UpdateEXPERT

Shavlik Technologies announces the end of availability of Shavlik UpdateEXPERT. As of February 7, 2008, Shavlik UpdateEXPERT will no longer be available for purchase or data subscription/maintenance renewals.

Take 2 steps toward ensuring ongoing management of your critical security patches and removal of unwanted applications, spyware, and malware!

Step 1: Attend a webinar on Shavlik NetChk Protect 6.0.
Step 2: Contact your Sales Representative for details on migration and promotional pricing.

Special offer to lock in 2007 pricing

Since the acquisition of UpdateEXPERT from St. Bernard Software in January 2007, thousands of UpdateEXPERT users have made the switch to our industry-leading patch management and application control solution, Shavlik NetChk® Protect. Shavlik Technologies continues to add significant new features and enhancements to the NetChk® Protect product line, including features that UpdateEXPERT customers have grown accustomed to, such as Custom Patching and a User Interface that offers a familiar, network view.

UpdateEXPERT customers are encouraged to migrate to Shavlik NetChk® Protect for ongoing automation of server and endpoint protection including management of critical security patches and removal of unwanted applications, spyware, and malware. Effective today, our pricing structure for Shavlik NetChk® Protect has changed. As a valued UpdateEXPERT customer, you can lock in 2007 pricing on NetChk® Protect licenses and data subscription purchases or renewals before June 30, 2008.

Introducing Shavlik NetChk® Protect 6.0

Shavlik NetChk Protect 6.0 will be available for download Starting Tuesday, February 19, 2008. Significant enhancements that you will find in our most recent version, Shavlik NetChk® Protect 6.0, include:

Patch management and application control from one unified console.
Any Patch, Anywhere technology. Shavlik’s Dynamic Product Detection engine and new Custom Patch editor feature combine to patch virtually any application on any Microsoft Windows operating system.
Highly flexible architecture that blends agentless and agent-based solution to address enterprise needs from stationary systems to frequently disconnected mobile devices or locations with bandwidth constraints.
Includes full support for Microsoft® Vista and x64 operating systems.
Centralized security policy management where the distributed policy managers go to a specified distribution server to obtain approved patches, XML and engine updates.
The enterprise reporting, agents, and centralized console management features scale to large enterprises, while still providing the ease of use for smaller networks.

Date	Milestone	Impact
February 7, 2008	Announcement of UpdateEXPERT End of Availability and End of Life	No features or application coverage will be added to the UpdateEXPERT product. Support is available for troubleshooting technical issues. XML patch data feeds will continue.
June 30, 2008	Customer Loyalty Promotional Pricing ends	Promotional pricing will no longer be available. Customer can migrate at 2008 list prices.
February 7, 2009	End of UpdateEXPERT XML patch data feeds	XML patch data feeds will terminate
February 7, 2009	End of UpdateEXPERT support	All support services for the product are terminated and the product becomes obsolete.

Contact your Sales Rep for details on how to migrate to Shavlik NetChk Protect and lock in 2007 pricing

For US: email migrate@shavlik.com
or call (800) 690-6911
For International:migrate@shavlik.com
or call +1 (612) 331-6737 www.shavlik.com