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BROOMFIELD, Colo. - Have you ever been in an airport traveling for business and needed to check your e-mail, but could not gain access to your local area network?

eSoft Inc. (NASDAQ: ESFT), a leading provider of Internet security appliances that include firewall and VPN for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), today announced Webmail, a new SoftPak for the InstaGate EX and EX2 products. Available immediately, Webmail makes accessing corporate e-mail simple from almost anywhere including home computers, client sites, shared workstations, airport kiosks and cyber caf�s.

eSoft has partnered with EMUmail - a leader in web-based e-mail software development - to deliver Webmail, which enables users to access e-mail while outside of the office. With Webmail, the only tool needed to send and receive e-mail is a web browser. Webmail does not require a second e-mail address, special system configuration or a VPN.

"eSoft strives to meet the changing needs of our customers," said Dave Aylesworth, product manager for the InstaGate EX and EX2 security appliances. "Our customers needed a way to permit remote access to corporate e-mail without the requiring users to log on to the LAN. The Webmail SoftPak meets this need and provides a simple and economical way to send mission-critical data to a mobile workforce."

Webmail is integrated with the InstaGate EX POP and IMAP mail servers and converts Microsoft� Word attachments to HTML, which assures traveling personnel that they can easily read documents while checking mail remotely.

"By merging the benefits of web browser technologies with the InstaGate EX product line, together we are able to help businesses conquer geographic limitations for accessing e-mail while on the road," said Ron MacDonald, Sales Manager for EMUmail. "Webmail programs like EMUmail's are a natural integration for the InstaGate EX appliances and an ideal fit for eSoft customers."

Through eSoft's innovative patent-pending SoftPak Director, Webmail is available for immediate download with a single touch of a button. Webmail is one of several SoftPaks available from eSoft. Other SoftPaks include Anti-Virus, SiteFilter, SpamFilter and Firewall Policy Manager.

SoftPaks provide revenue for eSoft's value added reseller (VAR) and service provider partners by virtually eliminating costly truck rolls and site visits for customer upgrades.

eSoft Inc. was founded in 1984 with headquarters in Broomfield, Colo. eSoft provides a flexible, customizable and expandable product suite, enabling rapid delivery of Internet security appliances for small to medium enterprises. eSoft's family of products provides businesses with firewall protection, VPN and other security software and services.

Contact eSoft at:
295 Interlocken Blvd, #500
Broomfield, Colo., 80021, USA
Phone 303-444-1600
Fax 303-444-1640
www.esoft.com or pr@esoft.com.

EMUmail (pronounced "ee-mew-mail"), www.emumail.com, focuses on leveraging its unique Web mail technologies to allow people to communicate across the boundaries of operating systems and geography. By creating Web mail servers EMUmail enables easy access to POP and IMAP email from any Web browser.

SoftPak Director, SoftPaks and InstaGate EX are trademarks of eSoft. All other brand and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements often can be identified by the use of terms such as "may," "will," "expect," "believe," "project," "estimate" or words of similar meaning. Readers should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and eSoft will not necessarily update these statements to reflect subsequent developments. In addition, these forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and important factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. These factors include adverse economic conditions, entry of new and stronger competitors inadequate capital, unexpected costs, failure to gain product approval in foreign countries, failure to capitalize upon access to new markets, the possibility that a competitor will develop a more comprehensive or less expensive solution and delays in the market awareness of eSoft and its products. Readers should review these factors and others, which are discussed in reports that eSoft files with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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