Quick Heal Antivirus Total Security 18.0

Quick Heal Total Security for Windows protects your laptops and desktops and provides protection against all kinds of Internet or network-based threats. Upon installation, it acts as a shield against viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, and other malicious threats. It also provides security against new and unknown threats with Quick Heal’s renowned DNAScan Technology.

Its improved Anti-Phishing feature ensures that you do not land on phishing sites when browsing the net. The Parental Control feature allows you to schedule Internet access for your children and its pre-configured restricted browsing ensures that children do not visit adult sites.

For secure online banking, smooth Internet surfing, and robust protection for your PC. Safe Banking protects your financial data during online banking and shopping. Parental Control lets you manage and control Internet and computer access for your kids. Enhanced Malware Protection blocks spyware, adware, keyloggers, and other malware. Quick Heal Total Security for Windows is the best security software for your Windows PC.

Installation And User-Friendly Interface

Installing the program is a fast and easy task since users are not prompted to exclude any components. Worth mentioning is that Quick Heal comes equipped with a personal firewall that silently runs in the background. Although not mentioned in the setup, it is automatically turned on after installation. The problem is that Windows Firewall remains enabled and it should be deactivated to prevent conflicts that will most likely lead to system stability issues.

In terms of interface, Quick Heal is wrapped in a pleasant and intuitive window that facilitates quick access to its main components. Most of them can be enabled and disabled with one click.

Benefits of Quick Heal Antivirus

Diverse scanning modes for a thorough investigation

A Full System Scan takes the entire hard disk for a spin to check it for any suspicious activity, Custom Scan allows users to select the exact areas to take into account, while Memory Scan looks only into active processes and services (quickly or thoroughly, depending on the user’s preference). Boot Time scan runs a checkup on autostart entries at system boot and, finally, Mobile Scan runs malware searches on mobile devices plugged into the PC.

Advanced scan settings and other options

The default scanner configuration may be altered when it comes to executable, archive and packed files, mailboxes of email clients, anti-spam file extensions, action on threat detection, exclusions, scan schedules, quarantine, and file backups before taking action. Settings may be restored to default.

Additional settings revolve around the real-time guard, DNAScan Technology (cloud assistance), behavior detection level, and submitting suspicious files to the developer labs for closer inspection.

Internet and privacy protection

Quick Heal Total Security features its own firewall against network attacks. It is also capable of blocking access to phishing and fraudulent websites, defending the PC against spyware, adware, keyloggers, and riskware, ensuring maximum protection when surfing the web by confining all activities in a browser sandbox, as well as restricting access to specific websites and scheduling Internet access for children via a parental control module.

System optimization and maintenance

PC Tuner is a separate utility part of the whole package, which gives users the possibility of tweaking Windows and boosting its performance levels by cleaning up the disk, registry and browser traces, as well as defragmenting the registry. It includes a task scheduler and various customization options concerning each component, in addition to reports, backup and restore, plus extra tools dedicated to finding duplicate files, securely deleting data, managing autostart entries, and optimizing services.

Quick Heal Total Security Features

• Web Security: Automatically detects unsafe and potentially dangerous websites, and prevents you from visiting them.
• Email Security: Efficiently blocks emails that might carry infected attachments or links to compromised or fake and phishing websites.
• Safe Banking: Protects your online banking activities from fraudulent websites and malicious programs that steal financial information. It provides a safe desktop session where your financial transactions on banking portals, shopping and other e-commerce websites stay private and hidden from hackers.
• Browser Sandbox: Runs your Internet browsers in a secure, virtual environment that acts like a shield between your PC’s operating system and malicious downloads. If any malicious file gets downloaded in this environment, it gets secluded and is blocked from reaching your real PC.
• Parental Control: The Parental Control feature now comes with enhanced configurability.
• Firewall: Firewall blocks external threats that try to reach your computer over the Internet. It also blocks threats that may arise within networks that are connected to your system. Besides allowing you to configure protection for incoming and outgoing Internet traffic, our enhanced Firewall lets you set a Firewall profile for network connections such as ‘Home’, ‘Work’, ‘Public’ or ‘Restricted’. Stealth Mode is an added benefit. It hides your PC from the prying eyes of hackers.
• Core Protection: Assures complete security for your PC with a deep system scan. A combination of features like AntiVirus, AntiSpyware, AntiMalware, Anti-Rootkit, Firewall and IDS/IPS work together to give you the best antivirus protection.
• Malware Removal and Protection: The existing Malware Removal and Protection of Quick Heal is now enhanced and offers more protection to your PC against spyware, adware, keyloggers, riskware, and other malicious programs.
• Anti-Keylogger: Efficiently prevents programs called keyloggers from recording what you type on your keyboard while you are doing online banking or shopping or simply browsing the Internet.
• Improved Scan Engine: Scans files and folders in lesser time without using too much system resources.
• Advanced DNAScan: Quick Heal DNAScan technology detects and blocks unknown threats. It uses a combination of behavioral and characteristic inspection and monitoring of unsafe programs.
• Vulnerability Scan: The Operating System (OS) settings and other applications in your system might have security vulnerabilities or weaknesses. Leaving these vulnerabilities unpatched can let hackers hijack your computer and your data. Vulnerability Scan helps you detect such weaknesses. The feature also helps you fix vulnerabilities that could be present in the OS settings.
• Virtual Keyboard: Attackers can steal your confidential information by installing spyware or keyloggers in your machine. These are data-stealing software that record what you type on your keyboard, and send the information to the attacker. This can be prevented by using the Virtual Keyboard. Any information typed on this keyboard gets encrypted and cannot be recorded or accessed by any malicious software.
• Privacy Protection: Securely deletes sensitive data to prevent their recovery by any recovery tools. This ensures complete security and confidentiality of your valuable data.
• Flash Drive Protection: Stay safe against infected USB drives. This feature automatically scans external drives the moment they are connected to your PC. It also blocks autorun infections.
• Safe Mode Protection: This facility stops unauthorized users from changing Quick Heal security settings when the system is running on Safe Mode.
• Enhanced Self-Protection: Protects Quick Heal’s running processes and services.
• Silent Mode: Suppresses prompts and notifications from Quick Heal for uninterrupted PC usage. This does not affect the security level of your system.
• Import and Export Settings: You can export Quick Heal security settings from a single computer and import it to other computers. This is helpful in cases where reinstallations or multiple computer configurations are concerned.

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