Panda Software has released a fast online virus scanner and malware detection tool called Nanoscan that scans your computer for viruses, spyware, trojans and other threats in just a minute.

Panda Nanoscan is a new scanning engine from Panda Software, a well-known security product. Panda Nanoscan is an extremely light virus scanner and can detect much more than traditional antivirus solutions, but it does not protect your PC permanently.

Scan a computer in one minute, this is unbelievable. It’s true, just One minute! Downloading, running and getting the results from Panda NanoScan only takes around 1 minute. After 1 minute, NanoScan will let you know whether your PC is infected or not.

Panda NanoScan features:

• detects more than 600,000 known malware samples.
• detects unknown malware with TruPrevent technologies
• gets downloaded and it does the scan in approximately 1 minute
• only occupies around 400k

Panda NanoScan is a great detection capacity is mainly due to the new Anti-malware Collective Intelligence, a system developed by Panda Research and hosted on a network of datacenters (initially made up of around 100 servers). It doesn’t need to download a virus signature file, as it accesses the entire Panda knowledge base online.

Panda NanoScan requires an ActiveX control, that must be downloaded an installed. Click http://www.nanoscan.com/ to start scan your PC. ActiveX controls only operate on Internet Explorer.