San Francisco, CA (PRWeb) February 6, 2007 -- OPSWAT (www.opswat.com) today announced a partnership, whereby OPSWAT now includes the Norman Virus Control as a built-in scan engine for the OPSWAT Metascan solution.
Metascan is an advanced engine for launching antivirus applications, analyzing data streams in real time, and increasing the speed of file scanning. Metascan supports using one or more antivirus applications at the same time.
Metascan is ideal for technology vendors, systems integrators and in-house developers developing solutions designed to prevent harmful files from entering networks using pre-installed antivirus applications.
Metascan features built-in antivirus scan engines from Norman, CA and ClamWin plus support for dozens of other antivirus applications.
Other important features of Metascan include:
- integrated RAM Drive to protect confidential data in event of re-boot during scan
- ability to queue content and scan with multiple antivirus applications in parallel using
- asynchronous integration
- ability to schedule updates of both antivirus application and signature files
- ability to scan both files and streams
"We're pleased to provide Metascan customers with built-in antivirus scan engines from Norman, and others," said Tom Mullen, OPSWAT's Director of Business Development.
"Multiple built-in scan engines provide our customers with the opportunity to easily enhance security by scanning with multiple antivirus applications in parallel."
The Norman Virus Control engine with Norman SandBox proactive solution is regarded as one of the best solutions in the market, to prevent infections from new and unknown malware. With more than 50,000 new "viruses" coming out in 2006, being proactive is the only way to protect your company against infections.
"As a dominant and market leader in endpoint security with far more than 10 million users world wide, we are very cautious about who we partner with," said Arvid Gomez, VP OEM and Technology Sales at Norman. "OPSWAT fits the bill in terms of quality and commitment to technical excellence."
About OPSWAT
OPSWAT, Inc. (www.opswat.com) is a leading provider of endpoint security integration technologies and data services. OPSWAT customers include networking and security technology companies, system integrators and corporations developing solutions to detect, assess, manage and remediate security features of antivirus, anti-spyware, antiphishing, anti-spam, personal firewall, browser, instant messaging and VPN client applications. Founded in 2002, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Herzliya, Israel.
About Norman
Norman ASA is one of the leading companies in the field of data security and develops and sells virus control, personal firewall, parental control and protection against spam and spyware. Through its Norman SandBox technology, Norman leads the way in the world
of proactive antivirus solutions.
