Panda’s Platinum Internet Security 2006 offers the usual antivirus, anti-spyware, anti-spam and firewall protection. We installed Platinum Internet Security on VMware workstations using Windows XP. The suite works with the latest Windows XP SP2 and replaces the Windows Firewall system. We deliberately ran infected files and traversed shady Internet sites that we get from spam all with Platinum Internet Security protecting us from doing any irrevocable harm to the system.

Panda’s software is equipped with a unique feature called TruPrevent, which helps block zero-day attacks where signatures or patches have yet to be developed yet. This could prove useful to gamers, who often are at the cutting edge using torrents, IM, and other new age technologies. Also for gamers, who always worry about a performance hit when anti-virus and other protection technologies are on, Platinum Internet Security logged a mild decrease out of the box and is much better than many of its more popular competitors from Symantec and McAfee.