User Guide

Quick Heal AntiVirus 2010

Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd.

http://www.quickheal.com

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Copyright © 1993-2009 Quick Heal®

All Rights Reserved.

All rights are reserved by Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd.

No part of this software may be reproduced, duplicated or modified in any form or incorporated into any information retrieval
system, electronic or any other or transmitted in any form without prior permission of Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd, 603 Mayfair
Towers II, Wakdewadi, Shivajinagar, Pune-411005, India.

Marketing, distribution or use by anyone barring the people authorized by Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd. is liable to legal
prosecution.

Trademarks

Quick Heal and DNAScan are registered trademarks of Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd.

Microsoft, MSN, Windows and Windows Logo are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Vade Retro is registered trademark of Goto
Software, France. All brand names and product names used in this manual may be trademarks, registered trademarks or trade
names of their respective companies.

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License Agreement

IMPORTANT:
Read this License Agreement carefully before using this software.
BY USING THIS SOFTWARE IN ANY WAY YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO THE TERMS
OF THIS USER LICENSE AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS BELOW, DO NOT USE THIS
SOFTWARE IN ANY WAY AND PROMPTLY RETURN IT OR DELETE ALL THE COPIES OF THIS SOFTWARE IN YOUR POSSESSION.

Quick Heal License Agreement

This License is a legal agreement between you, the licensee, and Quick Heal Technologies Pvt. Ltd. In consideration of payment of
the License Fee, which is a part of the price evidenced by the Receipt, Quick Heal Technologies Pvt. Ltd. grants to the Licensee a
nonexclusive right. Quick Heal Technologies Pvt. Ltd. reserves all rights not expressly granted, and retains title and ownership of
the Software, including all subsequent copies in any media. This Software and the accompanying written materials are copyrighted.
Copying of the Software or the written materials is expressly forbidden.

You can:

• use one copy of the software on a single computer. In case of multi-user copy which will be appropriately mentioned on
the packaging and or the receipt, use the software only on the said number of systems as mentioned on the packaging.
• make one copy of the software solely for backup purpose.
• install the software on a network, provided you have a licensed copy of the software for each computer that can access
the software over that network.

You cannot:

• sublicense, rent or lease any portion of the software.

• debug, decompile, disassemble, modify, translate, reverse engineer the software.

MANDATORY ACTIVATION
The license rights granted under this Agreement are limited to the first twenty (20) days after you first install the Product unless
you supply registration information required to activate your licensed copy as described in Activation Wizard of the Product. You can
activate the Product through the use of the Internet or telephone; toll charges may apply. You may also need to reactivate the
Product if you happen to re-install the product due to reasons. There are technological measures in this Product that are designed
to prevent unlicensed or illegal use of the Product. You agree that we may use those measures.

As the only warranty under this Agreement, and in the absence of accident, abuse or misapplication, Quick Heal Technologies Pvt.
Ltd. warrants, to the original Licensee only, that the disk(s) on which the software is recorded is free from defects in the materials
and workmanship under normal use and service for a period of thirty (30) days from the date of payment as evidenced by a copy of
the Receipt. Quick Heal Technologies Pvt. Ltd.' only obligation under this Agreement is, at Quick Heal Technologies Pvt. Ltd.' option,
to either (a) return payment as evidenced by a copy of the Receipt or (b) replace the disk that does not meet Quick Heal
Technologies Pvt. Ltd.' limited warranty and which is returned to Quick Heal Technologies Pvt. Ltd. with the copy of the Receipt.

THIRD PARTY WEBSITE LINKS

At some points the software product includes links to third party sites, you may link to such third party websites through the user of
this software. The third party sites are not under the control of Quick Heal Technologies and Quick Heal Technologies is not
responsible for the contents of any third party website, any links contained in the third party websites. Quick Heal Technologies is
providing these links to third party websites to you only as a convenience

EMAIL/ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION
Once you register the software by activating the software product, Quick Heal Technologies Pvt. Ltd. may communicate with you on
the contact information submitted during the registration process through email or other electronic communication device like
telephone or a cell phone. The communication can be for the purpose of product renewal or product verification for your
convenience.

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QUICK HEAL STATUS UPDATE
Upon every update of licensed copy, Quick Heal Update module will send current product status information to Quick Heal Internet
Center. The information that will be sent to the Internet Center includes the Quick Heal protection health status like which
monitoring service is in what state in the system. The information collected does not contain any files or personal data. The
information will be used to provide quick and better technical support for legitimate customers.

Disclaimers:
This software package is provided as such without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including but not limited to the
implied warranties of merchantability and fitness of the package. In no event will Quick Heal Technologies Pvt. Ltd. or its suppliers
be liable to you or anyone else for any damages including loss of data, lost profits or any other damages arising out of the use or
inability to use this software package ever.

The disclaimers and limitations set forth above will apply regardless of whether you accept the software.

ALL MATTERS SUBJECTED TO PUNE (INDIA) JURISDICTION

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About This Document
This user guide contains all the information you need to install and use Quick Heal AntiVirus on Windows. Once familiar you can
also use it for future reference. Full care has been taken to incorporate all details with the latest developments in the shipping.

The following are the list of conventions used in this document:

Convention Meaning

Bold Font Menu titles, commands, window titles, dialog elements, etc.

Additional Information, Important Information, Notes etc.

To do this Actions that must be performed

1. Step 1
2. …….

Switch Command line switches.

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About Quick Heal AntiVirus
Quick Heal AntiVirus gives your desktop needed protection from various Internet threats. It protects your desktop by automatically
removing viruses, spyware, blocks malicious content from websites and much more.

Complete Virus Protection

Quick Heal’s powerful virus detection engine provides protection from new and more complex virus threats that are appearing. It
automatically protects you from viruses, worms, Trojans and backdoors. It continuously scans the system in background and
prevents virus infection from files coming in through email attachments, instant messenger, Internet downloads and through
vulnerability exploits. It also scans for certain non-virus threats like spyware, adware, riskware and other attack tools.

Quick Heal AntiVirus Features

• Scans and cleans already infected PC before installation

• Cleans worms, backdoors and Trojans by cleaning registry and dropped files.
• Cleans virus-infected files automatically.
• Scans email messages and attachments before they reach to your inbox
• Downloads new updates automatically.
• Messenger service informs you about new Viruses, Hoaxes, general messages and Updates etc.
• Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit has been introduced. It detects and removes Rootkits from the system safely.

Powerful email protection

• Quick Heal’s unique on-line email protection scans email messages before they reach your inbox, no matter which email
client you use.
• Prevents worms, Trojans and backdoors from sending infected emails.
• Attachment control for better protection from new and unknown worms.
• Remove email containing vulnerability e.g. IFRAME, MIME etc.

AntiMalware

A new advanced malware scanning engine scans registry, files and folders at lightning speed to thoroughly detect and clean
Spywares, Adwares, Roguewares, Dialers, Riskwares and lots of other potential threats in your system.

Autorun Protection

Autorun malwares gain access to your system using Autorun feature of the Operating system, and autorun feature of removable
drives such as CDs, DVDs or USB drives. This tool secures your PC against such malwares by disabling the autorun feature of your
PC or USB drives

Browsing Protection

Quick Heal AntiVirus blocks malicious content from the websites before the user can access them, using the Browsing Protection
feature.

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Table of Contents
INSTALLING QUICK HEAL ANTIVIRUS ........................................................................................................................................................ 9
GETTING STARTED .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 9
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS............................................................................................................................................................................. 10
HOW TO INSTALL QUICK HEAL ANTIVIRUS ........................................................................................................................................... 14
UNINSTALLING QUICK HEAL ANTIVIRUS ............................................................................................................................................... 15
REGISTERING QUICK HEAL ANTIVIRUS ................................................................................................................................................... 16
REGISTERING ONLINE WITH INTERNET CONNECTION ON THE SAME PC ....................................................................................... 16
REGISTERING OFFLINE WITH INTERNET CONNECTION ON SOME OTHER PC ................................................................................ 17
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT MULTI-USER PACK REGISTRATION ........................................................................................ 18
REACTIVATION .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 18
RENEWAL ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 19
RENEWING ONLINE USING INTERNET ACCESS ON THE SAME PC ..................................................................................................... 19
RENEWING OFFLINE USING INTERNET ACCESS ON SOME OTHER PC .............................................................................................. 20
CAN I INSTALL QUICK HEAL ON ANOTHER COMPUTER? .................................................................................................................... 21
WHAT TO DO IF MY PRODUCT KEY IS LOST?.......................................................................................................................................... 21
USING QUICK HEAL ANTIVIRUS .................................................................................................................................................................. 22
ABOUT QUICK HEAL MAIN WINDOW ....................................................................................................................................................... 22
RIGHT SHELL MENU OPTIONS .................................................................................................................................................................... 24
USING HELP..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 24
PERFORMING MANUAL SCANS .................................................................................................................................................................. 25
SCHEDULING QUICK HEAL ANTIVIRUS SCANNER ................................................................................................................................ 29
USING ONLINE PROTECTION ...................................................................................................................................................................... 30
USING EMAIL PROTECTION......................................................................................................................................................................... 32
KNOWING ABOUT TRUSTED EMAIL CLIENTS ........................................................................................................................................ 33
USING STARTUP SCAN ................................................................................................................................................................................. 33
USING MESSENGER ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 34
VIEWING REPORTS ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 35
STATISTICS...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 36
VIEWING VIRUS LIST .................................................................................................................................................................................... 38
QUARANTINE .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 38
AUTORUN PROTECTION ............................................................................................................................................................................... 39
SYSTEM INFORMATION ............................................................................................................................................................................... 42
CREATING EMERGENCY CD OR COMMAND LINE SCANNER .............................................................................................................. 43
OVERVIEW OF NATIVE BOOT SCAN .......................................................................................................................................................... 44
USING QUICK HEAL ANTIMALWARE ........................................................................................................................................................ 44
WHEN QUICK HEAL ANTIMALWARE SHOULD BE USED? .................................................................................................................... 46
USING EXTRA TOOLS .................................................................................................................................................................................... 47
HIJACK RESTORE ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 47
WINDOWS SPY ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 48
TRACK CLEANER ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 48
ADVANCED SYSTEM EXPLORER................................................................................................................................................................ 48
ABOUT SECTION ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 49
USING ANTI-ROOTKIT ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 50
SCANNING RESULTS AND CLEANING ROOTKITS .................................................................................................................................. 52
CLEANING ROOTKITS THROUGH QUICK HEAL EMERGENCY CD ...................................................................................................... 53

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CUSTOMIZING QUICK HEAL ANTIVIRUS .................................................................................................................................................. 54
SCANNER - SCAN OPTIONS .......................................................................................................................................................................... 55
SCANNER – MEMORY SCAN ........................................................................................................................................................................ 59
SCANNER – DNASCAN .................................................................................................................................................................................. 59
SCANNER – REGISTRY RESTORE ............................................................................................................................................................... 60
PROTECTION – ONLINE PROTECTION ....................................................................................................................................................... 61
PROTECTION - EMAIL PROTECTION .......................................................................................................................................................... 63
PROTECTION – PACKER IDENTIFICATION ............................................................................................................................................... 65
UPDATES - AUTOMATIC UPDATES ............................................................................................................................................................ 66
UPDATES - MESSENGER ............................................................................................................................................................................... 66
GETTING MESSAGES FROM LOCAL FOLDER OR NETWORK PATH .................................................................................................... 67
UPDATES - INTERNET SETTINGS ................................................................................................................................................................ 67
MISCELLANEOUS - EXCLUSIONS ............................................................................................................................................................... 68
MISCELLANEOUS - GENERAL ..................................................................................................................................................................... 68
CLEANING VIRUSES ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 70
CLEANING VIRUSES ENCOUNTERED DURING SCANS .......................................................................................................................... 70
CLEANING VIRUS ENCOUNTERED IN MEMORY ..................................................................................................................................... 71
CLEANING BACKDOOR, TROJAN, WORM AND MALWARES ENCOUNTERED IN MEMORY .......................................................... 71
USING EMERGENCY CD AND COMMAND LINE SCANNER ................................................................................................................... 72
USING EMERGENCY CD ............................................................................................................................................................................... 72
USING COMMAND LINE SCANNER ............................................................................................................................................................ 72
UPDATING QUICK HEAL ANTIVIRUS .......................................................................................................................................................... 74
UPDATING QUICK HEAL ANTIVIRUS FROM INTERNET ........................................................................................................................ 74
UPDATING QUICK HEAL ANTIVIRUS WITH DEFINITION FILES .......................................................................................................... 74
UPDATE GUIDELINES FOR NETWORK ENVIRONMENT......................................................................................................................... 75
TECHNICAL SUPPORT ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 76
CONTACT US ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 77

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Installing Quick Heal AntiVirus
Quick Heal has a simple installation procedure. During installation, read each installation screen, follow the instructions, and then
click Next to continue.

Quick Heal should be installed on a virus-free machine. If you are sure that your computer is infected by a virus, use the Emergency
CD to remove the viruses before installing Quick Heal. If you are not sure whether your computer is infected by viruses, continue
with the installation. Quick Heal setup will scan your computer’s critical area for viruses as a part of its installation process.

Getting Started

Before installing Quick Heal remember the following guidelines:

• If you have any other anti-virus software/hardware loaded, uninstall it before proceeding with Quick Heal installation.
Two anti-virus software’s co-existing on the same computer at the same time could be hazardous for your computer.
• Quick Heal requires approximately 750 MB of free disk space.
• Close all open programs before proceeding with Quick Heal installation.
• You must install with administrative rights.

