TFS Gateway Bundled with F-Secure Anti-Virus

April 7, 1998 --- Data Fellows, the developer of the ground-breaking F-Secure Anti-Virus product family, has entered co-operation with the Swedish TenFour, the maker of TFS Gateway. TFS Gateway will be bundled with F-Secure Anti-Virus, and distributed through the Data Fellows distribution channels.

"The co-operation will enable us to offer our clients even more competitive a software combination," says Mr. Teemu Lehtonen, Product Manager, from Data Fellows. "The award-winning F-Secure Anti-Virus is a complete anti-virus solution for corporations. It not only protects desktops and servers, but also offers protection against viruses entering the corporate network from the Internet through firewalls, or via the e-mail. TFS Gateway, on the other hand, creates a communication bridge between all major e-mail systems. The technology of TFS Gateway will complement our F-Secure Anti-Virus product range, and enable us to offer our clients a uniquely comprehensive mail gateway product."

F-Secure Anti-Virus is a revolutionary departure from traditional anti-virus products. Based on the new CounterSign technology, it is the world’s first open anti-virus architecture. F-Secure Anti-Virus facilitates the use of multiple, independent anti-virus scanners simultaneously within the same system, and provides for unparalleled virus detection rates. It is already equipped with two of the world’s best scanning engines, F-PROT Professional and AVP, and other scanning engines can be plugged in anytime.

TFS Gateway is a complete 32-bit e-mail connectivity solution designed for corporations with mixed messaging platforms. It permits seamless communication between LAN-based e-mail packages including Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Mail, Lotus Notes, cc:Mail, Novell GroupWise and MHS as well as the Internet, paging and MCI Mail.

Mr. Lehtonen continues: "The bundling of TFS Gateway with F-Secure Anti-Virus will make our anti-virus solution for mail gateways even less dependent on any particular software-vendor. This is not only cost-effective for our clients, but also further enhances the reliability of our product."

For TenFour, the partnership will also provide wider access to the international market. Says Mr. Nipa Raunio, Sales Manager, Nordic: "This co-operation will help us reach most of those areas of the world market that are still unconquered by us. All in all, TenFour and Data Fellows are an excellent match in terms of both product compatibility and marketing."

About Data Fellows

Data Fellows is one of the world’s leading developers of data security products with offices in San Jose, California and Espoo, Finland. Its groundbreaking F-Secure product family is a unique combination of globally available, strong encryption and revolutionary anti-virus software. The integrated F-Secure product range provides a complete security solution for enterprises, and includes file encryption and IPSec communication encryption products, VPN gateways, SSH based secure remote management software, and a full range of anti-virus products to workstations, servers and gateways. Data Fellows is also the developer of the award winning F-PROT Professional anti-virus, now part of the dual scanning engine concept of F-Secure Anti-Virus.

Data Fellows is privately owned. Since it was founded in 1988, its annual net growth of net sales has been over 80%. Data Fellows offers a worldwide network of technical support, training and distribution in over 70 countries. Data Fellows belongs to an elite group of companies that have a triple-A rating from Dun&Bradstreet.

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