DavidR
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The short answer is no, not completely.
It can’t do everything from the cloud, it has to work on your system otherwise it would have to upload your system to scan it. So functions are going to be downloaded as would be the signatures.
Its weird when it is described as this ‘Panda Cloud Cleaner is a standalone, cloud-based malware scanner, which is designed to run alongside other security tools without conflicts.’
This statement is clearly wrong as here is your resident scanner detecting its signatures.
I also don’t understand the term standalone when cobbled together with the word cloud, a stand alone program is something independent of any other requirement, if it requires the cloud then I don’t see how it can be called standalone.