Kelly McNeill writes “I’m an individual who cherishes his privacy on both the Internet and in the real world. While I may sometimes go a bit overboard about security in the real world, I don’t go to any privacy extreme when on the Internet. I don’t encrypt my e-mail. I don’t worry about malicious hackers taking my credit card information. And I certainly don’t get worked up about Web sites that use cookies to track my reading habits.”

ZDNet reports “People looking to off-load their old Microsoft software to make way for Windows XP have to be careful about selling it online. For more than a year, Microsoft employees have kept tabs on eBay and other online auctions for software sales that the company believes violate its copyright or trademark rights. When they surface, Microsoft and the auction house work together to shut them down.”

Kelly McNeill writes “In an economic environment that has high-tech companies battling for every scrap of revenue they can capture, Sun Microsystems has launched fierce frontal attacks on its largest competitors, Microsoft and IBM, in an effort to win market share and take advantage of its rivals’ perceived vulnerabilities. On Monday, Sun announced that it would cut the price of its Web software by 37 percent in a move widely seen as an effort to undercut the price of Microsoft’s competing software, which has suffered a series of highly publicized and embarrassing security breaches.”

ZDNet reports that Mandrake has released its third beta version of its Itanium supporting Linux distribution.

LinuxSecurity Contributors writes “This week, perhaps the most interesting articles include “Analyzing your internet applications
log files,” “BSD security fundamentals,” and “A Beginner’s Introduction to Network Security.”
Also this week, SANS released an updated security list. The ‘top 10’ security list has now
become ‘top 20.’
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/forums_artic le-3804.html”

Reuters reports that Cambridge Silicon Radio, the British-based Bluetooth chipmaker, says it will
need more cash by the end of next year.

Debian.org has annoucnements about three conferences in Germany this week, all involving the Debian Project.

Reuters reports that several recording companies will head to federal court in San Francisco Wednesday to
request a summary judgment against Napster.

Universal Networks unveiled Open for Business, a new resource for IT
workers today. Open for Business aims to provide IT workers with information to assist in
migrating to open source tools such as Linux and Apache. Some of the resources available at launch
included articles and discussion forums.
According to Universal Networks CEO Timothy R. Butler, Open for Business was launched because many
businesses are “interested in moving to Linux and open source technologies, but they need assitance.” Butler continued “They need a resource of how-to’s, commentary, reviews, and news to assist them in transitioning from
proprietary operating systems to Linux.”

You can visit Open for Business by going to http://open.uninetsolutions.com.

Universal Networks operates a varied network of sites including Uninet Perl Company which
offers open source scripts and consulting, the FaithTree.com customizable Christian portal,
and Open for Business, an open source migration information community. You can reach Uninet
at http://www.uninetsolutions.com or contact@uninetsolutions.com.

CONTACT:
Timothy R. Butler
tbutler@uninetsolutions.com

Internet Exchange Messaging Server (IEMS) 5.1, a high-end, user-friendly messaging server, well known for its integrated outstanding anti-virus feature has been recently released by International Messaging Associates (IMA). Its anti-virus capability has been further enhanced through the addition of an Attachment Removal Filter Module and a Messaging Queue Open API. IEMS5.1 can run on a single machine or in a distributed environment. Its various modules can, separately, run on Windows and Linux platforms in a multi-platform environment.

Messaging experts view this as something unusual but highly recommended in today’s multi-platform environments. IEMS5.1 virus detection and protection system consists of a multi-threaded Anti-virus Module, a Attachment Removal Filter Module, and a Message Queue Open API that further allows third party developers to build customized filter or gateway modules.

“The architecture of IEMS’s anti-virus engine is designed precisely for cross-platform interoperability. One can run the Message Store Module and MTA Module on Linux platform and at the same time running third party anti-virus software of their choice on Windows platform in another machine, for example, Windows 98”, IMA president Tim Kehres said.

It is apparent that there is no other messaging server that runs on Linux that can support Windows-based virus scanning software running on the Windows operating system. Until recently, the efforts of most anti-virus software developers have been focused to support Windows-based systems. But Linux, among other platforms, has been growing in recent years at a pace greater than Windows in the server market. However, the sophistication of Linux-based anti-virus software for email systems has not kept pace with those operating on a Windows environment.

IEMS5.1 addresses this disparity. It allows users to actually choose the best available virus scanning software if Linux platform is their choice for messaging server. It also provides users with the option to use a single anti-virus engine, or install several anti-virus applications complementing each other — virtually creating a total, multi-layered anti-virus protection system in any environment.

IEMS 5.1 support for anti-virus engines includes Windows and Linux operable software, such as Sophos Anti-virus, MacAfee ViruScan, Norton Anti-Virus, F-Prot Professional Anti-Virus Package, and Gecad’s Reliable Anti-Virus (RAV) Software.

The open source Attachment Removal Filter Module of IEMS5.1 contains a preprocessor plug-in library of pre-configured file name extensions and/or MIME types that are notorious for carrying viruses. The module checks the type of email attachment against the library. If the type is an unwelcome one, IEMS automatically deletes the attachment and sends a notification message to the postmaster. IEMS5.1 provides a user-friendly GUI that allows systems administrators to configure filter parameters as well as choice of action.

An open API to its preprocessor is also available in IEMS5.1 to give third party developers a platform for building archiving agents, content filters, and other customized filter or gateway modules according to the needs of their respective systems. In fact, IEMS5.1’s Attachment Removal Filter Module is actually an open source module that was built using this new feature.

IEMS’s Anti-virus Module can be run independently on a remote machine and made to function via the RPC (Remote Procedure Call) mechanism. This feature is useful in high traffic systems where it is necessary to run the anti-virus module on a dedicated remote machine to reduce CPU and file input/output loading of the pre-processor system.

IEMS5.1 can be downloaded at www.ima.com, and up to 2,000 15-user licenses can be obtained free of charge from the online registration system at http://www.ima.com/purchase/15user.html. This special offer will last until November 30, 2001.

Sales and Marketing Contacts:

Eric Arandez (jearandez@ima.com)

Ana Monsanto (marcana@ima.com)

Toll Free No.: +1 (800) 549-2762
Fax: +1 (888) 562-3561
Website: http://www.ima.com