Founded in 1995, Qbik is a privately owned software development company specializing in Internet connectivity and security. Qbik has a range of software products allowing users to manage their Internet connectivity (WinGate), connect remote offices together (WinGate VPN), and combat network security issues (NetPatrol).When it was first released in October 1995, WinGate was the world's first Internet connection sharing proxy solution for MS Windows, allowing users simultaneous access to the Internet over a single connection. Since then WinGate has evolved into a sophisticated yet easy-to-use Internet connectivity management suite.

WinGate is a sophisticated integrated Internet gateway and communications server designed to meet the control, security and communications needs of today’s Internet-connected businesses.

WinGate’s comprehensive range of license options provides you the flexibility to choose the features and capabilities that best match your needs and budget, whether you need to manage an enterprise, small business, or home network.

WinGate allows you to:

• Provide secure and managed Internet access for your entire network via a single or multiple shared internet connections

• Enforce advanced and flexible access-control and acceptable use policies

• Monitor usage in real time, and maintain per-user and per-service audit logs.

• Stop viruses, spam and inappropriate content from entering your network

• Provide comprehensive internet and intranet email services.

• Protect your servers from internal or external threats.

• Improve network performance and responsiveness with web and DNS caching

• Ease administration burdens on your internal networks.

Combined with WinGate, Kaspersky AntiVirus for WinGate gives you the security of Kaspersky Labs' highly-respected scanning technology for your WinGate traffic. Scan email or attachments, FTP, and web (HTTP) traffic for viruses

PureSight for WinGate current version 2.0.1, 1 December 2005
PureSight for WinGate is a content recognition system that scans incoming traffic for inappropriate content. Using PureSight Inc's artificial intelligence technology PureSight for WinGate gives administrators the ability to block sites that contain references to sex or gambling, based on level of certainty that the page being accessed contains such content.

 WinGate VPN current version 2.2.0, 23 November 2006
WinGate VPN is a powerful yet easy to use IP-tunnel based remote networking solution. With special support for MS Networking and industry-strength security, WinGate VPN is ideal for organisations wishing to allow remote sites or individuals access to internal systems.

NetPatrol current version 1.1.1, 20 October 2004
NetPatrol is a sophisticated Intrusion Detection and Prevention System for networks and individual machines. Featuring a comprehensive and flexible rules-based analysis engine, NetPatrol will monitor, analyse, and alert you to internal and external network threats including traits of virus contaminations. Combined with WinGate, NetPatrol provides an integrated solution enabling WinGate to dynamically respond to detected network threats.