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Reviewed by: Jake Rooney (admin) 

This year, Panda offers two distinct anti virus products. To compare with other products tested and reviewed by CNET this year, we chose the Panda Anti virus 2008. A second product, Panda Anti virus plus Firewall 2008 was not reviewed. The 4939.95 price for a three-user license is at the low end, which is good. However, when compared with the also economical Bit Defender Anti virus 2008, Panda comes up short, lacking some features and, more importantly, similar test results. Panda is slower and is mostly unrated in independent, third-party anti virus test results. If you're looking for economy, chose Bit Defender. If you're looking for the best anti virus product for 2008, we recommend Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2008, our Editors' Choice. 


Setup
Panda Anti virus 2008 includes three PC licenses for $39.95. By comparison, Bit Defender Anti virus offers its three-user license for $29.95. Kaspersky offers a single license at £29.95 and charges £45.95 for its three-user license. Panda Anti virus 2008 runs on Windows 2000, XP, and Vista, while Norton Anti Virus 2008 works only on XP and Vista. 

After downloading the 35MB file, Panda performs an initial scan of your system, and in our case, found eight different examples of spy ware. Unfortunately, Panda didn't tell us precisely what spyware it found; only that it deleted it. Later, we could find no record of this scan for reference, although we did find subsequent log files of spyware that had been removed. We prefer to have control over what is quarantined or removed from our machine, and wish Panda had provided us with more information.