ISLANDIA, N.Y., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CA, Inc. (Nasdaq: CA) today announced that its CA Threat Manager 8.1 for SUSE® Linux® has earned Virus Bulletin's VB100 award. Virus Bulletin is one of the leading specialist publications in the field of viruses and related malware and is renowned for its independent comparative testing of anti-virus products and its VB100 testing.

Anti-virus products earn the VB100 award for being able to detect all "In the Wild" viruses during both on-demand and on-access scanning while generating no false positives when scanning a set of clean files. The latest test evaluated CA Threat Manager 8.1 for Linux on a test server running Novell® SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, 32-bit edition, with Linux Kernel 2.6.27.19.

"We are pleased that CA Threat Manager is one of the few antimalware products to earn the VB100 award from Virus Bulletin for SUSE Linux," said Brian Grayek, vice president of product management for CA's Internet Security Business Unit. "Whether you run your business on Linux or Windows, you need a security solution that can reliably protect your business from the rapidly evolving threat landscape. Thanks to rigorous independent security testing like that performed by Virus Bulletin, customers gain added confidence that CA Threat Manager can effectively help manage and protect their businesses systems."

CA Threat Manager is a comprehensive security solution that detects, blocks, cleans and removes a wide range of security threats and covers all IT environments (desktop, laptop, server and other network access points) via an easy-to-navigate management dashboard. Along with Linux, it supports Microsoft® Windows®, Apple (including Mac Intel OS X), UNIX® and NetWare®. It also supports Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes®, CVP Firewall, Microsoft Proxy Server, ISA Server and Network Appliance NAS devices.

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