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System Requirements

To use Quick Heal, your computer must meet the following minimum hardware requirements:

Operating System Minimum Requirements

Windows 2000 • 300 MHz Pentium Processor (or compatible) or higher

• 256 MB of RAM
• 750 MB of free hard disk space
• DVD or CD-ROM drive
• Service Pack 3 or above
• Internet Explorer 6 or higher

Windows XP • 300 MHz Pentium Processor (or compatible) or higher

• 256 MB of RAM
• 750 MB of free hard disk space
• DVD or CD-ROM drive
• Service Pack 2 or above

Windows 2003 • 300 MHz Pentium Processor (or compatible) or higher

• 256 MB of RAM
• 750 MB of free hard disk space
• DVD or CD-ROM drive

Windows Vista • 1 GHz Processor (or compatible) or higher

• 512 MB of RAM
• 750 MB of free hard disk space
• DVD or CD-ROM drive

Windows Server 2008 • 1 GHz Pentium Processor (or compatible) or higher

• 512 MB of RAM
• 750 MB of free hard disk space
• DVD or CD-ROM drive

Windows Server 2008 R2 • 1 GHz Pentium Processor (or compatible) or higher

• 512 MB or higher RAM
• 750 MB of free hard disk space
• DVD-ROM / CD-ROM drive

Windows 7 • 1 GHz Pentium Processor (or compatible) or higher

• For 32-bit 512 MB or higher RAM; for 64-bit 1 GB or higher RAM
• 750 MB of free hard disk space
• DVD-ROM / CD-ROM drive

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Clients supporting Email scan

Email scanning is supported for any of the following POP3 email clients:

• Microsoft Outlook Express 5.5 and above

• Microsoft Outlook 2000 and above
• Netscape Messenger 4 and above
• Eudora 5 and above
• IncrediMail
• Windows Mail

Clients not supporting Email scan

Email scanning is not supported for the following protocol and email clients:

• IMAP
• AOL
• POP3s with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
• Web based email such as Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail
• Lotus Notes

SSL connections not supported

Email Protection does not support encrypted email connections that use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). If you are using SSL
connections then your emails are not protected by Email Protection.

To send email through SSL connections, turn off Email Protection.

Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit Requirements

• Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit is not supported 64-bit Operating Systems.

• It requires minimum 256 MB RAM installed on system.

Quick Heal Self-Protection

• This feature is not supported for Microsoft Windows 2000 Operating System.
• For Microsoft Windows XP Operating System this feature is supported if Service Pack 2 or higher is installed.
• For Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Operating System this feature is supported if Service Pack 1 or higher is installed.

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This table gives a comparison of the features available in QUICK HEAL QUICK HEAL QUICK HEAL
different flavors of Quick Heal: ANTIVIRUS INTERNET TOTAL
SECURITY SECURITY

PROTECTION

Anti-Virus Protects your computer from all

types of viruses.

AntiSpyware Detects and cleans Spywares,

Trojans and keyloggers, and
protects against identity theft.

AntiMalware Scans system registry and folders

to detect and clean Adwares,
Roguewares and other potentially
harmful software.

Anti-Rootkit Performs deep scan of your

computer and removes all hidden
rootkits.

Autorun Protection Prevents execution of autorun from

infected pen drive. Vaccinates pen
drive to prevent from malware
autorun infections.

Firewall Protects your computer from

hacker attacks.

AntiSpam Blocks junk/spam mails from

entering your mailbox.

INTERNET PROTECTION

Browsing Protection Protects against infected websites.

Anti-Phishing Blocks access to phishing websites

and other online fraudulent
websites.

PRIVACY PROTECTION

Track Cleaner Removes computer usage traces of

various applications.

Data Theft Protection Blocks access to pen drive and

other USB storage devices and
prevents unauthorized copying of
data.

Secure Delete Securely removes sensitive and

confidential data from the hard disk
permanently.

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PC OPTIMIZATION

Registry Cleanup Cleans invalid and junk entries from

system registry and optimizes
system speed.

Disk Cleanup Cleans all the unwanted junk files

and temporary files.

MOBILE PROTECTION

PC2Mobile Scan Scans and cleans your mobile

phones, smart phones and PDA
using your computer.

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How to Install Quick Heal AntiVirus

To start with installation, insert the Quick Heal CD in the CD-Drive. CD being enabled with auto-run feature will automatically
prompt you with a list of available options.

1. Click Install Quick Heal AntiVirus to initiate the installation process.

Figure 1-1: Install Quick Heal AntiVirus

2. Installation program will first perform Pre-install virus scan on your system to scan system memory, master boot record
and system files for known viruses.
3. During Pre-install virus scan if a virus is found active in memory then follow below given procedures:
a. The installer automatically sets native scanner to scan and disinfect the system on next boot.
b. After disinfection restart your system and continue with installation. For more details refer to Native Scan in
User Guide.
4. During the Pre-install virus scan, if viruses are not found in the critical system areas then installation would proceed
further.
5. Click Next.
6. Read the License Agreement carefully; if you agree then choose I Agree. If you disagree then you cannot continue with
the installation.
7. Click Next.
8. Click Browse to change the installation path if you want to install Quick Heal in different folder.
9. Click Next.
10. Read the important information relating to the product.
11. Click Next.
12. On Finish, Registration/Re-activation and Updating will be performed. In case if you wish to perform these activities
later on then uncheck the above options and click Finish.

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If the CD auto-run menu does not appear

In some systems, CD-ROM drive does not automatically start a CD when it is inserted. In such case, to start the installation, please
perform the following steps:

1. Double click the My Computer icon on your Desktop.

2. Right click the CD-ROM drive and select Explore option.
3. Double click Autorun.exe to start the installation.

Uninstalling Quick Heal AntiVirus

If due to any reason you wish to uninstall Quick Heal, please perform the following steps:

1. Click Start -> Programs -> Quick Heal AntiVirus -> Uninstall Quick Heal AntiVirus to initiate the un-installation
process.
2. Quick Heal Uninstaller will prompt for the deletion of Reports, Quarantine and Backup files. If you wish to reinstall Quick
Heal after some time then you can uncheck Remove Report Files and Remove Quarantine/Backup Files.
Otherwise proceed by clicking OK.
3. If you are a registered user, a dialog will be displayed showing Product key of your copy. Your are requested to note
down your Product key as it will be needed in case you want to reinstall and reactivate Quick Heal.
4. Uninstaller will finally prompt you to restart your system for changes to take effect.

• Before proceeding with uninstallation, ensure that all other running programs are closed.
• To uninstall Quick Heal AntiVirus, administrative privilege is required.

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Registering Quick Heal AntiVirus
After installation of Quick Heal AntiVirus, you will need to register your copy to get it activated. It is strongly recommended that you
register and activate your copy immediately after installation; otherwise without activation it cannot be further updated. Registered
users can get other benefits like technical support and messenger service. If your copy of Quick Heal is not registered within 20
days time period from the date of installation, it will expire and its further use will be considered as void.

Registration can be done by any of the following options:

• Online with Internet Connection on the same PC

• Offline with Internet Connection on some other PC

Registering Online with Internet Connection on the same PC

If your PC has Internet connection then you can activate Quick Heal AntiVirus online. To register Quick Heal online, please perform
the following steps:

1. Click Start -> Programs -> Quick Heal AntiVirus -> Activate Quick Heal AntiVirus to launch the registration
wizard.
2. Click Next to continue.
3. Select Yes to I have Internet access on this computer and click Next to continue.
4. Select Activate the copy and click Next to continue.
5. The Activation Information screen appears. Provide the 20-digit Product key and click Next to continue.
6. Provide details for Purchased from and Register for fields. Click Next.
7. The Personal Information screen appears. Provide details as requested. The fields marked with * are mandatory fields.
Click Next to continue.
8. The Submit the Information screen appears. Verify the information displayed. If any modifications are needed click
Back and make the necessary modifications; else click Next to continue.
9. The screen indicating successful activation is displayed. The validity of Quick Heal AntiVirus is displayed. Click Finish to
complete the Activation process.

1. You can find the Product key for your copy pasted on your User Guide and / or inside the box. If you have purchased
the software online using credit card then you will find the Product key in the e-mail confirming your order.
2. Kindly stay connected to the Internet during the Registration process.

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Registering Offline with Internet Connection on some other PC

In case if Internet connection is not available on your computer, you will need to register your copy by filling the registration form
on our website. You can visit off-line activation page on our web site at http://license.quickheal.com/html/off2my_act/ with any
system having Internet Connection. For example: Cyber cafe.

This involves following important steps

• Getting details of your Quick Heal AntiVirus installation

• Visiting and filling off-line registration web form through some other PC having Internet access
• Receiving license.key file through email.
• Activating the Quick Heal AntiVirus installation using newly obtained license.key file.

Detail procedure

When filling the registration form on our website you would also need following information of your installed copy:

• Product key
• Installation Number
• A valid email address.

1. You can find Product key for your copy pasted on your User Guide and / or inside the box. If you have purchased the
software online using credit card then you will find the Product key in the email confirming your order.
2. Installation Number is available in Off-line Registration section of Quick Heal AntiVirus Registration Wizard. Choose No
to ‘I have Internet access on this computer’ and click Next. Choose Offline registration through web and
click Next to get your Installation Number.

Obtaining License File

Once the Product key and Installation Number are verified, you will have access to the Personal Information page wherein you are
required to fill the relevant contact details. Once the registration details are submitted successfully you will get your unique
License.key file via email on the email address provided by you at the time of registration. You will also get an option to download
your License.key file on successful registration/activation. Take this License.key file to the computer where activation needs to be
done.

Activating Offline

Now proceed with the following process to activate your copy:

1. Click Start -> Programs -> Quick Heal AntiVirus -> Activate Quick Heal AntiVirus to launch the registration
wizard.
2. Click Next.
3. Choose No to I have Internet access on this computer.
4. Click Next.
5. Select Offline Registration through web.
6. Click Next.
7. Click Browse and open the License.Key file.
8. On completion you will get successful activation message. The validity of Quick Heal AntiVirus is displayed.
9. Click Finish to complete the registration process.

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Important Information about Multi-user Pack Registration

For Multi-user pack when the first Product key of Quick Heal is registered, registration information of the first Product key is
automatically applied for all the other Product keys in the pack. As a result the Product keys that are registered after the
registration of first Product key will have same user information and subscription expiry date.

Reactivation

If due to any reason you need to reinstall your operating system or Quick Heal AntiVirus, it is necessary to reactivate your copy
after reinstallation.

Reactivation is very easy and similar to the registration process. The changes in case of Reactivation are:

• On a PC where you have Internet access, you are required to choose Re-activate the copy option and provide the
Product key of your copy and click Next.
• Offline Reactivation is similar to the corresponding registration process.

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Renewal

To renew your copy of Quick Heal you need to buy renewal code. You can purchase a renewal code from Quick Heal, or from
nearest distributor or reseller.

Renewing Online using Internet Access on the same PC

If your PC has Internet connection then you can renew Quick Heal online by performing the following steps:

1. Click Start -> Programs -> Quick Heal AntiVirus -> Quick Heal AntiVirus.
2. If your subscription to Quick Heal AntiVirus has expired then Information section of the Status window will show that
the subscription to your copy of Quick Heal has expired. Click Renew Now button. If your subscription to Quick Heal has
not expired, then click About menu and then click Renew Now button.
3. The Product key of the product will be displayed in the Product key field. Enter the renewal code in Renewal Code
field. Enter the distributor name or reseller name in the Purchased from field.
4. Click Next to continue.
5. The subscription information such as Current Expiry Date and New Expiry Date will be displayed.
6. Click Renew to continue.
7. Your copy of Quick Heal will be renewed. Click OK to complete the renewal process.

If a user has purchased an additional renewal code, then the renewal can be performed only after 10 days of the current
renewal.

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Renewing Offline using Internet Access on some other PC
In case if Internet connection is not available on your computer, you will need to renew your copy by filling the renewal form on
our website. You can visit off-line renewal page on our web site at http://license.quickheal.com/html/off2renewal/ with any system
having Internet Connection. For example: Cyber cafe.

This involves following important steps

• Getting details of your Quick Heal AntiVirus installation

• Visiting and filling off-line renewal web form through some other PC having Internet access
• Receiving license.key file through email.
• Renew the Quick Heal AntiVirus using newly obtained license.key file.

Detail procedure

When filling the renewal form on our website you would also need following information of your installed copy:

• Product key
• Installation Number

1. Installation Number and Product key are available in Off-line Renewal section of Quick Heal AntiVirus Renewal
Wizard. Select ‘Renew Offline’ and click Next. You will find the Installation Number along with the Product
key.

Obtaining License File

1. Once the Product key, Installation Number and Renewal code are verified, next page will be displayed with User Name
and Email Address field. In case if your email address has been changed then please update the email address in this
form.

2. Click the Submit button, to get unique License.key file via email on the email address provided by you. You will also get
an option to download your License.key file on successful renewal. Take this License.key file to the computer where
renewal needs to be done.

Renewing Offline

Now proceed with the following process to renew your copy:

1. Click Start -> Programs -> Quick Heal AntiVirus -> Quick Heal AntiVirus.
2. If your subscription to Quick Heal AntiVirus has expired then Information section of the Status window will show that
the subscription to your copy of Quick Heal has expired. Click Renew Now button. If your subscription to Quick Heal
AntiVirus has not expired, then click About menu and then click Renew Now button.
3. Select Renew Offline option on this window.
4. Click Next.
5. Click Browse and open the License.Key file.
6. On completion you will get successful renewal message. The new validity of Quick Heal AntiVirus is displayed.
7. Click OK to complete the renewal process.

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Can I Install Quick Heal on another computer?

If you install Quick Heal AntiVirus on another computer, after installation it is necessary to register your software. You must
perform the registration procedure by providing new Product key. Any previously obtained Product key and License Keys are invalid
and will not work on another computer.

One Product key can only be used for one computer.

What to do if my Product key is lost?

Product key will serve as the users Identity. In case you lose the Product key, you can obtain your Product key by contacting Quick
Heal Technical Support by paying nominal charges.

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Using Quick Heal AntiVirus
All the features related to Quick Heal can be accessed from Quick Heal main window. In addition, you can also access Quick Heal
main window or the features from Windows system tray. Proceeding by the default installation, Quick Heal protects your entire
system. You do not have to manually start Quick Heal AntiVirus to protect your system in such cases.

You can manually start Quick Heal by any of the following ways:

• Click Start -> Programs -> Quick Heal AntiVirus -> Quick Heal AntiVirus.
• In Windows system tray, double click the Quick Heal Online Protection icon or right click Quick heal Online
Protection icon in system tray and select Open Quick Heal.
• At the prompt in DOS window, change the path to the directory where Quick Heal AntiVirus is located. Type Scanner and
press Enter.

About Quick Heal Main Window

The main window lets you access features, configure the options and access online help.

Figure 3-1: Quick Heal AntiVirus Main Window

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On the left side of the main window select the option that you want. You have following options:

Status View the status of Quick Heal AntiVirus. This section provides status of
important security scanning.

Scan Virus scanning is obviously the most important component of any Anti-Virus
software. Quick Heal scanner detects viruses in boot records, partition tables,
executable files, compressed files, compressed exes, mailboxes, OLE files,
script files, scrap etc.

Tools Important tools can be accessed from this section such as Anti-Rootkit,
Quarantine, Virus List, Scheduling Scan, System Information, Emergency CD,
Autorun Protection and Messenger.

