Is Panda Cloud Cleaner Safe

[Fernando Capelle]

Ive had this bookmarked for some time now, and finally got around to installing TDM. AVG is alerting that tdm_installer.exe is infected with "IDP.Generic". I don't know if this is a hiccup from AVG or if I should take this seriously.

This is happening all over the place to many homebrew software. If people say "just ignore it, it's a false-positive" as true as that may be, it doesn't solve the problem. The "heuristics" have become tuned to "whatever tries to save a highscore table to an INI file", else "has the Microsoft blessings so let the ransomware fly free". That sounds like a contradiction, but it isn't. This is business, after all.

There are a couple of solutions.

- An army of us send out reports of false-positive claims to all of these AV vendors and/or Microsoft themselves, and hope they accidentally see it.

- TDM team scrapes their pockets and PAYS them to be flagged as safe, potentially acquiring certification from Microsoft, which is essentially the same as the first option, requiring less people but should be (in theory) streamlined.

- Refactoring the installer and going around and around in circles trying to make all the major AV vendors happy, which is likely not possible.

What is likely to happen:-

- We all say it's a false-positive, and we'd be correct, but nothing ever gets fixed and the problem never goes away. We say it's the AV's fault and hope all future users will stumble across this forum thread.

IDP.Generic is just AVG thinking that the installer is doing something that kinda looks like malware, but doesn't match anything specific in its database. Basically it's an AVG hiccup from AVG being overzealous in its detection methods, since "looking like malware" can cover a wide array of software installer packages. But as @LDAsh said, a lot of them pay for certification so that such AV (along with Microsoft's stuff) doesn't flag them.

With Panda Cloud Cleaner (Realtime analyse with information in the cloud)2.10 is clean. But I found some information about this supposed Trojan which probably is a false positive by bad heuristic analyse of Ad Aware and MaxSecure

Windows often reacts somewhat hysterically if exe files are downloaded, with some pop ups predicting the end of the world, even if they are trusted files. In some AV something similar happens.

For this reason, when in doubt, I use Panda, it has never betrayed me, I always had a 100% detection rate. They invented this Cloud Scanning thing, which is now used by many others.

If you mean the Windows Smart Screen, it works in a very simple way: Files which are not known to the filter are being flagged as suspicious, and it warns the user from exeucting them. That's all there is to it really. You can happily click on "More info", and "Allow" after that every time.

I'd rather upload the file to VirusTotal, as @stgatilov wrote above, because that will run the file through many, many antivirus engines, and, if that says it's clean, or if only 1 or 2 or 3 engines detect something (a false positive in that case), then it is clean.

I know well all this, I have even a VT extension, I use also Blacklight and Unfurl to check a site, but after this, (you see, even VT has false positives, reason of this thread), I use also Panda, it hasn't such, never had, since the lot of years I use it (Panda Dome free AV in earlier Windows, until 7, and now the standalonee scanner in W10 apart of the Defender, for occasional use). In Mobile is better BitDefender, somwhat lighter than Panda, because G Play Protect is a placebo (less than 70% detection quote)

Because of this, good AV use heuristic detection, based on the behavior of the file in a test environment, apart of une based in a list with the script of the badware. Last methode was used by the AV with local stored databases, which they had to update every few days, until Panda some years ago used DB in the cloud, updated in real time, every 6 minutes. This made the AV much faster, lightwight and efficient. Now the most good AV use this system, even Windows Defender, with this they avoid almost all false positives.

Obviously not everyone who uses VT uses this system, relying on their own lists that may be outdated or use only a rudimentary heuristic system.

It is always good to have different verification systems, like this one, in case of doubt, which as a general rule in VT is only indicated if there are several VA giving the alarm and not just one.

Generally the security system of current Windows is pretty good, between the Defender, the Sandbox system it had, which avoid that there a malware can affect system files, it protect even against root kits. Anyway is a good idea to have a scanner, like Panda Cloud Cleaner or AdwCleaner, at hand, to eliminate evtl. PUPs, hijacker or such, which isn't seen sometimes by the Defender.

Panda Cloud Cleaner, or cCloud as it's more commonly known, is basically a stripped-down version of Panda's full featured antivirus scanner. It doesn't have nearly the number or variety of features that other spyware detectors have, but it's still a very good program and can help protect your PC from many different threats. It's been developed by a group called the Panda Rogue Team, who released it in order to make money through advertisements on your PC. Although many people have found it easy to use, others say that it causes way too many problems for their systems.

The main problem with this antivirus software is that it's actually designed to scare you into purchasing the upgrade to the full version which then also brings along some unknown threats that aren't included in the free scan. The way that the clouds program works is that you're prompted to scan your system for a bunch of different threats - it wants you to buy the upgrade because it says that all threats are detected and that if you don't, they will cause a lot of damage. The problem is that the "panda security suite" isn't actually full coverage of all the threats that your computer could be exposed to, and as a result you might end up getting caught with a series of different threats that your system is not prepared for. This is one of the biggest problems with this particular free software...

The problem is that it's not like most antivirus scan programs at all. Many of the ones that claim to be able to find all malware and viruses have several components that work together to detect threats. While they might find the virus, they'll also scan for missing files and missing settings - both components that will cause problems for your system. As a result, your system could be damaged even further and you could end up with a whole lot of problems that might be impossible to fix, if you used the free scan. However, air has a great security suite that protects against the most threats, and that means that your scanning results will always be accurate. And since it's paid, you can feel secure in the knowledge that your system will be kept safe.

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