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FixMeStick ® Technologies. All rights reserved. FixMeStick and the FixMeStick logo are trademarks of FixMeStick Technologies. All other trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Questions? 1-888-530-6125 or visit us at www.FixMeStick.com © Copyright FixMeStick Technologies, Suite #210, 376 Victoria Ave, M ontreal, QC, H3Z 1C3, Canada “EXCELLENT” Technical Specification Despite the widespread adoption of anti-virus protection, virus infections remain pervasive. The FixMeStick removes viruses from PCs. The FixMeStick PRO’s annual subscription provides a license for unlimited use on an unlimited number of PCs. Overview: Finds: Three anti-virus engines working together to find the widest range of infections. Removes: ‘Computer on a stick’ architecture provides a separate and clean operating system to fix Windows operating systems. Delivers: Highest confidence remediation. Remote Access: Remote access independent of the host operating system, i.e. out-of-band remote management, like a remote access card for PCs. Easy-to-use: • The FixMeStick ® is a Linux-based device that runs before Windows boots enabling it to remove infections without the infection being able to block it. • Contains a built-in multi-scanner composed of three anti-virus engines: Kaspersky Lab ® , Sophos ® , and GFI’s VIPRE ® . • The technology is integrated behind a single full-screen application (the user never sees Linux, or any of the three anti-virus engines). • The FixMeStick is set-up and ready to go right out of the box. No additional installation or downloading is required. • Any user can start with 2 steps: 1-insert key, and 2-double-click “Run FixMeStick” . • Automatic updates are fetched and stored directly on the FixMeStick. Easy to support: Any removal operation is 100% reversible with the click of a button. Systems supported: Any PC; A minimum of 512 MB of RAM. Bootability: The FixMeStick uses a bootloader menu system to provide multiple boot configuration options, one of which will work on essentially any PC. Detection, Cleaning, Quarantine: Three anti-virus scanners provide the super-set of all three scanners’s detections. Each scanner is loaded into RAM, and files are fetched from disk once and passed to each scanner in parallel. The result is a scan time on par with desktop “on-demand” full system scans. Only if each of the scanners fail to clean an infected file is that file quarantined. Connectivity: The FixMeStick automatically seeks an Internet connection when it starts. It has built-in ethernet drivers that support essentially all PC ethernet hardware. It also contains built-in WiFi drivers that support most PC WiFi hardware. If the FixMeStick is booted from Windows (versus directly from the BIOS) the FixMeStick will automatically use the default WiFi SSID and password active on the Windows operating system (except on Vista). If an auto-connection is not possible the user can select their network from the WiFi picker that is displayed within FixMeStick. Once a connection is established, the FixMeStick downloads program and malware definition updates and stores them on the FixMeStick. The FixMeStick will work without a network connection, but it won’t be able to fetch the latest malware definition updates. Authentication: Each FixMeStick has a unique serial number in its firmware. This serial number identifies the FixMeStick to the FixMeStick Management Server. Each FixMeStick also has a tag etched into its outside. This unique tag maps to the unique serial number in the FixMeStick Management Server. Users identify their specific FixMeStick unit to their solution provider (or FixMeStick technical support) by providing this tag. Remote Remediation: FixMeStick Management Server has a record of every FixMeStick’s usage (for users who have permitted this information retrieval) and log files for every scan. Each FixMeStick also contains a TeamViewer® client. The FixMeStick user enters the key combination “CTRL-ALT-R” and the TeamViewer client will display. The user provides the endpoint id and passcode to the solution provider, and the solution provider can remotely login to the FixMeStick, i.e. login to the Ubuntu-based operating system that is FixMeStick, from which they can manage the local device. Company: FixMeStick Technologies, Montreal, Canada, founded in 2011, www.FixMeStick.com, or [email protected] for more information. FMS9ZAFPRO The FixMeStick PRO $299.99 MSRP External hardware-based removal of viruses, spyware, trojans, rootkits and more that cannot be removed by software security programs 1 year unlimited use on unlimited PCs

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Page 1: External hardware-based software security programsstatic.highspeedbackbone.net/pdf/FixMeStick Virus... · The FixMeStick removes viruses from PCs. The FixMeStick PRO’s annual subscription

FixMeStick® Technologies. All rights reserved. FixMeStick and the FixMeStick logo are trademarks of FixMeStick Technologies.All other trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Questions? 1-888-530-6125 or visit us at www.FixMeStick.com

© Copyright FixMeStick Technologies, Suite #210, 376 Victoria Ave, Montreal, QC, H3Z 1C3, Canada

“EXCELLENT”

Technical SpecificationDespite the widespread adoption of anti-virus protection, virus infectionsremain pervasive.

