Cyber Contraceptives For Digital India

Vendors are upgrading antivirus solutions and also educating customers and users by giving guidelines and suggesting the best solutions to resolve queries.

- Ankit Parashar

From the first antivirus attack way back in 1949 to the latest Ransomware attack on May 12, 2017, computers and users has been always on the eyes of hackers. Most people use the term “computer virus” to refer to all malicious software, which we call malware. Recently, the ransomware virus infected more than 230,000 computers in over 150 countries. According to Quick heal, it has detected over 48,000 ransomware attack attempts in India, with West Bengal witnessing the most incidents. While few isolated incidents in Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat were reported.

Major Antivirus Vendors of India has taken various steps and providing solutions to their customers to prevent and protect from the ransomware attacks. Vendors are upgrading their antivirus and also educating customers and users by giving various guidelines and suggesting the best solution to resolve queries.

Bitdefender claims that they have the largest security delivery infrastructure on the globe. Performing 11 billion security queries per day, Bitdefender detects, anticipates and takes action even the newest dangers anywhere in the world in as little as 3 seconds.

Bitdefender antivirus solutions are capable in protecting the ransomware attack. Bitdefender engineers has already designed solutions to which can prevent and detect all kinds of attacks including Wannacry.

Hussain Rangwala, Director, Sales and Marketing, Bitdefender said, “We were the first one to be on the website and on papers that all our customers are protected by ransomware and they don’t need to take extra steps for protection.”