Pando (application)

Pando logo
Pando logo

Pando was an application which was mainly aimed at sending (and receiving) files which would normally be too large to send via more "conventional" means. It used both peer-to-peer (BitTorrent protocol) and client-server architectures and was released for Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.[1]

Pando shut down its servers and ceased business on August 31, 2013.

As of February 24, 2014, the Pando Media Booster had been hijacked, and unsuspecting persons who installed a prompted update had their internet browsers hijacked, and a virus called the "Sweet Page" browser virus was installed on their machines.[2]

  1. ^ Muchmore, Michael (August 2, 2007). "5 New Ways to Share Files (Pando Review)". extremetech.com. Archived from the original on 2009-04-17. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
  2. ^ Reahard, Jef. "Pando Media Booster 'update' is actually a browser hijack". Joystiq. Archived from the original on 2 March 2014. Retrieved 28 February 2014.