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HackerWhacker.com Announces a New Program to Provide Security to the Largest Broadband Providers to Safeguard Against Online Hackers

Business Wire, Feb 17, 2000

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 17, 2000

Targeting the growing need for corporate and personal security on the World Wide Web, the new company HackerWhacker.com today announced its new program to provide all customers of the world's largest broadband providers a range of services to protect customer PCs.

The services provided include a free 14-point test of Microsoft Windows' most common vulnerabilities, including a test for the Zombie Trojans that were responsible for the denial of service attacks on E*Trade Inc. (Nasdaq:EGRP), ZDNet Inc. (NYSE:ZDZ), Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), eBay.com (Nasdaq:EBAY), Buy.com (Nasdaq:BUYX), The Microsoft Network, CNN and Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN).

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&uot;The beauty of HackerWhacker.com is that it provides users for $19.95 an easy-to-use interface that allows companies and home users the ability to scan their computers, Web site or networks, from across the Internet to show them what the hackers are seeing, for a full year. All you have to do is come to the Web site, answer a few questions, select the Security Check you want, and it's done,&uot; said Blair Brandenburg, chief operating officer, HackerWhacker.com.

The service that is being extended to customers of @Home (Nasdaq:ATHM), MediaOne Group (NYSE:UMG), MediaOne Road Runner, Earthlink Network Inc. (Nasdaq:ELNKD), Mindspring Enterprise Inc. (Nasdaq:MSPG), Bell Atlantic Corp. (Nasdaq:BEL), US WEST (NYSE:USW), and BellSouth Corporation (NYSE:BLS) will provide them with the free 14-point test and a flat rate of $19.95 for the yearly subscription rate of the Home User product. The $19.95 offer is good through the end of the month; the 14-point test is always free.

HackerWhacker.com services provide companies and the home user security checks that prevent hackers from accessing sensitive data, using their systems as attack relay points or disrupting corporate e-commerce. HackerWhacker.com is the best hacker-prevention security service for corporate, home, and small-office Internet users.

The tests include scanning the entire 65534 port range of UDP and TCP ports for hidden openings, scans for all Trojan Horses from the first known to the latest, public SNMP Servers, NFS, X Windows, RPC, SMTP Server E-Mail Vulnerabilities, FTP, Windows File Sharing (NetBIOS), DNS, LDAP, and 250+ known Web site vulnerabilities.

HackerWhacker.com, based in Santa Monica, is a privately held company comprising a core group of security engineers that total 60 years of experience in the industry and who met while employed at the Peter Norton Group of Symantec.

NOTE TO EDITORS: In the company name E*Trade noted in this news release, there is an asterisk between E and Trade. Also, in the company name @Home there is an &uot;at&uot; sign before the word Home. These symbols may not appear properly in some systems.

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HackerWhacker.com Announces a New Program to Provide Security to the Largest Broadband Providers to Safeguard Against Online Hackers

Business Wire, Feb 17, 2000

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