Rudra - The World's First Proactive Anti-virus Software

Protects your computer from even viruses that have not been created, without laying it down

Local company, Rudra Technologies, has developed a global-first, proactive anti-virus that completely protects computers, without any risk of them being vulnerable in the interim between updates and patches. Amazingly, Rudra even protects computers from viruses that have not even been created!

Anti-virus technology has not progressed much since about 20 years ago, with the advent of Signature-based anti-virus, and Heuristic logic-based anti-virus. Conventional anti-virus software are dependent upon constant updates and patches, and these delays in updates may leave your computer vulnerable to attacks.

Rudra, the anti-virus, completely protects your computer from all sorts of malware, without the need for updates. Additionally, Rudra completes a virus-scan in just seconds, while conventional anti-virus may take about 90 minutes – slowing the computer down to a grinding pace.

In 2007, approximately 5.5 million malicious software programs were unleashed on the Web last year, according to AV Test Labs, a German company that measures how quickly and accurately anti-virus products detect the latest malicious software. That volume, AV said, forced anti-virus firms to analyse between 15,000 and 20,000 new specimens each day -- more than four times the daily average they found in 2006, and at least 15 times as many the company recorded in 2005. In the first two months of 2008 alone, AV Test found more than one million samples of malware spreading online.

Additionally, Trend Micro, an anti-virus company headquartered in Japan, used to see a handful of new viruses each week. Now, they have to analyse between 2,000 and 3,000 new viruses per hour!

This glut of malware is the result of a long-running digital arms race between security companies and criminals intent on stealing personal financial data from vulnerable computers and using networks of commandeered PCs for all manner of lucrative criminal enterprises -- from sending spam to hosting scam Web sites.

The rapid increase of viruses and other malware has forced the anti-virus industry to overhaul its traditional approach writing its software, with the result that security products on the market today are far more powerful and sophisticated. But many observers say that despite all its new bells and whistles, the anti-virus industry as a whole continues to fall behind in identifying the very latest malicious software.

The challenge, security experts say, is that criminal groups responsible for manufacturing most of the malicious software in circulation today are reinvesting their illicit profits in research and recruiting talented computer programmers. A special emphasis is placed on creating malware that coexists peacefully with an infected computer system, doing its work quietly in the background.

Said Mr N.S. Baskar, managing director of Rudra Technologies: "Rudra does not depend on virus signatures or Heuristic logic. Our anti-virus is based on the Intention of any malware that may enter the computer – it does the scan instantaneously and quarantines it without the need for any updates or patches. It is truly a 'buy-once, forget forever' anti-virus."

Rudra has proved itself so spectacularly, Lenovo currently bundles its laptop with Rudra. Since the advent of Rudra, the company has provided anti-virus for 23,000 of customers world-wide.

Additionally, with the revolutionary technology it utilises, a virus-scan takes just about 4 seconds to complete, unlike existing anti-virus which can slow down a computer for about an hour or two. This is due to the fact that Rudra utilises just between 4 – 6% of the CPU resources, while a conventional AV traditionally uses about 99% of the CPU resources.

Explained Mr Baskar: "To be effective, an anti-virus must have four important components. It must be Proactive, Protective, Preventive and not rely on Signatures and hence independent of updates."

• Be Proactive – be able to kill and remove the Virus before it does any harm, and therefore Holistic
• Be Protective – Protection from any type of Malware
• Be Preventive – Prevent further Propagation on the Internet, and
• Not rely on signatures, and thereby be independent on updates for your security