For immediate release
July 9, 1999

Data Fellows warns of Back Orifice 2000

New trojan will be detected as soon as it is released

Espoo, Finland - Data Fellows, one of the worlds leading developers of anti-virus and encryption software, is warning computer users about Back Orifice 2000, a new version of the Back Orifice backdoor trojan.

Written by the Cult of The Dead Cow, BO2K allows outsiders to access and modify any information on a Windows 95, 98 and NT machine through an invisible server program installed by the program. It also allows outsiders to spy on what the user is doing.

BO2K is expected to be revealed during the Def Con 7 conference in Las Vegas in July 1999, and it is expected to be released a week or two later by the Cult.

Data Fellows will analyze BO2K as soon as it is released by the CDC and will be adding detection and removal of it to F-Secure Anti-Virus within hours after a sample of the program has been received. The detection and removal of BO2K will be provided, as usual, as a free update to all users of FSAV.

Data Fellows F-Secure Anti-Virus software

F-Secure Anti-Virus is the first anti-virus solution to use two virus scanning programs in one. Based on the simple principle of what one scan may miss, another will find, F-Secure Anti-Virus is claimed to have far better virus detection rates than the competition. Available in network and single-user versions, it provides automatic reporting, alerting and quarantine for the virus.

About Data Fellows

Data Fellows is one of the worlds leading developers of data security products. The Company develops, markets and supports anti-virus, data security and cryptography software products for corporate computer networks. The Company has customers in more than 100 countries, including many of the worlds largest industrial corporations, best-known telecommunications companies, major international airlines, European governments, post offices, defence forces and several of the worlds largest banks.

Data Fellows anti-virus and cryptography products are ICSA certified, and the company is a member of the Anti-Virus Product Developers Consortium. The Company has received numerous awards and citations from leading software magazines and publications around the world. They include being selected as one of the Top 100 Technology companies in the world by Red Herring magazine in its September 1998 issue and being named Editors Choice by PC Magazine.

About Yui Kee

Yui Kee Co. Ltd. is the Data Fellows Certified Anti-virus Centre and Data Fellows business partner for Hong Kong, Macau and China and provides local technical support and consultancy on security matters.

For further information, please contact

Hong Kong:
Yui Kee Co. Ltd.
Mr. Allan Dyer, Technical Director
Tel: +852 28708555
Fax: +852 28736164

or visit the Yui Kee web site at http://www.yuikee.com.hk/

USA:
Data Fellows,
Dan Takata, Technical Support Engineer
675 North First Street, 8th floor,
San Jose, CA 95112;
tel 408-938-6700; fax 408-938-6701;

http://www.f-secure.com or info@f-secure.com.

Note to Editors: Further information is available on our web site http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/bo2k.shtml

An illustration of BO2K will be available (when the program has been released) at http://www.f-secure.com/virus-info/v-pics/