Everyone.net Selects Sophos Anti-Virus for Its Hosted Email Service

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 30, 2003 - 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' reliable virus scanning engine. The integration will protect Everyone.net's customers against harmful, email-borne viruses.

"Sophos' 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.net's integration of Sophos' 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 Everyone.net clients."

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

About Sophos
Sophos is the only anti-virus solutions provider focused solely on businesses. The products are sold and supported through a global network of subsidiaries and partners in more than 150 countries. Sophos' solutions are specifically designed to protect businesses and organizations of all sizes against viruses and are widely deployed by corporations, financial institutions, government agencies and academic institutions. For more information, please contact Sophos at 1-(888)-SOPHOS-9 or visit the Sophos website at www.sophos.com.

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 company's financial backers include two premier venture capital firms, El Dorado Ventures and Labrador Ventures. For more information, please visit: www.everyone.net.

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