No SPAM -- No Overblocking! Cobion succeeds in the fight against SPAM with the release of the OrangeBox Mail 2.0

Boston (Mass.)/USA -- Companies can now reach for a new and efficient weapon in the fight against SPAM: Cobion AG, technology leader in the market for Content Security Software, faces up squarely to the increasing flood of advertising e-mails with a unique Anti-SPAM-Technology.

With upwards of 25% of all e-mail traffic now being classified as SPAM the productivity issues of employees dealing with this junk mail is costing companies billions of dollars each year. The OrangeBox Mail version 2.0, released today, has unique and industry leading technology built in to assist companies in the fight against SPAM. The Anti-SPAM element of OrangeBox Mail 2.0 has 10 methods of identifying SPAM e-mail, including a database of digitally fingure printed SPAM, text classifiers based on Support Vector Machines and an intelligent system using heuristics.

René Seeber, Chief Technology Officer of Cobion said "No SPAM -- No Overblocking! For companies it´s high time to react on the liability of SPAM. We are at the start of a development which is going to be increasingly demanding on IT-infrastructures. Whereas today 25 percent all of incoming e-mails are SPAM, IDC expects already 40 percent for the year 2005."

Peter Richardt, IT Services, SMA Regelsysteme GmbH, confirms: "SPAM had become a real inhouse liability for our employees in the security sectors. Since the implementation of the OrangeBox Mail we can fight SPAM with the utmost efficiency. The Software is very easy to configure and we are very satisfied with its performance. No problems occurred with `overblocking´", he explained after the successful ending of the test phase.

Other marketable filter-solutions lead to a considerable overblocking" in the e-mail-traffic. The reasons behind inadvertent filtering of wanted e-mails are simple analysis methods (e.g. keyword-analysis), which cannot manage an effective differentiation of the e-mail. By way of contrast the OrangeBox Mail 2.0 combines the ten methods to distinguish relevant e-mails from SPAM. The new Software checks on the basis of content analysis and predefined rules that complete an e-mail, such as header, body, attachments and hyperlinks. The innovative Anti-SPAM-Technology is based amongst other things on a unique global SPAM-Database, with which it compares all e-mails too in real-time. This directory contains nearly all up-to-date and relevant SPAMs. Cobion collects thousends of apparent SPAMs each day from across the world, which are immediately analyzed and evaluated. Unmasked SPAM e-mails are registered regularly in this directory and are available for the user of the OrangeBox Mail 2.0.

Through the integration of a virus-scanner, nine standard text-categories, a personal administration console for problematical emails and many other new features the OrangeBox Mail 2.0 offers complete protection for e-mail security. Companies protect themselves not only from unwanted content, but also save network-resources and prevent confidential documents from leaving the company via e-mail.

Pricing and Availability
Cobion OrangeBox Mail 2.0 is priced at 1,190 Euro per year, based on an installation of 25 users plus maintanance. The maintanance includes all upgrades and updates for the licensed software. Special pricing is available for larger organizations, when upgrading and when sold in combination with Cobion Orangebox Web 2.0.

Cobion OrangeBox Mail 2.0 is available now. Cobion Channel Partner can request a free, fully functioning thirty-day evaluation copy of the software at: info@cobion.com

About Cobion AG
The company with the leading technology in the market for Content Security develops and distributes the products OrangeBox Web (web-filter), OrangeBox Mail (e-mail filter) an OrangeBox Lan (intranet-filter). This modern technology protects organisations from unwanted or non-business related Internet or Intranet content, including all e-mail-traffic with file attachments. Every kind of unintentional, illegal or confidential information is obstruct a passage in or out the company. This facilitates a more productive Internet workplace by reducing liability exposure, minimising security risks and preventing confidential data from leaving the organisation. Cobions line of products enables ISPs to provide the content filtering service to the subscribers.

The innovative product OrangeBox Web Home is the solution for private users. This software protects private Pcs from X-rated and dangerous content and is offered by www.friendly-internet.com.

In addition Cobion provides OEM-partners the OrangeFilter -- the actual and most extensive database with more than 15 millions URLs -- for implementation in firewalls, cashes and router. Cobion AG is headquartered in Kassel, Germany with subsidiaries in Boston, USA, London, UK and Shanghai, China. Visit http://www.cobion.com.

For further information please contact:
Cobion (UK) Ltd.
Tony Anscombe
Managing Director
Tel: +44 (0)1293 897173
Fax: +44 (0)1293 897300
Tony.anscombe@cobion.com
www.cobion.com   

Cobion AG Headquarters
Marina Lisa Klubescheidt
Director Corporate Communications
Tel: + 49(0)561 57087-289
Fax: + 49(0) 561 57087-18
marina.klubescheidt@cobion.com
www.cobion.com