Founding

This project was initiated by James Koval in Fall of 2008
It was begun because James had a request from a tech expert (hence-forth called Fred) of the malware-fighting community-service group at GeeksToGo.com.

GeeksToGo is a forum where users post computer issues and the tech experts solve them. The core of Fred's daily activity consists of looking at logs of potentially harmful files.  These logs contain mostly legitimate files with only a few infected items. Thus, it is vastly more efficient and easier on the eyes to have a tool that strips away legitimate files using a whitelist.