Tech Shout!

Today, CA, one of the world’s largest information technology management software companies, announced that it is delivering a virus and spyware protection for its consumer as well as corporate customers who are using the new Windows Vista operating system. The new Antivirus software includes CA Threat Manager, CA Anti-Virus and CA Anti-Spyware for Windows Vista.

CA Threat Manager, CA Anti-Virus and CA Anti-Spyware for Windows Vista have been in beta release since June 2006 and have also been used by Microsoft in its enterprise environment to help safeguard Windows Vista resources.

“CA has been a great Windows Vista partner and we are pleased to have their solutions available to our customers for Windows Vista,” said Ben Fathi, corporate vice president, Security Technology Unit at Microsoft Corp. “Partners play a vital role in helping secure the computing ecosystem and CA has developed innovative solutions with their Threat Manager, Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware products that work with the Windows Vista platform to help protect that ecosystem.”

CA’s enterprise solutions namely CA Threat Manager, CA Anti-Virus and CA Anti-Spyware will be available to corporate customers in nine languages. Existing corporate customers with current maintenance agreements will be able to upgrade to Windows Vista-supported versions of CA Threat Manager, CA Anti-Virus and CA Anti-Spyware at no cost, since CA does not license the solutions by platform.

Current home and home office users of CA security software-including CA Internet Security Suite, CA Anti-Virus, CA Anti-Spyware, CA Anti-Spam and CA Personal Firewall will also be able to upgrade to Windows Vista-supported versions of those products for free.