Security Tools Offered by Government of India

Government of India is offering free Antivirus Software for PC & Cellphone

The "Cyber Swachhta Kendra" is a Botnet Cleaning and Malware Analysis Centre (BCMAC), operated by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) as part of the Government of India’s Digital India initiative under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). Its goal is to create a secure cyber space by detecting botnet infections in India and to notify, enable cleaning and securing systems of end users so as to prevent further infections.

Cyber Swachhta Kendra is being operated by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) under provisions of Section 70B of the Information Technology Act, 2000. CERT-In is an acronym for “Indian Computer Emergency Response Team” which is a national incident response centre for major computer security incidents in its constituency i.e. Indian Cyber community. www.cert-in.org.in


The “Cyber Swachhta Kendra” provides the following tools in collaboration with QuickHeal and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC).

Free Bot Removal Tool

The antivirus company Quick Heal is providing the free bot removal Tool. Click the below mentioned link to download the tool.
http://www.quickheal.co.in/bot-removal-tool

1. USB Pratirodh
This tool is a desktop security solution, which controls the usage of removable storage media like pen drives, external hard drives, cell phones, and other supported USB mass storage devices.
Download Link:
https://cdac.in/usbpratirodh

2. AppSamvid
This tool AppSamvid is a desktop based Application Whitelisting solution for Windows operating system. It allows only preapproved set of executable files for execution.
Download Link:
https://cdac.in/appsamvid


3. M-Kavach (for Mobile devices)
This tool is a comprehensive mobile device security solution for Android devices addressing threats related to mobile phones. It addresses threats related to malware that steal personal data & credentials, misuse Wi-Fi and Bluetooth resources, lost or stolen mobile device, spam SMSs, premium-rate SMS and unwanted / unsolicited incoming calls.
Download Link:
https://cdac.in/mkavach

4. Browser JSGuard
This tool is a browser extension which detects and defends malicious HTML & JavaScript attacks made through the web browser based on Heuristics. It alerts the user on visiting any malicious web pages and provides the detailed analysis threat report of the web page. For more details, click here
Download Link:
For Firefox Web Browser: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/browser-jsguard/
For Google Chrome Web Browser: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/browserjsguard/ncpkigeklafkopcelcegambndlhkcbhb

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