SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 22, 2005 - Fortinet - the pioneer and market leader of Unified Threat Management and only provider of ASIC-accelerated, network-based antivirus firewall systems for real-time network protection-- today announced that its FortiGate™ integrated security appliances, FortiMail™ Secure Messaging Systems and FortiClient™ Host Security software protect against the latest Phishing scam, HTML/Ebay-phish. Fortinet received the first sample of this new Phishing scam in Israel and detected 46,902 samples thus far, including 12,000 samples of this new Phishing attempt within two hours of releasing the detection package.

This new Phishing scam, HTML/Ebay-phish, is sent to target email addresses in an attempt to fool and convince users to sign onto a Web page using their eBay login information. The Web page is not affiliated with eBay and may track the user's login information in order to steal data. Identity theft, credit card fraud and financial loss are very real possibilities should the attack yield the requested information. Fortinet currently rates this Phishing scam as a "Level Two" threat with the potential of becoming a "Level Three" threat if detected samples surpass 100,000 worldwide.

Email subjects for the new Phishing scam, HTML/Ebay-phish, include:

• Customer Service: Your Account In eBay Inc
• EBAY - UGENT SECUITY NOTICE
• EBAY EMAIL VEIFICATION
• EBAY INC - UGENT SECUITY NOTIFICATION
• EBAY: UGENT SECUITY NOTICE
• EBAY: UGENT SECUITY NOTIFICATION
• Protect your eBay Inc account
• UGENT NOTIFICATION FOM EBAY BILLING DEPATMENT
• eBay Inc - confirm your details to avoid service cancellation
• eBay Official Update
• eBay: please confirm your banking details

Automatic Updates: FortiGuard Distribution Network
All FortiGate systems in production worldwide are kept up to date automatically by Fortinet's FortiGuard Distribution Network, which provides continuous updates that ensure protection against the latest threats around the clock and around the world. To protect customers against HTML/Ebay-phish, Fortinet published antivirus database 4.811 for its thousands of FortiGate systems within two hours of receiving the first virus sample. With this latest antivirus database update, Fortinet's FortiGate systems block the phishing scam, and other types of threats, at the gateway before it enters customers' networks.

For further information on HTML/Ebay-phish, please visit Fortinet's virus encyclopedia at:
http://www.fortinet.com/VirusEncyclopedia/search/encyclopediaSearch.do?method=viewVirusDetailsInfoDirectly&fid=52775

For more information on Fortinet's FortiGuard Distribution Network please visit:
http://www.fortinet.com/FortiGuardCenter/av.html