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Tumbleweed Teams with Commtouch to Add Outbreak Detection to Tumbleweed MailGate

Security Company Licenses RPD Technology from Commtouch, Expands Spam Prevention Capabilities

Mountain View, CA and Redwood City, CA – July 11, 2005 – Tumbleweed® Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:TMWD), a leading provider of email and file transfer security software and appliances, and Commtouch® Software Ltd. (NASDAQ: CTCH), the developer of RPD™ technology for real time anti-spam and Zero-Hour™ virus protection, today announced that Tumbleweed has licensed Commtouch’s RPD technology and certain elements of U.S. Patent No. 6,330,590 for inclusion in Tumbleweed’s email security products. Tumbleweed has integrated RPD (Recurrent Pattern Detection™) features into Tumbleweed MailGate Email Firewall and MailGate AntiSpam. The addition of this technology further extends MailGate performance by adding unique real-time detection capabilities, blocking spam outbreaks within minutes of their release into the Internet.

“Recurrent Pattern Detection adds outbreak detection as an additional layer of defense against spam, phishing, spyware, virus and worm attacks sent out in email blasts. It is a strong complement to our comprehensive email security offering,” said John Thielens, CTO of Tumbleweed Communications. “Outbreak Detection, combined with Tumbleweed’s other threat protection technology, ensures complete protection from increasingly nefarious email attacks.”

“As a leading provider of communication security solutions, Tumbleweed is a very important partner for Commtouch. This agreement is a significant milestone in our global OEM strategy,” said Gideon Mantel, Commtouch’s CEO. “It is additional evidence that only a technology with true global reach – that is equally effective against messages in any format or language – is the choice of best-of-breed security vendors such as Tumbleweed.”

About Recurrent Pattern Detection (RPD)
Spam, phishing, spyware, viruses, and worms are evolving at a frantic pace, and dangerous new spam/malware hybrids continue to emerge. Messages are continuously modified to stay far ahead of rule-based methods, and dynamically changing distribution sources (sender IPs) undermine reputation-based services. Rather than addressing individual messages, RPD technology detects the outbreaks themselves – and blocks all messages associated with them. The most significant advantage of this approach is that it overcomes one of the most pressing issues in the industry: response time to new threats. RPD detects outbreaks as soon as they emerge: the faster an outbreak proliferates, the faster it is identified. Messages associated with mass outbreaks are blocked immediately, with no need to analyze each message. The result is that users are protected in real-time, all the time. RPD is effective against any mailing that is mass-distributed over the Internet: malware, fraud and spam in any language or format.

About Commtouch
Commtouch Software Ltd. (Nasdaq:CTCH - News) is dedicated to protecting and preserving the integrity of the world's most important communications tool – email. A global developer and provider of proprietary anti-spam solutions, Commtouch has an installed base of over 25 million users. The company's core technologies, including RPD™– Recurrent Pattern Detection, reflect Commtouch’s 14 years of experience developing messaging software. Commtouch solutions are incorporated into OEM applications and are also sold through channels and resellers. Commtouch is headquartered in Netanya, Israel and has a subsidiary in Mountain View, CA. For more information, see: www.commtouch.com. For coverage of Commtouch technology by industry analysts such as IDC and Osterman Research, see: http://www.commtouch.com/site/ResearchLab/research.asp

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including projections about our business, within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. For example, statements in the future tense, and statements including words such as "expect," "plan," "estimate," anticipate," or "believe" are forward-looking statements. These statements are based on information available to us at the time of the release; we assume no obligation to update any of them. The statements in this release are not guarantees of future performance and actual results could differ materially from our current expectations as a result of numerous factors, including the failure of Commtouch to satisfy the conditions imposed by the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Panel for the continued listing of Commtouch shares on The Nasdaq SmallCap Market; business conditions and growth or deterioration in the Internet market, commerce and the general economy, both domestic as well as international; fewer than expected new-partner relationships; fewer than expected license agreements resulting from Commtouch’s exclusive rights to market DCC; competitive factors including pricing pressures; technological developments, and products offered by competitors; the ability of our OEM partners to successfully penetrate markets with products integrated with Commtouch technology; a slower than expected acceptance rate for real time AV solutions in general and the Commtouch Zero Hour™ Virus Protection product in particular; availability of qualified staff for expansion; and technological difficulties and resource constraints encountered in developing new products, such as the Zero Hour solution, as well as those risks described in the text of this press release and the company's Annual Reports on Form 20-F and reports on Form 6-K, which are available through www.sec.gov.

Recurrent Pattern Detection, RPD and Zero-Hour are trademarks, and Commtouch is a registered trademark, of Commtouch Software Ltd. U.S. Patent No. 6,330,590 is owned by Commtouch.

About Tumbleweed Communications Corp.
Tumbleweed provides security software and appliances for email protection, file transfers, and identity validation that allow organizations to safely conduct business over the Internet. Tumbleweed offers these products in three comprehensive suites: MailGate, SecureTransport, and Validation Authority. MailGate provides protection against spam, viruses, and attacks, and enables policy-based message filtering, encryption, and routing. SecureTransport enables businesses to safely exchange large files and transactions without proprietary software. The Validation Authority is the world-leading solution for determining the validity of digital certificates. Tumbleweed’s enterprise and government customers include ABN Amro, Bank of America Securities, Catholic Healthcare West, JP Morgan Chase & Co., The Regence Group (Blue Cross/Blue Shield), St. Luke's Episcopal Healthcare System, the US Food and Drug Administration, the US Department of Defense, and all four branches of the US Armed Forces. Tumbleweed was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif. For additional information about Tumbleweed go to www.tumbleweed.com or call 650-216-2000.

SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT
Tumbleweed cautions that forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on plans and expectations as of the date of the press release, and that a number of factors could cause the actual results to differ materially from the guidance given at this time. These factors are described in the Safe Harbor statement below.

Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, particularly with respect to Tumbleweed’s email security products. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “potential,” “continue,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “estimates,” and similar expressions. For further cautions about the risks of investing in Tumbleweed, we refer you to the documents Tumbleweed files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly Tumbleweed’s Form 10-K filed March 16, 2005 and Form 10-Q filed May 10, 2005.

Tumbleweed assumes no obligation to update information contained in this press release, which represents the Company’s expectations only as of the date of this release and should not be viewed as a statement about the Company’s expectations after such date. Although this release may remain available on the Company’s website or elsewhere, its continued availability does not indicate that the Company is reaffirming or confirming any of the information contained herein.