Quick Heal is an Anti-Viral software. You can use Quick Heal to rid your system of viruses and to prevent further infections. Viruses are malicious programs that more often than not cause damage to your data. Viruses do not cause physical damage to your computer but your data can be corrupted beyond repair. Quick Heal is available for Dos, Windows 3.x and Windows 95/NT and as a Netware loadable module (NLM) . Quick Heal comes with complete LAN support. Its' Heuristic scanner also detects unknown viruses!
Viruses can attack the computer by infecting executable files and certain portions of the floppy or hard disk. Quick Heal has scanners that check a file for viruses. Quick Heal has a database of signatures using which it can determine if a file is infected or not. Quick Heal has a Heuristic scanner which also detects unknown viruses. So much for virus detection and removal. Quick HealÆs On-line Protection is a Virtual Device Driver (VxD) which Hooks the File System Driver for protecting the system from known viruses. Which traps a virus if a infected file is run. Once loaded the utilities provide protection till the machine is switched off.
New viruses come up almost everyday. Hence to be on the safer side, it is always recommended that you upgrade your copy of Quick Heal as soon as new version arrives in the market.
A new version of Quick Heal is released after every four to five weeks. Quick Heal upgrades are available on our web site - http://www.quickheal.com