The FixMeStick removes viruses from PCs.

The FixMeStick PRO’s annual subscription provides a license for unlimiteduse on an unlimited number of PCs.

Overview:Finds: Three anti-virus engines working together to find the widest range ofinfections.

Removes: ‘Computer on a stick’ architecture provides a separate and cleanoperating system to fix Windows operating systems.

Delivers: Highest confidence remediation.

Remote Access: Remote access independent of the host operating system,i.e. out-of-band remote management, like a remote access card for PCs.

Easy-to-use:• The FixMeStick® is a Linux-based device that runs before Windows bootsenabling it to remove infections without the infection being able to block it.

• Contains a built-in multi-scanner composed of three anti-virus engines:Kaspersky Lab®, Sophos®, and GFI’s VIPRE®.

• The technology is integrated behind a single full-screen application(the user never sees Linux, or any of the three anti-virus engines).

• The FixMeStick is set-up and ready to go right out of the box.No additional installation or downloading is required.

• Any user can start with 2 steps: 1-insert key, and 2-double-click “Run FixMeStick”.

• Automatic updates are fetched and stored directly on the FixMeStick.

Easy to support:Any removal operation is 100% reversible with the click of a button.

Systems supported:Any PC; A minimum of 512 MB of RAM.

Bootability:The FixMeStick uses a bootloader menu system to provide multiple bootconfiguration options, one of which will work on essentially any PC.

Detection, Cleaning, Quarantine:Three anti-virus scanners provide the super-set of all threescanners’s detections.

Each scanner is loaded into RAM, and files are fetched from disk once andpassed to each scanner in parallel. The result is a scan time on par with desktop“on-demand” full system scans. Only if each of the scanners fail to clean aninfected file is that file quarantined.

Connectivity:The FixMeStick automatically seeks an Internet connection when it starts. It hasbuilt-in ethernet drivers that support essentially all PC ethernet hardware. It alsocontains built-in WiFi drivers that support most PC WiFi hardware. If the FixMeStickis booted from Windows (versus directly from the BIOS) the FixMeStick willautomatically use the default WiFi SSID and password active on the Windowsoperating system (except on Vista). If an auto-connection is not possible the usercan select their network from the WiFi picker that is displayed within FixMeStick.Once a connection is established, the FixMeStick downloads program andmalware definition updates and stores them on the FixMeStick. The FixMeStick willwork without a network connection, but it won’t be able to fetch the latest malwaredefinition updates.

Authentication:Each FixMeStick has a unique serial number in its firmware. This serial numberidentifies the FixMeStick to the FixMeStick Management Server. Each FixMeStickalso has a tag etched into its outside. This unique tag maps to the unique serialnumber in the FixMeStick Management Server. Users identify their specificFixMeStick unit to their solution provider (or FixMeStick technical support) byproviding this tag.

Remote Remediation:FixMeStick Management Server has a record of every FixMeStick’s usage (forusers who have permitted this information retrieval) and log files for every scan.Each FixMeStick also contains a TeamViewer® client. The FixMeStick user entersthe key combination “CTRL-ALT-R” and the TeamViewer client will display. Theuser provides the endpoint id and passcode to the solution provider, and thesolution provider can remotely login to the FixMeStick, i.e. login to theUbuntu-based operating system that is FixMeStick, from which they can managethe local device.

Company:FixMeStick Technologies, Montreal, Canada, founded in 2011,www.FixMeStick.com, or [email protected] for more information.

FMS9ZAFPRO

The FixMeStick

PRO

$299.99 MSRP

Externalhardware-basedremoval of viruses,spyware, trojans, rootkits andmore that cannot be removed bysoftware security programs

1 year unlimited use on unlimited PCs