Leading Media & Technology Law Firm, Frankfurt Garbus Kurnit Klein & Selz, P.C., Selects MailEncrypt's Web-based E-Mail Encryption Platform.

Business Editors

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 20, 2001

MailEncrypt, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Superus Holdings (NASDAQ: SPRS, SPRSW; BSE: SRD, SRDW) today announced that it has signed a one year agreement to provide encrypted e-mail to Frankfurt Garbus Kurnit Klein & Selz, P.C., a leading media and technology law firm based in New York that specializes in intellectual property, new media, and software development.

"Frankfurt Garbus not only has a well-deserved reputation as a leading media and technology firm, but they also act quickly to embrace technology solutions that promote the security of confidential information. Their selection of MailEncrypt underscores how seriously they regard the privacy of their clients, and is a vote of confidence for MailEncrypt's technology from an industry leader," commented Adam Epstein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Superus Holdings.

Gary Schonwald, Chairman of Frankfurt Garbus' Corporate Department, stated that, "Our firm has grown increasingly wary about sending confidential information via traditional e-mail, but we also did not want to become security experts and spend a fortune on such a solution. MailEncrypt is a perfect fit for us, because our attorneys and clients don't have to download or configure any software. Furthermore, since it is Web-based, MailEncrypt doesn't further burden our already busy IT department. We can access our secure mail even when we are not in front of our own computers, and MailEncrypt uses an encryption protocol that has stood the test of time. Of all the e-mail security products we researched, only MailEncrypt fit the bill, technologically and economically."

About Superus Holdings

Superus holdings operates and acquires companies that develop and distribute superstructure - core building block technologies - for businesses in emerging Internet economies. The constituent operating companies are:

MailEncrypt, an infrastructure ASP, provides Web-based, encrypted e-mail solutions, primarily to corporations. Poised to capitalize on substantial privacy concerns associated with the rapid world-wide proliferation of e-mail, MailEncrypt offers its services to government agencies, financial institutions, healthcare organizations, insurance/law/accounting firms, e-commerce companies and large e-mail providers, among others.

SolaWorks is a development stage infrastructure Application Service Provider ("ASP") that plans to provide integrated Internet business solutions based upon open source platforms, including tools for commerce and communications, to sub-enterprise sized businesses in Latin America.

Surge Components is a supplier of high quality electronic components. Its product mix includes a large selection of high-performance discrete semiconductors, capacitors and discrete components. Its factories are ISO 9000 quality certified. Surge products are used by manufacturers of products such as, among others, computer and wireless telecommunications equipment, security equipment, power supplies, audio and various consumer products in the United States and Mexico.

This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding Surge's, MailEncrypt's and SolaWork's business strategies and future plans of operations. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risk and uncertainties The Company's risks and uncertainties include: (i) the merged entity's ability to combine and work together and grow the companies; (ii) periodic downturns in their respective industries; (iii) dependence on the Internet; (iv) timely acceptance of new products; (v) intense price competition in their respective industries; and (vi) economic, political and regulatory uncertainties in target markets outside the United States.

These and other important factors, including those mentioned in various filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission made periodically by the Companies (available at http://www.sec.gov) may cause the actual results and performances to differ materially from the future results expressed in or implied by such forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the data hereof and the Companies disclaim any obligation to provide public updates, revisions or amendments to any forward-looking statements made herein to reflect changes in the Companies' expectations of future events.