Award-winning Quick Heal Launches 2011 Series

(Free Press Release) Pune, December 15, 2010

Quick Heal Technologies has unveiled the brand new 2011 series of its computer security solution. The new release promises to provide the best user interface and ease of use to the users while providing a very robust solution for blocking viruses, spywares, roguewares and other malwares. Apart from this, the new release also includes unique features like Parental Control and Web Security.

The enhancements and improvements made to the earlier design and functioning compliment the theme of Quick Heal 2011: Freedom. Freedom to Connect, Surf, Chat, Tweet, Play, Download, Work, Communicate and Shop online without fear.

“With our experience of over a decade in the domain of security solutions, we understand that the antivirus user need not be always technical. At the same time, every computer user needs to protect his PC from malicious activity. So we wanted to provide an extremely easy and robust security solution to millions of computer users worldwide. The new series 2011 provides exactly the same a very intuitive and effective security solution”, said Kailash Katkar, Chief Executive Officer, Quick Heal Technologies. “Through a lot of discussions and brainstorming sessions with several user interface experts and series of usability tests, we have been able to make 2011 series very user-friendly and have brought in the paradigm shift in security solutions domain”, added Kailash Katkar.

Quick Heal 2011 has launched two unique features: Parental Control and Web Security. The Parental Control feature allows parents to configure the categories of websites which are safe for their kids, and keep them away from unsuitable Internet content. It also allows Internet usage scheduling through which, parents can configure the timings of Internet use for kids. This gives them complete control over their kids‘ Internet usage.

The Web Security feature is browser independent and at the same time uses cloud service to prevent user from visiting any infected website. So if any user tries to visit a newly compromised website it will be filtered by our cloud service which is updated to the last minute.

Along with the new features, Quick Heal 2011 has enhanced its installer to speed up the installation. It has also enhanced the anti-virus engine making it light on server resources and yet fast in scanning, detecting and blocking all kinds of viruses, spywares, roguewares and other malwares that might try to sneak into your system. The firewall has been enhanced to work silently in the background and yet be powerful enough to act as a wall against hackers, and the new feature Intrusion Detection System and Intrusion Prevention System detects and prevents malicious activity from the network or Internet before they can reach your system.

Total Security users are provided with much needed built-in and enhanced feature of Quick Heal PCTuner. This will perform registry cleaning, disk cleaning, registry optimization and performance tuning which will fix computer errors and speed up the computer. Total Security users will also see additional support for new mobile phone models in its PC2Moblie scan including support for scanning of Apple iPhone. The PC2Mobile Scan feature has also been enhanced to work on 64-bit Windows operating systems.

“While making Quick Heal 2011 easy to use, we have also ensured that the users experience better security while surfing on the Internet. A browser independent and plug-in free web security gives robust security with maximum performance”, said Sanjay Katkar, CTO and Managing Director of Quick Heal Technologies.
 
About Quick Heal Technologies

Quick Heal Technologies a leading provider of Internet Security tools. Since 1993, Quick Heal Technologies has been actively involved in Research and Development of anti-virus software and has been at the forefront of providing robust security solutions.

Quick Heal Technologies has established Quick Heal product family as industry benchmark for computer security. Serving millions of users worldwide, Quick Heal Technologies employs more than 350 people in eighteen branch offices in India. Quick Heal Technologies also operates through a network of dealers and channel partners in more than 50 countries worldwide. Red Herring has named Quick Heal amongst world's top 100 private technology companies.

For more information on Quick Heal Technologies, visit www.quickheal.com