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REFLEXION TOTAL CONTROLTM 4.0 DELIVERS INBOXES REMINISCENT OF PRE-SPAM ERA

Email Security Solution Uses Supplemental Address Technology to Block Spam, Phishing and Identity Theft Attacks; Strengthens Traditional Defenses

WOBURN, Mass. - May 22, 2006 — Reflexion today announced the general availability of Reflexion Total Control TM 4.0 (RTC 4), an email security solution that utilizes supplemental address technology to protect inboxes from spam in any language, phishing attacks and other malicious content. RTC 4's unique address-based technology adds a new layer of defense to traditional spam-blocking techniques, including whitelisting and content filtering, to provide more accurate, proactive protection that is maintenance free. In addition, RTC 4 enables users to see who is sharing their email addresses and provides the option of blocking future correspondence. As a result, users enjoy a pristine inbox reminiscent of the pre-spam era.

"Spammers are devious and will continue to invent new methods to circumvent traditional solutions that apply one set of rules to an entire enterprise," said Joseph McIsaac, founder and CTO of Reflexion. "RTC 4 does two things to address these issues; it augments the best of all existing anti-spam technology with a new address-based defense to stop spammers, and it puts customizable control in the hands of users to determine who can gain access to their inboxes."

Two Email Addresses are Better Than One - Supplemental Address Management
"Everyday consumers who maintain multiple email accounts demonstrate the powerful insight that to effectively reduce spam, two email addresses are inherently better than one," said Matt Anderson, market analyst, The Radicati Group, Inc. "Supplemental addresses are a breakthrough in email security that, when combined into one solution, make all other approaches better."

By using supplemental addresses to fractionate inbox access, RTC 4 provides a concrete means of protecting one's primary address from new sources of spam, and empowers users to defeat spam attracted to any new address. Users may choose to employ supplemental addresses selectively by using unique Addresses-on-the-Fly for high-risk disclosures such as online transactions, or routinely for all new correspondents. In both cases, a proprietary supplemental address management system (SAMS) automatically manages the creation and administration of new addresses in a manner that is completely transparent to the user and maintenance free for the email administrator. Users may also choose not to use supplemental addresses, and rely solely on RTC 4's premier filtering and whitelisting capabilities.

Blended Approach Adds Power, Avoids Shortcomings
Rapidly evolving email security threats are forcing organizations to increase protection beyond conventional anti-spam products. Responding to these threats, RTC 4 adds a new layer of defense that strengthens traditional spam-blocking techniques. In addition, supplemental addresses elevate mail to a state that doesn't require further screening (except for viruses), eliminating the shortcomings endemic to traditional defenses. For example, by removing the need for filtering incoming mail on supplemental addresses, RTC 4 avoids the false-positive problem, even for bulk and transactional mail.

Additional Product Highlights

• Immediate relief of spam in any language without blocking legitimate messages.
• Enhanced tools for simplified deployment, including a delegated spam folder and automated whitelisting of address book contacts and outgoing email history.
• Supplemental addresses make fraudulent messages self-evident, defeating phishing attacks and identity theft.
• "Set and forget" configuration enables email administrators to apply a range of preventative techniques to different user populations, based on the severity of the spam problem.
• Relief from volume-based attacks, such as directory harvesting and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, recapturing the bandwidth lost to processing malware.
• User controls that reveal address sharing and avoid the risks of further address propagation.
• Zero maintenance for email administrators.
• Spam content filtering powered by Mailshell™.
• Ability to correlate a supplemental address with a topic or event, e.g. to track the effectiveness of marketing campaigns or the status of "trouble tickets."

RTC can be delivered as a hosted email security service or deployed locally. Annual per user subscription pricing declines with volume.

About Reflexion

Reflexion utilizes innovative supplemental address technology in combination with traditional spam prevention methods to completely eliminate spam and phishing attacks, restoring a pristine email inbox for users in organizations of all sizes. The company's breakthrough solution is maintenance-free for both users and email administrators, and provides a variety of additional benefits, including the elimination of improperly blocked messages, detection of address sharing, and effectiveness in any language. Reflexion's blended approach provides versatile email security protection for groups of users with different address security requirements. The company offers its technology through ISPs and its worldwide network of technology and service provider partners. Founded in 2001, privately held Reflexion is headquartered near Boston, Massachusetts. For more information, Reflexion is available on the Web at www.reflexion.net.

About Mailshell, Inc.

Mailshell is the world's leading anti-spam and anti-phishing engine provider. Via Mailshell's OEM partners, more than 6,000 companies and 10 million consumers worldwide rely on "Powered by Mailshell" filters to block spam and phishing. Mailshell's software helps its OEM partners, including Computer Associates, Secure Computing, Panda Software, Oracle, ZyXEL, Broderbund and Lyris Technologies, among others, generate new anti-spam revenue, upsell existing products to new anti-spam customers, and cut anti-spam engineering and support costs to near zero. Mailshell's headquarters are located in San Francisco. For more information, visit www.mailshell.com.