ALWIL Software announces avast! integration of scanning technology with Copperfasten Technologies products.
Prague – 30th October 2006: For immediate release: ALWIL Software is pleased to announce that Copperfasten Technologies have successfully completed integration of avast! Linux Edition into their range of Mail Firewall Appliances.
The Mail Firewall Appliance protects email from unwanted threats such as viruses, phishing, spam and other unwanted content and includes both inbound and outbound scanning of mail, disclaimers, load balancing and a host of features to remove the management issues facing today’s email user.
ALWIL Software's avast! antivirus products recently won the Readers choice awards in the industry respected SC Awards (winning both US and European categories for best antivirus solution, as well as the European category award for best anti-malware solution.)
ALWIL Software's Worldwide Operations Manager, Justin Bellinger, said: "We are very pleased that Copperfasten Technologies have taken this step to bring the avast! scanning engine to Copperfasten customers, bringing our technologies together to offer best-of-breed solutions that just work, allowing customers to concentrate on their business, and letting us look after their security."
According to Ronan Kavanagh, Copperfasten Sales Director, "We are delighted to complete the integration of avast! antivirus into the Copperfasten Mail Firewall. We are always looking to improve the security offering to our customers and the addition of avast! certainly meets with this goal. Not only has the product shown itself to be excellent throughout the rigorous testing process, their own customers have given it a global vote of confidence."
Integration is such that customers need merely buy the correct number of licenses for the standard Linux Edition and, as such, is available now worldwide from all a avast! resellers and online from the avast.com website.
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About ALWIL Software - Since 1988 ALWIL Software has produced antivirus products that have been developed into the multi-award winning avast! antivirus product line. Headquartered in Prague, in the Czech Republic, ALWIL Software develops and markets avast! antivirus products that cover everything from U3 devices, desktops, PDA and server protection on multiple platforms. Further details about the company and its products can be found on their corporate website http://www.avast.com
About avast! antivirus products - avast! is the multi-award winning antivirus product line from ALWIL Software, which has been ICSA Labs certified and regularly receives the Virus Bulletin 100% award, for detection of 100% of in-the-wild viruses, and SC Awards 2006 for best antivirus in both the US and European categories as well as Best anti-malware solution category in Europe. avast! is specifically engineered to need low system requirements and automatically and incrementally updates both the program and virus definitions, keeping bandwidth usage to a minimum while always being up-to-date.
