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Zone Labs Adds Anti-Virus To Firewall

Firewall vendor Zone Labs on Monday added anti-virus defenses to its security line to go head-to-head with consumer and small-business leaders Symantec and McAfee.

Anti-virus has been added to two new commercial packages, ZoneAlarm Security Suite and ZoneAlarm with Antivirus, said Fred Felman, Zone Labs' vice president of marketing.

This is Zone Labs' first effort in the anti-virus space, and comes from licensing Computer Associates' eTrust technology, which that company typically sells to small- and medium-sized businesses.

"We looked at various anti-virus technologies' industry ratings and their ability to stop viruses and clean machines," said Felman. "One thing that influenced us was Virus Bulletin's VB100 awards. And CA made us a great deal."

Virus Bulletin regularly evaluates anti-virus software against in-the-wild viruses and worms, and awards those technologies which stop all current malicious code.

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