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1. New User Friendly GUI: Single screen eScan Protection Center access designed to suit all user
2. Gaming Mode: This feature, when enabled, prevents eScan from displaying notifications and alert messages while you are playing computer games. The USB password protection module will remain active even while the Gaming Mode is on. Also, in the Gaming Mode, updates that are downloaded will not reflect in the eScan database.
3. Folder and Files Security: This feature helps you lock specific files and folders so that network users or local users cannot modify, delete, or rename them.
4. Product Installation CD with Bootable Rescue Disk: This CD comes with a set of installation setup files and a bootable Rescue Disk. The bootable Rescue Disk helps you clean boot your computer if the operating system fails to load on it. When you boot the computer by using the Rescue Disk, the eScan Anti-Virus Toolkit (previously MWAV) scans and cleans the computer’s memory, registry, startup folders, system folders, and drives off viruses and spyware.
5. Laptop Mode: This power-saving feature increases the battery standby time by automatically preventing memory intensive processes like scheduled scans from running while the laptop is in the Battery Mode.
6. Advanced Self-Protection Features: This feature prevents new generation malware from disabling eScan real-time protection on your computer. The feature protects eScan services such as eScan updater, eScan server, and MailScan Dispatcher from being stopped and/or terminated. It also protects eScan executables or services running in the memory from being stopped and/or terminated.
7. Malicious URL Filtering: This feature of eScan 11 includes a Malware URL filter that protects endpoints against Drive-by Malware downloads as socially engineered Malware attacks pose one of the largest risks to individuals and organizations. Access to malicious websites / URLs will be BLOCKED effectively providing to ZERO Day protection to computers.

eScan also has several enhanced features that are as follows:

1. Anti-Virus Engine: This engine is an intelligent malware-detection engine that finds and cleans malicious software on the fly.
2. Heuristic Scan Engine: This engine detects unknown malicious software.
3. Block Spam: This feature helps you block unsolicited e-mails from reaching your inbox.
4. Block Attachment: This feature helps you specify e-mail attachment types that eScan should block automatically.
5. Proactive Security: This feature prevents unknown or suspicious applications from executing and compromising the security of your computer.
6. Firewall: This feature prevents unauthorized access to or from any network.
7. Auto-download Updates: This feature automatically downloads free updates from eScan update servers.
8. Windows®-based Rescue Disk: This feature helps you create a bootable rescue CD that could be used to remove sophisticated rootkit infections that do not allow the Anti-Virus software to remove the infections when the computer is booted in regular mode.
9. eScan Remote Support: This feature helps you request the assistance of an eScan Technical Support Representative through a remote connection to your computer. It allows the eScan Technical Support Representative to remotely take control and troubleshoot the eScan-related issue on your computer.
10. eScan Auto Back Up and Restore: This feature helps you back up the critical files of the Windows® Operating System installed on your computer. It then automatically restores the clean files when eScan finds an infection in any of the system files that cannot be disinfected.
11. Download Latest Microsoft® Operating System Hotfix: This feature downloads critical patches and hotfixes for the Windows® Operating System.
12. Multi-Language: Available in English, Deutsch, French, Greek, Italiano, LatinSpanish, Nederlands, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish.

Note: Russian, Chinese (Traditional & Simplified), Korean, Polish & Turkish, will be available in due course of time.

   16. Customer Support: 24x7 FREE telephone and online (via email, live chat and forums).

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