MailFrontier™ Announces Support for Outlook Express® in Beta Release of Matador™ 2.0, Answering Consumer Demand for a Comprehensive and Effective Anti-Spam Solution

Palo Alto, Calif., February 5, 2003 – MailFrontier, a next-generation messaging security company, today released the beta version of Matador 2.0, which now includes support for Outlook Express, Hotmail, MSN, and IMAP when used through the email client. The amount of spam inundating consumer’s email boxes is skyrocketing, and Matador 2.0 offers a greatly needed reprieve. Outlook Express currently accounts for over 20 percent of the consumer email market, and these users are crying out for an effective way to keep their inbox free of spam. MailFrontier identified a specific need among at-home email users and expanded upon their already popular software to become one of the first major anti-spam solution companies with a product supporting Outlook Express in addition to Outlook.

“Spam quickly became a problem that I could no longer ignore, and after reviewing several options, I decided that MailFrontier’s solution was the most comprehensive and effective on the market,” said Neil Miller, President of Miller Systems, Inc. “Matador blocks 99% of my spam, saving me time and energy that used to be spent sorting through distracting and offensive junk email.”

Stop Spam Now - Keep your Inbox Clear
With each passing day, the number of unsolicited emails invading inboxes across the country drastically increases. People are now forced to navigate through unwanted, and often offensive, emails in order to find any legitimate messages. Now consumers can depend on Matador’s proven multi-pronged approach to protect them from “Refinance your home now” and “Earn a college degree overnight” messages constantly infiltrating Outlook Express.

“We have watched the number of spam emails a person receives increase exponentially, and wanted to provide consumers with a way to fight back against the spammers,” said Pavni Diwanji, CEO and co-founder of MailFrontier. “We want to make the concept of spam so ineffective, that it is no longer used to target innocent consumers. We developed Matador to be the most comprehensive solution on the market and customize to fit an individual user’s definition of spam. Matador 2.0 lets consumers take back control of their inbox.”

The problem you can’t ignore- statistics
According to the DoubleClick 2002 Consumer Email Study, the number one issue among consumer email users is the amount of unsolicited commercial email they receive. 90% of those surveyed list this as their primary concern. Their worries are sure to increase as well, as spam output is estimated to skyrocket to 15 billion messages a day by 2006, a seven-fold increase from today, according to market research firm Radicati Group. MailFrontier recognizes the severity of the problem and developed an innovative solution that combats spam on many levels, with the goal of protecting email as a viable means of communication.

Matador – fighting the bull
In developing Matador 2.0, MailFrontier has sought to put power back into the hands of end-users, taking it away from spammers. The following anti-spam weapons have been integrated alongside other tried and trusted tools such as blacklists and message filtering;