July 20, 2009 – San Francisco, Calif. — OPSWAT, Inc., the leading provider of development tools that power software application manageability, today announced its intent to acquire MetaDefender, a privately-held company that has created a toolkit enabling software developers to integrate various antivirus engines into applications for real time scanning.As part of the acquisition, the MetaDefender technology will be integrated with OPSWAT’S Metascan, an advanced engine that allows IT professionals and software engineers to integrate multiple anti-malware scanning technologies into their proprietary solutions. The current version of Metascan obtains scan results from seven built-in antivirus engines from AVG, CA, ESET, Norman, Sunbelt, VirusBuster and ClamWin and is managed under one single interface; the fully-integrated application will incorporate two additional antivirus engines from MetaDefender and will be offered under the OPSWAT brand as Metascan Ultra.“As the IT need for embedding security solutions in the fabric of the infrastructure becomes an increasing