Austin, TX, April 19, 2006 - Intego, the Macintosh security specialist, today announced the release of Intego Personal Antispam X4, an update to its acclaimed intelligent antispam software. This powerful program works in conjunction with Apple Mail and Microsoft Entourage to filter spam so users can keep their inboxes spam-free. Intego Personal Antispam X4, a Universal application that runs on Macs with Intel or PowerPC processors, works simply and easily, and relieves users from checking each message to know if it is spam or not.

Some analysts suggest that as much as 84% of all e-mail that is sent and received is spam, and that this costs the global economy tens of billions of dollars each year. Spam causes losses in productivity in businesses, wastes time for all kinds of users, and can even clog mail servers, making it harder to send and receive legitimate e-mail. Some people get so much spam that they spend more time sorting their in-boxes than they do reading legitimate e-mail.

Intego Personal Antispam X4 is the first intelligent program for fighting spam and phishing e-mails. Intego Personal Antispam X4 learns from the e-mail users receive, and regular monthly updates to the program help keep their inbox as spam-free as possible. The program filters spam and phishing e-mails, protecting users from spam glut and scams.

"Spam is one of the main annoyances of the Internet", said Laurent Marteau, CEO, Intego,  "and some users get far more spam than legitimate e-mail. In addition, phishing is the most dangerous scam on the Internet, and can easily fool users into giving up confidential information. Intego Personal Antispam X4 helps Mac users save time by filtering their e-mail, sorting legitimate e-mail from spam and phishing attempts, efficiently and effectively."

In addition to keeping users' inboxes free of spam, Personal Antispam X4 helps protect against two serious threats: phishing and viruses. Some viruses circulate by e-mail as attachments, and Personal Antispam X4 detects specific types of attachments and moves messages containing them to the spam folder. As for phishing, e-mail scams intended to trick users into logging into web sites and giving up their passwords, account numbers or credit card numbers, Personal Antispam X4 detects and filters these messages in several ways: by the words they contain, the links in phishing messages, and specific types of layout.

Intego Personal Antispam X4 features:

• Filters e-mail and weeds out spam, placing it in a Spam folder
• Filters spam with Bayesian analysis
• Filters spam by address, message content, layout and more
• Filters spam with a whitelist of users' contacts
• Filters spam by developing a blacklist of spammers' addresses
• Filters phishing e-mails
  
• Filters attachments for common file names
• Can learn from the spam users receive
• Does not slow down e-mail programs
• Regular updates help fight spam as new types appear

System requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later. Intego Personal Antispam X4 is fully compatible with Tiger, Panther and Jaguar
• Universal application - runs on Macs with Intel and PowerPC processors
• Apple Mail or Microsoft Entourage e-mail client; other e-mail clients are not supported
• An Internet connection to receive e-mail

Intego Personal Antispam X4 is available now from Intego via the company's website, www.intego.com . The program is available by download, and is also available in Internet Security Barrier Antispam Edition, a bundle containing Personal Antispam X4, NetBarrier X4 and VirusBarrier X4. Internet Security Barrier Antispam Edition is available from the Intego website as well as from Macintosh software resellers or one of Intego's sales offices.

Pricing (excluding shipping, handling and any applicable sales tax): US$49.95
Free upgrade for all registered users of Intego Personal Antispam X3 via NetUpdate.

About Intego
Intego develops and sells desktop Internet security and privacy software for Macintosh.

Intego provides the widest range of software to protect users and their Macs from the dangers of the Internet. Intego's multilingual software and support repeatedly receives awards from Mac magazines, and protects more than one million users in over 60 countries. Intego has headquarters in the USA, France and Japan.

As the dangers of the Internet grow, Intego is hard at work, developing new software to protect users and their Macs from the latest security and privacy threats.

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