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10th Febuary 2006 - F-Secure and Nokia today announced that
F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus will be available through Nokia to
the users of four recently announced devices based on S60 3rd
Edition - Nokia N71, Nokia E60, Nokia E61 and Nokia E70.
For the Nokia N71, F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus will be distributed
on the memory card in the standard device sales package, while
for the Nokia Eseries devices, the antivirus client will be
available at Nokia Catalogs service.
F-Secure and Nokia have been cooperating in the area of increasing
content security for years and have jointly developed distribution
models for antivirus solutions. From 2004 onwards, F Secure
Mobile Anti-Virus clients have already been available through
Nokia to the users of select Nokia's smartphone models. In addition,
F Secure Mobile Anti-Virus clients have been included into some
operator variants of Nokia's mobile devices.
Importing the antivirus software into the mobile device is an
easy solution for the user. Once the antivirus client has been
installed in the device, the user only needs to activate the
antivirus update service.
"Easy discovery and activation are critical to the adoption
of antivirus service. The cooperation with Nokia is a great
addition to our offering. By combining our automatic antivirus
solution with the enhanced security features of Nokia's smartphones,
we can provide a competitive solution against harmful content,"
said Antti Vihavainen, Vice President, Mobile Security, F-Secure.
"As the market leader, Nokia is determined to be active
in the development of security controls and preventive measures
against malicious software. Providing antivirus software such
as the F-Secure antivirus clients for select devices is a natural
step in our aim to bring the most advanced security features
into S60-based smartphones," said Seppo Laukkanen, Vice
President, Product Management, Nokia.
F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus provides increased real-time, on-device
protection against harmful content with automatic over-the-air
antivirus updates. It is the world's first and most widely available
mobile operator antivirus service. The new F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus
3.0 supports devices based on Symbian OS v9 and the S60 3rd
Edition platform.
The S60 platform, built on Symbian OS, is the leading smartphone
software in the world and it is licensed by some of the foremost
mobile phone manufacturers in the market. The flexibility of
the S60 platform allows for various hardware designs and software
configurations. This is demonstrated through the multitude of
S60 devices already available on the market. Through its award-winning
user interface, extensive support for new mobile services and
the innovation potential for partner solutions, the S60 provides
an open and scalable business opportunity for mobile operators
and 3rd party developers. For further information about S60
news and community, please visit www.s60.com.
About F-Secure
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 and
2005 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/
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