BitDefender Challenges Linux Community with Crash and Win Contest for Beer and Blood; 1,000 Beers and a Trip to Romania to Meet Count Dracula and BitDefender Development Team Offered as Prize to Most Thorough Beta Tester.FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla. -- BitDefender(TM), an award-winning provider of antivirus software See antivirus program. (tool) antivirus software - Programs to detect and remove computer viruses. The simplest kind scans executable files and boot blocks for a list of known viruses. and data security solutions, is inviting Linux enthusiasts and professionals to crash test BitDefender Mail Protection for Enterprise Beta, the upcoming BitDefender antivirus and antispam solution for Linux e-mail servers See mail server. . The most thorough beta tester will receive 1,000 German beers and a trip to BitDefender's corporate headquarters in Romania, where they will attend meetings with Count Dracula Count Dracula is a fictional character, the titular antagonist of Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. Some aspects of the character may have been inspired by the 15th century Wallachian Prince, Vlad III the Impaler. , the BitDefender development team and other local luminaries. "BitDefender likes to prove that its data security solutions are the most powerful in the market," stated BitDefender Product Manager Alexandru Balan. "By allowing the best Linux enthusiasts in the world to put our new products through the most stringent tests, we are able to offer solutions that have been proven to withstand the worst possible circumstances. We look to forward to awarding the most thorough tester with a visit to Romania that they won't soon forget." Similar prizes will be offered by BitDefender to the first three runner-up contestants, with a special "BitDefender Crash Test Dummy
Crash test dummies are full-scale replicas of human beings, weighted and articulated to simulate the behavior of a human body, and instrumented to " prize and title awaiting the creator of the most original way to crash the product. A mailing list An automated e-mail system on the Internet, which is maintained by subject matter. There are thousands of such lists that reach millions of individuals and businesses. New users generally subscribe by sending an e-mail with the word "subscribe" in it and subsequently receive all new will be opened for testers to speak directly with BitDefender developers and in-house testers. Official rules, registration, the contest schedule and further information about BitDefender's "Crash and Win" Competition can be obtained online at: http://www.bitdefender.com/en/Main/view/Crashandwin-Competition.html About BitDefender(TM) BitDefender is a leading provider of security solutions that satisfy the protection requirements of today's computing environment. The company offers the industry's fastest and most effective line of anti-virus and email security defense, setting new standards for timely threat detection and for simple installation, use and updates. BitDefender delivers effective threat management for over 41 million home and corporate users in more than 100 countries. BitDefender is a division of SOFTWIN and is headquartered in Bucharest, Romania, with offices in Fort Lauderdale, Florida Fort Lauderdale, known as the "Venice of America" due to its expansive and intricate canal system, is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. The city's population is described as metropolitan, where diverse culture is commonplace. According to 2006 U.S. ; Tettnang, Germany; and Barcelona, Spain. Further information about BitDefender can be obtained by visiting: http://www.bitdefender.com/us. |
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