Never Forget Another Backup

F-Secure Online Backup makes sure that you will never lose an important file again. With the newest release, the product supports Windows 7 and Mac Snow Leopard, has an improved user interface for mini laptops and is available in more languages.

SAN JOSE, Calif., November 5, 2009 - Losing important files is every computer user’s nightmare. Yet despite this, few people remember to regularly backup their data. A recent survey by F-Secure conducted in eight countries* revealed that almost 40% of computer users have lost irreplaceable content, such as photos or work documents, but only 56% stored or backed up their content. The survey also found that only 5% of people back up their files online, despite the risks involved with relying on physical media like external hard drives, DVDs and USB sticks.

F-Secure Online Backup, which provides automatic and unlimited data storage space, takes away the fear of hardware failure and property damage. Files are stored in secure data centers, ensuring that important files will never be lost again - even if your computer breaks down or your laptop is lost or stolen. The data is encrypted during the transfer to guarantee complete confidentiality.

F-Secure Online Backup also gives peace of mind from self-inflicted problems. In the event you accidentally delete an important file from your computer, it is possible to retrieve it from the backup within 30 days. An easy-to-use web portal gives access to your backed-up pictures, documents and other digital content over the Internet. You can also view your photos or play music and videos F-Secure Online Backup's built-in media player.

Antti Reijonen, VP Consumer Business and Marketing for F-Secure said, “F-Secure Online Backup automates the task of backing up your files, and eliminates the hassle of burning CDs or setting up external storage devices, which has kept people from backing up. We introduced this product earlier this year and have received positive feedback from our customers, confirming our belief that, with so much important content, such as photos, now in digital format, there is a real need to keep it safe for the future.”

The updated version of F-Secure Online Backup is now available and includes support for Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), as well as added language support for Spanish, Slovenian and Brazilian Portuguese. Existing F-Secure Online Backup customers will be automatically updated to the latest version in November. In the future, these updates will continue to take place automatically, ensuring that existing customers always have the latest version.

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F-Secure and the Makers of “Star Wreck” Join Forces on Fictional Online TV Series

F-Secure Corporation and Wreckamovie, the producers of “Star Wreck - In the Pirkinning,” today announced that they are working together to produce a fictional TV series about global cybercrime that will be distributed for free on the Internet. The made-for-Internet TV series F-Secure and the Wreckamovie community are collaborating on is called “Griffin.” The series tells the story of Griffin Sharp, a good guy with a complex past in the world of cybercrime. It will initially have six episodes, each taking place in a different country. “Griffin” is being developed by a web community of enthusiasts on the Wreckamovie platform. The community is creating the stories, the script, visuals and will also take part in the actual filming.

Timo Vuorensola, the producer of “Griffin,” said, “Our culture is becoming more and more participatory as seen in the evolution of the web over the last few years. With ‘Star Wreck’ we invited the community to participate in the creation of the movie and we got a tremendous response. With ‘Griffin’ we are taking this even further and working very closely with the Wreckamovie community from day one.”

F-Secure is supporting the project by giving its insight into the world of the fight against cybercrime.

Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer at F-Secure, said,“All the stories in ‘Griffin’ are going to be based on real things that have happened online. We want to show people what to look out for when they're out there on the web. And if we get it right, this will be both exciting and entertaining. So stay tuned.”

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F-Secure Makes IT Security Easier for Business

F-Secure Corporation today announced the availability of the new F-Secure Business Suite designed to make life easier when it comes to IT security for business. With the new security suite, companies are able to focus on their core business instead of worrying about IT security or spending time on complicated choices over security products.

The F-Secure Business Suite combines all the essential components for protecting business networks against the entire array of Internet threats, including viruses, spyware and unauthorized intrusion attempts. It is designed for companies with internal IT expertise and replaces F-Secure’s Small Business, Corporate and Enterprise Suites.

Maria Nordgren, VP Corporate Business at F-Secure, said, “We have responded to the IT security needs of businesses by creating a complete security suite that is simple to manage and has a minimal impact on system performance. This means both small and large businesses can really focus on what they do best while maintaining an uncompromised level of security for their operations.”

The F-Secure Business Suite also features the most advanced technology available, delivering security that is faster and more effective than ever before. Scanning is faster, the memory footprint is smaller and the system impact is lower. Usage, updating and purchasing are also designed to be as simple as possible, even when faced with the complex requirements of large organizations.

The suite’s security applications can be centrally installed, configured and updated from a single location. The administrator can also easily define and distribute security policies and keep track of the network by generating extensive reports on its security status.

