In the market since 2002 the product has kept up with trends through its latest mobile cleanup, Android SMS block and parental control features
The Quick Heal portfolio covers three suites of products: Anti Virus Pro, Internet Security and Total Security. While 15 functionalities are common across the three products, Internet Security has 19 and Total Security has 26 features. The product has been robustly benchmarked on multiple operating platforms. UK based Virus Bulletin, has tested the product on no less than 37 occasions using its “In-the-wild” testing, which benchmark’s the product’s ability to detect any virus signature on a specific operating platform, without giving a false positive. The award certification is known as VB100% and the list of platforms certified are listed elsewhere in the article.
Its latest functionality is the ability to clean up a mobile phone device or PDA from a PC, for which it has applied for a US patent. All phone brands are supported including Apple, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung, Siemens, Sony Ericsson and HTC.
For the Android environment it offers virus protection, call blocking, SMS blocking, anti-theft and data protection features. Call filtering allows users to block unwanted calls by configuring Black and White lists. The SMS blocking feature enables silent blocking of malicious SMS and unwanted spam SMS. Data protection allows user to lock the lost or stolen phone remotely and wipe the personal data remotely by sending a pre-defined SMS. This powerful product also has anti-theft feature to trace or locate a lost or stolen phone and has the capability to render the device unusable once stolen.
Another differentiator in the Quick Heal product portfolio is the parental control features. Browsing or web access can be controlled blocking out sites with violence and pornography or other selected content. Time slots for browsing can also be activated. The same control features can be utilised in a business environment to disable chat or identify time usage of the browser.
Quick Heal’s Internet Security product has achieved ICSA Labs Anti-Virus Certification on Microsoft Windows XP operating system. ICSA Labs certification is a benchmark that verifies the trustworthiness of security products.
OESISOK certification from OPSWAT has certified that Quick Heal’s portfolio is correctly installed on supported operating systems and has smooth integration and functioning within OESIS Framework. OESIS Framework is an industry standard for checking and managing security applications on endpoints.
PC Security Labs has rated Quick Heal’s Total Security product with Five-star Certification. This certification is awarded to products that have scored high marks in the “PCSL Total Protection Test” held by PCSL every two months. This test is the first test to combine static scan test, dynamic test, static false positive test and dynamic false positive test into a single comparative test.
Quickheal also has Microsoft ISV recognition, Windows Genuine Advantage and Gold Certified partner status.
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Quick VB100% certified platforms
The product has been tested by Virus Bulletin on multiple operating platforms from 2002 onwards
2011
Microsoft Windows XP SP3
Ubuntu Linux Server Edition 10.04.1 LTS i386
2010
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Vista Business Edition SP2
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Windows XP SP3
2009
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 32-bit edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition SP2 X86
Microsoft Windows Vista Business Edition SP2
Microsoft Windows XP SP3
Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.2
2008
Microsoft Windows Vista Business Edition (64-bit)
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
2007
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Novell Netware 6.5
Microsoft Windows Vista X64 Business
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
SUSE Linux
Microsoft Windows Vista Business Edition (32-bit)
2006
Microsoft Windows XP Professional X64 edition
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Redhat Linux 9
Microsoft Windows NT4 Workstation
2005
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server x64 version (64-bit)
Microsoft Windows 2003 Advanced Server
Novell Netware 6.5
Redhat Linux 9
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
2004
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Red Hat Linux 9
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
2003
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
2002
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advance server
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