eScan intros new threat protection feature

MUMBAI, INDIA: eScan 10, a provider in information security solutions, on Tuesday announced that it has introduced a new feature called, Auto Backup and Restore (ABR).

This feature would be a part of eScan 10 AntiVirus and Internet security suite versions. This feature of Auto backup and restore would take the anti virus security to another level.

Once installed the backup feature would be enabled by default and all the backup files will be removed once eScan is uninstalled. It will take auto backups of all PE files. eScan’s t intelligence would ensures that no back up is taken of infected files, said a press release.

In case of a file getting infected with a virus, it restores the clean file from its back up.

If an unknown virus is present, and a backup of this virus happens, in subsequent updates, ABR automatically removes the backup of the virus. The ABR would also detect and take a new backup of the windows update or installed service pack files when downloaded from the Internet or the WSUS server.

Govind Ramamurthy, CEO and MD, eScan, commented, "Considering the rapid growth of threats that's being seen in the computing world, the size of signature databases and the computing power needed to analyze a file keeps growing. At current growth rates, we will see virus databases increasing to over 100MB by mid or end of 2010.”

“In such a scenario, the only recourse to ensure that computing resources are not wasted on virus scanning is to have reputation databases. eScan Auto Backup and Restore (ABR) is one step towards creating a reputation database of files on a PC,” he added.