By Prince Osuagwu
India-based anti-virus and content security company, MicroWorld, has decided to consolidate on its presence in Nigeria’s fast growing IT market with solutions to kit homes and corporate enterprises against computer security threat.

To that extent, it is promoting its anti-virus product suite, eScan which incorporates  anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-spam,anti-phishing and other networks intrusion prevention solutions.

The company also announced a new partnership with Nigeria’s Systemtech Services Limited, in a deal that would allow customers to get access to eScan range of products country wide.

Systemtech is also relying on its over twenty years experience and practise in the Nigerian  Information and Communications Technology (ICT) environment, to push the products. This is however, to complement the efforts of another Nigerian ICT solutions company, Junisat, which is also an existing eScan distributor in Nigeria.

MicroWorld says it plans to use the strong relationship between it, Junisat and Systemtech, to checkmate the activities of grey market vendors touting other competitive products.

Meanwhile, eScan has enjoyed extensive acceptance in Nigeria to make it one of the top rate choice solutions for many users.

Briefing newsmen on its plans recently, Assistant Vice President of MicroWorld, Mr. Nazir Kazi, revealed that the high acceptance of eScan in Nigeria’s burgeoning market has also encouraged illicit sale of the product by unauthorized resellers, adding that the partnership with Systemtech and Junisat will now ensure proper retail channels for the product.

He expressed happiness with the way the company has been represented by the Nigerian companies so far, promising that his company would make sure that backing up eScan with such technologies like MWL, DIRC, NILP will continually provide protection to both servers and endpoints.

He also noted that with the company’s latest version of eScan, spreading of malware infection in network can be automatically prevented by sending an alert to the administrator about the outbreaks in the network, even as he added that the software has been designed in 16 different languages across the world which can be uploaded during installation, to kill the problems arising from language barrier.