Praetor Anti-Spam Filtering Software

Is Effective Weapon Against ‘Love Bug’

Microsoft Exchange Based Security Product from Computer Mail Services, Inc.

Prevents Infected e-Mail from Ever Reaching Corporate Servers or Recipients

PRESS CONTACT:                                                     

Lih-Tah Wong

Computer Mail Services, Inc., Inc.

248.352.6700 x220

lwong@cmsconnect.com

SOUTHFIELD, MI—(May 4, 2000)—

As the “I LOVE YOU” e-mail virus continues its destructive sweep across the planet, one company is providing a solution that prevents the digital intruder from ever reaching corporate e-mail servers.

Computer Mail Services, Inc. (CMS), a Southfield, Michigan-based developer of messaging software products and services, offers PraetorÔ, a security product that prevents unwanted e-mail from ever reaching a company’s Microsoft ExchangeÔ e-mail server.  The application goes far beyond the basic capabilities found in MS Exchange server, implementing tactics that scan for specific attachments, domain names, subject text lines, and recipient addresses, among other criteria.

“Our customers who have Praetor installed on their e-mail systems have avoided the virus altogether, with no outside help, once they know what to look for,” said Lih-Tah Wong, President of Computer Mail Services.  “Praetor acts like a messaging firewall outside Exchange, preventing the ‘Love Bug’ virus from ever entering the company’s e-mail system.”

“The problem with conventional anti-virus solutions is that when a high-profile, fast-moving virus hits the Internet, companies all over the world attempt to download fixes from the Web sites of the top anti-virus software companies.  The system becomes jammed,” continued Wong.  “With Praetor, all that a company e-mail administrator needs to do—assuming they have Praetor installed on their server—is enter the offending file name into Praetor’s ‘Banned Attachments’ list.  Once they re-start Praetor, the server—and the entire enterprise—is protected.”

As installed in a system, Praetor is supplied with 20 different default rules to filter out unsolicited or unwanted e-mail attempting to enter the server, or to keep sensitive material from ever leaving.  There is also a suspicious attachment list that will cause e-mail containing such attachments to be quarantined.

To assist at-risk companies, Computer Mail Services today installed detailed ‘Love Bug’ instructions on the home page of its corporate Web site, www.praetor.net.  The instructions explain how to modify Praetor to automatically stop the “I LOVE YOU” virus from entering the corporate system.  The company also offers a free 21-day evaluation copy of Praetor from the same site.

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About Computer Mail Services, Inc.:

Founded in 1982, Sterling Heights, Michigan-based Computer Mail Services, Inc. (CMS), is a privately-held company specializing in the development of messaging products and services. CMS advanced technology solutions include messaging firewalls to halt unwanted message traffic, migration utilities to ease movement between differing computer platforms and software allowing communication between LAN e-mail systems, Internet/SMTP, and with public messaging services. The company serves the messaging needs of thousands of corporations worldwide through products for Microsoft Mail, Lotus cc:Mail, Lotus Notes, Banyan VINES, Novell MHS, MCI Mail and SMTP/MIME.

Microsoft and Microsoft Exchange are registered trademarks of Microsoft.  Praetor is a trademark of Computer Mail Services, Inc.  All other trademarks are the property of the companies with which they are associated.