XOFTSpy Antispyware Company Background

ParetoLogic XoftSpy Developer's Bio

ParetoLogic is an international software development company headquartered in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. On Jan. 12, 2004 the company was incorporated and on Sept. 30, 2005 it became a member of the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA). ParetoLogic develops security applications for enterprise, business, and personal computer users including custom software solutions for business and government.

Along with XoftSpy anti-spyware program, ParetoLogic creates utility software including registry cleaning and file erasure. With their anti-spyware products, the company offers automatic updates to the spyware database to offer protection against new malware threats. As of July 2007, the database included coverage for over 269,000 malware threats.

ParetoLogic uses a proprietary technology they refer to as Zheng™ that assists with the process of online research and spyware detection. Zheng is described as a scalable information gathering and dissemination tool that provides identification of spyware that can be included in the company’s spyware database. "Zheng technology crawls the Web seeking to identify new spyware before it can do any harm.”