Simple and easy-to-use GUI

Both novice and experienced users will find the eScan Anti-virus for Linux Desktops GUI to be convenient to use. For easier understanding by new users, it integrates with best practises in functionality and accessibility.

Ensures complete protection from security threats

To ensure comprehensive protection from newly emerging threats, eScan offers automatic updates for virus signatures. User allows to scan specific or all existing files and folders on the system for any malicious infection as per need.

Scans to detect new threats

The powerful heuristics scan engine ensures proactive protection against Zero-Day attacks by detecting new threats and disguised malware.

Real-time Monitoring

eScan Anti-Virus for Linux Desktops allows you to define directories that are scanned in real-time and keeps the system safe from malware and other security threats with its advanced technologies.

File Integrity Monitoring

eScan’s FIM Validates the integrity of files and folders value using a validation method. It detects potential compromises between the current and original file state.

Device Control

Device Control helps to protects Linux systems from accessing unauthorized portable storage devices like USBs, CDs, and DVDs. It offers auto scanning of USB and password protection to access USB devices before USB storage is mounted.

Web Control

It works on a category-based filtering approach that blocks access to malicious and offensive websites by creating whitelist or blacklist of websites.

Firewall

It acts as a gateway between your system and the internet that filters all incoming and outgoing network traffic on the basis of predefined access control rules to allow and deny network connections, to protect the device from exposure.

Provides comprehensive log of scanning activity

For the further analysis, eScan generates a comprehensive and detailed log of scanning activities that includes the date and time of scanning, the path, and the names of the objects scanned.

Instant protection from emerging threats

Ensuring instant protection from emerging threats, eScan provides automatic updates for software and virus signatures automatically.

Helps to schedule automatic scans

An On-Demand Scan can be scheduled by the user for a specific day and time. A Command line scanner facilitates automation and scheduling of the scanning.

BASIC FEATURES

eScan Anti-Virus for Linux Desktops v22 offers real-time protection for Linux-based home networks by continuously monitoring specified directories and files, performs on-demand scanning of files and folders (including USBs and mounted storage), uses heuristic scanning engine to detect zero-day threats and disguised malware, includes file integrity monitoring to track changes in critical files and folders, device control to block unauthorized removable media (USB, CD/DVD) including password protection before mounting, web control feature to block malicious or offensive websites via category-based filtering and whitelist/blacklist, a firewall module that filters incoming/outgoing traffic based on predefined rules, automatic updates of virus signature database, scheduling options for scans (on-demand or scheduled via GUI or command line), and comprehensive logging of scan activity including date, time, paths and scanned object names. 

WHAT'S NEW

The version v22 enhances threat detection via improved heuristics, better web control filters, more efficient file integrity monitoring, optimized performance under heavier loads of real-time scanning, improved GUI usability for both novice and experienced users, and more frequent signature updates. 

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Linux distributions supported include RPM-based (Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE) and Debian-based (Ubuntu, Debian, Mint) systems; both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures; CPU of minimum 1 GHz; memory (RAM) requirement about 2 GB (or higher for better performance); free disk space roughly 2 GB for installation and signature databases; GUI and command-line installer options; root or sudo privileges needed for installation; internet connection required for updates and signature downloads. 

USER INTERFACES LANGUAGES

Greek, Spanish, Italian, Latin Spanish, Russian, German, English, French, Dutch, Japanese.

BRAND

eScan (MicroWorld Technologies Inc.) 

TYPE

Antivirus Software for Linux Desktop 

FOR OPERATING SYSTEM

GNU/Linux desktops: RPM-based distros and Debian-based distros (32-bit & 64-bit) that are supported by eScan’s package builds; works on Linux kernels per supported distros. 

LICENSE CATEGORY

Subscription-based software 

FORMAT

Digital Download 

MODEL

eScan Anti-Virus for Linux Desktops v22 

COUNTRY OF USE

Globally

MANUFACTURER COUNTRY