Extra This section provides extra tools for system diagnosis and repair. Advanced
tools like Hijack Restore, Windows Spy, Track Cleaner and Advanced System
Explorer can be accessed from here.

Reports View the activity reports of all the important modules.

About This section provides details about Version, Virus Database, Subscription
details and Technical Support. You can also Register/Re-activate or renew
your Quick Heal subscription from here.

Following are the other options available on the main screen:

Options Customize the general options for Quick Heal AntiVirus.

Update Update the virus definition files and Quick Heal AntiVirus components.

Launch AntiMalware Scans for malicious softwares (Adwares, Dialers, Pornwares, Potentially
unwanted software, Rouge applications, Spyware) and provides cure against
them.

Help Access help for Quick Heal AntiVirus.

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Right Shell Menu Options

Open Quick Heal Launch Quick Heal AntiVirus.

Launch AntiMalware Launch Quick Heal AntiMalware.

Check New Messages Displays new messages received from Quick Heal.

Enable/Disable Enables/Disables all Quick Heal prompts and notifications.

Entertainment Mode

View Messages Displays the messages received from Quick Heal.

Enable/Disable Enables/Disables Quick Heal Online Protection.

Online Protection

Option Check or configure various Quick Heal AntiVirus options.

Statistics Provides statistical information from Online Protection and Email Protection.

Update Now Update Quick Heal AntiVirus.

Scan Memory Scan System Memory for viruses.

Using Help

Help system consists of extensive topics, index, commands and procedures with general FAQs. Quick Heal provides online help for
most of the message windows. You can get help on all the topics by any of the following ways:

1. Launching Help by clicking Help button from Scanner or Scanner Options.

2. Pressing F1 when you need help.
3. Clicking the Help button in a dialog box.

The latest user guide can be downloaded from http://www.quickheal.co.in/documentation-manual.asp

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Performing Manual Scans

If Online Protection is enabled with default setting, you normally would not need to scan manually. However, you can manually
scan your entire computer, or individual floppy disks, drives, network drives (mapped drives), USB data storage drives, folders, or
files if you wish to. Although the default settings for manual scanning are usually adequate, you can adjust the options for manual
scanning in the Options of Quick Heal AntiVirus.

Performing a full system scan

A full system scan scans all boot records, drives, folders and files on your computer. To perform a full system scan:

1. Start Quick Heal Scanner.

2. In the Quick Heal Scanner main window, click Scan on the left pane.
3. In the Scan pane, click My Computer.
4. Click Scan.
5. When the scan is complete, scan statistics and report will be provided.
6. After reviewing the statistics and report click Close.

Performing My Documents scan

My Documents scan scans all the documents, spreadsheets, presentation and other files kept in My Documents folder. To perform
My Document Scan:

1. Start Quick Heal Scanner.

2. In the Quick Heal Scanner main window, click Scan on the left pane.
3. In the Scan pane, click My Documents.
4. Click Scan.
5. When the scan is complete, scan statistics and report will be provided.
6. After reviewing the statistics and report click Close.

Performing a System Memory scan

Now you scan System Memory for viruses. To perform a System Memory scan:

1. Start Quick Heal Scanner.

2. In the Quick Heal Scanner main window, click Scan on the left pane.
3. In the Scan pane, click System Memory.
4. Click Scan.
5. When the scan is complete, scan statistics and report will be provided.
6. After reviewing the statistics and report click Close.

Performing a Windows folder scan

Windows folder is the primary folder of the Operating System. To perform a Windows folder scan:

1. Start Quick Heal Scanner.

2. In the Quick Heal Scanner main window, click Scan on the left pane.
3. In the Scan pane, click Windows Folder.
4. Click Scan.
5. When the scan is complete, scan statistics and report will be provided.
6. After reviewing the statistics and report click Close.

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Performing scan on folder

Occasionally you would also like to scan specific folders. To perform scan on desired folder:

1. Start Quick Heal Scanner.

2. In the Quick Heal Scanner main window, click Scan on the left pane.
3. In the Scan pane, double click the Scan Folder.
4. Select the folder you want to scan. You can also choose multiple folders for a single scan. Select Exclude Subfolder if
you do not wish to scan subfolders.
5. Click OK to initiate the scan.
6. When the scan is complete, scan statistics and report will be provided.
7. After reviewing the statistics and report click Close.

Performing scan on specific files

Occasionally you would also like to scan specific file(s). To perform scan on desired file(s):

1. Start Quick Heal Scanner.

2. In the Quick Heal Scanner main window, click Scan on the left pane.
3. In the Scan pane, double click Scan File.
4. Select the file(s) you want to scan.
5. Click OK to initiate the scan.
6. When the scan is complete, scan statistics and report will be provided.
7. After reviewing the statistics and report click Close.

Performing Native Boot Scan

Native Boot Scan is very useful to disinfect the system. In case the system is badly infected by a virus and it cannot be cleaned
because the virus is active, use Native Boot Scan. This scan will be performed on next boot using Windows NT Boot Shell.

1. Start Quick Heal Scanner.

2. In the Quick Heal Scanner main window, click Scan on the left pane.
3. In the Scan pane, click Native Boot Scan.
4. Click Scan.
5. A confirmation prompt will be displayed to set boot time scanner on next boot. Click Yes.
6. If you wish to scan your system immediately then click Yes to restart the system. If you wish to scan later when you boot
the system next time then click No.

Performing Mailbox Scan

Mailbox scan scans inside Outlook Express and Windows Mail’s mailboxes for viruses. It deletes the infected mail ensuring your
mailboxes remains clean and virus free.

1. Start Quick Heal Scanner.

2. In the Quick Heal Scanner main window, click Scan on the left pane.
3. In the Scan pane, click Mailbox Scan.
4. Click Scan. When the scan is complete, scan report will be generated.
5. After reviewing the statistics and report click Close.

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Adding Item in My Profile for regular scan

You can add a custom scan if you regularly scan a particular area of your computer and don’t want to specify that area to be
scanned every time. You can delete the scan when it is no longer necessary.

To create a custom scan

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. In the Quick Heal AntiVirus main window, click Scan on the left pane.
3. In the Scan pane, click Add Item.
4. If want to scan a folder or multiple folders then click Add Folders and select the desirable folder(s) and click OK. You
can configure Exclude Subfolder while scanning of a specific folder. This will ignore scanning inside the subfolders
while scanning. e.g. If you select C:\ drive for scan along with selecting Exclude Subfolder option, this will initiate scan for
files available at the root of C:\ drive only.
5. You can add your desirable files to scan in a single custom scan. To add specific files, click on Add Files and browse for
files and click OK.
6. Click Next.
7. Give a name to your custom scan.
8. Click Finish to save the custom scan.

To scan a custom scan item

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. In the Quick Heal AntiVirus main window, click Scan on the left pane.
3. In the Scan pane, select the custom scan item and click Scan.
4. When the scan is complete, scan statistics and report will be provided.
5. When you are done reviewing the statistics and report, click Close.

To edit a custom scan

You can edit your custom scan any time to add or remove the scan items. To edit a custom scan:

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. In the Quick Heal AntiVirus main window, click Scan on the left pane.
3. In the Scan pane, click on the custom scan which you created previously.
4. Click Edit Item.
5. Make the changes and click Finish to save the changes.

To remove a custom scan

You can remove your custom scan any time. To remove a custom scan:

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. In the Quick Heal AntiVirus main window, click Scan on the left pane.
3. In the Scan pane, click on the custom scan item which you want to delete.
4. Click Remove Item.
5. A confirmation prompt will come. Click Yes to delete the custom scan item.

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To scan one or more drives

You can scan all or specific drive(s) available on your system. To scan the drive(s):

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. In the Quick Heal AntiVirus main window, click Scan on the left pane.
3. In the Scan pane, click the Drives section.
4. Select Drive dialog box appears. Herein check the drives you want to scan from the drives list box. You can check
special selection for multiple drives by checking items in the Drive Types group.
5. Now click Scan button.

Schedule Scan

You can schedule the scanner to scan automatically at predetermined time and intervals. For more details please see Scheduling
Quick Heal AntiVirus.

Scan initiated by right click handler

You can easily initiate scan by using right click handler. To scan:

1. Right click on the object (Drive, Folder and File) you want to scan.
2. Select Quick Heal Scan from the right click menu.

Scanning through DOS command line

If you are working in a DOS window, you can easily initiate scan for a specific drive, file or folder, from DOS command line. To
scan:

1. In the DOS window prompt, changed to the directory path where you have installed Quick Heal AntiVirus.
2. At the prompt, type SCANNER.EXE and give the path to scan. For example: Scanner.exe C:\Windows
3. Press Enter to start the scan.

Scan using DUMB mode

If you are working in a DOS window, you can easily initiate scan for a specific drive, file or folder, from DOS command line. To
scan:

1. In the DOS window prompt, changed to the directory path where you have installed Quick Heal AntiVirus.
2. At the prompt, type SCANNER.EXE /DUMB. For example: Scanner.exe /DUMB
3. Press Enter. Quick Heal AntiVirus will start in dumb mode.
4. Now select the item you wish to scan.

Scanning through DOS command line using DUMB mode

Using DOS command line you can scan in dumb mode. To scan using dumb mode:

1. In the DOS window prompt, changed to the directory path where you have installed Quick Heal AntiVirus.
2. At the prompt, type SCANNER.EXE /DUMB and give the path to scan. For example: Scanner.exe /DUMB
C:\Windows
3. Press Enter to start the scan.

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Overview of DUMB mode scanning

Dumb mode scanning is recommended if no virus was detected during an ordinary scanning procedure but the system is still
behaving strangely (for example, slow performance of applications, and so on). Otherwise, we do not recommend dumb scanning
mode as it noticeably slows down the scanning speed of Quick Heal AntiVirus.

Scheduling Quick Heal AntiVirus Scanner

You can schedule the scanner to scan automatically at predetermined time and intervals. You can schedule the scan at first boot,
one time, daily and weekly. This will supplement other automatic protection features to ensure that your computer remains virus-
free.

You can easily schedule custom scan. Frequency can be set for daily and weekly scans, which additionally can refine your request to
schedule it to occur every two days or every three days instead. Further you can also schedule the task to repeat at specific
intervals.

To create a new schedule scan

1. On the left pane of the main window, under Quick Heal AntiVirus, click Tools.
2. In the Tools pane, click Schedule Scan. Scan Scheduler wizard will appear.
3. Select Create new Schedule Scan and click Next.
4. Name your custom schedule scan under Name of the Schedule Scan /Task. For example: My Scan.
5. Select First Boot to schedule the scanner to scan at first boot of the day. When you select First Boot in this case you
don’t have to specify the time of the day to start the scan. Scan will take place only during the first boot no matter at
what time you start the system. Otherwise set the frequency and time at which you want to scan the system. Most of the
frequency options include additional options (Every day (s) and Repeat Task) that let you further refine your schedule
scan. You can also configure the scanner to scan silently (without any user intervention) by selecting Silent Scan option.
By default the Schedule AntiMalware option will be checked. This will perform a malware scan along with the virus
scan. Select the schedule scan priority from High, Normal and Low. Set the additional options as necessary.
6. Provide User Name and Password.
7. Under Setting, you can specify specific items to be scanned, action required to be taken if a virus is found and use of
advance options while scanning. By default, setting has been set for adequate options for scanning.
8. When you are done, press Next.
9. Click Add Folders.
10. Select the Drives, folder or multiple folders to be scanned and press OK. You can configure Exclude Subfolder while
scanning of a specific folder. This will ignore scanning inside the subfolders while scanning. e.g. If you select C:\ drive for
scan along with selecting Exclude Subfolder option, this will initiate scan for files available at the root of C:\ drive only.
11. Click Next.
12. Review the summary of your custom scheduled scan.
13. When you are done, click Finish.

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To edit a scheduled scan

You can change the schedule of any scheduled scan. To edit a scheduled scan:

1. On the left pane of the main window, under Quick Heal AntiVirus, click Tools.
2. In the Tools pane, click Schedule Scan. Scan Scheduler wizard will appear.
3. Click Modify Schedule Scan and select schedule scan created previously.
4. Click Next.
5. Change the schedule as desired.
6. When you are done, click Next.
7. Change the scan area as desired.
8. Click Next.
9. Review the summary of your custom scheduled scan.
10. When you are done, click Finish.

To delete a scan schedule

You can delete any scan schedule. To delete a scan schedule:

1. On the left pane of the main window, under Quick Heal AntiVirus, click Tools.
2. In the Tools pane, click Schedule Scan. Scan Scheduler wizard will appear.
3. Click Delete Schedule Scan.
4. To delete a single schedule scan, select the schedule scan and click Remove. To delete all the scheduled scans click
Remove All.

Using Online Protection

Online Protection prevents your system from virus attack by continuously monitoring the system and prevents virus infection from
email attachments, Internet Downloads, network, ftp, floppy, Data storage devices, CD-DVD ROM file executables and during
suspected file copying. All this is done in the background and you are notified only when a virus infected file is found or a virus like
activity is detected.

Quick Heal AntiVirus Online protection is configured to load automatically whenever you start your computer. Online Protection icon
appears on the Windows taskbar.

Disabling Online Protection

It is not recommended to disable Quick Heal AntiVirus Online Protection. It could be hazardous for your computer and data. But if
you wish to do so, it can be done as follows:

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To disable Online Protection temporarily

1. Right-click Quick Heal Online Protection icon on the Windows task bar.
2. Click Disable Online Protection.
3. A prompt that recommends against turning off Online Protection appears. Select the time period for Online Protection to
automatically enable itself or permanently disable using the Select Action drop-down box.

Figure 3-2: Disable Online Protection

4. Click OK to disable Online Protection.

You can now see that Online Protection icon’s color is changed from Green to Red in Windows System Tray. It means that Online
Protection has been disabled temporarily or permanently based on your selection. If you have selected Turn on after 15 minutes
/ 30 minutes / 1 hour then the icon’s color will change back from Red to Green based on the time frame selected, to indicate that
Online Protection has been enabled. If you have selected Turn on after next reboot, then the icon’s color will change back to
Green at the next reboot. If you select Permanently disable then the icon’s color will remain Red until you enable Online
Protection manually.

To disable Online Protection permanently

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. Click Options, under main windows menu of the Quick Heal AntiVirus.
3. Click Online Protection tab.
4. Uncheck the Load Online Protection at Windows Startup option.
5. Press OK to apply the changes.

