Quick Heal Antivirus Plus 2007 is the latest security suite to be released by Cat. A company called Agnitum provides the firewall packaged with the suite.
The installer allows the user to update the virus definitions and register during the installation process. The standard features you would expect from an anti-virus program are all there.
Files that can be possible threats, can be tagged and quarantined to prevent any trouble. The DNA Scan feature looks for suspicious files, which can be quarantined and then sent to the Quick Heal labs for analysis. If the files are found as possible threats fixes for these virus or worms can be released in the next updates.In case of serious problems, an emergency disc can be created, capable of scanning NTFS partitions. For any viruses that load with Windows, a scan can be set to run during the startup process.
Quick Heal can scan your mail for any possible threats, but it lacks the feature to monitor Web traffic for worms or other malicious code.
Moving on to the firewall, live reporting of the connections being made to and from your machine is shown in well-sorted manner. It's the same case with the log viewer, which stores the history of all network traffic and attacks. All this can be a little confusing for the regular home user, but advanced users will find the information useful.
The firewall can automatically scan network and set suitable permissions for them. Manually setting of permissions for the adapters and networks is easy. Users with multiple network adapters can opt to set one of the adapters as trusted and allow unrestricted access. The interfaces sported by the firewall and the antivirus are completely different something the developes could have tried and unified.
Good documentation is provided in a booklet as well as Windows help for both the anti-virus and the firewall. A single copy of Quick Heal Antivirus Plus 2007, which gives you a year of upgrades, is Rs 1,575. It does its job pretty well, but for the same price, there are competing products that come with spyware protection and parental control.
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