Area served U.S. Website [1] Founded 2013 | Products MacKeeper Headquarters Cologne Type Privately held company | |
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Talk business 360 interview with kromtech alliance corporation
Kromtech Alliance Corp. is a German-based international IT investment and development company that develops software and provides customer support services for Apple's Mac OS. Kromtech Alliance Corp owns and distributes MacKeeper, Memory Keeper, and the anti-theft application Track My Mac.
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MacKeeper
MacKeeper is a software and a service for the Mac OS X to optimize, clean, and protect a computer system. Kromtech's MacKeeper is a bundled utility of 17 Mac tools and remote support service that has received mixed reviews and in 2016 was given 6.5 out of 10 by the independent site top 10 reviews. Kromtech Alliance Corp. purchased MacKeeper from the developer ZeoBit in April, 2013. Under ZeoBit a class action lawsuit was filed against MacKeeper that was settled with no admission of wrongdoing by the developer and MacKeeper offered refunds to users
MemoryKeeper
MemoryKeeper is an app for controlling the memory usage on a Mac computer. It frees up Random-access memory or RAM and has automatic cleanup setting that gives priority. Kromtech Alliance Corp. released MemoryKeeper in November 2014 and it has been well received on Apple's iTunes.
Track My Mac
Track My Mac is an Anti-Theft application launched in February 2016, Kromtech's Track My Mack allows users to lock and unlock a lost or stolen computer remotely and the application takes an iSight photo of the intruder in case of any unauthorized entry attempt. Track My Mac was designed as an additional MacKeeper tool in order to enhance the Anti-Theft functionality and make it accessible from mobile devices. It works in conjunction with MacKeeper’s anti-theft feature, that’s why to start using it, both programs should be synchronized. After the devices are connected, the user can control the status of the laptop. And in case of loss or theft, the report with location details and snapshots will be sent directly to the user’s iPhone and is automatically updated.
Partnership with AVIRA
In June 2014, Avira licensed its antivirus technology to Kromtech Alliance Corp. The licensing agreement allows Kromtech to use Avira’s Secure Antivirus API (SAVAPI), the official interface for Avira’s anti-malware scanning engine. Avira’s anti-malware scanning technology runs as a service in the background, accepting the scan requests from MacKeeper.
Online Trust Alliance Partnership
In November 2015, Kromtech was accepted into Online Trust Alliance. As a Gold Sponsor, Kromtech actively participates in the OTA working committees, which are designed to mitigate the increased threat of malicious advertising to consumers and help defend the integrity of interactive Internet advertising overall.
Kromtech and Chris Vickery
in December 2015 security researcher Chris Vickery discovered a misconfigured database of 13 million encrypted Kromtech accounts. In January 2016 Kromtech Alliance Corp Chris Vickery announced a partnership to establish a security research center.