Happy New Year to all of you!

We have had a great start to this New Year with an excellent review for our eScan Internet Security Suite Version 10 in the January 2009 issue of Virus Bulletin. This review has reiterated the superiority of our solutions and technologies.

I would like to take this opportunity to express my deep appreciation to every one of you for your hard work and sustained efforts towards making MicroWorld a global entity. In the last many years, MicroWorld has spread to over 90 countries and has become a force to reckon with in the Information Security Market.

2008 was a watershed year for us at MicroWorld in many ways. We had launched MailScan 5.6, gone retail in many countries and had embarked on the ambitious project of eScan 10. The beta release of eScan 10 was a huge success with participation from more than 3000 beta testers and we are now ready with a product that will give all our competitors a run for their money. I am sure that with the giant leap we have taken in terms of both user experience and technological innovations with eScan 10, we will become one of the top 5 preferred security solution providers worldwide in a very short span of time.

The new eScan version 10 boasts of a very user friendly GUI, our very own proactive scan engines, with access to one of the largest Malware databases in the world, faster scan times, all these with extremely prudent use of system resources. As a matter-of-fact, the benchmarks which we have internally done, comparing eScan 10 with other security solutions, puts eScan 10 way above the rest. With the two way firewall, Endpoint security and enhanced web protection, eScan has today evolved into a solution that is futuristic in securing Enterprises, Medium business, Small offices and home users.

As you are already aware, MicroWorld's products carries four engines inside it - Adware/Spyware Engine, IDS/IPS Engine, AntiSpam/NILP Engine and AntiVirus Engine. All of the above engines are intellectual property rights of MicroWorld, except the AntiVirus Engine.

Over a period of time, MicroWorld has been developing its own HIPS/AV detection engines, which is already part of eScan 10 and upcoming releases of other products. A commendation for our HIPS has already been part of the VB review. Owing to this development strategy, and looking into the long-term vision of MicroWorld to give cutting-edge security products to partners and customers, we will no longer be having the antivirus engine from Kaspersky. However, all partners and customers can be rest assured that MicroWorld will keep providing updates and support for all the products which they have purchased/deployed, and which has the old engine inside it, for the period of the subscription.

The eScan version 10 ISS/AV editions has our own proactive scan engines, combined/assisted by one of the largest Malware Databases consisting of over 2.5 million plus signatures that has been certified by all reputed accreditation programs across the world. Having said this, let me add that with this strategic move, we are extremely confident of delivering world-class solutions, which are scaleable and reliable. You can experience the rest in eScan 10. As many of you have already given feedback, the new products are extremely fast, with high degree of outbreak responsiveness.

We believe that your growth is our growth and together it will help us acquire customers. Let us move forward in this New Year hand in hand towards setting new standards in the Information Security Industry. Unlike many other companies, MicroWorld is strongly committed to reaching new heights of success, together with its partners.

Lastly, I wish this New Year will be a good one for you and your family.

Regards,

Govind Rammurthy
CEO & Managing Director
MicroWorld