Users of Blubster’s Popular Peer-to-Peer Program Will Receive the McAfee.com SecurityCenter as Well as Free Trials to the Company’s Four Security Services
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — McAfee.com (Nasdaq: MCAF – News), a leading provider of Web security services, today announced the launch of a special program to provide security services to the over 3 million users of Blubster, one of the world’s most popular peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. Through the program, Blubster users will be offered the McAfee.com SecurityCenter free of charge both during the installation process and through a special security “tab” directly accessible from the Blubster client and created especially to showcase McAfee.com services. Since its launch last year, Blubster has frequently appeared on Download.com’s list of Top 50 Most Popular Windows Titles, and is consistently signing up over 20,000 new users per week. The partnership with Blubster further expands McAfee.com’s presence in Europe and extends its reach into the Spanish-speaking Internet market.
“As a leading P2P file-sharing network provider for the European market, we wanted to give our users a cutting-edge utility that will notify them about security outbreaks in real time and help to protect them from multiple Internet threats,” said Pablo Soto, CTO, Optisoft S.L., creator of Blubster. “With the SecurityCenter, we give our users a value-added feature they can use to protect themselves while sharing files with others.”
Blubster chose to offer the McAfee.com SecurityCenter to help prevent the spread of computer viruses and other security threats that may be allowed to propagate through file-sharing environments in which users regularly share files with strangers over the Internet.
Once Blubster users have installed the McAfee.com SecurityCenter, they may take advantage of its set of innovative security tools to alert and inform them about various Internet threats in real time, quickly determine their vulnerability to those threats and gain access to vital security information through the McAfee.com Virus Information Library and World Virus Map. The SecurityCenter additionally offers easy access to powerful solutions to secure their PCs and free trials of managed security solutions including McAfee.com VirusScan Online, McAfee.com Personal Firewall, McAfee.com Privacy Service and McAfee.com SpamKiller.
“We see the P2P community as a fast-growing market in need of our security solutions. As the number of people who share files on the Internet increases, the likelihood of spreading Internet threats such as viruses also increases,” said Atri Chatterjee, vice president, worldwide marketing, McAfee.com. “With the SecurityCenter we can alert and inform the millions of users in the P2P community of current threats and also provide them with powerful and easy-to-use solutions to protect themselves from these threats.”
The McAfee.com SecurityCenter is initially being offered free of charge to Blubster users with Windows 9x, ME, 2000 or XP operating systems. For more information on Blubster, visit www.blubster.com. For more information on McAfee.com SecurityCenter, visit www.mcafee.com
Blubster enables its users through a serverless and anonymous p2p network the sharing of mp3 files over the Internet providing them with a totally free filesharing client. Blubster is the leading music only sharing p2p network on the Internet and a registered trademark of OptiSoft S.L. Madrid. Blubster has won the confidence of more than 3 million users in more than 140 countries of the world and is the best program in users opinion on download.com’s listing for mp3 search tools since November 2001. For more information, contact Blubster here .
McAfee.com Corporation is a world-leading provider of managed Web security, optimization and maintenance services. Using a patented system and process of delivering software through an Internet browser, McAfee.com has redefined how software is developed, delivered and experienced by PC users at home and at work, virtually eliminating the need to install, configure and manage the technology on a local PC or network. McAfee.com hosts software application services on its vast technology infrastructure and provides these services to users online through its Web site www.mcafee.com. McAfee.com has signed up more than two million subscriptions, making it one of the largest paid subscription sites on the Internet.
For more information, contact McAfee.com at 408-992-8100 or here .
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