Ford Motor Company Partners With Mail.com to Protect the Auto Maker's Corporate E-mail Infrastructure From Virus Attack

Business Wire, May 11, 2000

Business and Technology Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 2000

Mail.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAIL), the leading global provider of Internet messaging services for businesses, today announced Ford Motor Company, the world's second largest auto maker, has chosen to implement MailZone, Mail.com's e-mail firewall service, to protect the auto maker's more than 170,000 worldwide corporate e-mailboxes against viruses, spam, offensive and threatening content, and inappropriate attachments.

MailZone is an Internet-based, platform-independent e-mail firewall solution that screens inbound and outgoing messages while they are still on the Internet. MailZone acts as a first line of defense ensuring infected e-mails do not reach their intended destinations, without the need for client-side software or hardware. Completely transparent to the user, the MailZone service effectively monitors and screens all e-mail, and eliminates the threat of rogue viruses from ever reaching the corporate network, providing an extra layer of protection and taking the burden off individual users. A low-cost, high value-added service, MailZone not only saves companies money, but can save their e-mail infrastructure as well.

"Ford Motor Company, with its sophisticated messaging needs and numerous international locations, is an ideal client for MailZone," said Aaron Fessler, president of Mail.com's Allegro subsidiary. "MailZone is fully scalable and can be deployed immediately without the need for extensive testing and implementation."

"Internet-based solutions like MailZone are needed because we've seen a major shift in the paradigm for how viruses are transmitted, particularly with the dramatic growth of e-mail as a mission critical tool for businesses," said Fessler. "Having a desktop fix may have been enough in the days of floppy disks, but the Internet -- and the speed at which information now travels -- requires that companies be able to deploy a solution operating at Internet speeds."

Such concerns about the limitations of traditional anti-virus software were reinforced last week with the virulent "ILOVEYOU" virus, also known as the "Love Bug." MailZone was configured to block the virus in less than 20 minutes after the Company discovered it, instantly protecting all of MailZone's clients against the onslaught of a virus that was being intercepted at an extremely rapid rate.

"While their competitors and peers scrambled to shut down their e-mail systems in self-defense, MailZone clients went about what they do best - serving their clients and making money," Fessler said. "We're proud of how we were able to protect our MailZone clients and look forward to providing the same assurance to the people at Ford, their business partners and the Internet community."

About Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company is the world's second largest auto maker, with more than 370,000 employees in 200 markets on six continents. Its automotive brands include Aston Martin, Ford, Jaguar, Lincoln, Mazda, Mercury, Volvo and Th!nk. Its automotive-related services include Ford Credit, Quality Care, Hertz and Visteon Automotive Systems.

About Mail.com Business Messaging Services

Mail.com Business Messaging Services is a leading global provider of outsourced messaging solutions for businesses. Our solution set includes hosted Microsoft Exchange, Novell GroupWise and Web/POP3-based e-mail and collaboration services; hosted e-mail firewall services such as virus scanning, spam blocking and content filtering; and a full range of Web-based, desktop and production Internet Fax solutions. Used by 8,500 corporations worldwide, Mail.com is the Company more enterprises turn to for outsourced messaging solutions. Information about Mail.com is available at http://www.mail.com.

About Mail.com

Mail.com Inc. is a one-stop resource for Internet messaging services, providing reliable feature-rich e-mail and Internet fax services to businesses, ISPs, Web sites and direct to consumers through its flagship Web site: http://www.mail.com. Mail.com has a technology infrastructure of IP network facilities in 20 key countries and currently serves more than 14 million e-mailboxes and 8,500 corporate customers worldwide.

This news release may contain statements of a forward-looking nature relating to the future events or the future financial results of Mail.com. Investors are cautioned that such statements are only predictions and that actual events or results may differ materially. In evaluating such statements, investors should specifically consider the various factors which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those indicated from such forward-looking statements, including the matters set forth in Mail.com's reports and documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.