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Quick Heal adopts Four Different policies to deal with Boot/Partition viruses and help the user tackle them without any hassles.
For Removal of the known viruses Quick Heal deals with the fail-safe methodology to prevent the user from moving into the soup. While removing a Boot / Partition virus Quick Heal first of all analyses the virus and if any recoverable damage has been made it recovers the same. Later on, it removes the virus.
For Removal of a New Virus from a computer where Quick Heal is pre installed, it adopts a special policy. Quick Heal provides the user with a facility to keep a back up of the Boot Sector, Partition Table and CMOS information. This is called Rescue Information. On every boot Quick Heal does a quick System Integrity Check, which is also equipped with the intelligent Anti Stealth technique. Thus in case of any new virus infecting the system a warning message is Flashed in the next boot. A simple restoring of Quick Heal Rescue information may do the trick at this point.
In Case of Machines without Quick Heal if it encounters a new virus or some suspicious code in the Partition areas it can remove the same with Generic Code. Quick Heals utility called CLEANMBR can be used of the purpose. Here also it uses the Fail Safe technique and prompts for UNDO information before proceeding. This process makes it sure that before replacing the code with a generic code a back up of the virus code is preserved in the floppy. Hence if any problem is encountered it can be replaced and Data can be recovered without any problem. This also helps in catching the virus and sending it for further research in the Quick Heal Laboratory.
The On line protection system is also equipped to warn any writing request to these areas. There by protecting the system from unknown viruses also. It also disallows the use of Diskettes infected by boot viruses