Capitalizing on recent criticism of Microsoft's Web server software, a British company will announce a product Monday that it says can enhance the security of the Microsoft offering or replace the program altogether. Zeus Technology is releasing Zeus Web Server 4.0, an update of its flagship software, which has never been hacked, according to Andrew Parker, principal consultant at Zeus. "We've never had a security breach," he said. "It was built from the ground up with security in mind." Zeus is the latest company to appeal to users of Microsoft Internet Information Server software for running Web servers after several nasty computer viruses spread throughout the Internet in August and September. The Code Red and Nimda viruses were infecting thousands of computers running IIS, which is used to power Web pages. Two weeks ago, Sun Microsystems announced it would slash the price of its iPlanet Web server software by 37 percent in an attempt to take market share from Microsoft.
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