Panda Software’s Most Advanced Product Line Debuts with 2005 Antivirus and

Security Solutions for Home Users, Small Businesses and Professionals

2005 Product Line Incorporates Panda’s new TruPrevent Technologies, the

most intelligent technologies designed to combat unknown viruses and

intruders, to fight unknown viruses and Instant Threats.

Glendale, CA - November 5, 2004 - Panda Software today launches in the

United States its 2005 security solutions for home, small businesses and

professionals. Titanium Antivirus 2005, Platinum Internet Security 2005 and

TruPrevent Personal 2005 have been designed to provide protection against

all kinds of Internet threats, including unknown viruses and intruders.

As Internet threats begin to spread faster and faster, users and antivirus

companies also need to react with increasing speed to prevent epidemics.

Worms like Sasser, Mydoom, Blaster or SQLSlammer succeeded by infecting

thousands of computers in just a few minutes, showing how new attacks can

propagate faster than any human reaction to the problem. The problem is

aggravated by an increasing tendency of malicious code to exploit other

techniques such as security flaws, buffer overflows, etc. To solve this

problem, security systems need to be able to preempt the problem and detect

and block threats before they enter or leave the computer.

Panda Software has been working for several years in this direction and the

result of this development effort are the new and revolutionary TruPrevent

Technologies, which represent a radical change in approach to combating

Internet threats, as the traditional concept of reacting once a virus has

emerged is replaced with intelligent technologies for preventing the attack

before it strikes, pre-empting the problem. This means they can block new

generation viruses such as Sasser or Mydoom that infected thousands of

computers extremely rapidly.

TruPrevent Technologies represent a landmark for the antivirus market. The

powerful protection against viruses and intruders offered by Panda

Software’s products is now enhanced by the capacity to neutralize attacks

from unknown viruses and intruders, thanks to the incorporation of

TruPrevent, the intelligent preventive protection technologies. The end

result is simply greater security for all users.

TruPrevent Technologies far exceed the capabilities of traditional

antivirus heuristic scanning. This technique can detect some new viruses by

applying simple comparative rules to the static code of the scanned files.

TruPrevent Technologies however, analyze the behavior of processes or

programs as they run. This means that detection is not based on signs of

infection, but on the correlation of a series of actions carried out by the

process as soon as it starts running in memory. This provides greater

reliability, as well as the capacity for the technologies to take decisions

automatically. So once a process has been classified as dangerous to the

integrity of the system, TruPrevent Technologies can, for example, prevent

the process from communicating with the outside or stop it from running,

therefore preventing the virus from spreading.

According to Pedro Bustamante, Chief Marketing Officer at Panda Software:

”TruPrevent Technologies are a genuine answer to the need for greater

security against new Internet threats that are too fast spreading for a

human response to be effective. This has been demonstrated with the new and

dangerous Bagle.BC and Mydoom.N worms which were blocked by TruPrevent

Technologies before they could take any malicious action. These

technologies hail a new era for IT security.”

Titanium Antivirus 2005 and Platinum Internet Security 2005 incorporate the

most advanced technologies to protect computers against all kinds of

Internet threats. They also include the new TruPrevent Technologies.

TruPrevent Personal 2005 is a solution designed for users with any

manufacturers’, other than Panda Software, antivirus products installed who

want a second line of defense like that provided by the TruPrevent

Technologies, making it the essential complement to any antivirus

protection.

PLATINUM INTERNET SECURITY 2005

Based on the most advanced technologies, Platinum Internet Security 2005

protects the Internet connections of small businesses and professionals

from viruses, worms, Trojans, hackers, spyware, spam and dialers and thanks

to TruPrevent Technologies, it can also detect unknown viruses and

intruders.

Platinum Internet Security 2005 automatically scans inbound and outbound

email, file downloads and web pages visited. Its Ultrafast scan engine

exhaustively scans information with a minimal drain on system resources.

This is complemented by SmartClean2 technology to repair the damage

inflicted by virus attacks.

Thanks to its latest generation personal firewall, Platinum Internet

Security 2005 keeps out hackers and the malicious programs they use,

turning computers into a fortress against all IT threats.

Platinum Internet Security 2005 protects user privacy with its anti-spyware

technology, blocking programs that snoop on users’ Internet habits in order

to target them with spam or even steal confidential data. What’s more, it

neutralizes dialers, programs which redirect modem connections to premium

rate toll numbers without the user’s permission. In addition, its effective

anti-spam system will automatically block incoming junk mail, and its web

content filter stops users from accessing inappropriate or time-wasting

content online.

