F-Secure Corporation's Data Security Summary for 2002

Helsinki, Finland - December 17, 2002

In 2002, the data security world was characterized by new types of threats. Virus outbreaks in Linux systems, attacks utilizing open source code, breaks into home computers and increasing activity of Asian virus writers kept data security companies busy. Known viruses today amount to some 80,000.

As every year, F-Secure Corporation has issued a summary of the most significant data security cases during the past year.

The summary is available at F-Secure's www site at http://www.F-Secure.com/2002

For more information, please contact:

Mikko Hyppönen, Manager, Anti-Virus Research 
F-Secure Corporation
PO Box 24
FIN-00181 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 2520 5513
Fax +358 9 2520 5001
Gsm +358 400 648 180
E-mail: Mikko.Hypponen@F-Secure.com