MSN Picks Trend Micro for Hotmail Antivirus Scanning

Trend Micro, Inc. (www.trendmicro.com) announced an agreement with MSN to provide antivirus scanning and cleaning protection for the MSN Hotmail Web-based service's 187 million email accounts with Trend Micro's award-winning technology. 

"MSN is focused on providing a safer online experience for consumers, and we continue to make investments in this area. We're pleased to work with Trend Micro, with its deep antivirus expertise, to expand the email protection of our Hotmail customers," said Phil Holden, director of MSN Communication Services at Microsoft Corp.

Customers of Microsoft's web-based email service will receive automatic protection anytime they send and receive email attachments via Trend Micro's scanning and detection services for a safer Internet experience.

Trend Micro's antivirus technology will help protect MSN Hotmail email attachments by scanning in real-time for the latest viruses, Trojans, and worms.    

"Our relationship with MSN Hotmail gives Trend Micro a tremendous opportunity to help protect millions of users with the same virus protection that we have been providing to our customers around the world for many years," said Steve Chang, chairman and founder of Trend Micro.

Due to the increased availability of broadband, wireless, and residential gateway technologies being adopted by many consumers, Trend Micro recently introduced the latest enhanced version of its premier desktop antivirus and content security solution, Trend Micro PC-cillin™ Internet Security 2005, which was quickly named CNET's "Editors' Choice" (November 2004) for its comprehensive security against Internet-based threats such as viruses, spam, spyware, hackers and phishing scams. 

Since 1997, Trend Micro has offered Housecall™, an online antivirus scanning service, to help protect Internet users' PCs with the latest antivirus solutions provided directly by TrendLabs, Trend Micro's global antivirus research and support organization, which offers 24x7 response to the latest virus threats, and some of the fastest response times in the industry.