F-Secure Corporation (formerly Data Fellows) is an anti-virus and computer security software company based in Helsinki, Finland. The company has branch offices in the US and Malaysia, where antivirus analysis and software development work is ongoing. F-Secure Corp. is publicly traded on the Helsinki Stock Exchange under the symbol FSC1V.
F-Secure claims that it was the first antivirus vendor to establish a presence on the World Wide Web. The F-Se...
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F-Secure Corporation (formerly Data Fellows) is an anti-virus and computer security software company based in Helsinki, Finland. The company has branch offices in the US and Malaysia, where antivirus analysis and software development work is ongoing. F-Secure Corp. is publicly traded on the Helsinki Stock Exchange under the symbol FSC1V.
F-Secure claims that it was the first antivirus vendor to establish a presence on the World Wide Web. The F-Secure Labs weblog tracks global internet and mobile security threats.
F-Secure was first established under the name Data Fellows by Petri Allas and Risto Siilasmaa in 1988. Data Fellows trained computer users and built customized databases. Three years later, the company launched its first major software project and developed the first heuristic scanner for antivirus products. F-Secure’ first antivirus product for Windows PCs was launched in 1994. Data Fellows became F-Secure in 1999.
In July 2009, F-Secure purchased Steek, a French company...
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