Message from CEO Adrien de Croy about the next release of WinGate

Qbik New Zealand Limited, makers of the WinGate Proxy Server software have released a security update to their flagship WinGate product. The update addresses a critical security issue which was reported several days earlier, relating to the SMTP service in WinGate. This affects WinGate versions 5.x and 6.x prior to 6.2.2. Users of an affected version should upgrade as soon as possible. The exploit allows a remote attacker to cause the WinGate process to terminate.

Thuirsday 23 November 2006, Qbik New Zealand Limited, makers of Internet security and gateway management software released new versions of two of its main software products WinGate and WinGate VPN.

9 October 2006, Qbik New Zealand Limited, makers of the popular Internet Gateway Management product WinGate, has signed a deal with Commtouch software Limited, makers of AntiSpam and Virus Outbreak Detection software based on their proprietary Realtime Pattern Detection (RPD) technology.

Wednesday 17 May 2006, Qbik New Zealand Limited, makers of Internet security and gateway management software released new versions of two of its main software products.

Tuesday 1 November 2005, Qbik New Zealand Limited, developers of internet security and gateway management software released new versions of it's top 4 best selling software releases.

On October 2 2005, WinGate - the worlds first internet sharing solution for the Windows platform - turned 10.

"Things have come a long way since 1995" said Adrien de Croy WinGate's inventor and founder of Qbik in 1995. "WinGate today doesn't bear much resemblance to that first simple freeware offering, but some things have not changed, such as our commitment to our customers, and our determination to keep WinGate at the forefront of Internet Management". To mark WinGate's 10th birthay, Qbik is preparing another WinGate release, further adding to WinGate's already extensive capabilities with an IMAP4 server, and email list support.

Tuesday 29 March 2005, Qbik New Zealand Limited, developers of the well-known software program WinGate released maintenance updates to its flagship products WinGate and WinGate VPN. Containing a number of minor bug fixes, the company says this release should be the final version of the current cycle of WinGate before the next major release goes into public beta later this year.

Thursday 7 October Qbik New Zealand Limited, released the second major version of its Network Intrusion Prevention System - NetPatrol 1.1.

Damon Hill BMW - the prestigious UK-based BMW dealership recently selected WinGate to provide internet access control and management for all employees at their Warwick head office.

Thursday 29 July Qbik New Zealand Limited, a manufacturer of Internet security and management software products released the general public version of its latest offerings - WinGate 6.0, and WinGate VPN 2.0. Offering several exciting new features as well as a major overhaul of several core functions, Qbik has positioned WinGate to address larger corporate markets by focussing on some key areas not covered by existing products.

The final release candidate prior to the planned release of WinGate 6.0 in mid July contains several exciting new features, including connection failover, remote gateway selection (support for specifying default gateways per service), support for DMZs, and an ARP responder. "The system administrator now has the tools to put together an enormous number of different scenarios." said Adrien de Croy, founder of Qbik New Zealand Limited and inventor of WinGate in 1995...

Friday 25 June, Qbik New Zealand Limited released the final beta of their flagship Proxy and Firewall product WinGate. Beta 3 adds some significant functionality to the previous beta, and solves some important issues for users, such as bandwidth control, and how to cope with changes to network interfaces. Some further key usability features make the built-in Mail Server even more powerful and functional. WinGate 6 just keeps on getting more exciting says Adrien de Croy, founder of Qbik New Zealand Limited, and the inventor of WinGate in 1995. On top of an already exciting upgrade to version 5, we managed to squeeze a few more key features into the final beta....

Thursday 6 May Qbik New Zealand Limited, a manufacturer of Internet security and management software products released a beta version of its latest offering - WinGate 6.0. Offering a tantalising taste of what is to come, with several exciting new features as well as a major overhaul of several of its core functions, Qbik has positioned WinGate to address the larger corporate markets by focussing on some key areas not covered by existing products. "In particular we are quite excited by the options for users of Terminal Services" said Adrien de Croy, who founded Qbik New Zealand Limited in 1995 with the world's first Internet Sharing product for Windows...

We are happy to announce the release of WinGate 5.2.3, this version is mainly a maintenance release, containing a number of minor fixes over version 5.2.2

Qbik is pleased to announce that there is now a new version of our Intrusion detection software, NetPatrol, available for download.

We are happy to announce the release of WinGate 5.2.2, this version is mainly a maintenance release, containing a number of minor fixes over version 5.2.

Kaspersky Labs, a leading information security software developer and Qbik New Zealand Limited, a developer of Internet connectivity and security software, announce the release of an integrated anti-virus system for WinGate, one of the most popular products for managing and sharing internet connections. The system is based on renowned Kaspersky® Anti-Virus technology, which became Qbik’s first choice for integration with its products.

Qbik releases WinGate 5.2 plus updated Kaspersky AntiVirus.

Qbik releases the much anticipated WinGate 5.1 plus new Kaspersky AntiVirus and iCognito PureSight content filtering plugins.

It's official! The new content filtering product which operates as a plugin for WinGate will be known as PureSight for WinGate.

Qbik New Zealand Limited is proud to announce the latest release of our flagship products WinGate, and WinGate VPN.

Qbik New Zealand Limited is proud to announce the latest release of our flagship products WinGate, and WinGate VPN. WinGate 5.0.8 includes a number of new features, and stability and performance enhancements over previous versions. WinGate VPN 1.0.8 introduces a new licensing model, and provides enhanced support for Windows Networking across wide-area networks.

Qbik New Zealand have launched an all-new website as they move to assume responsibility for distribution and support of WinGate and all Qbik products. It is to be expected that there will be some issues with the site, so please be patient and bear with us as we work through and resolve these issues.

Qbik New Zealand Ltd. will be re-assuming responsibility for sales and distribution for their WinGate suite of products from 30 September 2003. The Auckland based software company is scaling up its workforce to take-on these functions after six years US based distribution.