Detects and removes programs called spyware that steal personal data.
Detects malware and other hidden threats in your system.
Blocks access to infected websites.
Prevents Guardian’s running processes and services from getting tampered.
Ransomware Protection
Provides complete protection to your important data against critical ransomware attacks. It detects and blocks unknown ransomware attacks in real time backed up by Behaviour Detection Technology.
Virus Protection
Ever vigilant, Virus Protection keeps scanning your files, documents, and system folders for malware or virus. Any new file is scanned without exception.
Advanced DNAScan
DNAScan technology detects and blocks unknown threats. It uses a combination of behavioral and characteristic inspection and monitoring of unsafe programs.
Scan Options
Offers a number of scan options. You can scan on demand, schedule regular scanning, or scan certain file and folders.
Browsing Protection
Automatically detects unsafe and potentially dangerous websites and prevents you from visiting them.
Firewall Protection
Firewall blocks external threats that try to reach your computer over the Internet. It also blocks threats that may arise within networks that are connected to your system. Besides allowing you to configure protection for incoming and outgoing Internet traffic, our enhanced Firewall lets you set a Firewall profile for network connections such as ‘Home’, ‘Work’, ‘Public’ or ‘Restricted’. Stealth Mode is an added benefit. It hides your PC from the prying eyes of hackers.
Import and Export Settings
You can export Guardian security settings from a single computer and import it to other computers. This is helpful in cases where reinstallations or multiple computer configurations are concerned.
IDS/IPS
Prevents unwanted intrusion attempts or attacks by hackers.
Email Protection
Efficiently blocks emails that might carry infected attachments or links to compromised or fake and phishing websites.
USB Drive Protection
Stops autorun malware of the USB drive to curb spread of malware to your computer.
External Drive Protection
Blocks viruses and malware that may infiltrate through external drives including CDs, DVDs, and USB-based devices.
Scan External Drives
Scans external drives automatically as soon as they are plugged in to your computer for malware or virus.
Malware Protection
Protects your PC against spyware, adware, keyloggers, riskware, and other malicious programs.
Anti Malware
Scans registry, files and folders thoroughly to detect and clean spyware, adware, rogueware, dialers, riskware, and many other potential threats in your computer.
Anti Rootkit
Scans objects such as running processes, Windows registry, and files and folders for any suspicious activity and detects rootkits without any signatures.
Smart Scan Engine
Scans files and folders in lesser time without using too much system resources.
Safe Mode Protection
This facility stops unauthorized users from changing Guardian security settings when the system is running on Safe Mode.
Automatic Backup
Ransomware Protection provides an additional layer of protection by supporting automatic smart backup that saves you from losing any important data in case of a ransomware attack. The feature automatically creates a backup of all your important files and also allows copying of backup to external device, for easy restoration even if your system gets compromised.
Registry Restore
Allows you to restore critical system registry entries and other areas from the changes made by malicious programs. It also repairs the system registry.
Anti-Keylogger
Efficiently prevents programs called keyloggers from recording what you type on your keyboard while you are doing online banking or shopping or simply browsing the Internet.
Enhanced Self-Protection
Protects Guardian's running processes and services.
Auto Silent Mode
Suppresses prompts and notifications from Guardian for uninterrupted PC usage. This does not affect the security level of your system.
Track Cleaner
Clean tracks of the files and documents that you work on to prevent privacy breach.
Hijack Restore
Helps you restore the default settings of Internet Explorer modified by malware, spyware, or even by you.
System Explorer
Allows you to diagnose the computer system for any new malware or riskware and resolve the issues.
To use Guardian NetSecure, you must ensure the following requirements.
Note:
The requirements are applicable to all flavors of the operating systems.
The requirements are applicable to the 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems unless specifically mentioned.
General requirements
1.0 GB disk space
Internet Explorer 6 or later
Internet connection to receive updates
System requirements for various Microsoft Windows OS
Windows 11
Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster
RAM: 4 gigabyte (GB)
Windows 10
Processor: 1 GHz or faster
RAM: 1 GB for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit
Windows 8.1 / Windows 8
Processor: 1 GHz or faster
RAM: 1 GB for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit
Windows 7 (Service Pack 1 and later)
Processor: 1 GHz or faster
RAM: 1 GB for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit
Make sure you have installed Microsoft patches KB4474419 and KB4490628 also.
How to check if the required patches are installed?
1. Open Control Panel
2. Go to Windows Update
3. From the Windows Update page, click on ‘View Update History’.
Windows XP (Service Pack 2 and later)
Processor: 300 Megahertz (MHz) Pentium or faster
RAM: 512 MB
POP3 email clients compatibility
Guardian NetSecure supports
Microsoft Outlook Express 5.5 and later
Microsoft Outlook 2000 and later
Netscape Messenger 4 and later
Eudora
Mozilla Thunderbird
IncrediMail
Windows Mail
Note: The Email Protection feature does not support encrypted email connections that use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
Feature specific compatibility
The following section describes specific compatibility
Anti-Keylogger
Is not supported on Microsoft Windows XP 32-bit with Service Pack 1 or previous and Windows XP 64-bit.
Firewall
The Monitor Wi-Fi Networks feature is not supported on Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit.
Emergency Disk
Creating Emergency Disk using CD/DVD is not supported on Microsoft Windows 2003 and earlier versions. However, you can create Emergency Disk on USB drives.
Anti-Rootkit
Is supported on 32-bit OS only.
Self-Protection
For Microsoft Windows XP operating system, this feature is supported only if Service Pack 2 or later is installed.
Process protection functionality of Self-Protection is supported on Microsoft Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and later.