The F-Secure Business Suite provides comprehensive, centrally managed protection for company laptops, desktops, Windows and Citrix servers, gateways, e-mail and web traffic. The Suite includes the following products:

F-Secure Policy Manager
F-Secure Client Security
F-Secure Anti-Virus for Workstations
F-Secure Anti-Virus for Windows Servers
F-Secure Anti-Virus for Citrix Servers
F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange
F- Secure Spam Control for Microsoft Exchange
F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper for Linux

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F-Secure Discovers that Loss of Valuable Digital Content Is Common

Summer photos and videos are guaranteed to bring back magic holiday memories, but just how safely are people storing their precious pictures and other digital content?

According to a recent survey conducted by F-Secure in the United States and seven other countries*, many people have gone through the painful experience of losing irreplaceable content such as family photos, music collections or crucial work documents. In the US, 34% of respondents said that they have lost irreplaceable digital content. Yet, while everyone fears losing their important files, in practice many people still don’t remember to make regular backups. F-Secure’s survey revealed that only 53% of US respondents said that they have stored or backed up their digital photos.

The most popular photo storage location remains the computer hard drive, with 34% of US respondents relying on this method. DVDs and CDs are also relatively popular storage media in the US (28%), while USB devices are less popular for storing photos among US respondents (7%). Sixteen percent of US survey respondents use the memory cards in their cameras.

Antti Reijonen, F-Secure Vice President for Consumer Business & Marketing, said, “Our international survey shows that close to 40% of computer users have lost irreplaceable content. With so many important aspects of our personal and working lives now stored in digital form, we believe that backing up those files is more important than ever. F-Secure Online Backup makes it easy to be safe rather than sorry.”

F-Secure Online Backup takes away the worry of losing valuable files. It works automatically in the background whenever you are connected to the Internet, securely backing up all your pictures, music, documents and other digital content. There is no limit on the amount of data you can backup from the hard disk of your computer. During backup, your personal files are copied from your computer over the Internet into highly secure data centers. You can restore the content to the same computer or a different computer, and a web portal allows you to view, play and download your backed up content from any PC or Mac with an Internet connection.

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Social Media Continue to Attract Criminals

F-Secure Corporation today released its Third Quarter 2009 Security Threat Summary. The full report is available for download at visit http://www.f-secure.com/2009. One of the notable trends during the quarter was a shift to leaner and more secure operating systems. Broadband Internet access continues to increase, but computing resources have not kept pace with software demands. As a result, lighter software and optimized performance have become a focus for the software industry. The August release of Mac OSX Snow Leopard was already evidence of this trend, and also included antivirus software to protect against trojans. Microsoft’s soon to be released Windows 7 operating system is also set to be leaner and more secure than its predecessor, Windows Vista, whose insistent user access control feature actually prompted many users to turn it off completely – a potentially unsafe situation. Google announced that it is developing the forthcoming Google Chrome OS using minimalist design principles since most of the applications running on the new OS will be hosted on the web.

More secure browsing
During the third quarter, Firefox introduced its new private browsing feature, and released Firefox 3.5.3, which introduced a notification feature for outdated versions of Adobe Flash Player in an effort to reduce security vulnerabilities often created when users don’t keep this software up to date.

Search engine competition is good for security
On the search engine front, Microsoft and Yahoo! agreed to replace Yahoo!’s search engine with Bing. Microsoft hopes to compete with Google by offering unique features in Bing, such as adult content filtering. Safe search results are now an important feature for consumers. The deaths of Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Patrick Swayze were quickly exploited by criminals through search engine optimization attacks, which often pointed people to rogue antivirus products. The H1N1 flu has also been used as an emotional "hook" to lead Internet users to scam sites.

Social media and networks under attack
As Facebook reached 300 million accounts in September, social media and social networks have continued to attract criminal and political interest. Personal networking connections offer trusted authentication, which criminals abuse by compromising user accounts and linking to malicious sites. F-Secure reminds Internet users about the importance of strong passwords, and that Facebook passwords should be different than passwords associated with the e-mails used to log into Facebook.

In August, news emerged that Twitter was used to direct botnets. Twitter accounts are also being used to push rogue AV products.

Politically motivated DDoS attacks
Also in August, a Georgian blogger’s Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, Google Blogger and YouTube accounts were jammed by a politically motivated DDoS attack, as reported by Elinor Mills on CNET.

