eScan introduces Auto Backup & Restore

Mumbai: As part of the eScan 10 AntiVirus and Internet Security Suite version, eScan has introduced a unique feature of Auto backup and Restore (ABR).

This latest feature is expected to work seamlessly on all OS versions including the new Windows 7. Once installed the backup feature will 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. eScans' distinct intelligence ensures that no back-up is taken of infected files.

Govind Ramamurthy, CEO & MD, eScan, said, "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 ABR is one step towards creating a reputation database of files on a PC. With a solid reputation database in place, eScan will end up scanning only about 5percent of the files on a PC, thereby drastically increasing the performance. In other words, with a combination of eScan ABR, Reputation DB and Cloud computing, only files which are 'new' or 'unknown' will be scanned,” he elaborated.