West Coast Labs Grants Checkmark Platinum Product Award to Prevx 3.0 for Completing Real-Time Testing Program

Certification Signals Dawn of the Fast, Light and Interoperable AV

DERBY, England, February 25, 2010 - Internet and PC security specialist Prevx has today announced it has
received the Platinum Product Award for participation of its Prevx 3.0
anti-malware solution in the West Coast Labs Real-Time Testing program and
Checkmark Certification program. Prevx 3.0 is the first solution capable of
combining faster scanning, a super-light footprint and full interoperability
with other anti-malware products to receive this award. Following completion
of these two programmes, West Coast Labs awarded Prevx 3.0 its Platinum
Product Award, including Anti-Virus Desktop, Anti-Trojan, Anti-Spyware,
Anti-Malware and Anti-Malware Dynamic certifications. Prevx 3.0 has passed
all the appropriate certification criteria. This includes Anti-Malware
Dynamic certification, which is constructed to validate products using
real-world methodologies that meet the modern day demands for anti-malware
testing. The solution is also enrolled in West Coast Labs' Real-Time Testing
program, where it is a consistently high performer.

The Platinum Product Award was gained after Prevx 3.0 completed the
Checkmark Certification program and engaged in the Real-Time Testing program.
West Coast Labs pointed to Prevx's thorough malware tracking system as
another key reason for its recent accreditation. Lysa Myers, director of
research, West Coast Labs, said: "Traditionally, when defences are used
alongside each other, they eat into CPU, cause PCs to crash and ultimately
inhibit effective malware security. With the increasing sophistication of
cyber crime, innovation in anti-malware is vital. Prevx 3.0's solution
identified and remediated infections effectively."

Mel Morris, CEO at Prevx, added: "The predictability of conventional
malware research and signature-based technologies has given cyber criminals
the upper hand, resulting in increased security breaches and longer periods
of exposure to infection for both consumers and business. Our inverted
architecture, leveraging cloud-based AV with community wide, automated
real-time threat analysis provides proven speed of detection and scalability,
which significantly helps to combat today's more targeted and persistent
threats. The size, speed and range of capabilities offered by our Prevx 3.0
agent technology and its demonstrable interoperability with other mainstream
security solutions is unmatched. The West Coast Labs Checkmark Platinum
Product Award of Prevx 3.0 underlines the merit of our unconventional
approach to addressing the modern-day malware problem. We are extremely
honoured to have received such a high accolade from a worldwide leader in
anti-malware testing."

About Prevx

Prevx specializes in internet and PC security leveraging the world's
largest cloud-based threat database with knowledge of more than 140 million
software applications and 20 million known malicious objects, supported by
the most powerful automated malware research operation. We target the
multiple faces of e-crime by helping customers boost malware defences with a
layered security solution that is based on a real-time and sustainable
anti-malware model for detecting and removing security threats. Based in
Derby, UK, the company was founded in 2001 as Immunify and rebranded as Prevx
in 2005. For more information, please visit our website:
www.prevx.com.

About West Coast Labs Checkmark Certification

Checkmark is one of the world's leading certification systems for
information security products and services. This highly regarded
accreditation program provides a level of assurance across a wide range of
technologies that products and services perform to industry accepted
standards.

About West Coast Labs Real Time Testing Program

The Real Time Testing program builds upon Checkmark Certification program
with the belief that effective independent performance validation of content
security technologies should occur as an actual business experience in
real-world environments. West Coast Labs now delivers sophisticated, live
testing and real-time product performance through its 24×7x365 Real Time
Testing program. Products are tested continuously against content security
threats collected through West Coast Labs' global network in real time to
provide the ultimate in performance validation. Upon completion of the
Checkmark Certification program and Real Time Testing program, products are
recognized with a Platinum Product Award indicating its ability to meet
superior levels of performance standards.

About West Coast Labs

Part of the Haymarket Media Group, West Coast Labs is a global leader in
technical research, testing and the Checkmark Certification of information
security products and services. With market-leading technology and testing
facilities accredited to ISO17025 in the UK, USA and India, West Coast Labs'
services and the Checkmark Certification System are being used by the leading
global brands to create market advantage and by large business enterprises
for obtaining crucial technical insight into product performance.

    For further information, please contact:
    Spark Communications for Prevx
    T: +44(0)20-7436-0420
    E : Satyen@sparkcomms.co.uk / lorna@sparkcomms.co.uk

For further information, please contact: Spark Communications for Prevx, T: +44(0)20-7436-0420, E : Satyen at sparkcomms.co.uk / lorna at sparkcomms.co.uk