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Using Email Protection

Email is the most common medium for spreading viruses and other malicious programs. Since email is most widely used for
communication, newer viruses are using email as a medium to spread. Virus authors are always looking for new methods to
automatically execute their viral codes using some vulnerability amongst popular email clients. Hence, for every user it is very
important to have robust mail protection, which will block viruses or malicious programs at transferring level itself. Quick Heal Mail
Protection has been redesigned to provide utmost & best protection to its users. Quick Heal AntiVirus provides reliable and robust
email protection. It supports all email programs that use POP3 communications protocol. Your email messages are scanned
automatically for any malicious code content within, and hence you are assured of virus free safe emails.

Email protection protects you from following threats:

• Viruses received in email and attachments.

• Partial messages.
• Email containing vulnerability such as MIME, IFRAME etc.

The following features are supported in email protection:

• Scanning of Incoming Mail.

• Silent mode (does not prompt) scanning.
• Remove multiple extension attachment(s).
• Remove Message/Partial type of mails.
• Actions if viruses are found are Delete automatically and Repair automatically, delete if unsuccessful.
• Backup before cleaning action.
• Scanning of ZIP attachments.
• Attachments Control.
• Trusted email clients allow only trusted email clients to send mails. This prevents new worms from further spreading to a
greater extent.

See Customizing Email Protection for further set-up options.

Disabling Email Protection

It is not recommended that you disable Quick Heal Email Protection. Your email communication may not remain safe any further,
and your system shall be open for vulnerable virus infection through email.

Email Protection can also be disabled as follows:

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. Click Options, under main windows menu of the Quick Heal AntiVirus.
3. Click Mail Protection tab.
4. Uncheck the Enable Email Protection option.
5. Click OK to apply the changes.

Online Protection will not be loaded when you start your system thereafter

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Knowing about Trusted Email Clients

Email is the most common medium for spreading viruses and other malicious programs. Since email is most widely used for
communication, newer viruses are using email as a very easy medium to spread. Virus authors are always looking for new methods
to automatically execute their viral codes using some vulnerability amongst popular email clients. Worms are also using their own
SMTP engine routine to spread their infection.

Trusted email client is an advanced option which authenticates email-sending application on the system before they are sending
emails. This option will prevent new ‘Worms’ from further spreading from your system. It contains a default email client list, which
is allowed to send emails. Email client in the default list are Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, Eudora and Netscape
Navigator.

1. In case if the prompt comes for an application, which is known to you for sending email but not added in the Trusted
email client list, click Yes to add the same.
2. In case if the prompt comes for an application, which is not known to you for sending email then select No as it could
be a new Worm. We also request you to send the same file to analyze@quickheal.com for further analysis of the
same.

Using Startup Scan

Quick Heal Startup Scan keeps a watch on the programs trying to get automatic execution control. It also keeps a watch on some
of the system files, which are commonly patched (or replaced) by certain worms/backdoors/trojans.

By default it is configured to check these on every boot operation. When a program takes an automatic execution control it can be:

• A program installed by you.

• A program installed without your knowledge, which in case might be a malicious program.

Quick Heal Startup Scan warns you in both the cases.

It provides you three options:

Accept This registers the program or changes with Startup Scan and does not
warn from the next boot. If you have installed a program or upgraded an
existing program you shall get the warning, which should be registered,
once with the Startup Scan. Press A to accept.

Delete / Repair If it discovers a new entry in the system, it gives the option to delete. If
selected to Delete, it removes the entry of the particular program and
sends the file to Quarantine.

If it discovers that some old entry or system file has been modified it gives
the option to repair. If Repair is selected it restores the old settings and
sends the new file to Quarantine.

Help It shows in detail what the alarm means. This will help you in deciding the
course of action.

General guideline for choosing the response is:

If you have installed some program and you receive a Startup Scan warning for that program select Accept. If you have not
installed any application knowingly and you get a Startup Scan warning choose Repair / Delete as this may be a new
Trojan/Worm/Backdoor.

This feature is not supported on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 operating systems.

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Using Messenger

Quick Heal AntiVirus Messenger provides the trusted link for message delivery between Quick Heal Team and you (the User). It
automatically gathers information from our web site and informs you about New Viruses, Hoaxes, Upgrade availabilities and other
information. It can be also used from Local Folder or Network path.

Quick Heal AntiVirus Messenger icon on the tray indicates that the messenger is running. By default Quick Heal AntiVirus Messenger
is configured to load automatically.

The messenger starts blinking along with an Audio Alarm whenever there is a new message. Click the blinking ball to view the
message. A detailed log of messages is also maintained.

Color Indicates

Red Virus Alert

Amber Hoax Information

Green Upgrade

Blue General

Viewing Messages

To view the messages, do the following steps:

1. Right click Quick Heal AntiVirus icon from windows system tray.
2. Click View Messages to open the Newsletter Viewer containing the list of all the messages with date, type and subject.
3. Select the message you want to view.
4. Click View to see the particular message. The message is displayed instantly. You can use Prev and Next buttons to
browse through the other messages. Click Close to move back to the Newsletter Viewer.
5. Click Close Newsletter Viewer.
6. Click Minimize to minimize the Messenger.

Disabling Messenger

If you turn off Quick Heal AntiVirus Messenger then you are going to miss the important information related to new threats,
updates and other information about Quick Heal AntiVirus.

Quick Heal Messenger can also be disabled as follows:

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. Click Options, under main windows menu of the Quick Heal AntiVirus.
3. Click Messenger tab.
4. Uncheck the Enable Messenger option.
5. Press OK to apply the changes.

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To check the Message Instantly:

By default the messenger is configured to check for the message automatically from Internet. See Customizing Quick Heal AntiVirus
Messenger. You can also check the message any time instantly. To check the message instantly:

1. Right Click Quick Heal AntiVirus icon from windows system tray.
2. Select Check New Messages.

This checks the new message if available on Quick Heal website instantly (subject to the availability of internet). You can also see
the status of the messenger, configure Messenger and view message log from here.

Viewing Reports

Quick Heal AntiVirus Reports provide detailed information about the different module's functioning & virus scans sessions. Activity
Log generates log for the following module:

• Scanner
• Online Protection
• Email Protection
• Startup Scan
• Scheduler
• Quick Update
• Memory Scan
• Registry Restore
• Native Scanner
• AntiMalware Scan
• Browsing Protection

To view reports

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. In the left pane of the Quick Heal AntiVirus main window, click Reports.
3. Now click the desirable report section which you want to see.

Reports contain a list of activity logs for each module with details such as scan date, scan time & report for different scan session.

• Click Details to view details about the selected log entry. The Detail information consists of additional information
regarding viruses detected and action taken against those viruses. To see previous log, click Prev. To see Next log, click
Next.
• Click Delete to delete selected scan log entry.
• Click Delete All to delete all scan log entries for that particular module.

Print and Save As add-ons are provided in Reports.

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Statistics

Quick Heal now provides statistics for Online Protection, and Email Protection. Following are the statistics provided by Quick Heal:

Online Protection Statistics

Number of files scanned Provides information about total number of files scanned.

Number of infected files Provides information about total number of infected files found.

Number of suspicious Provides information about total number of suspicious files found.
files

Number of packed files Provides information about the number of packed files found.
identified

Last file scanned Provides information about the last scanned file.

Last file found infected Provides information about the last file which was found infected.

Last infection name Provides information about the Virus or Malware which was recently
detected.

Last file found Provides information about the file which was found suspicious recently.
suspicious

Last packed file Provides information about the last packed file that was identified.
identified

Last packer identified Provides information about the last type of packer that was identified.

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Email Protection Statistics

Number of emails scanned Provides information about total number of emails scanned for
infection.

Number of emails with Provides information about total number of email received along with
attachments attachments.

Number of infected emails Provides information about total number of emails found infected.

Number of attachments Provides information about total number of attachments received.

Number of infected Provides information about total number of attachments found

attachments infected.

Number of suspicious Provides information about total number of attachments found

attachments suspicious.

Number of multiple Provides information about total number of attachments blocked

extensions attachments having multiple extensions. e.g. .doc.exe.
blocked

Number of vulnerable Provides information about total number of vulnerable emails blocked.
emails blocked

Number of attachments Provides information about total number of attachments blocked as per
blocked by attachment the Attachment control policy.
control

Type of attachments Provides information about attachments which is mostly received by

received by user mostly the user. e.g. .doc (Office Document file).

Type of attachments Provides information about attachments which is being blocked mostly
blocked mostly as per the Attachment control policy.

Last application blocked Provides information about an un-trusted application which was
attempting to send mail blocked while sending mails as per Trusted Email Client policy.

Number of attempts to Provides information about total number of attempts of sending mails
send mail blocked by un-trusted email clients that were blocked as per Trusted Email
Client policy.

Since System Start Under this category, Quick Heal provides statistics since system start.
Statistics under this category are purged on every shutdown or restart.

Since Installation Under this category, Quick Heal provides statistics since installation.

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Viewing Virus List

Quick Heal AntiVirus Virus List provides an exhaustive database of respective virus names along with their category.

Viewing Virus List

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. In the left pane of the Quick Heal AntiVirus main window, click Tools.
3. Click Virus List. For the first time Virus List will take considerable time to load the list.

Virus List Overview

To find for a virus in the virus list:

1. Click Find.
2. Type the name of virus you want to find.
3. Click Find.

Click Print to take a print-out of the virus list.

Latest Latest section contains the threats, added in the daily updates.

Quarantine

Quarantine helps in safely isolating the infected or suspected files. When a file is added to Quarantine, Quick Heal AntiVirus
encrypts the file and keeps it inside the Quarantine directory. Being kept in an encrypted form, these files cannot be executed and
hence are safe. Quarantine also keeps a copy of infected file before repairing. Backup functionality is available by selecting Backup
before repairing option under Scanner's settings.

To launch Quarantine

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. In the left pane of the Quick Heal AntiVirus main window, click Tools.
3. Click Quarantine.

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You can perform the following tasks with the Quarantine feature:

Add Add a file to the Quarantine module.

Remove (Delete) Delete a quarantine file.

Remove All Delete all the Quarantine files.

Restore Restore a file from Quarantine to its original location.

Send You can send the quarantined file to our research lab for further
analysis. Select the file which you wish to submit and click Send.

In the Quarantine feature, when a suspicious file is selected and the Send button is clicked, a prompt appears requesting
permission to obtain your email address. You also need to provide a reason for submitting the files. Select from the following
reasons :

Suspicious File Select this reason if you feel that a particular file in your system has
been the cause of suspicious activity in the system.

File is unrepairable Select this reason if Quick Heal has been able to detect the malicious
file on your system during its scans, but has not been able to repair the
infection of the file.

False positive Select this reason if a non malicious data file that you have been using
and are aware of its function, has been detected by Quick Heal as a
malicious file.

Autorun Protection

Autorun malwares gain access to your system using Autorun feature of the Operating system, and autorun feature of removable
drives such as CDs, DVDs or USB drives. This tool secures your PC against such malwares by disabling the autorun feature of your
PC or USB drives.

Autorun Protection provides two types of protection:

• Secure PC from autorun malwares.

• Secure removable drives.

Secure PC from autorun malwares

To safeguard your PC against autorun malwares, please perform the following steps:

1. Click Tools -> Autorun Protection from the Quick Heal AntiVirus main window.
2. Quick Heal Autorun Protection window opens. In the Secure PC from autorun malwares tab, click Secure my
PC from Autorun Malwares button.
3. Autorun feature is now disabled on your PC protecting it from autorun malwares.

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 Figure 3-3: Secure PC from autorun malwares

Although Quick Heal recommends that you keep the autorun feature of your PC disabled, but if you wish to enable the
Autorun feature of your PC, just follow the steps mentioned earlier, and in Step 2 click the Enable Autorun feature on
my PC button to enable autorun on your PC.

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Secure Removable Drives
Quick Heal AntiVirus safeguards your USB devices from autorun malwares. Autorun feature of the removable drive is one of the
mediums for malwares to gain access into the system. The Secure Removable Drives feature prevents autorun malwares from
using your removable device as an infection spreading medium. Securing the removable drive also ensures that the drive, if
connected to an infected system, cannot be used for spreading autorun malwares on other system.

To safeguard removable drives please perform the following steps:

1. Click Tools -> Autorun Protection from the Quick Heal AntiVirus main window.
2. Click the Secure Removable Drives tab.
3. The removable drives plugged into your system will be listed in the Select a removable drive drop-down box. Select
the drive and click Secure Removable Drive button.
4. The drive will be secured against autorun malwares when used in other systems.

Figure 3-4: Secure Removable Drives

Although Quick Heal recommends that you keep the autorun feature of your USB drive disabled but if you wish to enable
the Autorun feature of the USB drive, just follow the steps mentioned earlier and in Step 2 click the Un-secure
Removable Drive button to enable autorun on your USB drive. Insert the same removable drive for un-secure that has
been secured using Quick Heal AntiVirus.

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System Information

Quick Heal AntiVirus System Information is an essential tool to gather critical information of a Windows based system for following
cases:

To detect new Malwares This tool gathers information to detect new Malwares from Running
processes, Registry, System files like Config.Sys, Autoexec.bat etc.

To get Quick Heal It gathers information of the installed version of Quick Heal AntiVirus,
AntiVirus information its configuration settings and Quarantined file(s), if any.

Submitting System Information file

This tool generates an INFO.QHC file at C:\ and submts the same automatically to sysinfo@quickheal.com.

INFO.QHC file contains information in text and binary format. It contains critical system details and installed Quick Heal
AntiVirus version details. Information contains automatic execution of files (through Registry, Autoexec.bat, System.ini and
Win.ini) and Running processes along with their supported library details. These details are used to analyze the system for
new Malwares and proper functioning of Quick Heal AntiVirus. The above information is used to provide better and
adequate services to customers. This tool doesn't collect any other personally identifiable information, passwords etc. We
respect your privacy; rest assured this information will not be shared or disclosed.

Generating System Information

To generate system information follow the below given steps:

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. Click Tools from the left pane.
3. Click System Information.
4. Select the system information generating reason. If you are suspecting new Malwares in your system then select I
suspect my system is infected by new Malwares or if you are facing problem while using Quick Heal AntiVirus then
select I am having problem while using Quick Heal. Click Finish.
5. System Information (INFO.QHC) will be generated and sent to Quick Heal Technical Support.

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Creating Emergency CD or Command Line Scanner

You can create your own emergency bootable CD that will help you to boot your Windows PC and scan and clean all the drives
including NTFS partitions. This helps in cleaning badly infected PC from file infecting viruses which cannot be cleaned from inside
Windows. This features works on Windows 2000 and above operating system.

