Kerio MailServer passes all incoming and outgoing email through the F-Secure Anti-Virus Module using a dedicated plug-in. The anti-virus is able to scan all messages regardless of how the mailboxes are accessed by users, whether using IMAP, WebMail or SMTP. This overcomes a major drawback of anti-virus SMTP gateways that scan only email sent through SMTP servers.

"Many corporate networks today use web based mail delivery to give users more flexibility and control when accessing mailboxes from multiple locations," says Dusan Vitek, marketing director of Kerio Technologies. "With most gateway mail scanners, only messages entering the mail system through SMTP are checked for viruses. If, for example, an employee of a company uses webmail to send a message to another employee within the same company, the email will be placed directly in the recipients mailbox without using SMTP protocol and therefore will never be scanned by the anti-virus gateway. This is a real security threat."

"Instead of examining and disinfecting thousands of individual desktops, enterprises need to be protected at the point of entrance which in most cases is the mail server. This gateway protection is core to our strategy, and is personified in Kerio’s leading-edge solution," said Ilkka Starck, executive vice president of F-Secure Inc.

In addition to anti-virus protection, Kerio MailServer provides attachment and content filtering that can block potentially dangerous attachments and offensive email. Kerio MailServer also includes anti-spam protection and support for MAPS databases of known spam mail servers.

Kerio MailServer 5.1 and F-Secure Anti-Virus Module for KMS are available for purchase online from the Kerio eShop or through any of Kerio’s worldwide partners. The combined solution retails at under $1000 for the entry-level base product, which supports 20 users.

About Kerio Technologies
Kerio Technologies Inc. is a major provider of Internet security software for small to medium sized networks. Founded in 2001, Kerio Technologies was formed around the original team of developers that designed the hugely successful WinRoute product family.

Current product portfolio covers network firewall (WinRoute Pro and a simplified version WinRoute Lite), desktop firewall (Kerio Personal Firewall) and messaging server with antivirus protection (Kerio MailServer).

Kerio's corporate headquarters are located in Santa Clara, California, with offices in France, Great Britain and the Czech Republic.

For more information on Kerio, please visit www.kerio.com.

About F-Secure
F-Secure Corporation is a leading provider of centrally managed security for the mobile enterprise. The company offers a full range of award-winning, integrated anti-virus, file encryption and network security solutions for handhelds, laptops, desktops, servers, mail servers and firewalls.

Founded in 1988, F-Secure Corporation is listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange [HEX: FSC]. The company is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, with North American head office in San Jose, California, as well as offices worldwide. For more information about F-Secure, please visit http://www.F-Secure.com/.

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