Panda Platinum Internet Security review

The final module is the web content filtering. This is a standard web blocker and the controls are based on website categories such as nudity and drugs. Every time a user tries accessing a website, it's compared to a database to identify whether the user is allowed to view the content. The supervisor can also set up whitelists and blacklists of sites or domains that are allowed or completely disallowed respectively, and the software logs all the pages the user has attempted to visit. As with any content blocker, it can be a little over-cautious. It wouldn't, for example, allow us to check out a book on Amazon covering the history of how the atomic bomb was created.

Overall, Platinum Internet Security is nothing if not comprehensive and covers most bases needed to ensure that a home PC is safe on the Web. However, it's expensive and the truth is that a good anti-virus package used in conjunction with free applications such as ZoneAlarm and Ad-aware would provide just as effective security.

Author: Niall Magennis