Mumbai, October 6, 2009 - eScan 10, one of the leading Information Security solutions that provides proactive protection against virus, spam, trojan, and many other information security threats, has introduced a unique feature of “Auto Backup and Restore” (ABR). This feature will be a part of eScan 10 AntiVirus & Internet Security Suite versions. This innovative feature of Auto backup and restore will take the anti virus security to another level.

This latest feature will 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. eScan’s distinct intelligence ensures that no back up is taken of infected files.

  Mr. Govind Rammurthy, CEO & Managing Director of eScan, commented, "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 Auto Backup & Restore (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 5% 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.