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- What's new in the Quick Heal X-GEN Ver. 6.0
-
- We have prepared this section to let you know what's new and
- improved in Quick Heal X-GEN version 6.0. We have short listed those
- features we believe to be the most significant. This is a mega release
- and henceforth Quick Heal will be known as Quick Heal X-GEN.
-
- Enhancements in Ver 6.0
- -------------------------
- * ENHANCED QUICK HEAL MESSENGER
- Messenger has been a great hit. To further strengthen it, Quick Heal
- Messenger has been made configurable. The users can configure the
- interval of checking for New Messages. It also allows On-Demand message
- checking. Users can now configure the Audio Alarms for various alerts.
-
- * SENSOR FOR NEW WORMS, TROJANS AND BACKDOORS.
- This new feature in Quick Heal is designed to fight the threats posed by
- new Trojans, Worms and BackDoors. It gets activated on every boot and
- traps the new entrant. This shall ensure a fool proof protection against
- new threats especially from the internet.
-
- * SCANNING OF OUTLOOK EXPRESS 5.0 MAILBOX
- New viruses, specially KAK, posed a lot of problems for the users of
- Outlook Express. This feature comes as a great relief for such users.
- Quick Heal can now scan the Mail Box of Outlook Express and remove
- viruses from there.
-
- * SCANNING OF ENCODED EMAIL ATTACHMENTS LIKE UUENCODE/MIME/BinHex (Base 64)
- Quick now also scans the Email Attachments with Outlook Express 5.0. It
- scans mail attachments encoded with UUENCODE/MIME/BinHex (Base 64).
-
- * OFFICE 2K INTEGRATED PROTECTION
- For MS Office 2K, a comprehensive integrated protection has been designed.
- This COM based protection will scan and clean all MS Office documents.
-
- * INTEGRATED MAIL PROTECTION FOR OUTLOOK 2K users
- Quick Heal X GEN is powered to scan the mails at the point of arrival in
- Outlook 2000. It also scans the mails and attachments when they are read.
-
- * SCANNING OF ALL EMBEDDED EXECUTABLES IN A .SHS FILE
- Scrap Object (.SHS) files are now scanned by Quick Heal. It scans all the
- embedded executables inside the .SHS files.
-
- * QUARANTINE
- Long awaited Quarantine feature has been added in Quick Heal X-GEN. Users
- can now safely isolate and keep suspected files in Quarantine. These
- files can then be safely submitted to us for further research.
-
- * LIVE UPDATE SCHEDULAR
- Live Update can be scheduled for automatically updating daily/weekly/
- monthly. The users can now schedule the update once and rest assured.
- It automatically updates Quick Heal. It can be configured to pick up
- the definition file from Network Path/ Local Disk also. Live Update
- has also been redesigned for faster upgrade.
-
- * NEW HTML BASED HELP SYSTEM
- Quick Heal help has been redesigned for better reference. The new help
- is HTML based.
-
- * NEW IMPROVED LOOK
- Quick Heal X-GEN comes with a complete new interface. The looks has been
- changed for a better feel. Virus Database has been redesigned to provide
- more details on viruses. Viruses has also been categorised to provide
- faster virus search.
-
- * NEW IMPROVED MEMORY SCAN ENGINE
- Memory Scanning Engine has been redesigned to take care of New Generation
- Viruses. Memory Scanning for WINDOWS NT has been introduced.
-
- * NEW IMPROVED ENGINE
- Quick Heal X GEN comes with the scanning engine redesigned. The users can
- feel the new faster scanning.
-
- * MACRO VIRUS SCANNING OPTIMIZED
- Macro virus scanning engine speed is now optimized to scan
- the huge size MS WORD & EXCEL documents more effectively.
