San Diego, California - December 1, 2003 - Aplus.Net, a leading Internet presence provider to small and medium-sized businesses, announced today that Aplus.Net customers receive top-notch protection from spam and computer viruses as a free value-added service.

“It is part of our mission to provide the greatest value and customer-friendly service in the industry,” said Ivan Vachovsky, chief executive officer for Aplus.Net. “We provide several layers of e-mail security, which is a huge convenience for small businesses with minimal or no IT staff. Our proactive approach helps our customers to avoid paying fees for a professional to clean their PCs.”

According to industry experts, there are currently over 12.4 billion spam e-mails sent on daily basis, which accounts for over 40% of all e-mail. The estimated yearly cost to U.S. businesses in 2002 was $8.9 billion. This figure will continue to grow exponentially as spam is estimated to increase by 63% by the year 2007.

Viruses are also wrecking havoc. The recent 8th Annual ICSA Labs Virus Prevalence Survey found that computer viruses are becoming more costly, more destructive, and causing more real damage to data and systems than in the past.

The dramatic impact of spam and viruses is what prompted Aplus.Net to invest in spam and virus filters to protect their customers from the economic and productivity drain caused by these nuisances.

Aplus.Net’s spam protection has two levels of filtering. There is a filter at the router level to remove all messages that are undoubtedly spam and a second filter at the user level. The second-level filter is easily set up via Aplus.Net’s web-based control panel and it gives Aplus.Net customers the option to review spam-flagged e-mail before it is deleted.

Aplus.Net’s virus filter detects and eliminates viruses before they ever enter the network. This is especially important because industry research has shown that many small businesses and home users don’t use or regularly update virus software.

“Let's face it, businesses rely on computer systems,” said Ronan Winter, executive vice president of marketing and business development for Aplus.Net. “They are vital to our daily businesses operations and poor computer performance or downtime caused by spam or computer viruses is not something that small businesses can tolerate and expect to survive.”

About Aplus.Net (www.aplus.net)

Aplus.Net is a leading provider of Internet services to small and medium-sized businesses. The company’s headquarters are located in San Diego, CA with other offices in Anaheim, CA, Sacramento, CA, Atlanta, GA and Europe. Aplus.Net specializes in providing a complete Internet presence, including domain name registration, corporate identity on the Internet, matching e-mail addresses, web design, web hosting, e-commerce, credit card processing tools, and website maintenance. Aplus.Net is among the ten largest privately held web hosting and domain name registration companies in the USA and is a facilities based provider. The Company owns and operates its own data center and its own ICANN accredited domain names registrar (Names4Ever.com).

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