You can create an emergency CD or command line scanner from Quick Heal AntiVirus at any time. This will be created with the
latest virus signature pattern file used by Quick Heal AntiVirus on your system.

To create an Emergency CD

To create Quick Heal Emergency CD, your system should fulfill following requirements:

• Licensed copy of Microsoft Windows Operating System. (Windows 2000/XP/2003 or above).

• Microsoft Windows Installation CD. (Windows XP/2003)
• A blank writable CD and a CD-Writer drive.
• Emergency CD can only be used to scan and clean drives of the same system for which you have licensed Microsoft
Windows operating system.

Creating Emergency CD

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. Click Tools from the left pane.
3. Click Emergency CD.
4. Click Next.
5. Select Create Emergency CD, click Next.
6. Bootable files required to make the CD bootable. Select Operating System Installation CD option and insert the
Operating CD (Windows XP and Windows 2003 operating system CD only). Select the CD-Rom drive.
7. Click Next.
8. System files will be fetched from the installation CD.
9. Remove the Operating System Installation CD and insert a blank writable CD.
10. Select the CD-Rom drive.
11. Click Next.
12. Emergency CD will be created.

Creating Emergency CD using system files

If you have created emergency CD earlier by providing Microsoft Windows Installation CD using Emergency CD Creation Wizard,
then you can quickly burn the emergency CD again by performing the steps that follow:

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. Click Tools from the left pane.
3. Click Emergency CD.
4. Click Next.
5. Select System files used earlier while creating emergency CD.
6. Click Next.
7. System files used earlier for CD creation will be fetched automatically.
8. Remove the Operating System Installation CD and insert a blank writable CD.
9. Select the CD-Rom drive.
10. Click Next.
11. Emergency CD will be created.

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To create Command line scanner

You can create DOS Command line scanner using Emergency CD wizard.

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. Click Tools from the left pane.
3. Click Emergency CD.
4. Click Next.
5. Select Save Command line scanner at option provided.
6. Browse the folder or type the path where you wish to create command line scanner.
7. Click Next.
8. Command line scanner will be created.

In case if you wish to disinfect the badly infected system it is recommended that write a CD by copying Command line Scanner
folder.

See Using Emergency CD or Command Line Scanner.

Overview of Native Boot Scan

Native Boot Scan is an advance administration tools. In short it schedules the system to boot in Windows NT boot shell on next
boot. On next start Native Boot scan will start before the desktop is loaded. It scans all drives and detect/clean virus infections on
your computer. This activity is quite fast and reliable, without the risk of spreading the infection any further. This will help you in
detecting and cleaning even the most cunning Rootkits, spywares, special purpose Trojans and loggers. Additionally Native Boot
Scan cleans the registry entries created/modified by malwares.

Native Boot Scan works with all Windows-supported file systems, i.e. FAT32, NTFS, as well as less common storage devices,
such as SCSI/RAID. See Performing Native Boot Scan.

Using Quick Heal AntiMalware

Quick Heal AntiMalware is a new advanced malware scanning engine. It scans registry, files and folders at lightening speed to
thoroughly detect and clean Spywares, Adwares, Roguewares, Dialers, Riskwares and lots of other potential threats in your system.

Start Quick Heal AntiMalware

Quick Heal AntiMalware Scan can be started from:

Start Quick Heal AntiMalware from Quick Heal AntiVirus Program Group

To launch Quick Heal AntiMalware, click Start -> Programs-> Quick Heal AntiVirus -> Quick Heal AntiMalware.

Start Quick Heal AntiMalware from Quick Heal AntiVirus

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. Click Launch AntiMalware.
3. Quick Heal AntiMalware program will start.
4. Click Scan Now to initiate AntiMalware Scanning.

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Start Quick Heal AntiMalware from Quick Heal AntiVirus system tray icon

1. Right click Quick Heal AntiVirus system tray icon.

2. Click Launch AntiMalware.
3. Click Scan Now to initiate AntiMalware Scanning.

Quick Heal AntiMalware Action on Malware found

While scanning for malwares Quick Heal AntiMalware displays malicious files, folders and registry entries related to various
malwares. Once the scanning is complete, a list will be displayed for detected malwares containing malicious files, folders and
registry. You can un-check specific file, folder or registry entries within displayed list, but be ensured that all un-checked items are
not malicious and belongs to a genuine application.

You can take following action once the scanning is complete:

Clean Selecting this action will clean the malwares and its remnants from the
system. If you have un-checked specific file, folder or registry entry then
you will be prompted whether you wish to exclude those items in future
scan. If you wish to permanently exclude those items then click Yes,
otherwise click No for temporary exclusion.

Skip Selecting this will not take any action against malwares in your system.

Set System Restore point Selecting this option will create System Restore point before the cleaning
before cleaning process starts in your system. This enables you to revert the cleaning
done by Quick Heal AntiMalware by using Windows System Restore
facility.

Set System Restore point feature is not available on

Windows 2000 and Server Operating system..

Malware Details Malware details are available at http://www.quickheal.co.in website.

Quick Heal AntiMalware Report

To view detailed AntiMalware scanning report, please refer Quick Heal AntiVirus Reports section.

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Quick Heal AntiMalware Settings

Scan for suspicious items A signature free scanning to detect malware traces based on heuristic.
To enable Scan for Suspicious items please follow the below given
steps:

1. Start Quick Heal AntiMalware.

2. Click Settings.
3. Select Scan for Suspicious items.
4. Click OK to save the changes.

Exclusion You can configure Quick Heal AntiMalware to skip scanning of certain
files and folders.

To exclude a file from AntiMalware scanning:

1. Start Quick Heal AntiMalware.

2. Click Settings.
3. Click Add File.
4. Select the file to be excluded and click Open.
5. Click OK to save the changes.

To exclude a folder from AntiMalware scanning:

1. Start Quick Heal AntiMalware.

2. Click Settings.
3. Click Add Folder.
4. Select the folder to be excluded and click OK.
5. Click OK to save the changes.

When Quick Heal AntiMalware should be used?

Quick Heal AntiMalware should be used in following cases:

• Quick Heal Online Protection has detected a malware and recommending you to scan your system using Quick Heal
AntiMalware.
• Quick Heal AntiVirus Scanner has detected a malware during scan and recommending you to scan your system using
Quick Heal AntiMalware.
• In case of visible changes in your system. e.g. Desktop wallpaper changed, Internet Explorer functionalities changed such
as default website and search page are changed, Rougeware applications are installed etc.

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Using Extra Tools

Quick Heal AntiVirus consists of advanced tools which can help user by performing following activities:

• Restore the default Internet Explorer settings.

• Restore the important system settings.
• Remove all known lists that can expose your privacy.
• Provide important information of an application.
• Provide all important information related to your computer such as running process, installed BHO’s, toolbars installed in
Internet Explorer, installed ActiveX, Hosts, LSPs, Startup Programs, Internet Explorer settings and Active network
connection.

Hijack Restore

Hijack Restores, restores the important Internet Explorer settings to default settings. Internet Explorer settings modified by
Malwares, Spywares, Genuine applications and even by you can be easily restored to default setting using Hijack restore. This tool
also restores certain other critical operating system settings like registry editor and task manager.

Using Hijack Restore

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. In the left pane of the Quick Heal AntiVirus main window, click Extra.
3. Click Hijack Restore.

Restoring Internet Explorer Browser Settings

Settings This section displays the important Internet Explorer settings which can
be restored using Hijack Restore.

Current Settings This section displays the current Internet Explorer settings.

Previous/Default This sections displays the last or default Internet Explorer settings.
Settings

Check All Select all Internet Explorer to restore previous or default settings.

Restore default Host file Select this option to restore default Host file. Click Default Host file to
configure your own Host file so that during restore of the host file your
settings are well preserved. Type the IP address and Host name and
click Add. To edit the existing entry select the entry and click Edit. To
delete select the entry and click Delete.

Restore important Critical system settings can be restored using this option. This setings
system settings generally modified by the Malware/Spywares to disable specific and
important feature of the Operating System such as Registry Editor, Task
Manager etc.

Restore Now Restores the Internet Explorer settings to its default or at previous
stage. You can restore specific settings by selecting specific settings and
click Restore Now. To restore all the settings select Check All and
click Restore Now.

Undo This feature revert the last restoration and giving a chance to user to
undone the changes.

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Windows Spy

This tool can be used to find out more information about an application or process whenever required. At times it happens that we
keep on getting dialog boxes or messages that are shown by spyware or some malware and we are not able to locate the malware.
In such situation this tool can be used to find out more information about the application by dragging the target on to the dialog or
window that appears on the screen. This tool will provide following information about the dialog or a window.

• Application Name
• Original File Name
• Company Name
• File Description
• File Version
• Internal Name
• Product Name
• Product Version
• Copyrights Information
• Comments

Using Windows Spy

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. In the left pane of the Quick Heal AntiVirus main window, click Extra.
3. Click Windows Spy.
4. Click Drag and move the mouse pointer on the application.
5. A window will be opened displaying above mentioned information.
6. If you wish to terminate that application or window then click Kill Process.

Track Cleaner

Track Cleaner removes the entire list that expose your privacy. Many applications store the list of recently opened files in their
internal format to help you open them again for easy of use purpose. This feature of Windows is good but at the same time on the
systems which is used by more than one user it may happen that the users privacy is compromised. Track Cleaner helps delete all
the tracks of such applications and prevent privacy.

Using Track Cleaner

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. In the left pane of the Quick Heal AntiVirus main window, click Extra.
3. Click Track Cleaner.
4. To clear the privacy item, select the application and item that should be cleaned and click Start Cleaning.
5. The selected items will be cleaned.
6. To clear all the privacy item, select Check All and click Start Cleaning.
7. All items will be cleaned.

Advanced System Explorer

This tool provides all important information related to your computer such as running process, installed BHO’s, toolbars installed in
Internet Explorer, installed ActiveX, Hosts, LSPs, Startup Programs, Internet Explorer settings and Active network connection. This
will help diagnose the system for tracing existence of any new malware or riskware.

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About Section

Quick Heal AntiVirus About section provides following information:

• Quick Heal AntiVirus Version

• Quick Heal AntiVirus Virus Database
• License Information

Following options are also available in About Section:

License Details License Information and End User License Agreement (EULA) are available
under this section.

Update License Details: This feature is pretty useful to synchronize your

existing License information with Quick Heal Activation Server. e.g. Suppose
you wish to renew your existing subscription and you do not know how to
renew it or facing problem during renewal. You can call Quick Heal Support
team; provide your Product key and Renewal Code.
Quick Heal Support team will renew your copy. You just need to follow the
below given steps:

1. Be connected to Internet.
2. Click Update License Details.
3. Click Continue to update your existing subscription.

Print License Details: Click Print License Details to print the existing
subscription information.

Activate Now If Quick Heal AntiVirus is not activated then Activate Now button is available
in About section. Activate Now helps you to activate your copy.

Renew Now Renew Now helps you to renew your existing subscription.

Support Support section provides information about Technical Support guidelines and
Quick Heal Support’s contact details. You can locate the nearest Quick Heal
Support team.

Remote Support Quick Heal Technical Support Team also provides Remote Support in some
cases. Quick Heal Remote Support module helps us to easily connect to your
PC through the Internet and provide remote support. This helps us to give
you efficient remote support as if our technical executives are there in front
of your PC. No installation is required. Please follow the below given to use
Remote Support:

1. You just need to click Remote Support to activate the Remote

Support Agent on your system.
2. Contact Quick Heal Support team.
3. Provide the ID available in Quick Heal Remote Support Agent to
Quick Heal Support executive.
4. Quick Heal Support executive will remotely access your system to
fix the issue.

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Using Anti-Rootkit
Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit is a program that proactively detects and cleans rootkits that are active in the system. This program scans
objects like running Processes, Windows Registry and Files and Folders for any suspicious activity and detects the rootkits without
any signatures. It detects most of the existing rootkits and is designed to detect the upcoming rootkits and also provides the option
to clean them.

It is recommended that Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit should be used by person having certain knowledge of the operating system or with
the help of Quick Heal Technical Support engineer. Improper usage of this program could result in unstable system.

To Start Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit from Quick Heal AntiVirus

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. In the left pane of main window click Tools.
3. Click Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit (icon with R on the shield).
4. Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit program will start.

Using Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit

1. Start Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit.

2. In the left side of the main window click Start Scan.
3. Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit will start scanning your system for suspicious rootkit activity in running Processes, windows
registry and Files and Folders.
4. After completing the scan result is displayed in three different tabs that will display hidden items in running Processes,
Windows Registry, Files and Folders.
5. You can now select and take appropriate action against each displayed threat. Like you can terminate the rootkit Process,
rename the rootkit Registry entry/Files and Folders.
6. After taking the appropriate action you need to restart your system so that rootkit cleaning take place.

Stop Scanning During scan you can select Stop Scan to stop the scan, Quick Heal Anti-
Rootkit will prompt before stopping the scan.

Close Click Close to quit Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit. If you choose to close the
application while scanning is in progress, it will prompt to stop the scan.

Error Report Due to infection or some unexpected conditions in system, scanning of

Submission Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit may fail. On failure you will be asked to re-scan
your system and submit error report to Quick Heal Team for further
analysis.

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With the help of Scan Settings you can select what item to scan during scan process.

Configuring Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit for Scan

1. Start Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit.

2. Click on the Settings button on top bar of Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit.
3. Settings dialog box will appear.
4. By default Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit is configured for Auto Scan where it scans appropriate predefined system areas.

Auto Scan Auto Scan is default scan option provided by Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit.
Under Auto Scan Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit scans appropriate predefined
system areas. During Auto Scan, scanning is performed for:

• Hidden Processes.
• Hidden Registry entries.
• Hidden Files and Folders.
• Executable ADS.

Custom Scan By selecting Custom Scan radio button, you can configure following
options:

Detect Hidden Process To scan for running hidden processes in the system.

Detect Hidden Registry To scan for hidden items in Windows Registry.

Items

Detect Hidden files and To scan for hidden files and folders in the system and executable ADS
folders (Alternate Data Streams). You can choose option:
1. Scan drive on which Operating System is installed.
2. Scan All Drives to perform scanning in all fixed drives.
3. Alternate Data Streams (ADS) to scan for executable ADS.

Scan drive on which Will scan for hidden files and folders on the drive on which operating
operating system is system is installed.
installed

Scan all fixed drives Will scan for hidden files and folders on all the fixed drives of the system.

