RENO, Nevada—Bytware, Inc., developer of the award-winning StandGuard Anti-Virus solution for OS/400 and i5/OS, announced today that the application has moved to version 5.31. This move officially marks the launch of the Object Integrity Scanning feature that the company announced last November. StandGuard Anti-Virus 5.31 with OIS is available immediately. Object Integrity Scanning (OIS) gives StandGuard Anti-Virus the ability to alert iSeries managers to changes made to IBM’s digital signatures by patched programs. Many applications modify the operating system in order to achieve functionality not available on a given release of the OS. Regardless of whether a “patched” program does something good or something bad, such programs can create potential problems for the integrity of the operating system.

Building upon object integrity and digital signature APIs that IBM has included in OS/400 since V5R1, OIS provides an easy way to identify patched programs and modifications to the operating system, allowing managers to decide what action — if any — they should take. In addition to being key to a healthy iSeries, awareness of modifications to the system is an important aspect of compliance with new regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley.

Version 5.31 also incorporates various enhancements that have been made to StandGuard Anti-Virus since the release of version 5.30 in June of 2004.

StandGuard Anti-Virus is the award-winning native virus scanner for OS/400 and i5/OS. Designed specifically for the iSeries and powered by McAfee’s industry leading scanning engine, StandGuard Anti-Virus provides the power to ensure total coverage of computer networks to protect against viruses, Trojans, and malicious code and programs, even finding viruses that PC-based solutions simply cannot.

For more information on StandGuard Anti-Virus and OIS, visit
http://www.bytware.com/products/av/ or contact Bytware Sales at 775.851.2900.

RENO, Nevada—Bytware, Inc., developer of the award-winning StandGuard Anti-Virus solution for OS/400 and i5/OS, announced today the addition of a new “Object Integrity Scanning” feature to the native iSeries scanner. Object Integrity Scanning (OIS) gives StandGuard Anti-Virus the ability to alert iSeries managers to changes made to IBM’s digital signatures by patched programs. Many applications modify the operating system in order to achieve functionality not available on a given release of the OS. Regardless of whether a “patched” program does something good or something bad, such programs can create potential problems for the integrity of the operating system.

As a recent IT Jungle article by Alex Woodie points out, “running patched programs presents risks. The potential negative effects of running patched programs range from being merely a nuisance to posing a real security problem.” In some cases patched programs can even create security exposures.

Building upon object integrity and digital signature APIs that IBM has included in OS/400 since V5R1, OIS provides an easy way to identify patched programs and modifications to the operating system, allowing managers to decide what action — if any — they should take. In addition to being key to a healthy iSeries, awareness of modifications to the system is an important aspect of compliance with new regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley.

OIS will become available on December 1, 2004, and will initially be available only on V5R3. Versions for V5R2 and V5R1 will be released at a later date. OIS is an added feature to StandGuard Anti-Virus. There is no additional charge for the tool. Current users of StandGuard Anti-Virus V5R3M0 will receive the tool through the program’s automatic update feature, and shipments of StandGuard Anti-Virus V5R3M0 after December 1 will include the tool.

StandGuard Anti-Virus is the award-winning native virus scanner for OS/400 and i5/OS. Designed specifically for the iSeries and powered by McAfee’s industry leading scanning engine, StandGuard Anti-Virus provides the power to ensure total coverage of computer networks to protect against viruses, Trojans, and malicious code and programs.

For more information on StandGuard Anti-Virus and OIS, visit http://www.bytware.com/products/av/ or contact Bytware Sales at 775.851.2900.

RENO, Nevada—Has an important file ever been deleted from your system? It’s happened to us all, whether deleted by accident, by a virus, or by a disgruntled employee. Such files at best require time-consuming restoration from backup and at worst are gone forever. That no longer has to be the case, however, with the newest solution from Bytware, Inc., StandGuard Recycle Bin. Designed specifically for the iSeries, StandGuard Recycle Bin protects your data from accidental or intentional deletion using a holding area—or “recycle bin”—much like that found on Windows systems. Unlike the Windows version, however, StandGuard Recycle Bin protects files on all mapped drives. Files that once would have been considered lost can now be easily restored from your own recycle bin right in OS/400 and i5/OS.

StandGuard Recycle Bin will save you money by eliminating the need to pull out backups and restore lost files in the traditional way. The nearly instantaneous process means that files can be restored as quickly as they can be deleted. Plus, StandGuard Recycle Bin protects files created throughout the day for on-the-fly restoration, something that traditional backups just can’t do.

Like anti-virus software, StandGuard Recycle Bin is one of those inexpensive forms of insurance that helps you avoid much more costly problems. At just $995 per copy it represents a revolutionary price breakthrough in the iSeries industry. And as if the price tag weren’t nice already, you also get the first year of support for free. Cool tool. Sweet deal.

Plus, there’s a special offer. To celebrate the launch of this great new file protection solution, Bytware is giving one copy of StandGuard Recycle Bin to each of the first 25 customers absolutely free—including one year of free support.

For more details visit http://www.bytware.com/products/rb/ or contact Bytware at 775.851.2900.