MailGuard Adds to Their Best of Breed Offerings with the Addition of VIMA’s ImageFilter™ to Stop Objectionable Images From Reaching Your Computer

"MailGuard performed its evaluation by testing real emails from real businesses...VIMA came out on top in meeting our accuracy, performance, and best of breed filtering needs."

Santa Barbara, CA - June 30th, 2005 - VIMA Technologies announced today that the Australian company, MailGuard Pty Limited, is the latest eMail and Web security company to sign an agreement to incorporate VIMA’s ImageFilter™ objectionable image classifier to stop pornography from reaching the desktop. VIMA uses the latest machine-learning technology to classify image content to protect families and employees from objectionable images. MailGuard is a market leader of outsourced email anti-virus, anti-spam, and content filtering solutions for the business market. It provides those services for companies such as the Australian Football League, Porsche Cars, and Fuji Film.

"The engineers at MailGuard knew what they wanted and were easy to work with during the evaluation phase. We’ve always received the highest marks on accuracy and performance, and testing in their environment proved to be no different. They are an aggressive organization with big plans and we’re delighted to be a part of that growth", declared David Telleen-Lawton, VIMA CEO & President.

"MailGuard performed its evaluation by testing real emails from real businesses experiencing problems with managing objectionable images. We needed a solution that would not only accurately identify objectionable or pornographic images within workplace email, but also to achieve this quickly enough not to impact on our global filtering network," said Andrew Johnson, MailGuard’s Marketing Director. "Ultimately, VIMA came out on top in meeting our accuracy, performance, and best of breed filtering needs."

MailGuard expects to begin offering image filtering to their clients in August, 2005.

About VIMA Technologies, Inc.
VIMA’s patented image search and image categorization processes allow it to lead the industry in content-based image search and categorization for both speed and accuracy. VIMA is probably best known for offering the only active learning image search solution in the market and the only company offering tunable image categorization and filtering solutions. VIMA Technologies, Inc. is a privately-held company located in Goleta, California, just across the street from the University of California at Santa Barbara. For more information, visit: www.VIMAtech.com.

About MailGuard Pty Limited
MailGuard is an Australian company focused on providing the “best of breed” protection against SPAM, viruses, and unwanted email for their business clients. Their offerings of MailGuard, WebGuard, and SafeGuard deliver the most advanced and effective technology in a format that requires no hardware, software, or installation. MailGuard maintains offices in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane to offer direct support to all of their clients such as the Australian Football League (AFL), Porsche Cars, Fuji Film, Ronstan, Quiksilver, and Bakers Delight. For more information, visit: www.MailGuard.com.au.

VIMA Technologies, Inc. is located at 120 Cremona Drive, Goleta, California 93117. You can reach us by telephone at 805-685-7067 or via email at info@VIMAtech.com.

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David Telleen-Lawton
Phone: (805)685-7067
Fax: (805)685-2178
DTL@VIMAtech.com