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eScan is the latest offering from MicroWorld Technologies Inc. It offers a combination of features to help you fight the threat of viruses, set security policies for parental control over content accessed by your child. It guards against Internet misuse, block Spam and offensive mails and block PopUp Ads.

A very important feature is Browser CleanUp that allows you to protect your privacy and removes traces of websites you visit, removes cookies, active X controls, plugins and other links that reveal your browsing habits.

The Corporate Edition of eScan, includes the eScan Management module. This module provides system administrators to remotely administer a vast network of clients. It also allows administrators to remotely install eScan, deploy upgrades and updates, view details of eScan activity, etc.

Real time e-mail scanning and Spam killer eScan has unique features that perform Real-Time MWL scanning. Some tasks it performs are: scan incoming POP3 e-mail and outgoing SMTP e-mail, attachment scanning as they are run, automatic deletion of worms, scan BAT/Graphic/Plain text attachments and BIN-HEX files, scan GZIP/Stuffit and other archive attachments, pdf/executable and screen saver files, etc.

Virus Scanning eScan has a highly advanced virus scan engine that uses a combination of heuristic and reference scanning to detect and remove over 100, 000 known and unknown viruses. It is built on the MWL technology. It has a vast virus signature repository and almost all known viruses are detected. eScan scans all file types.

Additional Features eScan has many new features that offer optimal control over virus scanning and content security related activity. Some of them are: remote access file rights, where you can allow or bar specific files from being created or modified by remote users in your network; automatic download of Anti-Virus updates and auto mailing of notifications to users.

Spyware detection and removal

eScan also offers security against data thieves.
Spyware is a general term used to describe software that runs on users computers and performs actions that the consumer considers undesirable or hostile. The term has been applied to a wide variety of different applications, ranging from the arguably legitimate to the egregiously fraudulent. The three most common types of spy-ware are the following.

1. Adware - Adware monitors the pages fetched by a users Web browser or other material on the users system and when it sees particular pages or terms, it displays other pages containing advertisements paid for by the spy-ware sponsors. So called Browser Helper Objects install themselves as part of the Internet Explorer web browser and change the way it works. The changes can be as simple as switching to a different home page or as complex as redirecting web searches to the spy-ware vendors search system rather than the users desired system, or adding new click here buttons that lead to sponsors advertisements. In some cases, the adware rewrites the web pages displayed by the browser, substituting ads from adware vendor for the ads originally on the page.

2. Key-logger - Key loggers record every key pressed by the computers user and send the stream of keystrokes back to the spy-wares author. More generally, Activity Monitors can log and report on any type of users computer usage, such as e-mail sent and received, web pages visited, and instant messages exchanged. The data can be used for anything from consumer preference statistics to identity theft. This becomes all the more hazardous when the key loggers try to capture the bank details like account number, important account keys, other personal information that can be used for financial thefts or blackmailing.

3. Trojan Horses - Trojan Horses allow the spy-ware author or vendor to remotely control the consumers computer for the authors purposes. At the point, the most common purpose is probably to send spam. Although these are the most common current varieties of spy-ware, variations on these themes and new and different spy-ware programs are released frequently.

Statistics reveal:

90% of all broadband users have spy-ware installed on their computers,
Hackers stole 55,000 credit card nos. from www.creditcards.com in the year 2000 alone,
3,00,000 credit card nos. were stolen from CDUniverse.com.

Note : After installing Escan for the first time, it will download the full list of virus update files (which can take a long time), and after rebooting your PC it will perform a full virus scan (which will also take a while and make your PC slower). We therefore suggest you perform this at a convenient time.
Thereafter, virus update downloads will be much faster, and your PC will operate normally.