Novell Net Services Software Protects Businesses From Virus Attacks

• Novell's ZENworks for Desktops and NDS eDirectory enable businesses to dramatically speed the delivery of critical anti-virus software to company workstations
• Provides strong line of defense against virus attacks for companies like Capital Region Healthcare and PacifiCorp

PROVO, UT -- Nov. 29, 2000 -- Novell, Inc., the leading provider of Net services software, provides customers a strong line of defense against malicious computer viruses that will cost businesses billions of dollars in damage this year alone. Using Novell's ZENworks™ for Desktops and NDS® eDirectory™, companies protect their networks from serious risk by eliminating the days or even weeks often required to install the latest anti-virus software updates across company workstations. Instead, those updates are distributed from a single location and installed immediately — dramatically reducing the risk of damage caused by virus attacks while lowering administration costs.

According to Computer Economics, a California-based research company, computer virus attacks will account for more than $17 billion in damages by the end of the year 2000. Many companies are now using the software distribution capabilities of directory-based, cross-platform ZENworks for Desktops to stay ahead of those attacks. Using ZENworks for Desktops, anti-virus software — as well as many other applications — can be distributed quickly and cost effectively to every company workstation from a single location, thus eliminating the need for administrators to visit each workstation individually. continued...

For details on actual ZENworks implementations by users, see www.novell.com/coolsolutions/zenworks/trenches_index.html