SafeOffice - Protects commonly used Internet Applications

PROTECT YOUR COMPUTER FROM VULNERABILITIES IN CERTAIN INTERNET APPLICATIONS

Urbana, IL - CodeTek Studios, Inc., a leading security software developer, announces the beta release of SafeOffice. SafeOffice, a security program for Windows XP, is designed to protect your computer and its data from vulnerabilities in certain Internet applications. These applications are known to have flaws. Until the flaws are patched, an attacker can exploit the flaws and ‘hijack’ the application. This means the application is now carrying out the instructions of the attacker rather than your instructions.

How can you protect your computer and your data from these vulnerabilities? You can try to keep up-to-date with patches, or you can install SafeOffice. Adding patches will help to protect you against well-known vulnerabilities; but patches will not protect you from any new vulnerabilities that surface in the future. SafeOffice will protect your computer from past, present and future vulnerabilities without worrying about vendor-supplied patches.

SafeOffice provides protection as soon as you log on. It runs in the background and as it runs, it enforces its security policy for many of the Internet applications on your system (e.g. Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape 6, Opera, Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook 2000 and 2002, Eudora, AOL Instant Messenger, Microsoft Windows Messenger and Yahoo! Instant Messenger). SafeOffice is also compatible with and complements anti-virus and personal firewall software, such as ZoneAlarm and Norton Anti-Virus.

In addition to enforcing its built-in security policy, SafeOffice has an intuitive user interface that allows you to change the security settings with ease. SafeOffice achieves this level of protection by allowing the Internet application to access only the data that it needs for its normal functionality. SafeOffice denies the Internet application access to all other data. And, since SafeOffice runs at the same level as the Windows operating system itself, there is no way for an attacker to make an ‘end-run’ around SafeOffice’s enforcement of its security policy.

Finally, SafeOffice provides its security on a per-user basis. This means that each user’s security profile is completely separate from any other user on the same system. Thus, SafeOffice supports such advanced Windows XP features as ‘fast user switching’. And, one user’s settings will not interfere with the settings of another user; meaning that one user can have SafeOffice’s enforcement of his or her security policy disabled, while all other currently logged-in users are still protected by SafeOffice.

The SafeOffice Beta Test will continue through the end of June. To participate in the Beta Test, go to http://www.codetek.com/php/beta.php and complete the online registration form.