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04.07.2008 | QFX Software Releases KeyScrambler 2.0; Leading Anti-Keylogging Software Quadruples Protection
08.06.2007 | Popular Anti-Keylogging Software Now Also Protects Outlook and Microsoft Office
03.16.2007 | Popular Anti-Keylogging Software Extends Protection to Windows Vista
09.15.2006 | Popular Anti-Keylogger Plugin Adds Support for IE 7 and Firefox
08.16.2006 | New Software Released in War on Keyloggers
QFX Software Releases KeyScrambler 2.0
Leading Anti-Keylogging Software Quadruples Protection
Ormond Beach, FL, April 7, 2008–
QFX Software Corporation today introduced
KeyScrambler® 2.0 with quadrupled anti-keylogging protection.
KeyScrambler 2.0 extends protection to more than 30 popular
applications in 6 key categories. Now
also supporting 64-bit editions
of Windows, KeyScrambler 2.0 is the world’s most comprehensive
and powerful anti-keylogging software program.
The free KeyScrambler Personal now offers the level of anti-keylogging protection previously only available in KeyScrambler Pro. KeyScrambler Personal 2.0 protects all parts of the browser instead of only web login pages. It encrypts everything a user types into the browser: logins, account numbers, credit card numbers, addresses, phone numbers, email messages, URLs, search terms, popup password dialogs, master passwords and more. KeyScrambler Personal 2.0 supports Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Flock and is available immediately at www.qfxsoftware.com as a free download.
"KeyScrambler Personal now protects everything the user does in the browser, whether it’s banking, shopping, taxes, email, gaming, or just plain browsing. And best of all, it’s absolutely free," said Qian Wang, CEO of QFX Software. "No other anti-keylogging product offers this level of protection even in their pay versions."
With version 2.0, both KeyScrambler pay versions also make a giant leap in their scope and power of protection. KeyScrambler Pro 2.0 and KeyScrambler Premium 2.0 now support twelve popular browsers and beyond the browser some of the most widely used email and instant messaging clients.* KeyScrambler Premium, intended for businesses and power users, further protects a dozen finance/tax, office, and password managing programs such as Quicken, MS Money, MS Office, and RoboForm.*
Technology & Popularity
The number of keyloggers—malicious software code
that tracks typing activity to capture passwords and other private
information—increased by 250 percent between January 2004 and May 2006,
as reported in a 2007 McAfee study. Because
more sophisticated morphing malware has been developed and used to target
individuals, businesses, corporate executives and government financial
officials, the traditional perimeter security products are no longer
enough. "If you want to provide a comprehensive set of security
capabilities," remarked Stuart McIrvine, IBM Corporate Security Strategy
director, "you cannot just provide security around the
perimeter—there's a lot more to it than that."
The unique ability of KeyScrambler to defeat both existing and new keyloggers, even on computers that are security compromised, gives users a much needed, reliable layer of defense against information theft. Whereas the traditional anti-spyware programs typically depend on knowing the signature of an existing keylogger to detect and remove it and often act only after the keyloggers have already stolen the user’s information, KeyScrambler works in an ingeniously different way: It encrypts the user’s keystrokes at the kernel driver level and decrypts them within the protected applications, so keyloggers are left with entirely indecipherable, encrypted keys to record.
KeyScrambler’s elegant user interface lets users see it encrypting live without changing their computing behavior. Compatible with existing infrastructures and security programs, KeyScrambler is easy to deploy for large corporations and organizations and can also serve as a powerful complement to authentication methods such as tokens and smart cards.
Since its initial launch in August 2006, KeyScrambler has established itself as the leader in the anti-keylogging software market. Currently KeyScrambler has more than 580,000 active users in 177 countries and territories and has been recommended and praised by security experts, bloggers and users in trade magazines, online media, download sites, blogger forums, and email correspondence.
Pricing & Availability
All three KeyScrambler 2.0 products can be downloaded
or purchased at the company's website: www.qfxsoftware.com
without increase in pricing. Existing
users will receive notice of free upgrades in the program.
"We are constantly inspired by our users’ enthusiasm for our products so it’s only natural that we want to keep innovating," said Mr. Wang. "We strive to make sure that all our users will continue to have the best protection in the world against keyloggers."
*Both KeyScrambler Pro and Premium now protect the following applications:
- Browsers: IE, Firefox, Flock, Opera, Safari, Maxthon, AOL Explorer,
MSN Explorer, Seamonkey, Avant, K-meleon, and Netscape;
- Email: Thunderbird, Outlook, Windows Mail, and Outlook Express;
- IM/VoIP: Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, AIM Pro, Live(MSN) Messenger, and Pidgin.