Alternate Data Streams To scan for suspicious items in Alternate Data Streams of NTFS File
(ADS) system.

Report File Path Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit creates a scan report file at the location from
which it is executed. You can specify different location by specifying
report file path.

Overview of Alternate Data Streams - ADS

ADS allows data to be stored in hidden files that are linked to a normal visible file. Streams are not limited in size and there can be
more than one stream linked to a normal file. The primary reason why ADS is a security risk is because streams are almost
completely hidden and represent possibly the closest thing to a perfect hiding spot on a file system - something trojans can and will
take advantage of. Streams can easily be created/written to/read from, allowing any trojan or virus author to take advantage of a
hidden file area.

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Scanning Results and Cleaning Rootkits

Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit Scanning

1. Start Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit.

2. In the left side of the main window click on Start Scan.
3. Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit will start scanning your system for suspicious rootkit activity in running Processes, Windows
Registry and Files and Folders.
4. After completing the scan result is displayed in three different tabs that will display hidden items in running Processes,
Windows Registry and Files and Folders.
5. You can now select and take appropriate action against each displayed threat. Like you can terminate the rootkit Process
or rename the rootkit Registry entry or Files.
6. After taking the appropriate action you need to restart your system so that rootkit cleaning take place.

Action to be taken on Scan Results

Process After scanning Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit will detect and display a list of
hidden Processes. You can select process or process for termination, but
make sure that list of Processes for termination doesn’t include any know
trusted process.

Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit also displays summary of process scanning as

total number of Processes scanned and number of hidden Processes
detected.

Terminating Hidden After selecting list of Processes for termination click on Terminate button.
Process If a process is successfully terminated then its PID (Process Identifier)
field will show n/a and process name will be appended by Terminated.
All terminated Processes will be renamed after a restart.

Registry Similar to process scan Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit will display a list of hidden
Registry key's. You can select keys for renaming, but make sure that list
of key's for renaming doesn’t include any known trusted registry key.

Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit also displays summary of Registry scanning as

total number of items scanned and number of hidden items detected.

Renaming Hidden After selecting list of key's for renaming click on Rename button.
Registry Key Renaming operation requires reboot hence Key name will be prefixed by
Rename Queued.

Files and Folders Similar to process and Registry Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit will display a list of
hidden Files and Folders. You can select Files and Folders for renaming,
but make sure that list of Files and Folders for renaming doesn’t include
any know trusted file.

Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit also displays list of executable Alternate Data

Streams.

Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit also displays summary of File scanning as total

number of files scanned and number of hidden files detected.

Renaming Hidden Files After selecting list of Files and Folders for renaming click on Rename
and Folders button. Renaming operation requires reboot hence Files and Folders name
will be prefixed by Rename Queued.

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Cleaning Rootkits through Quick Heal Emergency CD

In some cases it may happen that rootkits are not being cleaned. They are reappearing during Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit scan. In such
case you can also use Quick Heal AntiVirus Emergency CD for proper cleaning. All you have to do is create a Quick Heal Emergency
CD and boot your system through it. To create a Quick Heal Emergency CD and clean your system through it, please follow the
below given steps:

Steps 1

To create an Emergency CD

To create Quick Heal Emergency CD, your system should fulfill following requirements:

• Licensed copy of Microsoft Windows Operating System. (Windows 2000/XP/2003 or above).

• Microsoft Windows Installation CD. (Windows XP/2003 or above)
• A blank writable CD and a CD-Writer drive.
• Emergency CD can only be used to scan and clean drives of the same system for which you have licensed Microsoft
Windows operating system.

Creating Emergency CD:

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. Click on Tools from the left pane.
3. Click on Emergency CD.
4. Click Next.
5. Select Create Emergency CD, click Next.
6. Bootable files required to make the CD bootable. Select Operating System Installation CD option and insert the
Operating CD (Windows XP and Windows 2003 operating system CD only). Select the CD-Rom drive.
7. Click Next.
8. System files will be fetched from the installation CD.
9. Remove the Operating System Installation CD and insert a blank writable CD.
10. Select the CD-Rom drive.
11. Click Next.
12. Emergency CD will be created.

Steps 2

1. Start Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit.

2. In the left side of the main window click on Start Scan.
3. Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit will start scanning your system for suspicious rootkit activity in running Processes, Windows
Registry and Files and Folders.
4. After completing the scan result is displayed in three different tabs that will display hidden items in running Processes,
Windows Registry and Files and Folders.
5. You can now select and take appropriate action against each displayed threat. Like you can terminate the rootkit process
or rename the rootkit registry entry or files.

Steps 3

1. Boot your system using Quick Heal Emergency CD.

2. Quick Heal Emergency CD will automatically scan and clean the rootkits from your system during native scan.

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Customizing Quick Heal AntiVirus
Quick Heal AntiVirus is provided with various options for customizing. You can easily configure Quick Heal AntiVirus as per your
requirements. By default, Quick Heal AntiVirus is configured to provide the ideal protection for most of the computing environments.

We recommend you not to change the preset options unless they are specifically required.

To configure options

All the options related to the customization are available under Options, in the main window menu of Quick Heal AntiVirus. To
configure the options do following:

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. Click Options, under the top menu of the Quick Heal AntiVirus.

To restore default settings of Quick Heal

You can change any or all of the options provided under the Options tab. Also, you can restore the default settings at any point of
time.

To restore default On the page for which you want to restore default settings, click
settings on the Default.
Options page
To restore default On any page in the Options window, click Default All.
settings for all options

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Scanner - Scan Options

The Scanner settings will affect the scanning during manual scans. Scanner primarily contains the following options:

What items to scan?

You can specify which files to scan by specifying their extensions. By default, Quick Heal AntiVirus scans for the executable
extensions. Scanning executable files is adequate in most of the situations as viruses only infect and spread from these types of
files.

Executable Files It covers the most common executable extensions. Quick Heal AntiVirus
looks at the file and finds if it contains executable code or not and scans
only the files having executable codes.

All files It scans for all the files irrespective of whether it contains executable code
or not. This reduces the scanning speed and hence is recommended only
after a virus attack is discovered.

User Specified This choice allows you to specify extensions of the files to be scanned. On
Extensions selecting this option you can enter the executable file extensions of your
choice. From the next scan, the scanner will scan all the files with these
extensions.

Customizing User Specified Extensions

1. Select User Specified Extensions

2. Press Customize button.
3. The default list includes most of the program file extensions. In
case some of your applications use some other extensions, add
them to this list to include it for scanning.

To add an extension

1. Feed the extension Add box.

2. Click Add.

To remove a program file extension

1. Select the file extensions in the User Defined Extensions list

box.
2. Click Delete.

To reintroduce the original list, click Default.

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How to respond when a virus is found

This option allows the user to configure following activities when a virus is found during a scan:

Repair Automatically, During a scan if a virus is found, then it will repair the virus without
Delete if unsuccessful any interaction with you. If the file cannot be repaired it will be
automatically deleted from your computer. When the scan is over, a
summary window appears providing details about all the actions
taken and other scan details. If the infectious file is a Backdoor,
Worm, Trojan, or Malware then Quick Heal AntiVirus automatically
deletes the file.
Repair Automatically, During a scan if a virus is found, then it will repair the file or
Quarantine if automatically quarantine it, if it cannot be repaired. When the scan is
unsuccessful over, a summary window appears providing details about all the
actions taken and other scan details. If the infectious file is a
Backdoor, Worm, Trojan, or Malware then Quick Heal AntiVirus
automatically deletes the file.
Delete Automatically Deletes a virus-infected file without notifying you. When the scan is
over, a summary window appears providing details about all the
actions taken and other scan details. Files deleted in such a manner
cannot be recovered.
Prompt Informs you when a virus is found and allows you to choose how to
respond. When the scan is over, a summary window appears
providing details about all the actions taken and other scan details.
Herein following options are provided, to act upon the infected file:
• Repair, delete if unsuccessful
• Repair, quarantine if unsuccessful
• Skip
• Delete
• Quarantine

Apply action to all: This option automates the action for all the
infections found during the same scan.

Report Only In this mode the scanner scans for viruses, skips them, when the
scan is over a summary window (report) appears providing all the
scan details.
Backup before repairing Scanner will keep a copy of infected file before disinfecting it. (Files
that are stored in backup can be restored from Quarantine menu.)

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Using Advanced Options while scanning

The Advanced options determine how to perform a scan. You can set following options as per your requirements:

Scan Archive Files When this option is selected Quick Heal AntiVirus scans files inside the archive
files. Quick Heal AntiVirus can scan archive files like ARJ, CAB, CHM, GZ,
MSExpand, RAR, SIS, TAR, TNEF and ZIP. Scanning inside compressed files
increases scanning time. Quick Heal AntiVirus can detect viruses inside the
compressed file; however it cannot remove the virus from these files. You are
advised to decompress such files, remove the viruses from them and compress the
same again. This will ensure that the compressed copy is also virus free.

Scan Packed files When this option is selected Quick Heal AntiVirus scans packed executable files
(.exe’s) packed by popular packages like COM2EXE and LZex.
Show Packed/Archive This feature provides packed and archive information in the scan report about
info packed files and archive scanned files during the scan.
DNAScan DNAScan technology is used to detect new and unknown malicious threats.
List files while scanning All files will be listed in the Report section during scanning along with their status
i.e. Clean or Infected.
Scan Mailboxes Quick Heal AntiVirus can scan Outlook Express 5.x Mail Box (inside .DBX files).
Viruses like KAK, JS.Flea.B etc. remain inside DBX files and can reappear from
there, if patches are not applied for OE. It also scans for email attachments with
Outlook Express 5.0. It scans email attachments encoded with
UUENCODE/MIME/BinHex (Base 64).

Quick Scan : If this option is selected then Quick Heal scans

new mails and does not scan previously scanned
emails. By default this option is selected.

Thorough Scan : If this option is selected then Quick Heal always

scans all mails every time. This scan takes a long
time.

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Configuring Archive Settings

Archive scan settings are different from the normal scan. You can set which archives to be scanned and action to be taken if a virus
is found in an archive. This option allows the user to configure following activities when a virus is found during scan:

Delete Automatically Deletes an archive containing virus-infected file without notifying

you.
Prompt Informs you when a virus is found in an archive and allows you to
choose how to respond. When the scan is over, a summary window
appears providing details about all the actions taken and other scan
details. It provides you with the following options for an infected
file:
• Skip
• Delete
• Quarantine

Apply action to all: This option automates the action for all the
infections found during the same scan.

Report Only In this mode the scanner scans for viruses under archive, skips the
virus and archive file without taking any action.
Quarantine During scan if a virus is found in an archive file, then the archive will
be moved to Quarantine.
Archive Scan level Set the level to scan inside an archive. By default it is set to level 2.
Increasing the default Archive Scan Level may affect the scanning
speed.

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Quick Heal AntiVirus scans the system memory every time it is started. It ensures that any infectious object is not running in the
memory. Quick Heal AntiVirus Memory scan is smart enough to scan executable processes and additionally their supporting dynamic
link libraries (.DLL).

Memory scanning mode

Quick Scan Scans memory for running executable processes only.

Thorough Scan Scans memory for running executable processes along with their
supporting dynamic link libraries. This scan will take considerable time.
DNAScan This feature scans for new malicious threats in the memory using Quick
Heal’s indigenous DNAScan technology. When a new threat is found
running in the memory it will clean the same. You will also have the
option to send the suspicious file to our research lab for further analysis
of that file. If that file is behaving like a malware then it will be added in
the known threat signature database.

Scanner – DNAScan

Objective

DNAScan is Quick Heal’s indigenous technology to detect and eliminate new and unknown malicious threats in the system.
Additionally it copies the suspected file in the Quarantine directory before taking any action. Quarantined suspicious files can be
submitted to our research lab for further analysis. This submission is important to curb the wild spread of new malicious threats.
Suspicious file submission ensures the detailed analysis of the file in our research lab. After the detailed analysis it can be added in
the known threat signature database which will be provided in updates to all the users. This can be only possible if they are
detected and eliminated before their wild spread. DNAScan technology successfully traps suspected files with very less false alarms.

Process

Whenever DNAScan detects a new malicious threat in your system it informs you, or asks for your action during memory scanning if
the scanning is set with Prompt settings. One copy of DNAScan suspected files will always be quarantined which can later be
submitted to research lab for further detailed analysis. The submission can be done automatically or manually through email. The
submission takes place whenever Quick Heal AntiVirus updates itself and finds new DNAScan suspected files in the Quarantine
folder. It sends new DNAScan suspicious quarantined files in an encrypted file format to Quick Heal research lab.

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DNAScan suspected files can be submitted to research lab of Quick Heal through email. Submission of the suspected files is at your
liberty. Submission of the DNAScan suspected files depend on the below mentioned settings:

Do not submit files This option does not let DNAScan submit the suspected files to Quick
Heal research lab.
Submit suspicious DNAScan suspected files can be submitted to Quick Heal research lab.
files
If Show notification while submitting the files option is checked,
then Quick Heal prompts for permission before submission of samples to
Quick Heal Research Lab.

If Show notification while submitting the files option is not

checked, then Quick Heal submits the suspicious files without notifying
you.

Manual submission can be done through the Quarantine tool.

Scanner – Registry Restore

The Registry is a database used to store settings and options of Microsoft Windows Operating Systems. It contains information and
settings for all the hardware, software, users, and preferences of the system. Whenever a user makes changes to a Control Panel
settings, or File Associations, System Policies, or installed new software, the changes are reflected and stored in the Registry.
Malwares usually target the system Registry to restrict specific features of the Operating Systems or other applications. They may
modify the system registry so that it behaves according to the benefit for their activities. Most of the time it creates problem for the
system.

Quick Heal Registry Restore - restores the critical system registry area and other areas for the changes made by malwares and
repair the system registry.

Registry Restore settings

Critical System Selecting this option allows Quick Heal AntiVirus to restore the
Registry Restore critical system registry during scan. Critical System Registry areas
are generally changed by malwares to perform certain task
automatically or to avoid detection or modification by system
applications. e.g. Disabling Task Manager, Disabling Registry
Editor etc.
Repair malicious Selecting this option allows Quick Heal AntiVirus to scan system
registry entries registry for malware related entries. Malwares and their remnants
will be repaired automatically during scan.

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Protection – Online Protection

Quick Heal AntiVirus Online Protection continuously scans the system and prevents virus infection from Email Attachments, Internet
Downloads, Network, File Execution and Copying.

