@Backup to Protect Millions of New Users Through Agreements With Leading Online Software Vendor, Small Business Retailer.

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 12, 1999--

Intuit Launches Intuit.com and @Backup Link;

OfficeMax Launches Information Protection and Access Services;

PSINet To Launch Additional Service at ISPCon

@Backup, the leading provider of online information protection and access for small businesses and home computer users, today announced the company is extending its new service to millions of potential customers through program agreements with Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ:INTU) and OfficeMax, Inc. (NYSE:OMX).

@Backup also announced that PSINet (NASDAQ:PSIX), one of the world's largest providers of IP-based communications services, will launch an @Backup-based service later this month at ISPCon in San Jose, California.

The agreements offer @Backup exposure to customers of the leading provider of personal finance software and a major small business retailer. The company already has existing agreements with Dell and Toshiba.

@Backup's new @Backup Release 2.0 service, also announced today, allows customers automated online storage, protection and convenient access to their most valuable information anytime, anywhere over the Internet. Customers also interact daily with their protected files, so @Backup maintains a welcome and constant relationship with the customer. The daily relationship with the customer is largely the result of the backup message that they automatically receive each day after the backup has been completed.

"We are providing a point of differentiation and added value in each of these agreements and in the process creating a formidable market presence and brand equity," said Gary Sutton, CEO of @Backup. "Most Internet companies are struggling to extend their brand to their target markets; in one swift series of strategic agreements, we're potentially going to reach a huge percentage of our target."

Intuit

@Backup's automated online storage solution has teamed with Intuit's Quicken, the leading personal finance software, in a new service called "Online Backup for Quicken." Available worldwide to Quicken's nearly 12 million users, the new service provides complete automated online protection for their most important financial documents, including unlimited store and restore capability, for $19.95/year.

OfficeMax

OfficeMax now offers @Backup's remote online information protection and access on the company's Web site at www.officemax.com, the highest rated office products superstore on the Internet. The new service, "MaxBackup, Powered by @Backup," offers users up to 100 MB of remote online storage for $79/year.

OfficeMax.com has been ranked the No. 1 public Internet site among office products retailers by Media Metrix, PC Data Online and Business Marketing, as measured by customer visits. In addition to its vast merchandise assortment of over 20,000 items, OfficeMax.com offers free next business day delivery on orders over $50 and a credit card security guarantee. OfficeMax.com also provides a variety of services to help small business and home office customers.

About @Backup

Founded in 1995 in San Diego, Calif., @Backup is the leading online information protection and access company for small businesses and consumers. By outsourcing the storage, retrieval and migration of information, the company extends backup to create a user's virtual desktop from which information can be accessed anywhere, anytime. @Backup's massively scalable services are endorsed, distributed and marketed by industry leading ISPs, software publishers and hardware manufacturers such as American Express, Dell, Intuit, Toshiba and Time Warner.

For more information about @Backup, please visit the company's Web site at www.atbackup.com and see today's related @Backup news in the following releases: "@Backup Drives Toward Creation of Virtual Desktop," and "New @Backup Online Service Protects Valuable Personal Files and Content; Offers Unlimited Access through Web."

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