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Stalker Software and Kaspersky Lab Partner to Provide CommuniGate Pro Users a Sophisticated Comprehensive Anti-Virus Solution

MILL VALLEY, Calif., (February 8, 2005) - Stalker Software, the technology leader in email, collaboration, and real-time communication solutions, today announced its partnership with Kaspersky Lab, a leading vendor of secure content management solutions. This collaboration will offer the more than 8,500 CommuniGate Pro Real-Time Communications users worldwide an anti-virus plug-in as well as the best-of-breed messaging solution to telcos, ISPs and enterprises.

As CommuniGate Pro customers migrate from other less secure solutions, such as Exchange, they continue to find reassurance with the security around the CommuniGate Pro system and Stalker's partnerships. "Kaspersky Lab and Stalker Software share the common goal of providing our customers more confidence in securing their systems," said Vitaly Bezrodnykh, business development director for Kaspersky Lab. "This partnership will allow CommuniGate Pro users to benefit from Kaspersky Lab's expertise in the field."

Stalker will integrate the Kaspersky anti-virus engine with CommuniGate Pro and also resell as a separate plug-in. As security becomes critical in the messaging arena, an anti-virus protection is now essential for all enterprises and ISPs. New cyber threats appear regularly, requiring more and newer forms of anti-virus protection, and intrusion detection. Kaspersky Lab is dedicated to deflecting all forms of cyber threats and continuously develops new techniques to protect users against malicious programs, such as viruses, worms, Trojans, hacker attacks and other forms of unsanctioned intrusion and data leaks.

"Walla Walla Community College uses the Kaspersky plug-in with our college email server," said Forrest R. Baker, network administrator at Walla Walla Community College. "With Kaspersky, we have been able to cut out virtually all incoming viruses from the users in-box. We are continuously impressed with Stalker Software's performance, functionality and reporting."

"Stalker's customers expect the very best protection at the server level from email-borne viruses and security breaches," said Jon Doyle, vice president of business development for Stalker Software. "Partnering and integrating with leading anti-virus products such as Kaspersky® Anti-Virus provides our customers with the most aggressive and current virus protection available on the market."

CommuniGate Pro Real-Time Communications Server for the Intel Xeon, Intel EM64T, and the Intel IA64 server platforms are fully available with a choice of Windows, Linux, *BSD, HPUX, and OpenVMS . Kaspersky will support the x86 Intel-based: Linux/Intel, Windows, FreeBSD, Solaris/Intel platforms. By next year, they plan to add support to non-Intel platforms, such as Solaris/Sparc, MacOS/PowerPC.

CommuniGate Pro offers a wide range of functionality from email and groupware features to real-time communications such as secure IM, VoIP, video conferencing, whiteboarding, desktop and application sharing using Windows Messenger® software, or any other client based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) via the built-in SIP server. CommuniGate Pro's Dynamic Cluster architecture supports enterprises, and large scale ISP's scaling to over 5 million users. CommuniGate Pro is installed in over a dozen Tier1 providers around the world, serving more than 1millon users each.

About Kaspersky Lab
Kaspersky Lab is an international software development company offering technologies and products for advanced protection against viruses, hackers, and spam. For 15 straight years Kaspersky team has waged a battle against computer viruses, accumulating unique knowledge and skills that led to Kaspersky Lab becoming an acknowledged industry leader. Kaspersky Lab has solid experience in anti-virus technology integration into third party products, services and security systems. Our partner network comprises over 500 companies in more than 50 countries serving for a wide spectrum of customers from home users to enterprises.

About CommuniGate Systems
Founded in 1991 and based in Mill Valley, California, CommuniGate Systems develops carrier-class Unified Communications and media delivery software for broadband and mobile operators to deliver value-added services and SaaS solutions. CommuniGate Systems delivers powerful mashups of Unified Communications technology mixed with media and entertainment applications for portals, social networks, enterprises and mobile communities. CommuniGate Systems is revolutionizing the Unified Communications industry with a unique Flash-based client framework Pronto! bringing together all forms of communication and breaking the leash to the desktop with Web 2.0 mobility.

CommuniGate Systems is the first choice in technology solutions for over 12,000 customers with over 130 million subscribers unifying e-mail, collaboration, IM, presence and VoIP with a single identity. The Unified Communications platform provides flexibility, performance, and scalability with benchmark proven architecture remaining unchallenged in the industry. Our technology powers OEM partner products ranging from embedded real time systems to powerful unified messaging platforms at top tier global network operators. The open development environment's simple APIs deliver extensible flexibility with a unique clustering technology for 99.999% uptime for the most demanding application environments.

The company is a trusted and financially stable vendor, maintaining the highest customer satisfaction levels in the Unified Communications industry with over 175 members in its partner network worldwide.