SUNNYVALE, Calif., September 18, 2007 -- Commtouch® (Nasdaq:CTCH), a leading email defense technology provider, today announced that Mr. Peter Eicher, Director of Product Management, will be presenting at VB2007, Virus Bulletin’s annual conference due to be held September 19-21 at the Hilton Vienna, Austria.
Mr. Eicher will be presenting “The Marriage of Spam and Malware” on Thursday, September 20, 2007, at 11:20 am local time. The presentation will discuss the correlation between spam-sending bots and malware-sending bots, based on research conducted by Commtouch Labs and published in a paper by Amir Lev, CTO of Commtouch.
The annual VB conference, now in its 17th year, has become a major highlight of the anti-malware calendar. Sponsored by Virus Bulletin Magazine, more information about the conference may be accessed at http://www.virusbtn.com/conference/index.
Commtouch Software Ltd. (NASDAQ: CTCH) is dedicated to protecting and preserving the integrity of the world's most important communications tool -- e-mail. Commtouch has over 16 years of experience developing messaging software and is a global developer and provider of proprietary anti-spam, Zero-Hour virus protection and Reputation Service solutions. Using core technologies including RPD (Recurrent Pattern Detection™), the Commtouch Detection Center analyzes billions of email messages per week to identify new spam and malware outbreaks within minutes of their introduction into the Internet. Integrated by scores of OEM partners, Commtouch technology protects thousands of organizations, with hundreds of millions of users in over 100 countries. Commtouch is headquartered in Netanya, Israel, and has a subsidiary in Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information, see: http://www.commtouch.com. The site includes the Commtouch online lab detailing spam statistics and charts.
Recurrent Pattern Detection, RPD and Zero-Hour are trademarks, and Commtouch is a registered trademark, of Commtouch Software Ltd. U.S. Patent No. 6,330,590 is owned by Commtouch.
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Rebecca Steinberg Herson
rebeccah@commtouch.com
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