F-Secure#Products

F-Secure was first established under the name Data Fellows by Petri Allas and Risto Siilasmaa on May 16, 1988. Data Fellows trained computer users and built customized databases. Three years later, the company launched its first major software project and developed the first heuristic scanner for antivirus products. F-Secure’s first antivirus product for Windows PCs was launched in 1994. Data Fellows became F-Secure in 1999. F-Secure was the first company that developed an anti-rootkit technology called BlackLight in 2005.{{cite web|url=https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/use-blacklight-to-remove-rootkits/|title=Using Blacklight to detect and remove Rootkits from your computer: Home|publisher=BleepingComputer}}

In June 2015, F-Secure expanded into the enterprise market by acquiring nSense, a Danish company that specialized in security consultation and vulnerability assessment.{{cite web|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/fsecure-snaps-up-security-consultation-firm-nsense/ |title=F-Secure snaps up security consultation firm nSense: Home |publisher=ZDNet }} The purchase followed of Inverse Path, a privately owned Italian security consultancy with experience in avionics, automotive, and industrial control sectors.{{cite web |url=http://www.computerweekly.com/microscope/news/450413134/F-Secure-acquires-consultancy-player-Inverse-Path/ |title=F-Secure F-Secure acquires consultancy player Inverse Path: Home |publisher=Computer Weekly |access-date=2017-03-13 |archive-date=2018-01-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180118180957/http://www.computerweekly.com/microscope/news/450413134/F-Secure-acquires-consultancy-player-Inverse-Path/ |url-status=dead }}

F-Secure Client Security received the AV-TEST Best Protection award for the fifth time in 2016.{{cite web |url=https://www.av-test.org/en/award/2016/best-protection-f-secure/ |title=The Independent IT-Security Institute: Home |publisher=AV-TEST |access-date=2017-03-13 |archive-date=2017-03-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313124702/https://www.av-test.org/en/award/2016/best-protection-f-secure/ |url-status=dead }}

In June 2018, F-Secure acquired security company MWR InfoSecurity for £80 million ($106 million). F-Secure gained the MWR consulting business (now F-Secure Consulting), its threat hunting product Countercept (now F-Secure Managed Detection and Response), and its suite of phishing protection services, phishd.{{Cite news|date=2018-06-18|title=F-Secure acquires MWR InfoSecurity|language=en-US|work=Help Net Security|url=https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2018/06/18/f-secure-acquires-mwr-infosecurity/|access-date=2018-06-19}}{{Cite news|date=2018-06-18|title=F-Secure to buy cyber security firm MWR|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/mwr-ma-f-secure-idUSL8N1TK47W|access-date=2019-10-22}}

On February 17, 2022, F-Secure announced a demerger of its corporate and consumer businesses. In conjunction with the demerger, the company was renamed as WithSecure Corporation. The consumer security business was to be transferred into a new independent company and continue using the name F-Secure Corporation. The demerger came into effect July 1, 2022, when F-Secure was listed on Nasdaq Helsinki and the corporate business was completely separated from the company.{{cite web |title=Nasdaq Helsinki welcomes F-Secure after a partial demerger |url=https://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/nasdaq-helsinki-welcomes-f-secure-after-a-partial-demerger-2022-07-01 |website=Nasdaq |access-date=13 July 2022 |ref=Nasdaq |date=1 July 2022}}

Around 2008, in co-operation with Aalto University School of Science and Technology, F-Secure ran a one-semester course for future virus analysts, with some material available online.{{cite web |url=http://www.tml.tkk.fi/Opinnot/T-110.6220/ |title=TKK - TML - Courses |publisher=TML |date=2008-08-29 |access-date=2012-02-01 |archive-date=2012-02-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207144715/http://www.tml.tkk.fi/Opinnot/T-110.6220/ |url-status=dead }}

In 2001, after media coverage of the Magic Lantern spyware and claims by some AV vendors to purposely leave a backdoor for it in their products, F-Secure announced their policy on detecting these spying programs:

"F-Secure Corporation would like to make known that we will not leave such backdoors to our F-Secure Anti-Virus products, regardless of the source of such tools. We have to draw a line with every sample we get regarding whether to detect it or not. This decision-making is influenced only by technical factors, and nothing else, but within the applicable laws and regulations, in our case meaning EU laws."

"We will also be adding detection of any program we see that might be used for terrorist activity or to benefit organized crime. We would like to state this for the record, as we have received queries regarding whether we would have the guts to detect something obviously made by a known violent mafia or terrorist organization. Yes we would."{{cite web|title=F-Secure Corporation's policy on detecting spying programs developed by various governments|url=http://www.f-secure.com/virus-info/bdtp.shtml|publisher=F-Secure|access-date=25 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225003100/http://www.f-secure.com/virus-info/bdtp.shtml|archive-date=25 February 2012|url-status=dead}}

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