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30 Apr 2003

Everyone.net selects Sophos Anti-Virus for its hosted email service

Lynnfield, MA - Sophos, a world leader in corporate anti-virus solutions for businesses, and Everyone.net, a leading provider of fast, secure and reliable email services for individuals, business and service providers, announced an agreement that enables Everyone.net customers to benefit from Sophos's reliable virus scanning engine. The integration will protect Everyone.nets customers against harmful, email-borne viruses.

"Sophos's technology provides our customers with exceptional scanning speed and accuracy, which are critical to ensure timely and virus free message delivery," said Josh Mailman, vice president of marketing, Everyone.net. "Since we are a leading provider of hosted email for business and service providers, our customers count on us to provide the highest quality and most dependable virus protection available. In Sophos, we have found an impressive track record, dedication to virus research, and a top-tier product that enhances the functionality of our email service."

Everyone.net provides a complete hosted email solution for individuals, businesses and service providers with more than 22 million email boxes provisioned since 1998. Everyone.net provides virus-scanning services separately or as part of Total Protection solution that includes spam and virus defense.

"Everyone.nets integration of Sophoss virus detection engine into their hosted email services is a ringing endorsement of our technology," said Chris Belthoff, senior product marketing manager. "We are pleased that Sophos Anti-Virus has been selected to extend added email security for Eveyone.net clients."

Sophos Anti-Virus scans for viruses before they even reach the client in-box, thus preventing Everyone.nets customers from becoming infected. By integrating Sophoss engine into Everyone.net messaging architecture, customers are continually provided up-to-date virus protection automatically.

About Everyone.net

Everyone.net (www.everyone.net) is based in San Jose, California, and offers custom email services to everyone from Internet Service Providers, Web hosts and Web sites to businesses, organizations and individuals. Its cost effective solutions are built on a highly scalable infrastructure and include advanced services like IMAP and LDAP as well as anti-spam and virus protection.

Everyone.net has provisioned over 22 million mailboxes for over 100,000 domains since 1998. The companys financial backers include two premier venture capital firms, El Dorado Ventures and Labrador Ventures. For more information, please visit www.everyone.net.

About Sophos

More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is committed to providing security and data protection solutions that are simple to manage, deploy and use and that deliver the industry's lowest total cost of ownership. Sophos offers award-winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, and network access control solutions backed by SophosLabs - a global network of threat intelligence centers. With more than two decades of experience, Sophos is regarded as a leader in security and data protection by top analyst firms and has received many industry awards.

Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More information is available at www.sophos.com.