Greater China IP carrier takes the first steps towards total managed security solutions

(Hong Kong, 2 August 2001) Greater China’s leading IP carrier Diyixian.com Limited today announced a partnership with MessageLabs, a leading anti-virus company specializing in Internet level email content filtering, for the launch of DYXNet Managed Virusfree Email Service, which provides the region’s price-conscious businesses full guaranteed protection from all types of email viruses.

Combining Diyixian’s Cisco Powered Network and MessageLabs’ innovative SkyScan portfolio of email filtering services, this brand-new service is a cost-effective means of protecting businesses from the threat of virus attack. It scans all inbound and outbound emails, including attachments, macros and executables, with four industry leading anti-virus scanners, namely McAfee, VFind, F-Secure and MessageLabs’ own knowledge-based scanner Skeptic™, which uses artificial intelligence to detect virus-like activities.
While most scanners can only stop previously identified viruses and require virus signatures in advance, Skeptic uses a knowledge base of virus tactics and pattern recognition to identify and stop all known and unknown viruses. Unlike in-house solutions, which operate at the desktop, server or network gateway, this revolutionary scanner works at the Internet level and intercepts and stops viruses before they reach the corporate network boundary.

¡§Email is the easiest way to infect corporate networks with malicious viruses,¡¨ said Lap Man, CEO of Diyixian. ¡§An email virus passed on to vendors, customers or suppliers may cause lost business or serious damage to corporate image. The DYXNet Managed Virusfree Email Service represents a synergy that can provide a crucial line of defence for businesses large and small.¡¨

MessageLabs proved the unique effectiveness of its anti-virus solutions when it became the first company to intercept the infamous ¡§Lovebug¡¨ virus and stopped the first copy of the ¡§SirCam¡¨ virus on July 17, 2001 approximately 18 hours earlier than a viable signature was made publicly available. Diyixian’s Man commented: ¡§We have intercepted all emails infected by the SirCam virus since it surfaced on July 17. While other ISP carriers have reported infections, all our DYXNet Managed Virusfree Email Service customers are fully protected. We are proud to partner with MessageLabs to bring our customers one of the market’s most effective Internet level managed email security services.¡¨

Nick Hawkins, Vice President of MessageLabs Asia Pacific, said: ¡§Our partnership with Diyixian is a very important one. Diyixian’s very strong presence in the region’s IP market makes them an ideal partner for us, and gives us a strong competitive advantage in this vast but difficult market as businesses there become increasingly aware of the need for high performance security solutions.¡¨

The DYXNet Managed Virusfree Email Service is the first offering by Diyixian to run on the concept of total managed security solutions. Other planned services include managed firewall service, managed intrusion detection service and managed network scanning service, all of which will be jointly developed by Diyixian and other industry leaders.

From now until 31 August 2001, Diyixian offers a good value-for-money package combining DYXNet 1.5M Commercial Broadband Service and free DYXNet Managed Virusfree Email Service to protect businesses from all kinds of email-borne viruses. The package includes:

• FREE 1 year DYXNet Managed Virusfree Email Service (Protects up to 20 mail boxes)

• No hardware or software installation required
• Protects all email boxes under the same domain name
• All inbound and outbound emails ¡V including all attachments, macros or executables ¡V are digitally examined by four industry leading anti-virus products
• Virus pattern signatures are dynamically updated every 10 minutes to keep the threat of virus exposure to an absolute minimum.

• FREE setup

• FREE loan router

• FREE domain name registration (excluding InterNIC/HKNIC fees)

• FREE fixed IP address allocation

• 24 x 7 proactive monitoring with DYXNet Managed Virusfree Email Service

For details, please visit http://www.dyxnet.com.cn/eng/whatsnew/index.html, or contact Diyixian at (852) 2187 7688 or by email dyx-hkav@dyxnet.com