Checkmark Level 2 Security Certificate and results from Virus Test Center Hamburg

F-Secure Anti-Virus again unbeatable in two leading anti-virus tests

Espoo, Finland, March 18, 1999 -- Data Fellows, a leading developer of data security solutions, has recently been recognized by West Coast Labs' Checkmark and Virus Test Center Hamburg, two well-known institutions that test anti-virus programs for virus detection and disinfection rates. Both placed Data Fellows' F-Secure Anti-Virus among the best in the world. Checkmark Level 2 Security Certificate: Data Fellows among the top three

Data Fellows' F-Secure Anti-Virus -program has been awarded the noted West Coast Labs' Checkmark Level 2 security certificate for 100 % virus detection and disinfection. Checkmark is an independent testing and standardization organization. The products and services it certifies conform to strict standards. For a product to be certified to Anti-Virus Checkmark, Level Two, the product must be able to detect all those viruses, which are actually causing infections in the real world, and in addition, disinfect all viruses "in the wild".

West Coast Labs tests products at regular intervals using carefully defined test criteria. This testing procedure is repeated at least every three months and if a product fails to preserve its level of detection, its Checkmark is suspended and even withdrawn if the manufacturer does not improve the product's detection.

The results, which were announced at the InfoSec World Congress in Florida this week show that most virus detection programs are unable to disinfect all viruses in the real world. Data Fellows' F-Secure Anti-Virus is able to do so.

Virus Test Center Hamburg virus test: Data Fellows at the top of the world-wide list

At the same time, the Virus Test Center in Hamburg has finalized the most extensive virus test in its history.

F-Secure Anti-Virus came out clearly better than its competitors by detecting all viruses in many of the dozens of categories in the test.

Results of "full" zoo test for File viruses under Windows 98:

F-Secure Anti-Virus 100.0%
Dr. Solomon's 99.8%
McAfee SCAN 99.6%
CA InoculateIT 98.1%
Norton Anti-Virus 97.1%
Trend PC-Cillin 88.3%

Results of "full" zoo test for File-related malware under Windows 98:

F-Secure Anti-Virus 99.4%
Dr. Solomon's 98.0%
McAfee SCAN 97.5%
Norton Anti-Virus 88.0%
CA InoculateIT 86.4%
Trend PC-Cillin 63.8%

Data Fellows F-Secure Anti-Virus program family

F-Secure Anti-Virus is the first virus protection solution on the market to combine two search engines to work as one. The excellent virus detection and disinfection rates of F-Secure Anti-Virus is based on a simple principle: if one search engine does not find the virus, the other one does. F-Secure Anti-Virus is available as network and single user versions and it includes automatic virus alarm, reporting and disinfections functions.