The Finnish internet security company F-Secure today announced
that it is the first company in the industry that has been able to
bring the safe feeling of the Moominvalley to internet users. The
new version of the F-Secure Internet Security 2006 product with the
Moomin user interface has first been released in Japan. The product
is available in Japanese and English on sale at the F-Secure
e-store on April 17, 2006 at
www.f-secure.com
The Moomin characters were originally created by Finnish author
Tove Jansson in the 1940’s, and they are enormously popular in
Finland, Japan, the Scandinavian countries as well as in other
European countries. The Moomins are known for their positive, open,
tolerant and liberal approach to life, where risks and occasional
downturns are met with optimistic and constructive attitudes, and
courage.
”The world is a very exciting place”, says Moominpappa, the
modest patriarch of the Moomin family, ”and it is good to go and
explore it, and learn more about it. But you should be cautious,
and remember that it is better to be safe than sorry.” Good advise
indeed, considering the increased activity around the internet,
which is a bit like the electrical charge around Hattifatteners in
a thunderstorm.
Mikko Hypponen, the Chief Research Officer at F-Secure commented
on F-Secure's Moomin move: "In my opinion, virus writers resemble
Moominvalley’s Stinky in many ways. So we've taken the
energetically fearless Little My as our role model and now we are
ready to take them on!"
The company F-Secure is known globally for how fast it is able
to respond to the latest scams that unsavory characters like Stinky
keep producing.
Through the new Moomin-version of its Internet Security 2006
product, F-Secure believes that Internet users from now on can
experience that unique feeling of safety that has become a
trademark of the Moominvalley, and with their families enjoy that
general atmosphere of things being pretty much as they should be.
Just like in Moominvalley.
About F-Secure Corporation
F-Secure Corporation protects consumers and businesses
against computer viruses and other threats from the Internet and mobile
networks. We want to be the most reliable provider of security services in the
market. One way to demonstrate this is the speed of our response. According to
independent studies in 2004, 2005 and 2006 our response time to new threats is
significantly faster than our major competitors. Our award-winning solutions are
available for workstations, gateways, servers and mobile phones. They include
antivirus and desktop firewall with intrusion prevention, antispam and
antispyware solutions, as well as network control solutions for Internet Service
Providers. Founded in 1988, F-Secure has been listed on the Helsinki Exchanges
since 1999, and has been consistently growing faster than all its publicly
listed competitors. F-Secure headquarters are in Helsinki, Finland, and we have
regional offices around the world. F-Secure protection is also available as a
service through major ISPs, such as France Telecom, TeliaSonera, PCCW and
Charter Communications. F-Secure is the global market leader in mobile phone
protection provided through mobile operators, such as T-Mobile and Swisscom and
mobile handset manufacturers such as Nokia. The latest real-time virus threat
scenario news are available at the F-Secure Data Security Lab weblog at http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/
For more information, please contact:
F-Secure Corporation
Ilkka Ranta, Product Marketing Manager
PL 24
FIN-00181 Helsinki
Tel +358 40 0789 919
Fax. +358 9 2520 5001
