VANCOUVER, BC, MAY 13, 2002 - ActiveState, the leader in open
languages, today announced the 2.0 release of PerlMx, the most
effective email filtering system available. PerlMx blocks more than
98% of unsolicited email at the gateway, securing the network by
filtering mail before it reaches the desktop. PerlMx supports the most
widely used mail transfer agent, sendmail.

PerlMx provides enterprises with a complete email security solution by
identifying and quarantining spam, protecting against viruses,
enforcing corporate communications compliance policies, and allowing
mail administrators to automatically compile usage statistics.  The
powerful content security features protect enterprises against
productivity losses, network downtime, and vulnerability of
informational assets.

Spam is widely recognized as a growing problem.  Internet research
company Jupiter Media Metrix estimates that by 2006 junk emails will
more than double, with the average user receiving 1,400 spam emails,
totaling over 206 billion in the US alone.  Present attempts to
address this, either through self-regulation by the direct marketing
industry,
or through identification of known spammers, have been ineffective.
An ActiveState study found that only 2% of UCE (unsolicited commercial
email) is guideline compliant, and that only 31% of spam is identified
by the most common anti-spam method, realtime blackhole lists (RBL).

"PerlMx has been phenomenal in catching close to 100% of the spam we
receive and that's with more than 15,000 emails going through our
network every day.  The response from our users has been incredibly
positive," said Rob Henderson, Associate Facilities Director, Computer
Science Department, Indiana University.  "It was also a breeze to
install, taking me only an hour to deploy."

PerlMx's standard filters are pre-built to readily address email
content security and management.  These include:
* SpamCheck - identifies and quarantines unsolicited email, using a
set of weighted tests to determine the overall probability of spam
during the delivery process.
* VirusCheck - checks executable content or file names in email for
known viruses and will reject, redirect, clean, log, quarantine or
annotate the message.
* PolicyCheck: provides keyword checking, mail auditing, mail
archiving, mail conversion, and mail banners.
* AdminCheck - gathers statistics about email processed such as source
IP address, sender, recipient, body size, and more.

"The growing flood of spam is a significant productivity issue for
enterprises, who are increasingly using email as a critical
communications tool," said Dick Hardt, Founder & CEO, ActiveState.
"Our anti-spam filter utilizes several analytical techniques to reach
the
high 98% spam block rate, which we are constantly adapting and
updating as spammers become more sophisticated."

"Perhaps the single biggest thrust of PerlMx 2.0 has been to make it
trivially easy to install, configure and run the product, to the point
where knowledge of Perl is not a prerequisite," said Gurusamy Sarathy,
PerlMx Tech Lead.  "Various standard filters are available to address
most common email content management needs, including spam and virus
protection.  And when it comes to extending or customizing it to fit
unique needs, email content managers have at their disposal the
world's most powerful text processing language, Perl."

PerlMx is priced per CPU.  For additional details please go to
www.ActiveState.com/PerlMx/release.

About ActiveState:
ActiveState is the leader in open language products and services.
ActiveState's key technologies are Perl, Python, Tcl, PHP, and XSLT.
Our offerings provide assurance and productivity for open languages
and server side email management.

Media & Analyst Contacts:

Lori Pike, ActiveState
604.808.6655
LoriP@[...].com

C ActiveState Corporation 2002.

ActiveState and PerlMx are trademarks of ActiveState Corp.  All other
company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.








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