Product News:
Introducing the StandGuard Premier Customer Program - Save 50%
Traditionally a vendor might require a customer to purchase a whole suite of products to benefit from incentive or discount promotions; but not Bytware. Bucking the trend, Bytware has developed the StandGuard Premier Customer program. Read more and find out how you can save 50% on StandGuard!

Product News:
StandGuard Anti-Virus Nominated for Search400 Security Product of the Year Award
The Award, which will be handed out in January of 2004, honors the product that is deemed to be the most innovative in the iSeries security marketplace, and that represents a technological advancement for the platform.

Industry News:
Lennie Broich joins the Bytware Team!
Bytware is pleased to announce that, after 39 years with IBM, Lennie Broich has joined our team! Lennie’s breadth of iSeries knowledge and experience will be a great asset to Bytware and will greatly benefit our customers.

Company News:
Bytware Website featured in the News
The Reno Gazette Journal recently featured the Bytware website in their “Sites.Comment” column, a special part of their Business section. The review referred to the site as “well-designed” and a perfect match for the company and technical needs of the audience. If you don’t use our site on a regular basis, we invite you to explore. Filled with current industry news, the latest updates to our software, tech tips, and a whole lot more, the Bytware website is always open to provide you with the best in product support and information. Read the Reno Gazette-Journal Review

Survivor Bytware:
Gifted Data Thief Holds Off Late Rally
Thank you to everyone who voted in our Survivor: Bytware contest. Michael, our ad from January 2003, was voted “favorite ad” and will appear in the December issues of iSeries NEWS and eServer magazines. Check out the full results as see how all of the voting played out…

Virus Alert:
QHost-1 Trojan changes DNS settings, exploits IE
(SearchSecurity)-New details have emerged about a mysterious Trojan that has been changing domain name server settings on systems since yesterday [10/1/03]. Dubbed QHost-1 by antivirus software vendors, the Trojan changes DNS settings and renders some network-dependent services such as e-mail and Web surfing unavailable for corporate users.

Tech Tip:
Did you know there is a Swap Profile feature in StandGuard?
The Swap Profile feature allows an administrator to decrease or increase a user’s authority for a specific function. Find out how it works. (Requires a valid Bytware Messenger support ID and password.)

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RENO, Nevada—Bytware, Inc., developer of StandGuard Anti-Virus, the first and only native anti-virus solution for the iSeries, announced that the product has been nominated for the Tech Target Search400 Product of the Year Award in the Security category. The Award, which will be handed out in January of 2004, honors the product that is deemed to be the most innovative in the iSeries security marketplace, and that represents a technological advancement for the platform. To be considered for the award, nominated products must be introduced between September 30, 2002 and October 1, 2003.

Announced on June 22, 2003, StandGuard Anti-Virus is the first AV solution to run natively on the iSeries’ OS/400. Powered by McAfee’s industry-leading scanning engine, StandGuard Anti-Virus provides protection from viruses in the IFS that can be passed on to servers and client PCs. StandGuard Anti-Virus’s mail scanning capabilities also provide the first ever protection for OS/400 mail. Designed to meet the demands of and risks to an evolving business world, StandGuard Anti-Virus brings a much needed tool to the iSeries.

For more information about StandGuard Anti-Virus, please visit http://www.bytware.com/products/av/ or call 775-851-2900.

RENO, Nevada—Bytware, Inc., announces that with the increasing popularity of SMS/GSM notification devices, specifically in North America, and with the recent announcement that AT&T is moving from TAP to SMS/GSM standards, Bytware’s Messenger products support of this emerging protocol has been enhanced.Bytware’s Messenger products now support SMS (Short Message Service) paging, using the GSM (Global System Mobile Communication) protocol. This service will not require a paging company and will allow the user to connect a cell phone (or other GSM device) directly to the AS/400 to use as a modem. You will then be able to send text messages directly to other cell phones and pagers, as well as reply to messages sent using the GSM protocol. The receiving device does not need to be GSM.

This enhancement to MessengerPlus and MessengerConsole 5.56 provides support for using a GSM mobile phone as a modem. Using a GSM modem provides the following advantages:

• SMS messages can be sent directly without the use of a TAP or e-mail gateway.
• System messages can be answered by replying to the SMS messages.
• SMS messages can be sent to any other phone, or pager in the world without the need for multiple gateways. Even if the receiving device is not GSM, we have been able to send messages to multiple carriers and devices without knowing anything more than the device’s mobile number/phone number.
• A cellular phone provides improved tolerance to power failures and phone line problems. Since GSM cellular modems send their information wirelessly, modem-to-modem incompatibility issues are eliminated.

Bytware offers a suite of monitoring and notification products tailored to managing events across single, multiple, and partitioned iSeries systems. The Messenger product suite includes MessengerConsole and MessengerPlus. Learn more about our monitoring, paging, and consoling solutions.