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SHLP News SearchHelp Rolls-out Latest Update to ``Sentry At Home(TM)'' to Include Monitoring of MySpace(TM) Chat

SYOSSET, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SearchHelp, Inc., (OTCBB: SHLP), a developer of award-winning, web-based parental control software, today announced that, beginning this week, it will provide an important update to all users of its “Sentry At Home” Internet content filtering and blocking software.

This update features several timely enhancements including the ability to monitor and block MySpace Chat, where young people have been signing up by the millions. MySpace.com and other social networking sites have become a hangout for kids, criminals and even sexual predators. The addition significantly broadens “Sentry At Home’s” chat and messaging applications that are actively logged and reported to parents. Existing customers and purchasers of the product at leading regional and national retailers -- CompUSA, OfficeMax, TigerDirect, Duane Reade, Fry’s Electronics, Meijer stores, Micro Center or online at Kmart.com and HSN.com -- will automatically receive the update.

With children spending increasing amounts of time online, protecting them is emerging as a major national concern. Membership on social networking sites is booming around the country. MySpace says its popular site now attracts 54 million visitors very month. According to studies by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, one in seven 10-to-17-year-olds using the Internet has received some kind of a sexual invitation. Other key data:

• 45% of children in the United States — more than 30 million of them younger than 18 — use the Internet. The majority of which, use it alone and unsupervised.
• 71% of teens report receiving messages online from someone they don't know.
• 45% have been asked for personal information by someone they don't know.

Bill Bozsnyak, CEO of SearchHelp, Inc., commented: “SearchHelp is committed to providing parents with the most comprehensive, easy-to-use parental control products currently available. Parents today need to understand that the risks to young people have dramatically increased. It has become clear that the onus of protecting one’s child online lies with the parent and not the instant messaging or chat provider. They must know what their children are doing online and to whom they are talking. Armed with this knowledge, parents can then engage them in constructive dialog about the dangers and potential threats from their online activity."

SearchHelp’s award-winning “Sentry” line of security software provides real-time alerts and information, allowing parents to pro-actively monitor their children’s online activities wherever those parents happen to be – at work, shopping, traveling, etc. This is a critical advance over more traditional passive “block-and-filter” computer technology that merely limits a child’s exposure to objectionable content including pornography.

“Sentry At Home” uses proprietary SmartAgent Technology. When installed on the child’s computer, it allows parents to control, view, and set-up preferences from any other computer, anywhere in the world. There is no need to revisit a child’s computer once a parent installs the software.

For more information, call (888) 647-6525 (toll free) or visit SearchHelp’s website at www.searchhelp.com.

About SearchHelp, Inc.

SearchHelp, Inc. markets and develops software services committed to real-time online protection and family safety. The company sells software products that offer parental controls that enable parents, both in home and remotely, to monitor and regulate their child’s computer activity through timely reports via email and cell phone. To learn more about the ‘Sentry’ line of products or about protecting children when online, please visit SearchHelp at www.searchhelp.com.

Statements in this press release or in other SearchHelp communications may relate to future events or SearchHelp’s future performance. Such statements are forward-looking statements and are based on present information SearchHelp has related to its existing business circumstances. Investors are cautioned that such forward-looking statements are subject to inherent risks and that actual results may differ materially from such forward- looking statements. Further, investors are cautioned that SearchHelp does not assume any obligation to update forward-looking statements based on unanticipated events or changed expectations. SearchHelp makes such forward-looking statements under the provisions of the “safe harbor” section of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.