“McAfee, a Network Associates, Inc. (Nasdaq: NETA) business,
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 either Sun Solaris-based or
Linux-based e-business applications, Internet appliances and
managed service offerings. The new McAfee VIPER (Virus Interface
for Protective Early Response) for Solaris and Linux are software
development toolkits that create high-performance anti-virus
solutions for demanding e-business applications, such as scanning
Internet e-mail traffic, and Web server downloads for viruses and
malicious code including the “Zombie” code which caused recent
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. According to research
firm Computer Economics, virus outbreaks cost e-businesses and end
users more than $12.1 billion worldwide in 1999 alone. In addition,
the Yankee Group estimates that the recent DDoS attacks on major
e-commerce sites caused approximately $1.2 billion in
losses….”
“With the introduction of the McAfee VIPER for Solaris and
Linux toolkits, McAfee continues its product leadership in making
anti-virus protection part of the Internet infrastructure.
McAfee is the first and only anti-virus provider to allow Solaris
and 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.”