For immediate release
July 10, 1999

Two leading computer magazines give high ratings for F-Secure products

Two leading computer magazines give high ratings for F-Secure products. F-Secure Anti-Virus won a demanding test of a German PC magazine

Espoo, Finland - F-Secure data security products from Data Fellows have again received recognition from leading trade magazines in the world. The Company's virus scanning and protection system F-Secure Anti-Virus won the anti-virus software test of a leading German magazine, PC Professionell. The new F-Secure Workstation Suite 4.0 got excellent ratings in the review done by Secure Computing magazine.

The German PC Professional magazine, which is a member of Ziff-Davis group, tested eleven anti-virus software products for its 07/1999 issue. The Editors Choice award was granted to F-Secure Anti-Virus 4.03 from Data Fellows. The product got the highest possible rankings both for virus protection abilities and for performance. The magazine praised F-Secure Anti-Virus's capability to use two integrated virus search engines. If one engine does not detect the virus, the other will. The review is available on the Web at http://www.zdnet.de/produkte/artikel/sw/199907/virenscanner02_00-wf.html

Secure Computing magazine, one of the most respected computer security magazines in the world, tested the new F-Secure Workstation Suite 4.0 from Data Fellows for its July 1999 issue. F-Secure Workstation Suite is the only product to combine world-class anti-virus protection with strong encryption for network traffic and files stored on the hard disk in an integrated fashion. Through F-Secure Framework, the three-tier security and management architecture, the network manager is able to define and manage the security policies of an entire organization from one centralized management console. Secure Computing magazine gives the F-Secure product the highest possible rating for features, ease of use, performance, documentation, and overall. According to the magazine, the major strength of F-Secure Workstation Suite is that its components are seamlessly integrated and that it provides centralized control of the network. The review used to be available on the Web at: http://www.westcoast.com/securecomputing/standalone/f-secure-ws/sc_f-secure_ws.html

About Data Fellows

Data Fellows is one of the worlds leading developers of data security products. The Company offers integrated solutions for enterprise security by developing, marketing and supporting 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 and best-known telecommunications companies, major international airlines, European governments, post offices and defence forces, and several of the worlds largest banks.

The Company has received numerous awards and citations each year from leading software magazines and publications around the world. They include being selected 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
e-mail: adyer@yuikee.com.hk

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

USA:
Data Fellows Corporation
675 N. First Street, 8th Floor
San Jose, CA 95112
tel (408) 938-6700; fax (408) 938-6701

Europe:
Data Fellows Corporation
Ari Hypponen, Vice President, Product Management.
PL 24
FIN-02231 ESPOO
tel: +358 9 8599 0511
fax: +358 9 8599 0599
e-mail: Ari.Hypponen@f-secure.com

http://www.f-secure.com/