[October 15, 2008]

F-Secure Launches Intelligent and Powerful Protection Against Corporate IT Threats

SAN JOSE, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- F-Secure today announced the availability in North America, F-Secure Client Security 8, a highly effective, centrally managed security solution for corporate workstations and laptops at a time when businesses are facing massive amounts of increasingly sophisticated and targeted malware attacks.

F-Secure Client Security 8 provides faster and more accurate protection against new threats with F-Secure DeepGuard 2.0 technology that reacts to new threats in milliseconds by querying F-Secure's real-time protection network. With this advanced in-the-cloud technology, all the computers in a corporate network are protected in 60 seconds from the first confirmation of a new threat - wherever that occurs in the F-Secure DeepGuard 2.0 global real-time protection network, which includes millions of computers.

Juha Ollila, Vice President of Channel Business at F-Secure, said, "F-Secure is at the forefront of developing in-the-cloud technology in the security industry. We take great pride in our real-time protection network, which now offers an unprecedented level of mass protection to our business customers."

F-Secure Client Security 8 works silently beneath the surface, protecting important business data without disturbing the user. A very deep level of protection is achieved through the combination of frequent malware signature database updates, local analysis of program behavior during run-time, and the new real-time protection network using in-the-cloud resources. For the IT administrator, multiple installations and central management of the security solution are as simple as ever. Memory consumption has been reduced by over a third compared to the previous version.

The new updatable scanning architecture allows a quick and smooth response to the constantly evolving threat landscape. With improved cleanup scripts and removable driver scanning, the overall performance and removal rate of malware have been significantly improved.

F-Secure Client Security 8 also includes other improvements. The new neighborcast feature offers scalable and fast peer-to-peer database update distribution inside a Local Area Network. This ensures a fail-safe database distribution between clients and decreases the bandwidth usage of a company.

Full IPv6 protection has also been added to F-Secure Client Security 8 to ensure safe connections and usage of IPv6 networks. Windows Vista support is extended to 64-bit platforms and Cisco NAC support is extended to cover all NAC versions, protecting the network from infected guest hosts.

About F-Secure Corporation

F-Secure Corporation protects consumers and businesses against computer viruses and other threats from the Internet and mobile networks. F-Secure's award-winning solutions are available as a service subscription through more than 170 Internet service providers and mobile operator partners around the world, making F-Secure the global leader in this market. The solutions are also available as licensed products through thousands of resellers globally. The company aspires to be the most reliable security provider, helping to make computer and smartphone users' connected lives safe and easy. This is substantiated by the company's independently proven ability to respond faster to new threats than its main competitors. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Finland, F-Secure has been listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd since 1999. The company has consistently been one of the fastest growing publicly listed companies in the industry. The latest news on real-time virus threat scenarios is available at the F-Secure Data Security Lab weblog at http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/.

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