SAN JOSE, Calif. - Feb. 16, 2000 - AlphaTrade.com (OTC BB: EBNK) today announced that the Company has completed development of a security package to protect E-Commerce web sites from what the hacking community calls DDS - more commonly known as Distributed Denial of Service attacks. These recently highly publicized DDS attacks virtually shut down some of the web's largest Electronic Commerce web sites during the past week.

Internet vandals waged an unprecedented campaign of electronic assaults against Yahoo-Finance (Nasdaq: YHOO), Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), and eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY), among others, orchestrating DDS attacks that disrupted or denied access for consumers to some of the Web's most popular sites.

Eric Hines, CEO of AlphaForce.com, AlphaTrades E-Commerce security division, stated, "These recent attacks of DDS, can be detected and stopped with our solution. AlphaForce's Intrusion Detection solution terminates the TCP/IP connection of all detected hackers or attacks as they happen, not afterwards. Then our integrated solution dynamically records the source address of a computer that the attack is originating from to a live database, which prevents further access from that system to the target." Not only does this happen dynamically but it also creates an immediate report indicating the TCP/IP address which helps to identify the hacker.

AlphaForce's Emergency Surveillance Program (ESP) is designed to deal with this new breed of professional hackers. Hines continues to say, ``This type of solution helps to keep us one step ahead of the requirements for Electronic Commerce.

The solution provided by AlphaForce is designed to evaluate, recommend and implement solutions for all Business to consumer and Business-to-Business E-Commerce related sites, providing 24/7 manned monitoring services of the customer's network. The service specializes in the initial on-site inspection and implementation followed by an installation of the Intrusion Detection System. AlphaForce acts as a virtual security guard against sudden and unexpected attacks by professional hackers by alerting and protecting the targeted electronic commerce site 24x365.

Corporations requiring immediate assistance are urged to call Eric Hines at 1-877-288-7799, or direct in the San Jose office at (408) 244-5099 to arrange a custom AlphaForce Emergency On-Site Assessment.

About AlphaForce.com, a Nevada Corporation, is a wholly owned subsidiary of AlphaTrade.com (OTC BB:EBNK) that provides a vast array of E-Security solutions to the global marketplace, specializing in Virtual Private Networking, Firewall farms, Intrusion Detection Servers, and Enterprise level security solutions that allow customers to leverage publicly shared network infrastructures to conduct business securely and reliably. Through the methodology of the AlphaForce Mitigation Suite, we offer 4 solutions to cover each critical area of Enterprise-wide networks: Definition, Mitigation, Filtering, and Management. The management services solution provides 24x365 network monitoring, maximizing the level of risk mitigation offered to customers. AlphaTrade.com is a true E-Commerce Internet-based company with "Web-to-desktop" convergence technologies, applications and Network solutions. Without ever having to purchase or download software the AlphaWare line of applications are designed to offer computer users secure endless business and personal program choices available anytime, anywhere through any modem or cable connection.

For further information please contact the company at the following:

Demonte & Associates, NY Cynthia DeMonte 212/473-3700 cdemonte@demonte.com

Cameron Associates Richard Moyer 212/245-8800 richard@cameronassoc.com

AlphaForce.com Eric Hines 408/244-5099 ehines@alphaforce.com

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