PC Utility Tools:  

Global Protection has a decent reporting section. It shows statistics of which threats are being blocked and what sort of activity you have going on in your computer. This section also shows what areas your computer is most vulnerable in. One aspect we particularly like in this section is the alerts which spread themselves in the top portion of the status section. When all is well, this section is green; but when threats are evident, this section turns to yellow, which indicates small threats, and red, which indicates severe threats.

This program also has a rescue disk, allowing you to scan your computer using an untainted disc in the event that a virus affects your boot system.

Backup:  

We’re giving Global Protection a pat on the back and a poke in the ribs for this section. We liked that they offered local and online backup with 2 GB of memory, which seems to be plenty of space to store sensitive or important documents. We also liked that we were able to backup our documents to an external source like a CD or flash drive. However, we found this section of Global Protection to be confusing and unclear. We were also a little put out with the fact that you must pay for your online backup after a year of use.

Additional Features:  

Global Protection has many solid defenses built into its system that help prevent identity theft. An anti-phishing filter is constantly up and running. This feature is designed to catch fraudulent emails designed to protect you from online scams. Global Protection also has an anti-banking Trojan engine which protects you from having your information stolen while shopping or banking online.

To protect the young eyes who may be using your computer, Panda Global Protection has implemented a parental control features. This program is designed to block sites that you as the user deem inappropriate for children. While we think this is a feature that should be in every Premium Security Suite, we were unable to activate it when we were using Global Protection. We are unsure why, but it simply sat dormant and unclickable on the status page.

There is also no mobile device security, a feature we’d like to see more of in this age of iPhones and BlackBerrys.