Press release December 27, 2002

Why take care of the virus protection yourself?
SaferSurf 'laundry service' delivers clean data

The age of computer users having to take care of their online security themselves is over. Today the trend is towards customer service. SaferSurf gets the data, emails and web pages for the user from the internet, removes the dirt and the trash and delivers the clean data to the home computer. All this is done so fast that the user does not even notice it.

The latest developments in the virus world confirm the concept of SaferSurf. For example, once settled on a computer, the Bugbear virus deactivates all known protection programs like virus scanners and personal firewalls. Users who believed that their installed virus scanner or a personal firewall offers enough protection, faced a rude awakening. The only solution is a protection that sets in before viruses arrive on the PC.

"The philosophy of Microsoft and other software providers for Windows to make the user depend on the client software in order to earn a lot of money with every sold license is out-dated. Intelligence now comes from external servers like SaferSurf and is available to all users, no matter what technical background they have. It wouldn't occur to anybody to become a car mechanic first in order to steer a car safely through the traffic", says Rene Holzer, inventor of the real-time virus protection SaferSurf.

The SaferSurf.com service provides a different kind of virus protection. Every file that comes from the internet and every email attachment is scanned on its way from the internet. Infected files are deleted before they can reach the user computer. The SaferSurf virus scanners are updated every few minutes.

When a new virus turns up, all SaferSurf users are protected automatically within just 10 minutes. With SaferSurf no virus can reach a user computer via internet or email. In addition users have the choice to block spam and dialers or to surf anonymously.

"The SaferSurf concept is brilliantly simple. We are the laundry service for the internet. Only that we do not clean dirty laundry, but data. The delivery of the clean data to your computer at home is included. And we take care of getting the latest and best cleaning agent. How we clean the 'laundry' can only be of interest to 'laundry students' in their third year", says CEO Ramona Wonneberger about the SaferSurf service.

The service can be tested for $1.99 under www.safersurf.com/english.