To Customize Online Protection

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. Click Options, under the top menu of the Quick Heal AntiVirus.
3. Select Online Protection under Protection tab.

General Settings

Load Online Protection at By default this option is enabled and starts protecting your system,
Windows Startup right from the time it is started.

Display Alert Message Alert message will be displayed whenever a virus is found.

DNAScan This feature detects and eliminates new malicious threats and protects
your system from the latest threats. When a new malicious threat is
detected it will be quarantined. You will also have the option to restore
the file back to the same location if you are sure that the file is not a
malicious threat.

Specifying which files to scan Online

Executable Files Scans files that are most likely to get infected by a virus.

User Specified This choice allows you to specify extensions of the files to be scanned.
Extensions On selecting this option you can enter the executable file extensions
of your choice. From the next scan, the scanner will scan all the files
with these extensions.

Customizing User Specified Extensions

1. Select User Specified Extensions.

2. Press Customize button.
3. The default list includes most of the program file extensions.
In case some of your applications use some other extensions,
add them to this list to include it for scanning.

To add an extension

1. Feed the extension in Add box.

2. Click Add.

To remove a program file extension

1. Select the file extensions in the User Defined Extensions

list box.
2. Click Delete.

To reintroduce the original list, click Default.

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Deny Access Prevents you from using a virus-infected file.

Repair Automatically, Attempts to repair the file from virus infection, in case if the file
delete if unsuccessful cannot be repaired, it will be deleted.
Delete Automatically Deletes a virus-infected file without notifying you. Files deleted in
such a manner cannot be recovered.
Repair Automatically, Attempts to repair the file and quarantines it automatically in case if
Quarantine if it cannot be repaired.
unsuccessful
Backup before repairing Online Protection will keep a copy of infected file before disinfecting
it. (Files that are stored in backup can be restored from Quarantine
menu.)

Floppy Activities

Check Floppy for Boot Boot sector of floppy will be scanned whenever a floppy is accessed.
viruses on Access

Check Floppy for Boot Boot sector of floppy will be scanned if a floppy exists in the floppy
viruses during drive during shutdown.
Shutdown

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Protection - Email Protection

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. Click Options, under the top menu of the Quick Heal AntiVirus.
3. Select Email Protection under Protection tab.

General Settings

Enable Protection This option enables scanning of emails while downloading.

Display Alert Message Virus found alert will be shown in case a virus is found in an email
or attachment. Display Alert Message will contain following
information:
• Virus Name
• Sender Email Address
• Recipient Email Address
• Email Subject
• Attachment Name
• Action Taken

How to respond when a virus is found

You can specify how to respond when a virus is found in an email attachment. You will get a prompt from Quick Heal Email
protection about the action taken if the Display Alert option is enabled. Action taken details are also logged into the Activity Log.

Delete infected Selecting this option will delete the infected attachment while
attachments downloading mails.
Repair automatically, Attempts to repair the virus without interacting with you. If the
Delete if unsuccessful attachment cannot be repaired then it will be deleted.
Backup before repairing Email Protection will keep a copy of infected email before disinfecting it.
(Files that are stored in backup can be restored from Quarantine
menu.)

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Control attachments to your incoming email

Block attachments with Worms commonly use multiple extensions. Enabling this option will
multiple extensions block multiple extension attachments in incoming emails. It prevents
infection from new worms, and thus protects your system. Common
multiple extensions are .exe, .scr, .mpg, etc.
Block emails crafted to Enabling this option will block emails, which contain vulnerability like
exploit vulnerability MIME, IFRAME, etc. Sending an email into broken parts is known as
partial mail. Microsoft Outlook Express and Microsoft Outlook have an
option of breaking message into separate parts.

Enable Attachment Control – Enable attachment blocking in incoming email.

All attachments Selecting this option will delete all the attachments in incoming emails.
This option is only recommended for users who require high security
or prefer text based emails only.
User specified extensions This choice allows you to specify extensions of the files (attachments)
to be blocked. On selecting this option you can either use provided
default extension list or enter the file extensions of your choice.
To add your own extension follow the below given steps:
1. Select User specified extensions.
2. Press Customize.
3. Type the extension name. For example: ‘mpg’.
4. Click Add to add the extension in the list.
5. Click Ok to save the settings.

Prevent new worm infection filtering email clients

Email clients allowed to Quick Heal Email protection is by default configured to support most
send mails of the popularly used email clients like Eudora. If your email client is
different from the ones provided in the list, then you can simply add
the same in the trusted email client list. To add email client, perform
the following steps:
1. Select Enable trusted email clients.
2. Press Configure button.
3. Click Add to add the email client into trusted email client
list.
4. Click Ok to save the changes.
5. Press Default to load the default email client list.

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Protection – Packer Identification

Packers are files that pack together many files, or compress a single file to reduce file size. These files do not need a third party
application to get unpacked. They have an inbuilt functionality of packing and unpacking. Packers can also be used as tools to
spread malware by packing a malicious file amidst a set of files. There are certain packers that are used specifically to spread
malicious files. These packers, when unpacked can cause harm to your PC. By default Quick Heal Packer Identification scans the
system for a select list of highly suspicious packers and alerts you if such a packer is found.

You can also customize the list of packers that Quick Heal Packer Identification can scan. To include additional packers in the scan
please customize the Packer Identification by performing the following steps:

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. Click Options under main windows menu of the Quick Heal AntiVirus.
3. Double click Protection to collapse the Protection menu.
4. Select Packer Identification.

General Settings

Identify packed files Check this feature to identify packer files during the scan. You can
customize the list of packers to be detected by clicking the Customize
button. For novice users we recommend not to change the settings as the
default settings will provide optimum safety.

How to respond when a packer is found

Action for scanner Select the action that the scanner needs to take when a suspicious packer
is detected while scanning. The following actions can be performed when
the scanner detects a suspicious packer file:
• Report only: Leaves the infected packer as it is and generates
a report of the infections detected.
• Quarantine: The infected packer will be moved to the
quarantine folder.

Action for scanner in Select the action that the scanner needs to take if an archive is found
case of archive files while scanning. The following actions can be performed by the scanner:
• Report only: Leaves the infected archive file as it is and
generates a report of the infections detected.
• Quarantine: The infected archive file will be moved to the
quarantine folder.

Action for Online The following actions can be performed when Online Protection detects a
Protection suspicious packer file:
• Deny access: Completely blocks access to the infected packer.
• Quarantine: The infected packer file will be moved to the
quarantine folder.

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Updates - Automatic Updates

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. Click Option, under the top menu of Quick Heal AntiVirus.
3. Select Automatic Update under Updates tab.

General Settings

Enable Automatic Update Automates the Quick Heal AntiVirus update process.
Silent Update Enabling this option sets Quick Heal AntiVirus to update in non-
interactive mode.
Show Update Notification This option lets Quick Heal AntiVirus show the update notification after
the successful updates.

Select the updating mode

Download from Internet Download and update through Internet.

Centre
Pick from specified path Download and update through local or network folder.

Backup update files

Keep a backup of update files This option allows saving the definition files while updating through
Internet. Saved definition files can be used to deploy the updates to
all other computers within a network.

Updates - Messenger

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. Click Options, under the top menu of Quick Heal AntiVirus.
3. Select Messenger under Updates tab.

General Settings

Enable Messenger This option enables Quick Heal AntiVirus Messenger service which
provides important information about latest threats, updates and other
information related to Quick Heal AntiVirus.
Show Messenger icon in This option shows Quick Heal AntiVirus Messenger icon in the system
system tray tray. If this option is unchecked then the Quick Heal AntiVirus
Messenger icon will not be visible in the system tray but you will still
receive messages and notifications.

Select the mode to get message

Download from Internet Download and notify the messages through Internet.
Centre
Pick from specified path Download and notify the messages through local or network folder.

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Keep a backup of message This option allows saving the message while notifying through
Internet. Saved message can be used to deploy the notification
message to all other computers within a network.

Delete messages if older then You can delete message at scheduled intervals or just after viewing.
To manage messages:
1. Select Delete messages if older then.
2. Choose the desired intervals for deleting the viewed
messages.
3. Press Ok to save the changes.

Getting messages from Local Folder or Network path

Quick Heal AntiVirus Messenger can be configured to gather messages from a Local Folder or the Network Path. This feature
enables Quick Heal AntiVirus Messenger's full functioning on systems where Internet connection is not available but systems are
connected to LAN.

To get messages from local folder/network path please follow the below given steps:

1. Take a system, which is connected, to the Internet. This system will download messages from Quick Heal Internet centre.
2. Create a folder on that system. For example: C:\QHMSGR
3. Share this folder with Read access rights on the network.
4. Now click Start -> Programs -> Quick Heal AntiVirus -> Quick Heal AntiVirus.
5. Click Options.
6. Select Messenger from the Updates tab.
7. Select Keep a backup of message.
8. Specify the folder where you want to keep a backup of messages. For example: C:\QHMSGR
9. Click OK to save the changes.
10. On workstations go to Messenger settings under Updates option tree.
11. Select Pick from specified path" and specify the shared backup messages folder path. For example:
\\SERVER\QHMSGR
12. Click OK to save the changes.

Updates - Internet Settings

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. Click Options, under the top menu of Quick Heal AntiVirus.
3. Select Internet Settings under the Updates tab.

Your Internet Connection will be automatically detected. Change the settings only if you have trouble with the default connection
settings.

Enabling and configuring proxy settings

If you are "using a proxy server on your network" or "using Socks Version 4 & 5 network" then you need to enter the IP address
(or domain name) and port of the proxy, SOCKS V4 & SOCKS V5 server in the Connection settings. Username & password are
mandatory for the logon credential. Following Quick Heal modules require these changes:

• Registration Wizard
• Quick Update
• Messenger

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1. On the Internet Settings, select Enable proxy settings.

2. Choose HTTP Proxy, Socks V 4 or SOCKS V 5 as per your settings and then do the following:

• In Server, type IP address of the proxy server or domain name (For example: proxy.yourcompany.com).
• In Port, type the port number of the proxy server (For example: 80).
• In User name and Password, type your server logon credentials, when required.

3. Click OK to save the settings.

Miscellaneous - Exclusions

You can configure Quick Heal AntiVirus to skip scanning of certain files or folders. Scanning can be excluded in both cases, of
known virus detection as well as DNAScan.

Following scanning modules can be excluded

• Scanner
• Online Protection
• Memory Scanner
• DNAScan

To exclude Files or Folders from scanning

1. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus.

2. Click Options, under the top menu of Quick Heal AntiVirus.
3. Select Exclusion under the Miscellaneous tab.
4. Click New.
5. Click File Icon or Folder icon for the exclusion.
6. Select the options of Exclude from.
7. Click OK to complete the process.

For selecting Exclude from follow these guidelines:

• If you are getting a warning for a known virus in a clean file and Quick Heal AntiVirus still gives you warning, you can
exclude it for scanning of Known Virus Detection.
• If you are getting a DNAScan warning in a clean file, you can exclude it for scanning of DNAScan.

Miscellaneous - General

Quickly scan system at Windows startup

Enable Startup Scan This option lets Quick Heal AntiVirus to scan the starting area of the
system from wherein the programs are trying to get automatic
execution control to trap new and unknown virus. It also keeps a
watch on some of the system files, which are commonly patched (or
replaced) by certain worms/backdoors/trojans.

This feature is not supported on Windows Vista and above Operating system.

Get the status of a file by checking its Property

Enable Property Sheet This option registers Quick Heal AntiVirus Scan tab in every file’s
Scanner properties tab. It provides information about the file status (Clean or
Infected). You will also get the Quick Heal AntiVirus version and virus
database information here.

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Delete Reports after You can delete the reports of Quick Heal AntiVirus at specific
intervals.
Delete Quarantine/Backup You can delete the quarantine files (including backup of the infected
files after files) at specific intervals.

Prevent unauthorized access to option settings of Quick Heal

To protect Quick Heal AntiVirus options from being changed without your permission, you can choose to protect it by enabling
password protection for the same. If you specify a password, you are asked to enter a password every time when you wish to view
or change the Options.

Enable password To specify a password:

protection 1. At the top of the main window, click Options.
2. In the Options window, under the Miscellaneous tab, click
General.
3. Select Enable password protection and press Change
Password.
4. In the password dialog box, type a password.
5. Click OK.

Application Status

Show application icon at If this option is enabled, Quick Heal AntiVirus icon will be visible at the
system tray system tray. User can easily access Quick Heal AntiVirus from this icon
directly.

Scan removable devices

Scan removable device If this option is enabled, then Quick Heal will prompt you to perform a
when plugged into the scan of removable device except CDs or DVDs. The user has two
system options:

• Scan files on root of drive only

• Scan full drive

Select the necessary option and click Scan button. We recommend

that you scan any USB removable storage devices before using it, but
if you wish to use the device without scanning it first, then click Do
Not Scan button to exit from the scanner prompt.

Self Protection

Start Self Protection at If this option is enabled, then Quick Heal AntiVirus will protect itself by
Windows Startup safeguarding Quick Heal files, folders, configurations and registry
entries against malwares and also against tamper from other
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Cleaning Viruses
Quick Heal warns you for a virus infection when:

• A virus is encountered during a manual or scheduled scan.

• A virus is encountered in the memory.
• A virus is encountered by Quick Heal AntiVirus Online Protection/Email Protection.
• A virus is detected through Start-up Scan.

Cleaning viruses encountered during scans

Quick Heal AntiVirus is adequately configured with the default installation to protect your system. If a virus is detected during
scanning with default settings, Quick Heal AntiVirus tries to repair the virus and if it fails in doing so, it will delete the file. If you
have changed the default scanner settings, then action will be taken accordingly when a virus is found. See How to respond when a
virus is found.

Scanning Options

During scanning you are provided with the following options for your ease of operation:

Statistics View statistics of a scan provided under this section.

Skip Folder During the scan if you want to avoid scanning the current folder, just
press on Skip folder. Scanning will be moved to other location. This
option can be used while scanning a folder which contains non-
suspicious items.

Skip File During the scan if you want to avoid scanning the current file, just
press on Skip file. Scanning of the current file will be skipped. This
option can be used while scanning a big archive of files.

Stop To stop the scanning process.

Close To stop and terminate the scanning process.

Shut down PC when Check this option when you to shut down your system after finishing
finished the scan. This feature will work only if the scanning is completed.

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simultaneously. While scanning just press Reports window tab. By
default setting, reports will be having infection event only. If you want
to have the list of entire scan including clean files, select List files while
scanning in the Scanner’s option page.

