Technology
How qikfox products are built
Four products that share an approach: make the decision as close to the device as possible, describe what each component does, and keep the update path short.
Engineering principles
Local-first decisions
Where a check can run on the device, it runs on the device rather than sending data to a server.
Shared signals, separate products
Safety information is shared between products, but each product stays useful on its own.
Short update path
Fixes and detection updates reach users through a channel designed for frequent, small releases.
Isolation by default
Untrusted content - pages, files - is handled apart from the rest of the application.
Explainable behaviour
Every protection has a named setting and a plain description of what it changes.
Platform-native builds
Each platform gets a build that respects its conventions rather than a wrapped shell.
How the products connect
The connections are deliberately narrow: enough to be useful together, not so many that one product depends on another.
Search to Browser
Safety context shown with a result is followed by the browser's own checks when the page loads.
Browser to Antivirus
Downloads are handed to Antivirus for review before you open them, when it is installed.
VPN to Browser
When the tunnel is up, the browser reflects that the connection is encrypted.
Everything to updates
All four products use the same update discipline for security fixes.
What we do not claim
- We do not describe our technology with benchmark figures we have not produced.
- We do not present detection as complete; every mechanism has limits, stated on the product pages.
- We describe architecture, not secrets - implementation specifics that would help an attacker stay in security practice documentation.
Frequently asked questions
Related qikfox pages
All products
What each product covers.
Security at qikfox
Engineering and operational practices.
Privacy at qikfox
What our products collect.
How qikfox VPN works
A step-by-step explanation.
See the approach in the product
Install qikfox Safe Browser and open the protection panel - the architecture is visible in the settings.