-
- HTML.Daydream (VB Script virus)
- HTML.Suck (VB Script virus)
- HTML.Zulu (VB Script virus)
- Hybris.worm (Windows worm that spreads by email)
- MTX.worm (Windows worm that spreads by email)
- Navidad.worm (Windows worm that spreads by email)
- Plage.worm (Windows worm that spreads by email)
- Qaz.worm (Windows worm that spreads by email)
- VBS.Netlog (VB Script virus that works in IE 5.0 & WINDOWS 98)
- VBS.Rabbit (VB Script virus that works in IE 5.0 & WINDOWS 98)
- VBS.Stages (VB Script virus that works in IE 5.0 & WINDOWS 98)
- VBS.Timofon (VB Script virus that works in IE 5.0 & WINDOWS 98)
- W97M.Dariem (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Evolution (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Heathen (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.IIS (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Surround (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Titch (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.VMPC (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Wrench (Word 97 Macro virus)
- WYX (Partition/Boot virus)
- X97M.Barisada (Excel 97 Macro virus)
-
- and various variants of
- VBS.NewLove,
- VBS.Stages,
- W97M.Bablas,
- W97M.Class,
- W97M.Thus,
- W97M.Marker,
- W97M.Ethan and
- X97M.Laroux
-
- Enhancements in Ver 5.25
- -------------------------
- * SOME OF THE PROMINENT VIRUSES ADDED IN THIS VERSION INCLUDE
- HTML.Tramp (VB Script virus)
- W97M.Bablas (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Bobo (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Bribagi (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Claud (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Cont (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.DB (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Eight-941 (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Mamm (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Proverb (Word 97 Macro virus)
- Win98.Matyas (Windows 98 virus)
- WinCrash (Windows based backdoor program)
- Winext.worm (Windows worm that spreads by email)
- and various variants of W97M.Bablas, W97M.Eight-941, W97M.Melissa,
- W97M.Marker and W97M.Ethan
-
- Enhancements in Ver 5.24B
- -------------------------
- * COMPATIBILITY FOR WINDOWS 2000
- This version of Quick Heal is fully compatible for Windows 2000.
- It can be used on Windows 2000 Professional, Sever and Advanced Server.
-
- * SOME OF THE PROMINENT VIRUSES ADDED IN THIS VERSION INCLUDE
- April.1539 (DOS based file virus)
- Aptlittle.143 (DOS based file virus)
- IWorm.Haiku (Windows worm that spreads by email)
- JS.KAK (Java Script virus that works in IE 5.0 & Outlook Express)
- VBS.ColdApe (VB Script virus that works in IE 5.0 & WINDOWS 98)
- VBS.ILOVEYOU (VB Script virus)
- VBS.Tune (VB Script virus that works in IE 5.0 & WINDOWS 98)
- W97M.Bogor (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.CAPut (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Galero (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.IIS (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Odious (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Myna (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Panther (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Wrench (Word 97 Macro virus)
- WYX (Boot/Partition virus)
- X97M.Divi (Excel 97 Macro virus)
- X97M.Laroux.Erwin (Excel 97 Macro virus)
- X97M.Manalo (Excel 97 Macro virus)
- and various variants of W97M.PassBox, W97M.Shankar, W97M.Melissa,
- W97M.Marker, W97M.Ethan, NewApt.worm, VBS.ILOVEYOU
-
- Enhancements in Ver 5.24
- ------------------------
- * SOME OF THE PROMINENT VIRUSES ADDED IN THIS VERSION INCLUDE
- DonaldDick (Trojan/Backdoor)
- FunLove.4099 (Windows 95/98 virus)
- ICQ2K (Windows 95/98 ICQ worm)
- Repus.256 (Windows 95/98 virus)
- Sub7_2.0 (Trojan/Backdoor)
- Sub7_2.1 (Trojan/Backdoor)
- Toadie.7800 (DOS based file virus)
- VBS.Crystal (VB Script virus that works in IE 5.0 & WINDOWS 98)
- VBS.Reality (VB Script virus that works in IE 5.0 & WINDOWS 98)
- W97M.JediMagic (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.PostBox (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Turn (Word 97 Macro virus)
- Weird.11264 (Windows 95/98 virus)
- X97M.PTH (Excel 97 Macro virus)
- and various variants of Laroux, Sub7, Toadie
-
-
- Enhancements in Ver 5.22
- ------------------------
- * QUICK HEAL MESSENGER
- Introducing Quick Heal Messenger that will deliver Quick Heal
- Team messages, virus alerts, hoax information and upgrade
- news as they happen. You need to have Internet access to use
- this.
-
- * SOME OF THE PROMINENT VIRUSES ADDED IN THIS VERSION INCLUDE
- Babylonia (Windows 95/98 worm/virus)
- DNA.1206 (DOS based file virus)
- ExpZip (Windows 95/98 worm)
- Fix2001 (Windows 95/98 worm)
- MyPics (Windows 95/98 worm)
- NewApt (Windows 95/98 worm)
- VBS.BubbleBoy (VB Script virus that works in IE 5.0 & WINDOWS 98)
- VBS.First (VB Script virus that works in IE 5.0 & WINDOWS 98)
- VBS.FreeLinks (VB Script virus that works in IE 5.0 & WINDOWS 98)
- W97M.Crazy (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Dna (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Halfcross (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Mmkv (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Muck (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Nohope (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Ozwer (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Splash (Word 97 Macro virus)
- WM.GoodNight (Word 6 Macro virus)
- WM.Hark (Word 6 Macro virus)
- XM.Paix (Excel formula virus)
- XM.Sic (Excel formula virus)
-
-
- Enhancements in Ver 5.21
- ------------------------
- * SOME OF THE PROMINENT VIRUSES ADDED IN THIS VERSION INCLUDE
- Pretty.Park (Windows 95/98 worm)
- TMCLevel.6x9 (DOS based file virus)
- W32.Beast (Windows 95/98 virus that even infects Word documents)
- W97M.Ded (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.FootPrint (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Jerk (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Locale (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Nottice (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Ozwer (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Sattelite (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Story (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.Titasic (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M.VMPCK1 (Word 97 Macro virus)
- X97M.Extras (Excel 97 Macro virus)
- X97M.Jerk (Excel 97 Macro virus)
- X97M.VCX (Excel 97 Macro virus)
- and various variants of Marker, Melissa, Class & Laroux
-
- Enhancements in Ver 5.20
- ------------------------
- * ADDED ONLINE MACRO VIRUS SCANNING AND CLEANING
- Long awaiting feature of scanning for macro viruses when you open
- the documents by double clicking on them. Document files will be
- scanned for macro viruses while opening them.
