Data Fellows, maker of the F-PROT Professional anti-virus and data security toolkit, today introduced its F-Secure Anti-Virus family of products. F-Secure Anti-Virus is the first line of software to combine multiple scanning engines in a single framework. This technological approach, named CounterSign, is a revolutionary departure from traditional anti-virus utilities.

As operating systems evolve and networks grow more complex, a comprehensive strategy has become necessary to combat the threat of viruses. Using CounterSign, F-Secure Anti-Virus lets anti-virus products work within a common framework. The idea is that what one virus scanner misses, another will find.

"There is no way any anti-virus product not utilizing CounterSign technology can achieve the astounding detection rates of F-Secure Anti-Virus," says xxxx, xxxx of Data Fellows. "We believe that a paradigm shift in anti-virus has happened."

Data Fellows understands that organizations have invested substantially in anti-virus protection. Future versions of F-Secure Anti-Virus will let users combine installed anti-virus products into the F-Secure Anti-Virus framework. In addition, F-Secure Anti-Virus will use advanced heuristic analysis to detect unknown viruses, limiting the risk of false alarms.

To manage the framework’s point of attack, F-Secure Anti-Virus offers a wealth of network management and distribution features. These include:

• Installing desktop versions of F-Secure Anti-Virus to multiple platforms from a single workstation automatically.
• Sending updates to users with a single mouse click.
• Receiving reports from workstations when a virus is found.
• Receiving copies of infected or suspected files from workstations automatically.

With all its capabilities, F-Secure Anti-Virus doesn’t sacrifice ease of use. It has a Windows 95/NT 4.0 look-and-feel, a customizable toolbar, right-mouse-click support, and a wizard for network installation. It also sports an extensive database of virus descriptions, explaining what the common viruses actually do, and direct links to Data Fellows’ Anti-Virus WWW services, which provide the most up-to-date information.

"F-Secure Anti-Virus has the most advanced, easy-to-use management system of any product on the market," says xxxx. "The advantages for the network administrator are clear."

Data Fellows is offering related products under the F-Secure Anti-Virus umbrella. One program, F-Secure Anti-Virus for Firewalls scans and removes viruses before they enter a network. Coupled with F-Secure Network Management, it’s an ideal solution for Internet-borne viruses.

Another program, F-Secure Anti-Virus E-Mail Gateway, delivers the most complete e-mail anti-virus protection on the market today. It supports all the major e-mail clients such as MS Mail, MS Exchange, Lotus Notes, cc:Mail, Novell GroupWise and MHS and both Internet and MCI Mail.

Data Fellows is a software development company with offices in San Jose, California, and Helsinki, Finland. Privately held, the company has experienced more than 100% annual growth in net sales since it was founded in 1988.

In its major business areas—anti-virus and cryptography products—Data Fellows is one of the world’s most technologically advanced software publishers. Its products include F-Secure, the F-Secure product family, and F-PROT Professional, the anti-virus and data security toolkit. Its customers include US national labs, US military branches and centers, NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Home Office (UK), European governments, European Defense Forces, more than half the world’s 10 largest banks, airlines, industrial corporations, and telecom manufacturers.

For more information on Data Fellows and its products, contact xxxx at (800) xxx-xxxx or visit the Web site at http://www.datafellows.com. A white paper on the anti-virus challenge in today’s corporate environment is available at http://xxx.xxx.xxx.