F-Secure consumer products easily available in European retail stores F-Secure has entered a partnership with a European software re-publisher Editions WSKA. Based in France, the 10-year-old company publishes software utilities that are sold in the retail channel to consumers and small businesses. The need for security utilities in the home user market has been evident for a long time. In order to provide a comprehensive security solution to the single user WSKA has taken F-Secure Internet Security into its product portfolio.Today, hybrid worms and blended threats use multiple mechanisms to spread. They use traditional hacker techniques to find operating system or software vulnerabilities, adding malicious virus-like behavior to do damage and replicate. Protection provided by antivirus alone is not enough and a desktop firewall is needed to prevent worms and hackers from entering workstations and laptops.F-Secure Internet Security includes an antivirus product and a personal firewall. Together, they allow users to surf safely on the Internet, open e-mail attachments and operate their computer without the fear of virus infections or hackers. The product also ensures that users are not sending viruses to others. The software is highly automated and the latest virus definition updates are automatically downloaded through the Internet in the background. The product is specially designed for home users and small businesses.Ease of buying is important in the consumer market; the product has to be available in stores where people buy their computers and software. The extensive retail partner network of WSKA facilitates the good availability of F-Secure Internet Security in France and Germany. Consequently, the product can now be found in such retail chains as Carrefour, FNAC and Mediamarkt.Author: Ilkka Ranta, Solution Marketing Manager Begin | Back
F-Secure has entered a partnership with a European software re-publisher Editions WSKA. Based in France, the 10-year-old company publishes software utilities that are sold in the retail channel to consumers and small businesses. The need for security utilities in the home user market has been evident for a long time. In order to provide a comprehensive security solution to the single user WSKA has taken F-Secure Internet Security into its product portfolio.
infections or hackers. The product also ensures that users are not sending viruses to others. The software is highly automated and the latest virus definition updates are automatically downloaded through the Internet in the background. The product is specially designed for home users and small businesses.