*KeyScrambler Premium protects three more categories:
- Finance/Tax: Quicken, MS Money,
TurboTax, TaxCut, and TaxAct;
- Office: MS Office, OpenOffice, and StarOffice;
- Password Managers: RoboForm, Password Safe, and Handy Safe.
QFX Software Corporation, a developer of security and finance software based in Ormond Beach, Florida, believes in user empowerment. With its innovative KeyScrambler technology, indefatigable product improvement and dedicated customer service, QFX Software has changed the anti-keylogging landscape and helped make the computing experiences better and safer for users all over the world.
Press Contact:
Xin Gale
QFX Software
xlgale@qfxsoftware.com
(386)671-0790
Popular Anti-Keylogging Software Now Also Protects Outlook and Microsoft Office
Ormond Beach, FL, August 6, 2007–
QFX Software Corporation is pleased to announce the release of a new product in the popular KeyScrambler® series, KeyScrambler Premium, which extends protection against keyloggers beyond the browser to Outlook and Microsoft Office.
"We can’t overstress the importance of having effective tools in the war against online theft," says Qian Wang, CEO and founder of QFX Software, referring to the fact that the number of keyloggers—malicious software code that tracks typing activity to capture passwords and other private information—has increased by 250 percent between January 2004 and May 2006, as reported in a recent McAfee study. "The latest trend is that more sophisticated morphing malware has been developed and used to target businesses, corporate executives, government financial officials, and even their relatives," Mr. Wang observes. "KeyScrambler Premium is our endeavor to protect more businesses from keyloggers."
KeyScrambler Premium protects all parts of the browser: URLs, search terms, popup password dialogs, and master passwords. It encrypts everything a user types into a web page—logins, account numbers, credit card numbers, addresses and phone numbers, and email messages. It also protects the user input beyond the browser in Outlook—the most widely used business email program—and in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It safeguards online input without requiring any change in the user's computing behavior or to a company’s existing infrastructure.
KeyScrambler technology works against both known and unknown keyloggers. Traditional anti-spyware and anti-virus programs typically depend on knowing the signature of an existing keylogger in order to detect and remove it, so they often act only after the keyloggers have already stolen the users’ information. KeyScrambler works in a radically different way: it encrypts the user’s keystrokes at the kernel driver level, before keyloggers can record them, and decrypts them within the browser itself, giving keyloggers only indecipherable, encrypted keys to record.
Planning to reach more businesses with the new product, QFX Software has begun to forge global affiliate relationships. It is currently working with the Toronto-based Informatica Security Corporation for corporate sales in Canada. A leader in information security management, Informatica is actively encouraging corporate management in the financial/banking, healthcare and services sectors to supplement their existing anti-malware strategy with the KeyScrambler solution.
Besides KeyScrambler Premium, the KeyScrambler series includes KeyScrambler Professional, which protects all parts of the browser against keyloggers, and KeyScrambler Personal, which protects users’ login information against keyloggers on all websites and is absolutely free. All three products can be downloaded or purchased from the company's website: http://www.qfxsoftware.com
About QFX Software Corporation:
A developer of security and financial software based in Ormond Beach,
Florida, QFX Software Corporation believes in user empowerment. The
KeyScrambler series, latest of the company’s innovations, has won
approval from security experts and users alike and has hundreds of
thousands of users from over 2,550 cities in 140 countries and counting.
Press Contact:
Xin L. Gale
V.P. of Communications
xlgale@qfxsoftware.com
(386)671-0790
Popular Anti-Keylogging Software Extends Protection to Windows Vista
Ormond Beach, FL, March 16, 2007--
QFX Software Corporation is pleased to announce the release of KeyScrambler® 1.2.0, which now supports Windows Vista, Microsoft’s new operating system.
KeyScrambler® is a browser plugin that employs a unique technology against both known and unknown keyloggers. Traditional anti-spyware and anti-virus programs typically depend on knowing the signature of an existing keylogger in order to detect and remove it, so they often act after the keyloggers have already stolen the users’ information. KeyScrambler works in a radically different way: It encrypts the user’s keystrokes at the kernel driver level, before keyloggers can record them, and decrypts them within the browser itself, giving the keyloggers only indecipherable, encrypted keys to record.
The Personal edition of KeyScrambler is absolutely free and can be downloaded at the company's website, http://www.qfxsoftware.com. It protects users’ login information against keyloggers on all websites.
KeyScrambler Professional, at $24.99, encrypts everything a user types into a web page, including logins, account numbers, credit card numbers, social security numbers, addresses and phone numbers, and even email messages.
Neither version requires you to do anything differently on your computer. When you type in your user names and passwords, you’ll see KeyScrambler® encrypting live, unobtrusively, for your peace of mind.
