“Network Associates’ Award-winning McAfee VirusScan Engine
Protects Linux-based E-business Applications, Internet Appliances
and Managed Service Offerings from Virus and Malicious Code
Outbreaks”
“Network Associates, Inc…. today announced the industry’s
first solution to enable third party developers and service
providers to easily embed the market-leading McAfee VirusScan
engine into Linux-based e-business applications, Internet
appliances, and managed service offerings. The new McAfee Virus
Interface for Protective Early Response (VIPER) for Linux is a
software development toolkit that creates high-performance
anti-virus solutions for demanding e-business applications, such as
scanning Internet e-mail traffic, and Web server downloads for
malicious code. In the first half of 1999 alone, virus outbreaks
caused e-businesses and end-users more than $7.6 billion in damage
according to a recent report by research firm Computer
Economics.”
“With the introduction of the McAfee VIPER for Linux toolkit,
Network Associates continues its product leadership in making
anti-virus protection part of the Internet infrastructure. Network
Associates is the first and only anti-virus provider to allow Linux
solution providers, and third-party and corporate developers to
increase the security of their e-business offerings by embedding
the industry’s leading virus protection directly into their
applications, appliances and managed service offerings.”