seems as it could be the source of the slowness of the system even though we continue investigating it. Basically this occurs under certain circumstances when both scans are consuming the same resource. We’re in the process of redesigning these two scan tasks so they are optimized in the use of critical system resources to avoid simultaneous accesses to common resources.

As a workaround you can disable the BackgroundScan altogether. Disabling this task does not compromise the security level of the PC as the OnAccess scan guarantess the protection of the machine. If you apply this workaround simply make sure to run an OnDemand scan periodically to ensure there are no inactive & latent malicious files in the drive.

· To disable the BackgroundScan in a 32 Bits Operation System, simply create the following registry entry and reboot the PC:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Panda Security\Panda Service Host]
“BackgroundDisabled”=”-”