Espoo, Finland - August 9, 2000
F-Secure Corporation today announced F-Secure Anti-Virus for EPOC, the world's first anti-virus product for the Symbian EPOC platform. The early availability program of F-Secure Anti-Virus for EPOC starts immediately with qualified hardware vendors and operators. General availability of the product is scheduled for Q4 2000.
F-Secure's new security solutions enable wireless application service providers (ASPs) to offer remotely managed security services to their corporate and consumer customers. F-Secure expects security to be one of
the fundamental added value services for all service providers in the future and will aggressively seek partnerships with wireless operators to enable these services globally.
The Symbian operating system is optimized for the demanding requirements of wireless information. It has already been licensed to Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Philips, Psion, Sony and others. These companies manufacture more than 85% of the world's mobile phones.
F-Secure Corporation
Risto Siilasmaa
President and CEO
Additional information:
F-Secure Corporation
Risto Siilasmaa, President and CEO tel.358 9 2520 5510
Jukka Kotovirta, Director tel.358 9 2520 5542