Rudra, antivirus without update needs!

Today, anti-virus software solutions are based on methods and approaches which hackers are trying to bypass altogether.

Virus writers are constantly re-inventing new ways and methods to infect and spread their malicious code, and as a research study funded by HP showed two years ago, "... viruses spread faster than anti-virus patches can be distributed." Imagine anti-virus software that is a few hundred kilobytes in size, needs no yearly subscription, and that protects mobile phones, PDAs, iPods, PCs, Linux boxes and Macs not only from known viruses but also from future epidemics of trojans and other malware that is yet to be invented.

Yes, it may sound too good to be true, but that is indeed what an Indian software company based in Madras claims to have achieved. The company is called Sanrasoft and its new anti-virus software will be available commercially in the Western world starting in April 2006. For now, it will be instead available only to Indian customers and immediately after to the larger Asian region.

Once these markets will have provided good positive feedback to these initial release the software will be released in the US market and internationally.

According to UPI though, the new breakthrough anti-virus technology realized by Sanrasoft is now available only for Windows-based PCs, while a handheld version is already under development. Handhelp, Linux and Mac versions are expected by late fall of this year [...]