Espoo, Finland, January 26, 1999 - Data Fellows, one of the world's leading developers of anti-virus and encryption software, today announces a new version of its Virtual Private Networking software, F-Secure VPN+ 4.0. It will begin shipping in February. The new version of F-Secure VPN+ has many new features, such as support for dial-up and DHCP addressing with Windows95 and NT4, as well as greatly improved installation and interoperability with all major IPSec vendors.

The announced version is the fourth generation Virtual Private Network software from Data Fellows, the technology leader for secure networking. F-Secure VPN+ secures mission critical TCP/IP networking in local area networks, between remote offices, business partners, and traveling employees. VPN+ provides tested interoperability and compliance with the IETF standard IPSec and IKE protocols.

The new 4.0 version makes installation and enforcing corporate security policy for IT-managers easy and transparent for end-users also. All security settings are centrally managed and updated over the network using F-Secure Management Framework.

"Centralized management lowers the cost of ownership and makes it simple to start using the VPN solution, as there are no new things to learn for end-users", says Pirkka Palomäki, product manager at Data Fellows. "Furthermore, F-Secure VPN+'s status information is accessible with a web browser, which makes it easy to verify the configuration and operation either locally or remotely."

F-Secure VPN+ 4.0 ships as client, server and gateway versions that provide flexibility in configurations and allows securing all data communications, including local area networks. The supported platforms are Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 95.

The price will be USD 59 per user for a 100-user licence. For a server licence the price is USD 495, for a gateway licence USD 2495, and an enterprise gateway USD 4990.