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Auto-configuration: Simple and easy installation, designed explicitly for non technical Users.

• The XGate 2.0 device intelligently auto-configures itself to your home computer and gets you connected to the Internet in no time.
• Intelligently updates its software automatically.
• Choice of Business/Professional mode for users who require advanced configuration options.

Chatroom monitoring: Protect your family from paedophiles, bullies and other malicious people.

• The world’s first solution that enables you to monitor and control your children’s chat room conversations such as MSN/Yahoo/AOL/ICQ etc, and objectionable web pages. Prevent them from becoming victims of online predators and bullies.
• You can receive alerts on your mobile phone and actually control your child’s computer by shutting it down or closing the chat application or web page remotely from your mobile phone if objectionable words occur in the chat room or if your child visits an inappropriate website.

Secure Banking: Bank online with confidence.

• A world pioneering feature, Secure Banking enables XGate 2.0 users to conduct their online banking in a foolproof manner without having to worry about being taken to fraudulent bank websites or their online banking login details being stolen.
• Using GSEC1’s Secure Banking Technology, the XGate 2.0 solution will compare the site being connected to its database of fraudulent sites and will ensure that it will always connect ONLY to the user's nominated banks- it applies other security measures to ensure that the user does not become the victim of a scam while banking online.
• Additionally XGate will warn you if it senses any attempts to take you to a fraudulent bank website.
• Automatically updates bank signatures

Desktop Live View.

• A world pioneering feature in a hardware security device, Desktop Live View gives you a Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) style screen where you can remotely monitor all your children’s desktops in your home network and protect them if they are visiting inappropriate websites or chat rooms. This is also a benefit for small businesses, where they can monitor their employees and warn them if they are found to be engaging in inappropriate activity.

Desktop Live View can

• View multiple users desktops simultaneously
• View programs that are running
• View all open windows
• View chats/ Internet explorer
• Send warnings to individual desktops
• Take periodic screen shots of desktops automatically
• Remotely activate a specific program
• Remotely control specific programs
• Reboot or shutdown the remote computer

Identity Protection: Keep your personal information confidential.

• Protect your identity and continuously monitor your computers for any invasion by malicious programs that can steal your credit card details, passwords or other personal information. XGate 2.0 will notify the user and remove such offending programs automatically.
• Enhanced protection with dual scan engines.

Spam Email control: Stops spam from flooding your inbox.

• XGate's Spam plug-in for Microsoft Outlook has comprehensive filters and user control for classifying and declassifying spam from your mail client stops annoying spam email from overrunning your inbox!
• XGate 2.0 also facilitates blocking spam on the basis of powerful preset Antispam lists for non technical users as well as Black Lists, White Lists, Regular Expressions and Open Relay Databases for advanced users.

VPN client.

• Using Virtual Private Networking technology, you can connect securely from home to your office or the other way around.
• Includes standards compliant IPSEC and L2TP technologies.
• Support for popular encryption and authentication.

Integrated ADSL Broadband and Cable compatible connectivity.

• The XGate 2.0 system features an integrated ADSL2/2+ modem for high speed broadband connectivity, so that you don't have to buy anything extra.
• You can also easily connect an existing cable modem to XGate 2.0 if you are already a cable broadband service subscriber.

Antivirus and Spyware protection.

• XGate 2.0's Advanced Antivirus and Spyware protection ensures that threats are stopped right at the Gateway and your computers are protected at all times.
• Dual Scan Antivirus for more thorough detection of viruses right at the gateway.
• Mechanism to select Gateway Antivirus / real time scan options.
• Selectable scan options for full and fast scans.
• On-access scanning for media.

Web Filters: Internet access control at its best.

• XGate offers comprehensive and powerful Web Filters to control access to inappropriate websites.
• XGate can filter Internet access on the basis of:

1. Web content categories.
2. Time (i.e. allow access to the internet only during specific times during the day).
3. Users (allow only specific users to access the Internet).
4. Exception lists (e.g. Block every website in a specific category yet allow only a specific site from that category).

Business class Firewall Protection: Keep
hackers at bay.

• Integrated protection at the gateway and for internal computers by means of a powerful enterprise class, secure yet flexible firewall.
• Simplicity of configuration, enabled by ready made security templates.
• The ability to create custom firewall rules, provided for the more technically advanced XGate user.
• This ensures that hackers and viruses are kept at bay from entering your computer network.

Gaming: Enables gaming in a totally secure yet transparent environment.

• XGate supports online gaming for all major games systems.
• Allows you to easily set up your Playstation, Xbox Live and Wii for Internet Access.
• Host a Virtual Gaming Server that can be accessed over the Internet.

Wireless security: Security is not an afterthought.

• Work or play from anywhere in your home wirelessly with complete security with XGate 2.0.
• Unlike ordinary wireless systems, XGate 2.0 comes with wireless encryption turned on, out of the box, so you don’t have to!

Network Defence System (NDS) with XGate sensors.

• NDS will automatically identify and quarantine the computers on your home network that are sources of virus, spyware or other malicious traffic.
• NDS provides a single interface to controlling Antivirus, Antispyware, Antifraud, Secure Banking, Desktop Live View and VPN client. It also provides control over the different types of scans, the number of scan engines used and scan schedules.