A developer of security and financial software based in Ormond Beach, Florida, QFX Software Corporation believes in user empowerment and KeyScrambler® is the company’s leading product. With support for Internet Explorer 6 and 7 and Mozilla Firefox, KeyScrambler® has had hundreds of thousands of downloads in over 60 countries since its debut in August, 2006.
"Adding Windows Vista means more users worldwide can now enjoy better computing security with our effective anti-keylogger tool," says Qian Z. Wang, the CEO and co-founder of QFX Software, a graduate of M.I.T. with two degrees in Computer Science. "Our goal is to make KeyScrambler serve as many users as possible and I hope those who have been waiting for the new release are happy with it."
Free Download: http://www.qfxsoftware.com
Contact: qfxsoft@qfxsoftware.com
Popular Anti-Keylogger Plugin Adds Support for IE 7 and Firefox
Ormond Beach, Florida, September 15, 2006--
Six weeks after KeyScrambler’s initial release on July 29, 2006, QFX Software rolled out the much anticipated new version, KeyScrambler 1.1, with newly added support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox.
The Personal edition is free for download at the company's website, http://www.qfxsoftware.com, and takes one minute to download and install. Users of Internet Explorer and Firefox will enjoy increased computing security for the anti-keylogger tool protects all logins, not just one or two sites, and does so by encrypting (or "scrambling") the user’s keystrokes at the kernel driver level, before keyloggers can record them.
KeyScrambler Professional, available at $24.99, encrypts not only logins but everything a user types into a web page, including account numbers, credit card numbers, addresses and phone numbers, and even email messages.
Neither version requires you to do anything differently on your computer. When you type in your user names and passwords, you’ll see KeyScrambler encrypting live, unobtrusively, right before your eyes, on your screen, for your peace of mind.
A developer of security and financial software based in Ormond Beach, Florida, QFX Software Corporation believes in user empowerment and KeyScrambler is the latest of the company’s innovations. Because traditional anti-spyware and anti-virus programs typically depend on having a known signature of a keylogger before they can detect and remove it, they often act after the keyloggers have already stolen the users’ information. KeyScrambler employs a radically different method that works against known and unknown keyloggers. By encrypting the keystrokes at the kernel driver level and decrypting them within the browser itself, KeyScrambler gives keyloggers only indecipherable, encrypted keys to record.
"We’re offering the Personal edition absolutely free because we believe every user deserves at least this much protection from keyloggers," says Qian Z. Wang, the CEO who co-founded the startup after graduating MIT with two degrees in Computer Science.
Users all over the world seem to agree, as KeyScrambler has been gaining a fast growing user base on all continents except Antarctica in the short time since its first release. There should be little doubt that users will be even better served by the new version, KeyScrambler 1.1, a more robust product with bug fixes and added support for Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox.
New Software Released in War on Keyloggers
Ormond Beach, Florida, August 16, 2006--
Amid the recent slew of news of identity thieves worming into our computers with spyware and malware to copy our keystrokes to steal our vital information, here comes some bright news for users of Microsoft Internet Explorer: A browser plugin named KeyScrambler was released on July 29, 2006 by QFX Software, a startup based in Ormond Beach, Florida. The Personal edition is free for download at the company’s website and protects all logins against keyloggers.
The new anti-keylogging tool takes only a minute to download. It is an invaluable addition to the IE users’ computing security for it protects all login pages, not just one or two sites, and it does so by encrypting (or "scrambling") the user’s keystrokes at the kernel driver level, before keyloggers can record them.
The Professional edition of KeyScrambler provides complete input protection by encrypting everything a user types into a web page, including account numbers, credit card numbers, addresses and phone numbers, and even email messages.
QFX Software Corporation believes in user empowerment and has developed several innovative software programs since 2002 to help combat Internet fraud and identity theft, KeyScrambler being the latest of the company’s innovations. Because traditional anti-spyware and anti-virus programs typically depend on having a known signature of a keylogger before they can detect and remove it, the traditional way of combating keyloggers are ineffective in that they often work after the keyloggers have already stolen the users’ information. KeyScrambler employs a radically different method that works against known and unknown keyloggers. By encrypting the keystrokes at the kernel driver level and decrypting them within the browser itself, KeyScrambler gives keyloggers only indecipherable, encrypted keys to record.
"KeyScrambler is an effective tool in our war on keyloggers," says Qian Z. Wang, the CEO who co-founded the startup after graduating MIT with two degrees in Computer Science. "That's why my company has created the program in the first place. We’re offering the Personal edition absolutely free because we believe every user deserves at least this much protection from keyloggers." He adds that his company is currently working on making KeyScrambler also compatible with Mozilla Firefox.
Having KeyScrambler on your computer does not require you to do anything differently. When you type in your user names and passwords, you’ll see KeyScrambler encrypting live, unobtrusively, right before your eyes, on your screen, for your peace of mind.