Quick Heal Launches Mobile Security Solutions For Android

Quick Heal Technologies, the leading provider of security solutions worldwide, announces the launch of Mobile Security Suite for Android-based smartphones. With this launch, the company has taken a quantum leap towards addressing the global market of Android smartphone users.

“There are a lot of security incidents happening around the Android operating system application space. Right now, Android is going through the same phase which DOS operating system was going through in late 80’s. There is tremendous lack of awareness among smartphone users about the security needs and with that; they are indirectly helping cyber criminals in their motives. With this release of security solution for Android, we plan to provide the smartphone users a very simple, easy to use, yet very powerful solution for safeguarding their phones”, says Sanjay Katkar, Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder, Quick Heal Technologies.

Quick Heal Mobile Security for Android is a complete security solution that offers a host of features, such as, virus protection, call blocking, SMS blocking, anti-theft and data protection features. The automatic real-time virus and spyware scan comes with optional manual scan for installed applications. Call filtering allows users to block unwanted calls by configuring Black and White lists.

The SMS blocking feature enables silent blocking of malicious SMSs, unwanted spam SMSs and fraudulent SMSs. Data protection allows user to lock lost or stolen phones remotely and wipe the personal data remotely by sending a pre-defined SMS. This powerful product also has anti-theft feature to trace/locate a lost or stolen phone and has the capability to render the device unusable once stolen.