TouchStone Guarantees 100 Percent PC-cillin Satisfaction or Will Provide Competitive Product Free

Business Wire, March 30, 1998

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 30, 1998-- TouchStone Software Corp. (Nasdaq: TSSW), publishers of PC-cillin and CheckIt products, will begin a promotion guaranteeing 100 percent satisfaction for its PC-cillin v3.0 anti-virus product.

If a customer doesn't feel the product provides superior virus protection, TouchStone will provide the customer with the competitive anti-virus product of their choice.

Award-winning PC-cillin arms computer users of all experience levels with powerful virus scanning and free Internet virus pattern updates for the life of the product. Patent pending MacroTrap technology provides effective macro virus protection as well.

MacroTrap was recently the first search engine to discover the first known Microsoft Access database virus ever created. PC-cillin also includes a powerful Internet VirusLab providing free virus pattern file updates and Emergency Virus Removal Service.

"We're completely confident that people seeking comprehensive virus protection will be impressed with PC-cillin," said Larry Jordan, president and chief executive officer, TouchStone Software. "We'll prove it by offering free competitive products if our customers aren't 100 percent satisfied."

The promotion will begin on April 1, 1998 and run through June 30, 1998. Customers who wish to obtain a competitive product from TouchStone will be required to download a return form from TouchStone's Web site at www.touchstonesoftware.com and mail it to TouchStone with proof of purchase and the PC-cillin CD ROM.

Additional details are posted on the site. Customers will then receive the anti-virus product of their choice from any of the following vendors: -0-

--   Norton AntiVirus (NAV) 4.0 from Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC)
--   VirusScan from Network Associates (Nasdaq: NETA)
--   Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus from Dr. Solomon's Software (Nasdaq:
     SOLLY)
--   Inoculan Antivirus 5.0 from Computer Associates (NYSE: CA)
--   ViruSweep from Quarterdeck (Nasdaq: QDEK)