F-Secure strengthens its position in Italian ISP markets

Helsinki, Finland - April 6, 2005

Italian telecom operator Elitel has signed an agreement with F-Secure for guaranteeing high quality security services to its Internet customers. Elitel will offer security services together with F-Secure to its clients and other people interested in security services through service packages consisting of antivirus, firewall, spam control, and parental control solutions.

“F-Secure is an ideal partner for Elitel thanks to its experience, skills and world wide recognition in the global security market,” said Gian Luca Ranzani, Elitel’s Marketing Director. “Due to the increase of Internet users, we identified the best security solution available on the market; a choice that we made according to our strategy focused on offering quality and value added services with particularly favourable conditions,” he added.

“F-Secure strongly believes that the capability to offer the security as a service plays an important role in responding to the needs of evolving markets in the most efficient way.”, said Miska Repo, Country Manager of F-Secure Italy. “The success of security as a service proves the fact that individuals often prefer to pay a subscription instead of a single software license which is a way of thinking that highlights the primary role of service providers in offering security solutions addressed to private users.”

F-Secure's security solutions are increasing in popularity as a subscription service among leading ISP’s and portals in Europe and the US. Customers include Charter Communications in the US, Deutsche Telekom and WEB.DE in Germany, Wanadoo in France, TeliaSonera in Sweden and Finland, Glocalnet and com hem in Sweden, Elion Enterprises in Estonia, TDC Cable TV in Denmark, BlueCom in Norway, Czech Telecom in Czech Republic and Elisa Oyj in Finland.

About Elitel

Elitel is a telecom operator specialized in voice, Internet, and data services. Along with the Milan headquarters, Elitel has several offices in the most important regions in Italy. The company’s service portfolio includes services from the fixed line operator services to the IP based broadband services, and from Internet and data solutions to VPN and multimedia, customer segments being SMEs, enterprises, and private customers.

About F-Secure Corporation

F-Secure Corporation is the fastest growing publicly listed company globally in the antivirus and intrusion prevention industry with more than 50% revenue growth in 2004. F-Secure services and software protect individuals and businesses against computer viruses and other threats coming through the Internet or mobile networks. Our award-winning solutions include antivirus and desktop firewall with intrusion prevention, antispam and antispyware solutions. Our key strength is our proven speed of response to new threats. For businesses our solutions feature a centrally managed and well-integrated suite of solutions for workstations and servers alike. Focused partners offer security as a service for those companies that do not wish to build security expertise in-house. Founded in 1988, F-Secure has been listed on the Helsinki Exchanges since 1999. We have our headquarters in Helsinki, Finland, and offices in USA, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Japan. F-Secure is supported by a global ecosystem of service partners, value added resellers and distributors in over 50 countries. F-Secure protection is also available through mobile handset manufacturers such as Nokia and as a service through major Internet Service Providers, such as Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom and Charter Communications. The latest real-time virus threat scenario news is available at the F-Secure Antivirus Research Team weblog at http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/ For more information, please contact:

F-Secure Oyj
Kalle Korpi, Vice President, Service Provider Business
PL 24
00181 Helsinki
Puh. (09) 2520 4123