SpyStudio is now free and available for download here. It is a Swiss Army knife for cyber security analysts, DevOps, QA engineers, and developers. You can take a look at the articles “Nektra and VMware are Collaborating to Simplify Application Virtualization Packaging” and “How Nektra Improved Desktop Virtualization for Symantec Corporation” to see how big […]
We have good news for those interested in Windows Hooking. Deviare Hooking Engine is now open source and available on GitHub. The license is GPL but a commercial license and support are also available for users who want to distribute closed-source products based on Deviare. Our other open source hooking product, Deviare In-Proc, now supports […]
Our Office plugin development team was researching some problems with Office and they found this problem. Our SpyStudio tool intercepts application system calls and retrieves the called functions by inspecting the call-stack. We were unable to access stack information in the last few 64-bit releases of Microsoft Office products. When we use SpyStudio to intercept an Office […]
Nektra’s SpyStudio provides tools allowing for application harvesting and simplified packaging for the VMware ThinApp offering Nektra’s Application Packaging Services and VMware, Inc. have been collaborating to significantly improve the process of creating and troubleshooting VMware ThinApp application virtualization packages with the SpyStudio application. The video below shows the SpyStudio new ability to harvest applications directly […]
Introduction Benchmarking virtualization products is an addictive game. Below we use SpyStudio to compare how long it takes to load a 21 slides PowertPoint presentation, with text and graphics, in three environments: Microsoft App-V 5 (MNT), Symantec Workspace Virtualization 6.4.1603, and natively. We measure the time elapsed until the slides show up on the GUI. […]
Introduction Our Application Packaging Services team wanted to measure the performance of different virtualization products. Below we use SpyStudio to compare ThinApp and Workspace Virtualization performance. Both Symantec and VMware highlight the use of application virtualization to run legacy web applications. There is a huge number of mission critical web applications that only run correctly on Internet […]
Everyone has a lot of questions about Chrome. Some people say that it is spyware because each and every character you enter is sent to Google. Hundreds of comments like this can be found on the web, like this one that says “Chrome spends nearly as much time phoning home to Google as it does […]