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Magnetic Soft today announces Folder Castle 3.0, a Windows security tool for protecting computer files from snoops and thieves at home, office and on the road. In version 3.0, users will discover a new interface of the control center that enables fluid navigation through the program.

Protect files and folders with Folder Castle

Of all the threats to your computer privacy, people who have a physical access to your system are the most dangerous. An up-to-date antivirus can prevent from viruses, a firewall can stop hackers but what can stop someone who knows your account login from accessing your computer and seeing a folder with the files you don’t want others to see? To protect yourself from snoops, you need proactive data protection. Folder Castle gives you the confidence to keep your personal files hidden and password-protected on the computer without fear that a family member or a co-worker can view or use them when you’re not around.

Folder Castle employs two methods of data protection. First, you can hide a folder so that the snoop doesn’t even suspect there is something hidden away from him. Second, you can put a folder into a secure storage, which acts as a mountable virtual drive where you can drag and drop files and have them encrypted with instant 256-bit AES encryption. A valid password is required to access files in the secure storage or unhide files. The password cannot be cleared even when the intruder attempts to disconnect the battery that powers the BIOS memory chip. Once protected, computer files cannot be seen in Windows even if it’s rebooted in Safe Mode. Folder Castle itself can be hidden away without traces if you enable the Stealth mode.

Folder Castle lets you share protected files with other people. Just create a secure storage on a USB flash drive, ZIP drive or any other removable device, put files into it and give the USB to someone you want to share your files with. To access files, the recipient must have a password and a copy of Folder Castle.

WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM FOLDER CASTLE?

Folder Castle can benefit most any computer user who has secrets to hide.

- Home PC user. Most any home user has a folder that he doesn’t want others to see. This folder may contain bank account logins, financial data, emails and anything else to keep other out. Now you can use Folder Castle to lock your family members out of your private folders so that they don’t even know you have something hidden on your computer. For more peace of mind, you can also hide the traces of Folder Castle!

- Office PC user. Files you have on your office computer can also be the target of morbid interest from your ill-intentioned co-workers. In order to ensure no prying eyes are pocking around when your leave the workplace for a few minutes, you must password protect and encrypt documents. Folder Castle is ideal for the task. Even if someone knows your Windows account password, he won’t see your documents.

- Laptop user. If you job involves plenty of business trips, you probably have a laptop. For many laptop owners, the biggest worry is how to keep the precious data inside - business emails, projects, contracts, customer databases or banking data - out of hands of thieves. Folder Castle can safeguard from potential hazards of the road. Hide and encrypt files and travel with the laptop that won’t ruin your business if it’s stolen.

Snoop proof your data for home, office and travel today - Folder Castle 3.0 makes it easy!

Read more at http://www.magneticsoft.com/

BoxedApp SDK 2.0, a DLL library from Softanics enables developers to take advantage of the next generation technology - application virtualization to create a portable application with zero installation.

Create portable applications with BoxedApp SDK

Softanics today announces a new version of the application virtualization library - BoxedApp SDK 2.0. Using the library, developers can create a portable, self-contained application that relies on the virtual registry and file system to run on the machine. Application virtualization using BoxedApp offers several benefits, including portability, protection of exclusive content from theft and improved system stability.

Application virtualization allows creating portable applications that run from a USB flash drive, CD-ROM or a computer, even when the user does not have administrator rights to install software on the hard drive. Another benefit lies in the opportunity to hide exclusive content - graphics, animation, audio from illegal copying and re-use. Files are packaged into a single EXE file and streamed from memory, rather than copied to the hard disk where anyone can find and copy them. BoxedApp SDK also speeds up the time to market because there’s no need for regression tests with other applications. Traditionally lengthy QA testing is reduced considerably.

Using BoxedApp SDK, the developer can embed DLL, ActiveX/OCX components, content files, and even .NET runtime, which an application uses, into a single EXE file that runs as an isolated application, without any changes to the file system or registry of the computer. The embedded data is unpacked to memory, rather than the hard disk and registered in virtual registry. Following the “best practices” recommendations from Microsoft, BoxedApp SDK is made to run completely in user mode, which results in many benefits related to system stability and security.

Implementing the library is easy. Just add a few lines of code to an application and all is set.

Sample of using BoxedApp SDK:

Let’s say, for example, the application needs a Flash ActiveX player to play a Flash movie but the developer cannot rely on users to have this component installed. BoxedApp may save the day. Simply create a virtual file that contains the Flash movie, another virtual file that contains the Flash player ActiveX DLL, and virtual registry entries that point to that virtual file. That’s it. Now the application “thinks” that the Flash player ActiveX is actually installed and the Flash player runs just as if the movie file was actually on the hard disk drive.

“We are excited to be releasing new BoxedApp SDK,” says Artem A. Razin, CTO, Softanics. “The requests for virtualization technologies are growing rapidly today. I think our solution will help many to make applications virtual with ease and at an affordable price.”

Available now, BoxedApp SDK 2.0 starts at 299 EUR. A free trial is available.

Read more at: http://boxedapp.com/. The website offers many examples how to” virtualize” .NET assembly, FlashPlayer ActiveX, DLLs. Examples are available for most programming languages.

IntelliProtector.com today announces the official launch of its new software licensing and activation service. Targeting small and medium-sized shareware companies, IntelliProtector.com offers them a convenient online platform to control license management process and activation, as well as a wide range of anti-piracy features in the desktop protection client to prevent a form of theft known as casual copying.

Activation and licensing services for shareware developers

Casual copying is the unauthorized copying or distribution of copyrighted software. It is characterized by sharing and installing multiple copies of the product onto home and office computers, which infringes on the software’s end-user license agreement. Casual copying is very widespread today and accounts for a large portion of the economic losses in the shareware industry. According to the findings of the fifth annual study conducted by the Business Software Alliance and International Data Corporation, the worldwide software piracy rate in 2007 increased by 3 percentage points to 38%, leading to nearly $48 billion of lost revenues for software vendors.

All shareware developers are looking for effective ways to secure their software from pirates and ensure a smooth licensing and activation experience for end users. IntelliProtector’s licensing and activation service gives software vendors the confidence to securely distribute their products online and manage software license usage with ease.

With IntelliProtector services, shareware vendors can:

• Achieve rock-solid protection against piracy through encryption of software code, internet activation and delivery of the license code to the end user. IntelliProtector provides the vendor with many customizable hardware binding properties and anti-crack settings to protect software products from piracy and eliminate its unauthorized use with a minimal impact on licensed users.

• Create time-limited or feature-limited trials. Lock up a license code automatically if there are too many attempts to activate the product using one license code.

• Integrate licensing and activation with almost all popular registration services, such as Regnow, 2Checkout, BMTMicro, Plimus, Swreg, Emetrix and ShareIt.

• Track license codes, manage and search for orders, manage account information, buy extra services, submit tickets to the technical support and do many other operations from a single “command center” - the IntelliProtector online panel.

• Gain insight into software usage and fine tune marketing efforts with summarized or detailed statistics delivered in various reports and charts.

• Put software in the hands of more customers with the help of resellers. Enable resellers to generate license codes for the software and monitor this process.

“We are very delighted to be launching our brainchild - IntelliProtector.com and hope it will be a success,” says Serge S. Levin, CEO of IntelliProtector.com. We have a knowledgeable, energetic team to support this project, and our programmers are dedicated to delivering world-class licensing and activation services focused on making our customers successful. We are open for business and looking ahead toward an inspiring future.”

IntelliProtector services are available today.

Read more at www.intelliprotector.com