Introduction to Panda Antivirus 6.0

Welcome to Panda Antivirus 6.0 Home Edition / Platinum. We have designed Panda Antivirus 6.0 Home Edition / Platinum to be easy and convenient to use. In this help you will find detailed explanations of all the operations you can perform with Panda Antivirus 6.0 Home Edition / Platinum. Consult this help whenever you have difficulty or do not know how to do something.

The main goal of Panda Antivirus 6.0 Home Edition / Platinum is to bring the most advanced antivirus technology closer to all users. The growing danger of computer viruses and the technological advances they show make a latest generation antivirus program incorporating leading edge technology an absolute must.

However, we at Panda Software do not forget that, in the final analysis, only people are important. That is why we put an exceptional suite of services at your disposal, whose aim is to help you whenever you have any sort of virus-related problem.

The combination of a product embodying state-of-the-art technology and near-at-hand services makes ours a complete, global solution against the danger of computer viruses.

New technology, new design

Panda Antivirus 6.0 Home Edition / Platinum offers a new technology which allows you to control the entire panoply of antivirus protection resources in a computer from a single program. In this way you can control the different protection strategies from the same point, making management easier and improving security.

The new design of Panda Antivirus 6.0 Home Edition / Platinum makes it a revolutionary product. Easy to use but offering all the power and scanning capability you require. Its new interface, with two operating modes (only available in Panda Antivirus 6.0 Platinum), adapts itself to your needs.

Protection strategies

Panda Antivirus 6.0 Home Edition / Platinum offers a complete set of protection strategies to keep all the entryways used by viruses to get into your computer protected.

Immediate scans: enable you to scan any part of the computer at any time in the simplest way.

Scheduled scans: allow you to scan any part of the computer automatically at the times you program in advance.

Startup scans: enable you to schedule an scan when the computer starts up so that it is protected from the very beginning of each work session.

Permanent scans: offer total, automatic protection at all times.

Special scans

Internet scans: antivirus protection against infecting your computer when you access the Internet.

E-mail and News scans: all messages sent and received using the MS-Outlook, MS-Exchange and MS-Outlook Express mail managers will be scanned.

Lotus Notes systems scans: Lotus Notes database systems will be scanned.

Note: some options are only available according to the specific product purchased (Panda Antivirus 6.0 Home Edition or Panda Antivirus 6.0 Platinum) and the configuration of your operating system. For more information, see Differences between versions

Services

Together with Panda Antivirus 6.0 Home Edition / Platinum you have acquired a complete suite of services to help you with everything related to viruses.

Technical support: 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, we have qualified technicians standing by to help you in person. To make it easy and convenient to contact us, we offer you all the means of communication: On-line (solutions to problems via e-mail), fax, regular mail, and our Web site electronic mail. In addition, only with Panda Antivirus 6.0 Platinum you will have access to phone-based personal technical support.

24-hour S.O.S. Virus: if you find a new virus, we will solve your problem in no more than 24 hours and will send you, within that time limit, an antivirus that will detect and disinfect the new virus.

Updates: DAILY updates from our Web site plus the possibility of receiving updates sent regularly to your office or home.

Note: the 12h S.O.S. Virus and Home-delivered Updates services are available depending on the type of license purchased.