Quick Heal’s Version 17 Protects against Ransomware from Encrypting Any Data

Quick Heal Technologies Limited has released Version 17 of Quick Heal Total Security, Quick Heal Internet Security and Quick Heal Antivirus Pro. The new version is aimed at better equipping our customers to save their data, transactions and computers from spyware, adware, keyloggers, riskware, and other malicious programs. The enhanced Parental Control feature will enable parents to keep better track of what the kids are accessing online.

The new version of all products also include a very important capability of combatting ransomware which has been posing serious threat to data, information and hardware during the past few weeks. The Quick Heal Threat Research Lab has detected nearly 809,872 ransomware samples in the past three months, which work out to approximately 9,000 ransomware detections every single day.

Commenting on the release of version 17, Sanjay Katkar, MD and CTO, Quick Heal Technologies said; “Our aim is to understand the evolving challenges of our customers. This has inspired us to innovate and include new features in our products and empower our customers to work, interact and transact safely in the evolving threat landscape.” He further added; “Version 17 reflects our commitment towards providing safe computing environment to our customers.”