PRESS RELEASE  Oslo, 2 December 2003 The Norman Virus Control version 5.7 has been enhanced making it easier to use and thereby be more effective in the continuous fight against malware.

PRESS RELEASE   Oslo, 29 October 2003     Norman Data Defense Systems, announces that Norman Virus Control v 5.6 received top ratings in two independent computer magazines.

PRESS RELEASE   Oslo, 27 October 2003   Norman Data Defense Systems, today announces that Microsoft has decided to use Norman Virus Control v.5.6 with SandBox v.2 as part of their anti-virus security policy. The anti-virus software is used in Microsoft's release labs to ensure that all software is free from viruses and worms before being released to the end users. Microsoft has been one of the key partners in the beta testing of Norman Sandbox v2.

PRESS RELEASE   Oslo, 14 October 2003   Norman ASA has entered into an agreement with Telenor to provide Norman Virus Control to all of Telenor's Frisurf customers.

PRESS RELEASE   Oslo, 10 October 2003   Norman ASA had net revenues of NOK 63 million in the third quarter. This is an increase of 10% compared with the third quarter 2002. EBITDA for Norman for the quarter was NOK 14 million (2002: NOK 12 million), a margin of 22% (2002: 22%), and the pre-tax profit was NOK 12 million (2002: NOK 9 million), a margin of 18% (2002: 16%).

PRESS RELEASE   Oslo, 19 September 2003   Norman Data Defense Systems today issued a high alert for the new fast-spreading worm W32/Swen.A. This worm spreads through email, networks and chat programs. It uses a vulnerability in unpatched versions of Internet Explorer to execute without user interference to open the email attachment. Microsoft provided a patch for this vulnerability in 2001.

PRESS RELEASE   Oslo, 11 September 2003   The data security company Norman Data Defense Systems warns about an old threat that has been reactivated at an alarming speed recently - a special kind of identity theft. This has been named "phishing". The term is used for "fishing for personal information by imitating legitimate organizations". The aim is to gain access to confidential information of a personal nature.

PRESS RELEASE   Oslo, 20 August 2003   The explosive distribution of the computer virus Sobig.F that has ravaged the Internet, several organization's networks and stand-alone PCs the latest days, has resultet in enormous amounts of email traffic, as well as lots and lots of deleting of emails.

PRESS RELEASE   Oslo, 19 August 2003   Several fast-spreading worms - Blaster.A to D, Nachi.A and Sobig.F are “flooding" the Internet.

PRESS RELEASE   Oslo, 1 August 2003   Norman Data Defense Systems today announces Norman Email Control for Exchange/SMTP ready for delivery.

PRESS RELEASE    Lysaker, 10 July 2003   Norman ASA had net revenues of NOK 120.5 million in the first half 2003, EBITDA of NOK 19.5 million (16% margin) and a pre-tax profit of NOK 16.8 million.

PRESS RELEASE  Oslo, 19 June 2003   Norman ASA, a leader in the field of data security, announced today the release of its newest antivirus program Norman Virus Control version 5.6. This release includes an enhanced version of Norman’s patent pending technology Norman SandBox v2, made for detection of new, unknown viruses.

PRESS RELEASE   10 June 2003   Norman has entered into an agreement with Bredbandsbolaget, one of Sweden's largest ISPs to deliver its security software as part of a subscription service to Bredbandsbolaget's customers.

PRESS RELEASE   Oslo, 05 June 2003   Norman Data Defense Systems has issued an alert for a new, fast spreading email worm named BugBear.B.

PRESS RELEASE   Oslo, 05 June 2003   Norman Data Defense Systems, a leader in the field of data security, announced today that Norman Virus Control (NVC) has received yet another Virus Bulletin 100% Award, making its anti-virus products among the highest performing on the market.

PRESS RELEASE   Oslo, 19 May 2003   The data security company Norman ASA warns against the network worm Palyh. It sends itself to email addresses it finds in various sources on the infected user's machine. In addition, it enumerates network shares and copies itself to other machines on the local network.

PRESS RELEASE   Oslo, 12th of May 2003   The data security company Norman ASA warns against the network worm Fizzer.

PRESS RELEASE   Lysaker, 9 April 2003   Norman ASA had net revenues of NOK 62.1 million in the first quarter 2003. This is an increase of 8% compared to the first quarter 2002. The EBITDA for Norman this quarter was NOK 10.4 million, a margin of 17%. The pre-tax profit was NOK 8.8 million, an improvement of 11% from first quarter 2002.

PRESS RELEASE   February 24 2003   This is one of the body texts the new virus, Lovgate.B@m Norman now warns against. The data security company Norman warns against the network and mass-mailer worm Lovgate.B@m. The worm is rated to high virus risk by Norman.

PRESS RELEASE   Kongsvinger, February 13 2003   - Significant time-savings when erasing data Ibas is launching a quicker version of ExpertEraser. Version 2.0 is now better adapted to the technology found in hard disks, meaning that the time spent erasing hard disks has been reduced from 5 minutes to 40 seconds per Gigabyte.

PRESS RELEASE   Oslo, February 4 2003   Norman ASA has received yet another Virus Bulletin (VB) 100% Award. This is Norman's VB award number 20, and confirms Norman to be in the upper league in detecting viruses.

PRESS RELEASE   Lysaker, 23 January 2003   Norman ASA had net revenues of NOK 68.7 million in the fourth quarter 2002. This is an increase of 20% compared to the fourth quarter 2001. The EBITDA for Norman this quarter was NOK 13.4 million (2001: NOK 9.5 million), a margin of 20% (2001: 17%).

PRESS RELEASE   Oslo, 11 January 2003    The data security company Norman ASA now warns against the network and mass-mailer worm Sobig.A@mm. The worm is rated to high virus risk by Norman ASA.

PRESS RELEASE   Lysaker, 9 January 2003    The data security company Norman ASA now warns against the network and mass-mailer worm W32/Lirva.C@mm, this worm is similar to the W32/Lirva.A worm raised to high virus risk by Norman yesterday. We have reports that the W32/Lirva.C has increased rapidly the last hours.

PRESS RELEASE   Oslo, 9 January 2003    The data security company Norman has today launched a new version of Norman Internet Control (NIC), a combination of its award winning antivirus and personal firewall software, which protects against unwanted elements on the Internet.

PRESS RELEASE   Oslo, 2 January 2003    The Data Security Company Norman warns against a new variant of the mass mailer worm, W32/Yaha. W32/Yaha.K comes in what appears to be an ordinary e-mail, and spreads through normal e-mail channels.