Central Command (www.centralcommand.com), a provider of Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD antivirus applications, announced on August 16, 2004 that Fasthosts Internet Inc. (www.fasthosts.com), a web hosting provider based in Gloucester, UK, has chosen Vexira Antivirus for Linux to guard its e-mail infrastructure against viruses. Fasthosts is among the largest web hosting providers in the world with more than one million customer domains. In addition, the company is the largest Windows 2003 web host in the world and the first company in the UK to offer a complete .NET Framework hosting service.
Andrew Michael, CEO of Fasthosts Internet, said that the company’s customers depended on its high standards to deliver to them reliable, technically advanced solutions. He noted that this was why after extensive testing, Fasthosts chose Vexira Antivirus. Michael stated that Vexira has proven to the company’s engineers that it was dependable, well-supported application that could process and virus scan enormous amounts of e-mail effortlessly. He added that Fasthosts’ return on investment has been significant.