Antimalware, firewall, and other security programs for Windows XP working in 2023 and hopefully beyond

[Multibooter]

1 hour ago, AstroSkipper said:

Panda has always achieved reasonable results in official tests. It is better to leave such tests to the professionals.

Reviews:

"Panda's ability to catch malware lags behind that of many other free security products,"

from: https://www.tomsguide.com/us/panda-free-antivirus,review-3524.html

"Its security scores may not be consistently impressive"

from: https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/panda-dome

I was also surprised at the score of 6/100. I initially thought that I had a wrong setting in Panda. The 100 files in my sample were from actual downloads from eMule, together with many good, clean files.  I have two 2TB HDDs with flagged stuff from eMule, and could have increased the sample size to 10,000 infected files from eMule,  but an initial check with 100 randomly picked infected files was good enough for me. I only wanted for myself an initial glance at the approximate detection capability of stuff from eMule, which may be different from the results of official tests by the professionals.

Edited 6 hours ago by Multibooter

[AstroSkipper]

1 hour ago, Multibooter said:

Reviews:

"Panda's ability to catch malware lags behind that of many other free security products,"

from: https://www.tomsguide.com/us/panda-free-antivirus,review-3524.html

This review is 7 years old and therefore obsolete. My linked test is from this month, December 2025.

1 hour ago, Multibooter said:

"Its security scores may not be consistently impressive"

from: https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/panda-dome

On this side, you can read that its online protection score was a strong 99.25%.

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Panda Dome has earned an AAA award from SE Labs for the period between October and December 2024, as it has shown a Total Accuracy Rating of 99% and not a single false positive - better than Microsoft Defender and Webroot, but not quite at the level of Avast, Kaspersky, or McAfee, all of which had the perfect 100% score.

(Image credit: SE Labs)

At the same time, AV-Test’s Product Review and Certification Report for September - October 2024 has given Panda a 6/6 score for protection, 5.5/6 for performance, as it performed just a tad poorer than the industry average in some segments, and 6/6 for usability.

... albeit its online protection score was a strong 99.25%.
 

Of course, you can always pick out whatever you need for your argument. 

[AstroSkipper]

One thing is clear. Panda Antivirus Free is a cloud-based anti-malware programme. You have to be connected to the internet and perform scans only online and not offline to get a reasonable detection rate.

Edited 4 hours ago by AstroSkipper