-
- * SOME OF THE PROMINENT VIRUSES ADDED IN THIS VERSION INCLUDE
- All versions of WM97.Groovie (Word 97 Macro virus)
- Explore.Worm (Win32 based ExploreZip worm)
- WM97.Caligula (Word 97 Macro virus)
- WM97.Chack (Word 97 Macro virus)
- WM97.Teocatl.a (Word 97 Macro virus)
- XL97.Mars (Excel 97 Macro virus)
-
- Enhancements in Ver 5.19
- ------------------------
-
- * SOME OF THE PROMINENT VIRUSES ADDED IN THIS VERSION INCLUDE
- Russian versions of WM97.Melissa (Word 97 Macro virus)
- WM97.Nail (Word 97 Macro virus)
- WM97.Opey (Word 97 Macro virus)
- All versions of XL97.Papa (Excel 97 Macro virus)
-
- Enhancements in Ver 5.18
- ------------------------
-
- * SOME OF THE PROMINENT VIRUSES ADDED IN THIS VERSION INCLUDE
- Dodgy (DOS based boot/partition virus)
- Rch.1217 (DOS based file virus)
- WM97.Grovie (Word 97 Macro virus)
- WM97.Imposter.E (Word 97 Macro virus)
- All versions of WM97.Melissa (Word 97 Macro virus)
-
- Enhancements in Ver 5.17
- ------------------------
-
- * SOME OF THE PROMINENT VIRUSES ADDED IN THIS VERSION INCLUDE
- Happy99.Worm
- LZR (Boot/Partition virus)
- NetBus16 (Trojan NetBus 1.6)
- NetBus17 (Trojan NetBus 1.7)
- W97M/Class.A (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M/Class.C (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M/Class.D (Word 97 Macro virus)
- W97M/Class.E (Word 97 Macro virus)
- WM.Helper.A (Word Macro virus)
- WM.Helper.C (Word Macro virus)
- WM.Helper.D (Word Macro virus)
- XL97.Locas (Excel 97 Macro virus)
- XL97.Laroux.DK (Excel 97 Macro virus)
-
- Enhancements in Ver 5.16
- ------------------------
-
- * SOME OF THE PROMINENT VIRUSES ADDED IN THIS VERSION INCLUDE
- ABCD (Partition/Boot virus)
- Back Orifice (Trojan)
- Burglar.1150 (DOS File virus)
- CPW.1459 (DOS File virus)
- CPW.1527 (DOS File virus)
- Creeper (DOS File virus)
-
- * ADDED DETECTION FOR BACK ORIFICE REMOTE ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM
- Back Orifice is a client/server type of application that is used
- to monitor various types of actions on the system running the server
- software. This application is delibrately being send across the Internet
- in the form of trojan horse on various download sites and through email
- attachments. This version of Quick Heal successfully detects various
- versions of server if installed on your system and disables them.
-
- Enhancements & Changes in Ver 5.15
- ----------------------------------
-
- * MACRO VIRUS SCANNING OPTIMIZED
- Macro virus scanning engine speed is now optimized to scan
- the huge size MS WORD & EXCEL documents more effectively.
-
- * QUICK HEAL IS NOW COMPATIBLE WITH NON-ENGLISH VERSION OF WINDOWS
-
- * ON-IDEL SCANNING OPTION REMOVED
- In earlier version of Quick Heal we had provided On-Idel Scanning
- option to scan for viruses when your system is idel. This feature has
- been removed temperorily as it was creating problem on some systems
- having the new Explorer desktop. We will rectify the problem and will
- again introduce this features in comming releases.
