Panda Software and Founder Information Safety Technology Company, a branch of Founder Group, have started joint work on new security and anti-virus products for the Chinese market.

With more hardware manufacturers joining in the already-crowded Chinese anti-virus market and those companies always wary of the threat from the possible entrance of Microsoft into the field, traditional anti-virus products providers are eager to search for new profit-making means.

Mr. Shi Wenhong, president of Founder Information Safety Technology Company, says their new products will be released this week. The products are FounderPanda Hardware Safety Gateway PAGD, Enterprise Anti-Virus FounderPanda WebAdmin and a product for consumers called FounderPanda TruPrevent.