TITANIUM ANTIVIRUS 2005

Titanium Antivirus 2005 offers the highest levels of protection against

Internet threats without straying from its philosophy of “install and

forget”. The new Titanium Antivirus 2005 not only automatically eliminates

all types of viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware, dialers, hacking tools, and

jokes, but also blocks unknown viruses and intruders thanks to TruPrevent

Technologies. What’s more, its innovative firewall technology allows the

new Titanium Antivirus 2005 to automatically block hacker attacks.

Titanium Antivirus 2005 protects inbound and outbound email, file downloads

and web pages visited without the user noticing its presence, and like

Platinum Internet Security 2005, it includes the Ultrafast engine, offering

exceptional performance and SmartClean2 technology to repair the damage

inflicted by malicious code.

TRUPREVENT PERSONAL 2005

TruPrevent Personal 2005 is aimed at all users with antivirus products

developed by any company other than Panda Software, as it is compatible

with the most widely used products on the market. For this reason, users

don’t need to change their antivirus to benefit from TruPrevent

Technologies.

TruPrevent Personal 2005 protects computers transparently with minimal use

of system resources. To keep the up-to-date with the latest intrusion

technologies and increase its efficiency, TruPrevent Personal 2005

automatically updates its engine when the computer connects to the

Internet, without requiring user intervention.

Titanium Antivirus 2005, Platinum Internet Security 2005 and TruPrevent

Personal 2005 update at least once a day, so they are always ready to face

new threats. This process is completed automatically while users are

connected to the Internet.

Panda Software’s new products include 24h-365d Tech Support via e-mail and

web, as well as 24h SOS Virus to analyze suspicious programs.

TruPrevent Technologies and 2005 usher in in the new age of security with

Panda Software products. The combination of traditional security systems

and antivirus protection with the new TruPrevent Technologies has created a

new benchmark in levels of security against the constant increase in

Internet threats, including unknown viruses and intruders. Just like a good

detective, the TruPrevent Technologies incorporated in the new products

analyze suspicious behavior in programs and automatically block them

intelligently with no need for human intervention and without having to ask

users any questions.

Titanium Antivirus 2005, Platinum Internet Security 2005 and TruPrevent

Personal 2005 include the following TruPrevent Technologies:

▪ Behavior-based virus detection. Detection and blocking of unknown

worms and Trojans on the basis of analyzing the behavior of processes

executed on the computer. This involves monitoring any processes that

are launched, and blocking them if they are dangerous. This technology

makes it possible to stop infections like those caused by malware such

as Bugbear, Nimda, Klez, SirCam, or LoveLetter, even if these have not

previously been identified.

▪ Malicious network packet detector. This technology is able to detect

and block packets with malicious content whenever they attempt to

enter or leave a network computer. It also protects services against

attempts to exploit vulnerabilities, acting as a complement to other

technologies. This would have prevented epidemics such as those caused

by SQLSlammer, Code Red or Sasser.

▪ Buffer overflow protection. These vulnerabilities are now common in

many applications and they are one of the most widely-used ways of

launching attacks against IT systems. Such attacks are based on over-

running part of the memory used by the application with more data than

it can hold. So once attackers know the quantity of data needed to

overflow the buffer, they overrun the memory with executable code

containing the attack code. TruPrevent Technologies protect against

this kind of vulnerability.

▪ Definition of security policies. These are applied to the programs

running on the computer and block access to certain resources.

PRICES AND AVAILABILITY

Titanium Antivirus 2005 and Platinum Internet Security 2005 are sold in DVD

box format with six months’ services for $29.95 and $49.95, and in standard

box format with one year’s services for $49.95 and $79.95 -respectively-.

Platinum Internet Security 2005 and Titanium Antivirus 2005 are also

available in license ranges with one year’s services for $39.95 and $55.95,

respectively. Both solutions are also available on Panda Software’s Online

Store at http://www.pandasoftware.com/store.

TruPrevent Personal 2005 can also be purchased online, at

http://www.pandasoftware.com/store, for $29.95 with one years’ services.

ABOUT PANDA SOFTWARE

Panda Software is one of the world’s leading developers of IT security

solutions, with offices in more than 50 countries. It is an established

pacesetter for the sector in innovation and expansion and is unequalled in

terms of satisfying customers’ needs for the most advanced technologies,

products and services to keep IT resources free from viruses and other

threats at the lowest possible Total Cost of Ownership. The company’s

unique TruPrevent Technologies, the most intelligent technologies to combat

unknown viruses and intruders, offer unrivalled preventive protection for

all types of clients: from the largest corporations through small and

medium-sized companies to home users.

For more information and evaluation versions of all Panda Software

solutions, visit our website at: http://www.pandasoftware.com/

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Alan Wallace