Fresh Software

Fresh Software was founded on July 29, 1998 by Andrew Niese of central Wisconsin. Then 15, his ambitions were to take his programming talent and creativity and eventually turn them into profit as a respectable business.

Its first products were freeware utilities to combat the trojan horse threat that was just beginning to emerge at that time. Fresh Software received almost overnight worldwide recognition for it's AntiGen program in August of that year, the first "BackOrifice" trojan cleaning program ever.

In late March 1999, Fresh Software released its first commercial product, Sentry Professional, which was met with enthusiasm for being a truly unique product to secure a computer workstation when not in use. Fresh Software's next product was X-NetStat, originally sold for the price of $5 dollars, where it was received to a broad audience. Since that day the program has come a long way...

When Drew entered UW Eau Claire, Fresh Software became very much part time as he adjusted to a new college life, and no new programs were released for a couple years until X-NetStat Professional 5.0 was released in May 2004. The early success of that new version allowed him to live off of Fresh Software for the summer and gave him time to build up the business into a more stable, agile form.

Now an MIS major, Drew continues to expand his horizons with new technologies at UWEC and also works on FS whenever he can on the side. Currently he is maintaining and planning for future versions of X-NetStat and other unique programs. Stay tuned to see what comes next!

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