Untangle Pits Open Source Against Proprietary in Anti-Virus Fight Club

Business Wire, July 24, 2007

Issues Call for Viruses to Assess Effectiveness of Popular Anti-Virus Tools

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Untangle, the pioneer in open source network gateway platforms, today announced the "Untangle AV Fight Club." It will take place August 8 at the LinuxWorld Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Testing labs have not publicized test results of open source projects like ClamAV. This may not be surprising given that these labs are funded by proprietary vendors. With the testing system as is, open source solutions aren't even in the game. This isn't right.

The Untangle AV Fight Club will be a live, public test, pitting open source against proprietary. ClamAV, SonicWALL, and other products will be evaluated on several criteria, including virus identification and resource expenditure.

Untangle has issued a call to the community to submit viruses for the test. To submit viruses, visit http://www.untangle.com/fightclub. Submissions will also be accepted at the live event.

"We designed this test to objectively evaluate several popular anti-virus tools with the goal of fostering best practices," said Dirk Morris, Founder and CTO of Untangle. "We think that open source solutions are at least as good as proprietary tools, and we thought a public and transparent apples-to-apples challenge was the best, and most fun, way to find out."

About Untangle

Untangle was founded with the vision of untangling the complexities of technology, initially targeting network security and control for SMBs. The company follows Open Source development practices to create better code and make it widely available. The Untangle Gateway Platform, the world's first commercial-grade open source solution for blocking spam, spyware, viruses, adware and unwanted content on the network, provides a free and better alternative to costly, inflexible proprietary appliances. Untangle's applications are currently being used in hundreds of businesses in a variety of industries, including financial services, real estate, education, bio-science, and professional services. Untangle is located in San Mateo, California. For more information, visit www.untangle.com or call (866) 233-2296.