In another coordinated DDoS attack during Malaysia’s National Day on August 31st, hackers targeted a Malaysian-based web host and defaced more than 100 websites, including those belonging to Malaysia’s national institutes, universities, media and businesses.

Mobile threats make a comeback
In the world of mobile phone security, this quarter witnessed the re-emergence of the SMS worm, Yxe (also known as Sexy View) – this time in the form of Sexy Space, which behaves much like its predecessor. The new variant, Yxe.D, is again Symbian-Signed, but with a certificate from a different company in China than the earlier version.

The old “missed call scam” is also making a comeback. The scam involves a call from an unknown international number, which is immediately dropped when answered. When the curious person calls the number back, she hears a "busy tone" audio file, when in fact the call is being charged at a premium rate. F-Secure recommends a Google or WhoCallsMe search on unusual numbers before returning unknown calls to avoid nasty surprises in the phone bill.

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F-Secure Upgrades Customers’ Internet Security

F-Secure is providing its existing customers with an automatic upgrade to the F-Secure Internet Security 2010™ software, which is safer and more efficient than ever. F-Secure’s free and automatic update to the latest F-Secure Internet Security 2010™ provides even better protection against malware. The customer will receive a prompt on the computer display to accept the update to the faster and lighter Internet Security 2010™ software. Once accepted, the upgrade will happen automatically, with no actions are needed from the user.

Antti Reijonen, F-Secure’s VP Consumer Business and Marketing says: “We want the customers who use our product to have the best possible protection on their computers. The latest version of our antivirus software is the safest, so we will begin automatic updates to the new Internet Security 2010 version starting on 14th September.”

“People’s lives are connected in many ways to computers, the Internet and digital content. Valuable personal files like photos, music and documents are an important part of our everyday lives. Online banks and stores are widely used and social networking services have become an integral part of leisure-time and work relationships. We want to protect our customers’ valuable digital content and to enable safe network connections, so nothing is left to chance,” Antti Reijonen continues.

The new product version is valid until the end of the existing license period. When the update is available, its installation package (about 70Mb) will install quietly in the background, after which an update prompt will open on the computer display.

The update can be installed immediately or completed later, but it cannot be bypassed. If the customer prefers not to wait for the automatic upgrade, the 2010 product version can be downloaded and installed immediately from www.f-secure.com.

Depending on the PC and the bandwidth available, the installation may take 15-30 minutes. The installation does not require a subscription key. When the installation is complete, the next update window will appear, informing the customer that the computer should be restarted.



F-Secure Internet Security 2010™ is 60% faster and uses 70% less memory than the previous version, providing significantly better performance and more effective protection than before. The solution requires very little system resources but detects security threats quickly and efficiently. Its completely redesigned user interface sets a new standard for safe PC use. The new Browsing Protection feature detects and warns about harmful web pages and protects your personal information online. This means you can safely visit online stores and web pages requiring personal login details.

If the customer has subscribed to the F-Secure security service from a broadband provider, the update will take place at a time confirmed by the operator. F-Secure Anti-Virus™ will also be automatically upgraded to the Anti-Virus 2010 version.

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F-Secure Internet Security 2010 Pre-Installed on Nokia Booklet 3G

The Nokia Booklet 3G mini-laptop launched at Nokia World last week comes pre-installed with F-Secure Internet Security 2010. The light and fast F-Secure Internet Security 2010, launched on September 3rd, protects the content of Nokia Booklet 3G users from the latest threats without slowing down the computer.

SAN JOSE, Calif., September 8, 2009 - F-Secure and Nokia are extending their collaboration to include Internet security on computers. Owners of the Nokia Booklet 3G mini-laptop get a free 30-day trial version of F-Secure Internet Security 2010 installed and ready to go on their new Nokia PC. This way users are immediately protected against online threats from the first time they access the web.

Kimmo Alkio, CEO of F-Secure, said, “Nokia and F-Secure share the vision that people want to connect to their digital content all the time, no matter what device they are using. F-Secure is committed to making these connections safe across devices and protecting the irreplaceable content on them. F-Secure Internet Security 2010 is a great fit for the Nokia Booklet 3G as the software was designed to be light and fast, using as little of the computer’s resources as possible. Thanks to its newly designed user interface, it is also very easy to use.”

John Hwang, General Manager, Connected Computers at Nokia, said, “F-Secure shares a heritage of mobility and has been a long-time partner of Nokia. We believe F-Secure is the right security partner to help make the mobile PC a reality.”

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