After providing the free Kingsoft PC Doctor utility, the company has now launched a new PC cloud security utility Kingsoft Antivirus 2012.

Kingsoft Antivirus 2012 is a completely free antivirus solution for detecting and cleaning trojan viruses, and protect your computer with system defense K+ and boundary defense. It can be a standalone product, and can also work along with other security software.

Cloud based anti-virus seems to be the next in-thing and more and more companies are jumping onto the technology, after Panda Cloud Anti-virus a-squared has now came up with a super-fast, compact and free Malware scanner dubbed MalAware.

The cloud-based malware scanner is just 1 MB in size requiring no installation, the scans are super-fast but you need to buy the product for removing found infections.