"Abaca's revolutionary technology is designed to scale seamlessly, enablinglarge service providers and carriers to protect up to hundreds of millionsof email users from spam, virus and phishing attacks," said Leo Jolicoeur,CEO of Abaca Technology Corporation. "Abaca's breakthrough approach toemail security based on receiver reputation provides the ISP market withunsurpassed accuracy, scalability and freedom from ongoing tuning andadministration. The system actually becomes more accurate and intelligentas more email recipients are added to the Abaca Network. These capabilitiesmake Abaca the obvious email security partner for ISPs that need to protectsizeable communities."

"As the leading Latin American Internet company, we have established veryhigh standards for our network and deliver the best experience for ourcustomers," said the director of technology of Terra in Latin America,Marco Schilling. "Their remarkable performance, combined with Abaca'sscalability and flexibility guaranteed the performance we were lookingfor."

Terra will introduce the Abaca solution to their customers in Latin Americaand the United States over the next few months. By fall 2008, all 12million Terra Latin America email customers will be protected by Abaca.

About Terra Latin America

Terra, the largest Internet Company in Latin America, is present in 18countries, including the United States, and has approximately 58 millionunique visitors per month; 8 million unique users per month use Terra TV(http://terratv.terra.com.br), with an average of 55 million streamings.

Terra reported net revenue of 300 million euros in 2006, with portals inArgentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador,United States, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, PuertoRico, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela.

About Abaca Technology Corporation

Abaca Technology Corporation is an innovator in email protection andmessaging security. Abaca's next generation technology, ReceiverNet(TM),offers a revolutionary approach in the fight against spam -- providing anunprecedented level of performance and guaranteeing a minimum of 99 percentaccuracy. Abaca has created a portfolio of advanced products and servicesbased upon this core technology, thereby assuring users unparalleledmessaging protection from spam, as well as viruses and phishing attacks.Abaca is a privately held company headquartered in San Jose, California.For more information about Abaca, please visit www.abaca.com.

Abaca®, Email Protection Gateway(TM), Abaca® Email ProtectionGateway(TM), ReceiverNet®, and the Abaca logos are trademarks of AbacaTechnology Corporation and may be registered in the United States and/orother jurisdictions. Other trademarks shown are the property of theirrespective owners.

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Abaca's Media ContactDonna CandeloriCandelori Communications Inc.408-774-3414Email ContactTelephone: +1 408-774-3414Terra's Media ContactCarla DazziCommunications DirectorEmail ContactTelephone: +55 11 5509-0407Fábia AndérezCommunications AdvisorEmail ContactTelephone: +55 11 3094-2240/ 2283