-
- * SOME OF THE PROMINENT VIRUSES ADDED IN THIS VERSION INCLUDE
- CIHRemix (Windows 95/98 virus)
- Marburg (Windows 95/98 virus)
- MultiAni
- Nessy
-
- Enhancements in Ver 5.14
- ------------------------
-
- * INSTALLATION PROBLEM WITH FAT32 SOLVED.
-
- * SOME OF THE PROMINENT VIRUSES ADDED IN THIS VERSION INCLUDE
- Anxiety.C
- X97.Laroux.E
-
- Enhancements in Ver 5.13
- ------------------------
-
- * WINDOWS 98 COMPATIBLE
-
- * MORE RELIABLE COMPRESSED FILE SCANNING
- Quick Heal scanner now scans files inside compressed files (.ARJ &
- .ZIP) more reliably with proper error reporting in case of
- non-supported compression format.
-
- * MORE CONTROL ON VIRUS FOUND DIALOG BOX
- Now in Virus Found dialog box you have new options of
- 'Apply action to all files' & 'Apply action to all compressed files'.
- This gives more control over your selected action.
-
- * ENHANCED SCHEDULAR WITH ON IDLE SCANNING OPTION
- Quick Heal Schedular now has one more option added in Frequency list
- of On Idle scanning. On selecting this option your system will be
- scanned when idle depending upon the Screen Saver settings in control
- panel of your system.
-
- * SOME OF THE PROMINENT VIRUSES ADDED IN THIS VERSION INCLUDE
- CIH1.2 (Windows 95/98 virus)
- CIH1.3 (Windows 95/98 virus)
- CIH1.4 (Windows 95/98 virus)
- HPS (Windows 95/98 virus)
-
- Enhancements in Ver 5.12
- ------------------------
-
- * LIVE UPDATE FACILITY
- This version is provided with the facility to upgrade your copy to
- latest version by connecting to Internet and downloading signature
- definition file from our web site.
-
- * MACRO VIRUS SCANNING FACILITY THROUGH INTEGRATED SCANNER
- This version now scans for macro viruses from inside the Quick Heal
- integrated scanner. Now the integrated scanner will scan for macro
- viruses from Word 6.0, Word 97, Excel 4.0, Excel 5.0 & Excel 97.
-
- * SOME OF THE PROMINENT VIRUSES ADDED IN THIS VERSION INCLUDE
- Anxiety.Gold (Windows 95 virus)
- WM.Alliance
- WM.CapB
- WM.CapC
- WM.Kompu
- WM.Navrhar
- WM.Screw
- W97.AngleOfSin
- W97.Bismark
- W97.Calendar
- W97.Cap
- W97.Cartman
- W97.Kompu
- W97.Jackal
- W97.Rapi
- W97.Sparkle
- XL.DMV
- XL.Don
- XL.Emperor
- XL.Laroux
- XL.Legend
- XL.Robocop
- XL.Yohimbe
- X97.Laroux
- X97.Legend
- X97.Robocop
- and various variants of Color, FormatC, Wazzu and Robocop
-
- Enhancements in Ver 5.11
- ------------------------
-
- * WINDOWS NT SUPPORT
- This version works on Windows 95 as well as on Windows NT.
-
- * ENHANCED HEURISTIC SCANNING
- This version is equiped with the most Advanced Heuristic
- scanning engine. Now Quick Heal can even detect unknown
- advanced polymorphic viruses.
-
- * SOME OF THE PROMINENT VIRUSES ADDED IN THIS VERSION INCLUDE
- Anxiety (Windows 95 virus)
- Batman.3372
- Cabanas.3000 (Windows 95/NT virus)
- Lover.1343
- Spanska.4250
- Spirit
- and various variants of Delta, CivilWar, Trivial and Murphy
-
- Enhancements in Ver 5.03
- ------------------------
-
- * SOME OF THE PROMINENT VIRUSES ADDED IN THIS VERSION INCLUDE
- Freddy.1870
- HLLC.Evenbeeper
- Int40
-
-
- Enhancements in Ver 5.02
- ------------------------
-
- * ENHANCED MEMORY SCAN
- Enhanced signature scanning with better speed and the conflicts
- with Netware VLM solved.
-
-
- * SOME OF THE PROMINENT VIRUSES ADDED IN THIS VERSION INCLUDE
- Boot-437
- Form.D
- Lazarus.2222
- NRLG.643
- Peter-II
- Quandary
- TPVO.3783
-
- WORD Macro viruses.
- Bandung (All variants)
-
- Quick Heal is the registered trademark of Cat Computer Services
- (P) Ltd.
- MSDOS, WINDOWS, WINDOWS 95 and WINDOWS NT are either registered
- trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. NETWARE is
- registered trademark of Novell Inc. All other trademarks are
- registered by their respective companies.
-
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