Let me start out by I’ve never been one that has really used or tried many cloud antiviruses. Hitman Pro and Panda Cloud are the two that I’m used to, and use all the time in terms to cleaning up virus infections, though Panda I had for a short time on my desktop when it was still Windows XP. It was lightweight and protected me from a lot of viruses, so I was happy to be using it. I switched away from it only because of the fact I decided to make my desktop system Linux only. And while I don’t know exactly how they work one hundred percent other then uploading files to a remote server and checking them for viruses. Aside from that, I don’t know how any antivirus works… but the truth is, most times we don’t need to know how something works to protect us. I might not understand how MBAM or ESET finds a virus on my system, but I’m glad that it can and that it does. At the end of the day, the thing that matters that it does work. To this extent, I recently tried a newer cloud based anti-malware, named PREVX, and see how well it worked.
