Data Fellows Sponsors the World's Largest Demo Festival: Assembly'97

Data Fellows is proud to support Assembly'97, the world's largest computer demo event, celebrated in Helsinki, Finland. Data Fellows will also maintain data security and support data security issues during the happening.

Assembly is an annual computer multimedia event involving programming, music and other attractions. It gathers amateurs and professionals from all over the world to meet other demo experts and compete in the art of "demo making". A demo binds thrilling graphics and animations with massive sound effects to form one single multimedia presentation of computer programming. In addition to programming, other competitions within the Assembly festival include graphics, music, pure animation and also minor programming competitions.

The F-PROT Professional antivirus toolkit will be used to protect the main file servers of Assembly'97 against viruses. Free copies of the F-PROT program will be distributed to all participants. The F-Secure SSH secure remote login program will be used to encrypt network and mail traffic between clients and servers.

Demo creations are produced by pioneer programmers who live on the cutting edge of today’s technology. Their works, which drain the last bits of available CPU power will be shown on a huge screen in the main competition hall, with over 3500 viewers present. Prizes worth more than $40,000 USD will be awarded.

"Protecting a happening like Assembly is certainly a challenge", comments F-PROT Professional Support Manager Mikko Hyppönen. "However, we've been co-operating with Assembly organizers all along since 1993, and I'm sure of yet another success. On the virus protection side, we are prepared to develop and add new F-PROT protection immediately in the case that new viruses show up during the party, as the only unwelcome guests."

Privately owned, Data Fellows is the leading technology provider of data security solutions for both computer networks and individual desktop computers. Besides F-PROT Professional, the Data Fellows company produces the F-Secure product family, which offers protection for sensitive communications over Windows, Macintosh and UNIX TCP/IP; creation of strongly encrypted virtual private networks; and secure files and folders on the local PC using strong encryption.