Kromtech Alliance Corp. is a

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organization and IT investment and development company that develops

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and provides customer support services for Apple's Mac OS. Kromtech Alliance Corp previously owned and distributed MacKeeper, Memory Keeper, and the anti-theft application Track My Mac.

Products

MacKeeper

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is a software and a service for

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to protect

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users from

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, online threats, and

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along with Mac performance optimization. Kromtech Alliance Corp. purchased MacKeeper from the developer ZeoBit in April, 2013. Under Zeobit a class action lawsuit was filed against MacKeeper because the company allegedly deceived users into paying for unneeded fixes. The lawsuit was settled in 2015 for US$2 million with no admission of wrongdoing. In 2018, the company started taking steps to eliminate affiliates, engaged in aggressive sales techniques to promote the sale of the software. In 2019, the company announced the major transformation led by the new international executive team members. At the end of 2019, product and service of MacKeeper received AppEsteem Certification.

MemoryKeeper

MemoryKeeper is an app for controlling the memory usage on a Mac computer. It frees up

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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. It allows users to lock and unlock a lost or stolen computer remotely and to photograph whoever is using the lost or stolen computer.

Partnerships

Partnership with Avira

In June 2014,

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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.

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 and Chris Vickery announced a partnership to establish a security research center.

History

In October 2017, Kromtech discovered a leak of the health data of 150,000 patients.

Acquired by Clario Tech Limited

At the end of 2019, certain assets of Kromtech were acquired by

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and

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company Clario Tech Limited, who showcased their consumer digital security software at the 2020

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References

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