Trend Micro Network Antivirus Products Declared Solution of the Year by InfoWorld.

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 18, 1999--

Solution's "All Around Strength" Cited as Reason for Beating Out

Competitors Including Symantec and Claiming Title of Year's Best

Trend Micro Inc., the leader in centrally managed virus protection and content filtering products and services, today announced that its network server antivirus solution was declared "Solution of the Year" by InfoWorld Magazine (http://www.infoworld.com).

This latest accolade further establishes Trend Micro as the premier provider of "best of breed" enterprise anti-virus and malicious code solutions.

In a two-part comparative review of Network Server Antivirus Solutions Oct. 12 and Aug. 10, 1998, Trend's solution bested product offerings from Computer Associates (NYSE:CA), Data Fellows, Dr. Solomon's, Intel (Nasdaq:INTC), and Symantec (NYSE:SYMC). Network Associates (Nasdaq:NETA) -- which acquired Dr. Solomon's in 1998 -- declined to participate in the review.

InfoWorld "Product of the Year Awards" editors concluded that, "Comments from analysts and editors in that Comparison leave no doubt about the excellence of the winning solution: 'The Trend Micro solution really did it all: It was flawless on virus detection, very easy to administer, and had the second-lowest Projected Basic Ownership Cost. The Trend Micro solution turned out to be virtually everything we wanted in an enterprise-level antivirus package. Trend Micro delivered an exceptional solution.'"

The reviewers noted that Trend Micro's solution received one of the highest scores the Test Center has ever awarded and they felt compelled to distinguish the product combination with a Test Center Hot Pick award, which they identified as a, "distinction reserved for products that truly bowl us over."

"With increasing Internet usage dramatically driving up the rate of virus infection in corporate America today, a reliable, integrated and manageable virus solution that reaches from server to desktop is an absolute necessity," said Eva Chen, CTO for Trend Micro. "This latest award confirms what our customers tell us all the time -- that Trend Micro's centrally-managed solutions are the most complete, scalable, high-performing, and easy-to-update virus protection on the market."

InfoWorld installed and tested Trend's complete solution for file/application server and desktop protection consisting of:

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File/Application Server Virus Protection:
ServerProtect(R) for NetWare, Version 3.52
ServerProtect for NT, Version 4.53

Corporate Desktop Virus Protection:
OfficeScan(TM) Corporate Edition, Version 3.0

Web-Based Central Management Console
Trend Virus Control System(TM), Version 1.12

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Trend Virus Control System, ServerProtect and OfficeScan Corporate Edition are part of Trend Micro's award-winning family of server-based virus and malicious code protection products designed to protect the Internet Gateway, mail and groupware servers (including Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange, among others), file and application servers, and corporate desktops.

Trend Micro also offers Internet e-mail content filtering tools as part of eManager(TM), which includes a "spam" filter designed to prevent junk e-mail from clogging the corporate network. eManager is being offered in conjunction with InterScan VirusWall(R) 3.0, Trend Micro's Internet gateway traffic scanning software.

The company also recently announced InterScan AppletTrap(TM), a policy-based, centrally managed tool that stops malicious Java applets and ActiveX objects at the Internet gateway. AppletTrap provides three tiers of protection: certificate analysis, known malicious code filtering and client-based behavior analysis. AppletTrap is installed on the server and analyzes the behavior of applets as they run on the desktop -- providing seamless protection without impacting server performance.

Evaluation copies of all of Trend Micro's products may be downloaded from its award-winning site, http://www.antivirus.com.

About Trend Micro

Trend Micro provides centrally controlled server-based virus and malicious code protection. By protecting information that flows through file servers, e-mail servers and Internet gateways, Trend Micro helps major companies worldwide stop viruses and malicious code from a central point before they ever reach the desktop.

Trend Micro's award-winning products have been chosen by Check Point Software Technologies, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lotus, Microsoft, Netscape, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and Wingra as a key part of their server security solutions.

Trend Micro is publicly held in Japan, with North American headquarters in Cupertino, and offices worldwide. Evaluation copies of all of Trend Micro's products may be downloaded from its award-winning site, http://www.antivirus.com. Web site visitors may also test-drive products online through Trend Micro's Virtual Lab.

Recent Trend Micro awards:

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--   1999 -- OfficeScan Corporate Edition: Recommended by SC Magazine
--   1998 -- Trend Micro's network anti-virus solution -- OfficeScan
     Corporate Edition, ServerProtect and Trend VCS -- declared a
     "Test Center Hot Pick," by InfoWorld
--   1998 -- OfficeScan for Microsoft Small Business Server:
     Recommended by Computer Reseller News/Spring COMDEX Test Center
--   1998 -- ServerProtect: Five Palm Award, Beverly Hills Software
--   1998 -- ScanMail for Lotus Notes: Gold Editors' Choice Security
     Award, Lotus Notes and Domino Advisor

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Note to Editors: InterScan VirusWall, ScanMail and ServerProtect are registered trademarks of Trend Micro Inc. AppletTrap, eManager, OfficeScan, Trend VCS and Virtual Lab are trademarks of Trend Micro Inc. Other product and company names may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.