Sandhurst, Berkshire, UK: Advascan announced today that it has been chosen by Belfast City Council to provide virus and spam protection services.

“Belfast City Council has a duty to protect its staff from irritating and offensive emails. With Advascan we are confident that we have selected best-of-breed services, which will not only achieve that, but also give additional protection against email-borne viruses”, says Paul Gribben, Belfast City Council’s Assistant IS Manager.

Roy Walker, CEO of Advascan commented “The growing volume of unwanted and offensive emails, which today stands at over 50% of all email traffic, is threatening the success of local government online activities. We are very pleased that Belfast City Council has chosen us to protect their email service from viruses and spam."

“With Advascan’s high rate of spam detection we are confident that all of Belfast City Councils’ email will be spam and virus free, and that every email will find its rightful destination.”

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About Advascan™

Advascan is an Internet technology and software development company, specialising in the areas of network security, intrusion detection and prevention, anti-virus, anti-spam, and email policy management. The online service, Advascan™ uses advanced anti-virus and anti-spam techniques to deliver best in class protection and email security, keeping email useful. Advascan is part of Adva Technologies Ltd.

For further details please visit http://www.advascan.com

For further information or to arrange an interview please call: Mark Elliott at Advascan on 08450 539331