Settings You can check the settings used during the scan. To view these
settings, just press Settings window tab.

Cleaning virus encountered in memory

“Virus Active in memory” means that virus is active, spreading to other files, computer (if connected to network) and doing
malicious activity as per its payload. When Quick Heal AntiVirus detects a virus in memory, it warns in the following manner:

You can schedule Native Scanning of your PC at next boot which will scan and clean all drives including NTFS partitions at boot time
before desktop is completely loaded. This will help you in detecting and cleaning even the most cunning Rootkits, spywares, special
purpose Trojans and loggers. After disinfection restart your system and continue with installation. See Performing Native Boot Scan
for more detail.

Cleaning backdoor, trojan, worm and malwares encountered in

memory

During memory scanning if backdoor, trojan, worm, and other malwares are found, then Quick Heal AntiVirus will try to disable
them and will ask you to scan the system for complete disinfection.

Restart required during cleaning for some malwares

Some malwares drop and inject their dynamic link libraries into system’s running processes such as explorer.exe, Iexplorer.exe,
svchost.exe, etc. which cannot be disabled or cleaned. During memory scan when they will be detected, they will be set for deletion
in the next boot automatically. Quick Heal AntiVirus memory scan will provide complete detail or action recommendation for you in
such cases.

Cleaning of Boot/Partition viruses

In case if Quick Heal AntiVirus memory scanner detects a boot or partition virus in your system then it will recommend you to boot
your system using a clean bootable disk and scan it using Quick Heal Emergency disk to clean the virus. See Using Emergency disk
for more details.

Responding to virus found alerts from Online Protection

Quick Heal AntiVirus Online Protection continuously scans your system for viruses in the background as you work. By default, Online
Protection repairs the infected files automatically. You will also get a prompt after the action is taken by Quick Heal AntiVirus Online
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Using Emergency CD and Command Line Scanner
Quick Heal AntiVirus Emergency CD, - create your own emergency bootable CD that will help you to clean boot your Windows PC
and scan and clean all the drives including NTFS partitions. This helps in cleaning badly infected PC from file infecting viruses which
cannot be cleaned from inside windows.

If your computer is badly infected by a virus in such a case while installing Quick Heal AntiVirus, Pre-install scan of Quick Heal
AntiVirus installer will detect the active virus resident in memory. Hence you are unable to proceed with Quick Heal AntiVirus
Installation. You are required to remove the virus from memory and other critical system areas before proceeding with Quick Heal
AntiVirus Installation. To create Quick Heal AntiVirus Emergency CD, your system should fulfill following requirements:

• Licensed copy of Microsoft Windows Operating System. (Windows 2000/XP/2003 or above).

• Microsoft Windows Installation CD. (Windows XP/2003 or above)
• A blank writable CD and a CD-Writer drive.
• Emergency CD can only be used to scan and clean drives of the same system for which you have licensed Microsoft
Windows operating system.

How to make Emergency CD

Emergency CD and Command line scanner can be created using installed Quick Heal AntiVirus software. See Creating Emergency
CD or Command line scanner.

Using Emergency CD

1. Insert Emergency CD into your CD-Rom/DVD-Rom drive.

2. Restart your system.
3. Emergency CD will be automatically start and starts scanning all the drives. It will automatically disinfect the infection if
found.
4. Once the scanning is over remove the Emergency CD from CD-Rom/DVD-Rom drive.
5. Restart your system.

Using Command line Scanner

Command line Scanner is executed using EMGSCAN.EXE command at the DOS command prompt. EMGSCAN.EXE usage is:

Emgscan.exe [drive/path] [options]

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For specified options '-' inverts the default meaning.

/DELETE Delete infected files.

/REPAIR Disinfect whenever possible.

/DUMB Do a "dumb" scan of all files.

/WARE Scan for Adware/Spyware.

/MIME Scan for .eml files.

/HELP or /? Display this help.

/LIST List all files checked.

/NOSUB Do not scan subdirectories.

/ARCHIVE[-] Scan inside archive files.

/PACKED[-] Unpack compressed executables.

/REPORT=FileName Create a report file.

/TEMPDIR=DirPath Temporary Directory name.

To remove viruses using Emergency Disk:

1. Shutdown your computer.

2. Switch on the computer.
3. Insert Windows 95/98 Startup Disk or a clean DOS bootable disk. This will boot your system in A:\ Dos Shell.
4. Insert the Quick Heal Emergency disk.
5. Type EMGSCAN C: /REPAIR at the DOS command prompt and press Enter.
6. Quick Heal will scan entire C drive of your system and will try to disinfect the boot sectors or files if found infected during
the scan.
7. When Quick Heal removes all the viruses and completes the scan, it will provide you with the respective scan summary.

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Updating Quick Heal AntiVirus
Updates for Quick Heal AntiVirus are posted regularly on its website containing detection and removal of newly discovered viruses.
To prevent newly discovered viruses from infecting your computer, your system should have latest updated copy of Quick Heal
AntiVirus. By default Quick Heal AntiVirus is set to update automatically from the Internet. This is done without user’s intervention.
Only basic requirement in this case, is the availability of a valid Internet connection for availing automatic updates. Automatic
updates can also be applied from local or network path, but that path should have the latest set of definitions.

Some important facts about Quick Heal AntiVirus Updates

• All Quick Heal AntiVirus Updates are complete updates including Definition File Update and Engine Updates.
• All Quick Heal AntiVirus updates also provide you version up gradation, thus making available the new features and
technology for your protection.
• Quick Heal Quick Update is a single step upgrade.

Updating Quick Heal AntiVirus from Internet

Quick Update by default automatically updates your copy of Quick Heal AntiVirus through the Internet. For this, you only need to
have a valid Internet Connection. This feature works for all types of Internet connections (Dialup, ISDN, Cable, etc.)

To update Quick Heal AntiVirus manually through Internet

1. Click Start -> Programs -> Quick Heal AntiVirus -> Quick Update.
2. Follow the instructions and click Next button.
3. Check Download from Quick Heal Internet Centre.
4. Ensure that the Internet connection is active, and then click Next to initiate the update procedure.
5. Quick Update connects to the Quick Heal site, downloads the appropriate upgrade files for your copy of Quick Heal, and
applies it thereafter to your copy, thus updating it to the latest available update file.

Updating Quick Heal AntiVirus with definition files

If you already have the upgraded definition file with you, you can upgrade Quick Heal AntiVirus without connecting to the Internet.
It is specifically useful for Network environments with more than one PC. You are not required to download the upgrade file from
the internet on all the PCs within the network using Quick Heal.

To update Quick Heal AntiVirus through definition file:

1. Click Start -> Programs -> Quick Heal AntiVirus -> Quick Update.
2. Follow the instructions and click Next button.
3. Click Pick from specified path.
4. Click File to locate the definition file.
5. Provide the index file for the definition i.e. Index.dat.
6. Click Next.

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your copy of Quick Heal AntiVirus accordingly.

Update Guidelines for Network Environment

Quick Heal AntiVirus can be configured to provide hassle free updates across the network. You are suggested to follow these
guidelines for best results:

1. Setup one computer (may be the server) as the master update machine. Suppose server name is SERVER.
2. Configure Quick Heal AntiVirus on this computer to upgrade automatically from the Internet as per your desired schedule.
3. Make QHUPD folder in any location. For example: C:\QHUPD
4. Assign Read-Only sharing rights to this folder.
5. Start Quick Heal AntiVirus and press the Option button.
6. Go to Automatic Update page under Updates section.
7. Select Keep a backup of definition files.
8. Click Folder and locate the QHUPD folder. Click Open.
9. Click OK to save this setting.
10. On all user computers within the network launch Quick Heal AntiVirus.
11. Go to Automatic Update page under Updates section.
12. Select Pick from Specified path.
13. Click Folder.
14. Locate the SERVER\QHUPD folder from Network Neighborhood. Alternatively you can type the path as
\\SERVER\QHUPD.
15. Click OK to save the settings.

With the above steps all the machines will be upgraded automatically without user intervention at all. Following the steps as
mentioned below can further extend the functionality:

1. In case of major out breaks, Quick Heal AntiVirus also provides intermediate upgrades. Messenger flashes the notice
about the same, on your machine.
2. On receipt of the message, circulate a network notice requesting other Quick Heal AntiVirus users to click on Update
Now button by right clicking on Quick Heal AntiVirus icon in the system tray.

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Technical Support
If you call Technical Support and have the necessary information on hand we will be able to help you more efficiently.

Where should I call?

You can call to our toll free support number 18002333733.

When is the best time to call?

Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd. provides technical support between 10:00 AM and 6:00 PM (Indian Standard time).

What should I be ready with, before calling?

• Your Product key which is included in the boxed version of the products. If you have purchased our products on-line then
you will find the Product key in the mail confirming your order.
• Information about your computer: brand, processor type, RAM capacity, the size of your hard drive and free space on it,
as well as information about other peripherals.
• Your operating system: name, version number, language.
• What is the version of installed anti-virus and what is the virus database.
• What software is installed on your computer?
• Is your computer connected to a network? If yes - contact your system administrators first. If they can't solve your
problem they should contact technical support themselves.
• Details: When did the problem first appear? What had you been doing before the problem appeared?

Very often this information helps us to resolve your problem quickly

What should I say to the technical support personnel?

Please be as specific as possible and provide maximum details. Remember that the specialist is basing on the information that you
provide.

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Contact Us

Head Office Global Support Center

Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd. Telephone Support

603, Mayfair Towers II,

Wakdewadi, Shivajinagar, Toll Free Number: 1800-233-3733 (For Indian Users)

Pune 411005, Maharashtra Additional Help Line for Support: +91-253-3041888

Phone: +91-20-41060400 Email: support@quickheal.com

Fax: +91-20-41060401
Email: info@quickheal.com

Distribution Centers and Support Offices in India

Ahmedabad Aurangabad Bangalore

Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd. Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd. Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd.
318, Saman Complex, Opposite Satyam S-2, Chandrakala Arcade, Nirala Bazar #1422, 37th ‘B’ Corss, 11th Main, 4th ‘T’
Mail, Near Manasi Char Rasta, Satellite, Road, Aurangpura, Aurangabad 431001, Block, Jayanagar, Bangalore 560041,
Ahmedabad 380015, Gujrat Maharashtra Karnataka
Phone: +91-79-32524771 Phone: +91-240-2336000 Phone: +91-80-41304560
Email: ahd@quickheal.co.in Email: aurangabad@quickheal.co.in Email: bangalore@quickheal.co.in

Baroda Chandigarh Chennai

Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd. Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd. Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd.
SF-30, Sunner Complex, Hari Nagar S.C.O. 43, Second Floor, Sector 31-D, New No. 6/2, Old No. 79/2, 1st Floor, 53rd
Junction, Gotri Road, Baroda 390021, Chandigarh 160030 Street, Near Anjanayar Temple, Ashok
Gujrat Phone: +91-172-3250233 Nagar, Chennai – 600083, Tamil Nadu
Phone: +91-265-2390953 Email: chandigarh@quickheal.co.in Phone: +91-44-32421551
Email: baroda@quickheal.co.in Telephone: chennai@quickheal.co.in

Cochin Coimbatore Hyderabad

Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd. Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd. Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd.
N-38/351, Sy No. 2/20, EARA-113, Near C/o A. Ajeema, Old No. 160, New No. 1-2-253/7, 1st Floor, Laxmi Narasu
Mailalathu Temple, Near Edappally 111, 6 Street – Extension, 100 Feet Road, Mansion, 95, Parklane, Opposite Hotel
Junction, Edappally, Cochin 682024, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore 641012, Tamil Parklane, Secunderabad 500003, Andhra
Kerala Nadu Pradesh
Phone: +91-484-3290908 Phone: +91-422-3215758 Phone: +91-40-27845782 / 66387437
Email: cochin@quickheal.co.in Email: coimbatore@quickheal.co.in Email: hyderabad@quickheal.co.in

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Indore Mumbai Nagpur
Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd. Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd. Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd.
rd
Flat No. 202, Rani Sati Apartments, C- 408, 3 Floor, ‘D’ Wing, Mathura Bhuvan, Flat No. 8, Plot No. G.B.27, Ahilya Niwas,
Block, 60/1/5, New Dewas Road, Ahilya CHS, Dada Saheb Phalke Road, Dadar (E) 2nd Floor, Jitendra Singh Tomer Road,
Mata Colony, Indore 452001, Madhya Mumbai 400014, Maharashtra Giripeth, Nagpur 440010, Maharashtra
Pradesh Phone: +91-22-42310701/2/3/4 Phone: 91-712-2540750
Phone: +91-731-4236021 Email: mumbai@quickheal.co.in Email: nagpur@quickheal.co.in
Email: indore@quickheal.co.in

Nashik New Delhi Pune

Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd. Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd. Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd.
12, Komal Residency, Sadhu Waswani 3066/7B, Ground Floor, Near Sarvodaya Office No. 101, Shree Sai Narayan
Road, Near MICO Circle, Nashik 422005, Kanya Vidyalay, Ranjit Nagar South Patel Apartment, Ganjave Chowk, Navi Peth,
Maharashtra Nagar, New Delhi 110008 Opposite Patrakar Bhavan, LBS Road,
Phone: +91-253-2576306 Phone: +91-11-25846645 / 25846646 / Pune 411030, Maharashtra

Email: nashik@quickheal.com 25842974 Phone: +91-20-41402901/02/03/04

Email: delhi@quickheal.co.in Email: punesales@quickheal.com (Sales)
Email: helpdesk@quickheal.com
(Support)

Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd.

Office No. 56, Jai Ganesh Vardhast
Complex, Opposite Traffic Police Station,
Pimpri Chowk, Pune 411018, Maharashtra
Phone: +91-20-30687567
Email: pcmc@quickheal.com

Rajkot Surat Visakhaptanam

Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd. Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd. Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd.
C/o Amity Software and Solutions, 213 C/o Amity Software and Solutions, 101. D.No. 14-1-40, 1st Floor, Nowroji Road,
Penorama Complex, Opposite SBI Bank, Maher Park – B Athwa Gate, Ring Road, Maharani Peta, Visakhapatnam 530002,
Gondal Road, Rajkot 360001, Gujrat Surat 390007, Gujrat Andhra Pradesh
Phone: +91-281-3012580 Phone: +91-261-2464365 Phone: +91-891-3245454
Email: ahd@quickheal.co.in Email: baroda@quickheal.co.in Email: vizag@quickheal.co.in

For more details, please visit www.quickheal.com

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