iiNet Set To Reduce Current Email Traffic And Storage Costs By Up To 50 Per Cent

Sydney – November 11, 2004 - Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq:SYMC), the global leader in information security, today announced that Internet Service Provider (ISP) iiNet Limited has selected Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam 6.0 to offer new and existing iiNet and Froggy broadband and dial-up customers an award-winning anti-spam solution, at no extra charge.

iiNet, Australia’s fourth largest ISP -- with operations in New Zealand through the wholly-owned ihug subsidiary -- has a reputation for providing innovative and quality Internet services. While other Australian ISPs charge for premium-level spam protection, iiNet is transforming the market in Australia by offering the Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam solution to customers and subscribers as an ‘all-in’ bundle at no extra charge. The anti-spam solution is available from November 15, 2004.

“We required a premium anti-spam solution that is highly accurate, user friendly and is easily available to our customers as part of their Internet service. We don’t believe that customers should have to pay for unwanted or unsolicited e-mails. Therefore, iiNet has chosen to absorb the costs of a premium anti-spam service in order to give our customers the service they deserve,” said Greg Bader, CTO, iiNet.

The Symantec solution stops spam attacks in real time without compromising accuracy. “We can reduce email traffic and storage costs by up to 50 per cent,” Bader added.

Spam has increasingly become one of the most severe threats to enterprises today, topping viruses as the number one problem plaguing email systems and administrators. iiNet investigated various spam solutions and found that Symantec Brightmail offers flexible and powerful spam management capabilities, that meet enterprise security needs without imposing a significant administrative burden.

“The team here at Symantec worked with iiNet to build a customised anti-spam solution that best suited iiNet’s requirements. Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam was selected due to our market leadership, low false positive rating, cost efficiency and return on investment,” said Andrew Gordon, senior analyst, Symantec Brightmail.

Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam Version 6.0 is a high performance software solution that blocks spam at the Internet gateway. Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam offers the best accuracy rate available in spam filtering technology, with an industry leading false positive rate of fewer than one false positive in every one million messages identified as spam.

Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam is the most widely used spam solution for ISP vendors worldwide, holding nine of the top 12 US ISP accounts. Enterprise customers using the Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam solution include General Electric, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, IBM, Deutsche Bank, and Barclays Bank.

About Symantec
Symantec is the global leader in information security providing a broad range of software, appliances and services designed to help individuals, small and mid-sized businesses, and large enterprises secure and manage their IT infrastructure. Symantec's Norton brand of products is the worldwide leader in consumer security and problem-solving solutions. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has operations in more than 35 countries. More information is available at http://www.symantec.com.

About iiNet
iiNet, recently re-branded as ii, is one of Australia’s Internet service pioneers, having begun in Western Australia in 1993. At June 30, 2004, iiNet was the fourth largest ISP in Australia, with approximately 353,000 customers across Australia and New Zealand, and Australia’s second largest provider of DSL services. iiNet has built a reputation for providing innovative, quality and value Internet products, and friendly 24-hour customer service and support. For more information on iiNet, please visit www.iinet.net.au or call 131917.

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