Firetrust Limited, provider of award-winning anti-spam and email security solutions, today announced that MailWasher® Pro 4.0, a uniquely designed anti-spam tool that provides additional protection for businesses and home users from unsolicited and unwanted emails, was awarded the Best Anti-Spam Tool by Australian Personal Computer (APC) Magazine, Australia's longest running computer magazine.

According to APC Magazine, its team of reviewers voted MailWasher Pro 4.0 as the most effective powerful anti-spam utility available. McAfee Spam Killer came in second place.

”Spam is an ongoing concern for our readers, and with spammers using sophisticated ways to get passed spam filters, we are constantly looking for new products that effectively fight against and stop spam. And this year, we are happy to announce that MailWasher Pro is the winner in this category,” said Tony Sarno, editor at APC magazine. “We want our readers to learn about best-of-class products so they can make informed purchasing decisions. Our readers will benefit greatly from our Best Products of 2004 special issue.”

Firetrust CEO Nick Bolton adds, “To receive this type of acknowledgment from APC Magazine further supports Firetrust’s superior and industry-leading e-mail security technology. Firetrust is committed to continuing its effort to provide consumers and businesses with best-of-class, next-generation e-mail security products, such as our proven and award-winning MailWasher Pro, MailWasher Server and newest product, Firetrust Encrypt.”

MailWasher Pro’s success is attributed to superior product design and a combination of powerful features, such as:

Set Up Wizard: A fast, simple and easy-to-understand wizard walks users through the set up process, which only takes a couple of minutes.

Learning Filters: Intelligent “Bayesian” filtering learns to identify good email from junk email, aka spam, and delivers a robust and efficient approach to solving the barrage of unwanted email. Also included is heuristic virus scanning, which is a process that scans and filters out emails that are likely to contain viruses or other unwanted content.

White lists/Blacklists: Unwanted and malicious spam is automatically identified and blocked through blacklisting capabilities; and wanted emails from friends, colleagues and others deemed as “friendly” are never missed through whitelisting capabilities.

Virus and Worm Protection: Before a malicious email ever reaches email inboxes, users can see which emails pose a threat, because MailWasher Pro is able to identify emails that may contain potential viruses or worms, at which point the users have the power to delete it at the email server so it never reaches their computers.

FirstAlert!: A global network of users who actively report spam and interact with the database in real-time. Any messages in the user’s email that correspond to identical fingerprints in the database are automatically identified and eliminated. FirstAlert! trains the filters in MailWasher Pro against the latest spam threats so users are assured of always having the latest protection. In addition, phishing e-mails can be identified and stopped before ever entering a user’s computer.

MailWasher Pro provides the easiest-to-use and most effective spam filtering and e-mail security available for both PCs and Macs. In addition, Firetrust has expanded its technology to work on servers. MailWasher Server, which is an anti-spam and e-mail security solution uniquely tailored for small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs), as well as enterprises. MailWasher Server adopts a multi-layered approach to identifying spam messages before they enter an organization’s network. MailWasher Server benefits an entire organization by reducing burden for IT administrators, giving employees better control, increasing worker productivity, and most importantly, cutting costs.

System Requirements and Availability
MailWasher Pro is available now, and can be purchased and download from Firetrust’s Web site at www.firetrust.com. MailWasher Pro is priced at U.S. $37.00 for a single-user license, which includes a one-year subscription to First Alert! ** Price discounts are available for volume licensing. A free 30-day trial version can also be downloaded from the site. MailWasher Pro’s minimum system requirements include Microsoft Windows 98, Me, NT, 2000 and XP operating systems. It is compatible with all POP3 e-mail programs, including, Microsoft Outlook™ and Outlook Express™, Netscape™ and Eudora™; AOL, IMAP, MSN and Hotmail e-mail accounts. For information on how to trial and purchase MailWasher Pro, contact Firetrust at info@firetrust.com

About Firetrust Limited
Established in 2000, Firetrust provides world-class e-mail security products for business and home users. Firetrust delivers solutions across the spectrum of inbox protection, including MailWasher® Pro for unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam) and Benign® to neutralize harmful e-mail which can contain viruses, worms, scripts and Web bugs. The company is privately held and headquartered in Christchurch, New Zealand. To date MailWasher has had more than 5 million downloads. For more information, please visit www.firetrust.com.

MailWasher® and Benign® are registered trademarks of Firetrust Limited.

- Christchurch, New Zealand.