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(Anti-Spyware Tool) (Anti-Virus) (Encryption Tool) (File Wiper) (Firewall) (Packet Sniffer) (Password Manager) (Password Viewer) (Script Defense)
Anti-Spyware Tool Ad-Aware
(Liteware) (free for personal use)
OS: Windows 98/NT/ME4/XP/2000
Languages: English
Description: Ad-aware is a free multi spyware removal utility. It comprehensively scans your memory, registry, hard, removable and optical drives for known sypware components (e.g., Datamining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, Keyloggers, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components) and lets you remove them safely. Many options like scanning depth or automatic modes can be set in the preferences menu.Ad-aware features an easy to use wizard-style interface, guiding you through the scanning and removal process. A detailed log file can be created automatically or manually after scanning. NOTES: check Home Page for updated ref files or use RefUpdate. Users report that the program works in Win95. Information on one fix that may be needed is available on the Lavasoft site: Article # 03051201 Missing DLL Message When Attempting To Run Ad-aware on the Microsoft Windows 95 Operating System http://www.lavahelp.com/articles/v6/03/05/1201.html
Author: -- Company: Lavasoft
Home Page:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Download v6.181 (1.7 MB)
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-03)Spybot Search & Destroy
(Donationware)
OS:
Languages: English, many other languages
Description: SpyBot-S&D searches your hard drive for so-called spy- or adbots; that is, little modules that are responsible for the ads many programs display. Many of these modules also transmit information, including your surfing behavior on the Internet. If SpyBot-S&D finds such modules, it can remove them. Another feature of Spybot S&D is the removal of usage tracks, which makes it more complicated for unknown spybots to transmit useful data. The list of last visited websites, opened files, started programs, cookies, all that and more can be cleaned. Supported are the three major browsers Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator and Opera. Spybot-S&D also contains some routines to find and correct invalid entries (regarding links left over from software uninstalled long ago, for example) into the registry (the global Windows database for settings).
Author: -- Company: PepiMK Software
Home Page:
http://security.kolla.de/
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/spybot.html
Download page v 1.2 (spybotsd12.exe) (3.5 MB)
http://security.kolla.de/
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-04)
Anti-Virus AVG Anti-Virus System
(Liteware) (personal or non-commercial use only) (unsupported) (Registerware: name, e-mail, address)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: AVG 6.0 Free Edition has: AVG Resident Protection, AVG Email Scanner, AVG On-Demand Scanner, Basic Scheduled Tests, Free Virus Database Updates, Automatic Update feature, Easy-To-Use Interface, Automatic Healing of infected files, AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files.
Author: -- Company: Grisoft
Home Page:
http://www.grisoft.com/
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/avg.html
Download page v 6.0 (5.1 MB)
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-03)F-Prot Antivirus for DOS
(Freeware) (free for personal use)
OS: Windows 3.x, Windows 95/98, UNIX, LINUX, Macintosh workstation running a DOS or Windows emulator.
Languages: English
Description: F-Prot Antivirus for DOS is easy to use, with a simple yet practical interface that offers great flexibility for the user, but can be run in command-line mode as well. The user can scan floppy disks, local hard drives or network drives as well as individual folders and files. Among features included in F-Prot Antivirus for DOS is an effective heuristic scanner to scan for new viruses and suspicious files. F-Prot Antivirus will scan inside compressed files, as well as in Word documents and Excel workbooks.
Author: -- Company: Frisk Software International
Home Page:
http://www.f-prot.com/products/home_use/dos/
Download v 3.14b (2003-10-08) (f-prot.zip) (1897 KB)
ftp://ftp.f-prot.com/pub/f-prot.zip
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-04)AntiVir Personal Edition
(Liteware) (free for personal use on one computer)
OS: Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English, German
Description: You'll be amazed how thoroughly AntiVir protects: The resident Virus Guard serves to monitor file movements automatically, e.g. downloading of data from the internet. Scanning and repair of macro viruses. Protection against previously unknown macro viruses. Internet-Update Wizard for easy updating. Protection against previously unknown boot record viruses and master boot record viruses. Support is free of charge via AntiVir Bulletin Board. NOTES: Uninstall old versions before updating. AntiVir makes use of certain Microsoft System-Dlls. If these Dlls are missing, this will be detected by the AntiVir Personal Edition Setup, which issues a warning and a prompt to the user to download and install them.
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.free-av.com/
Download v 6.22.09.09 (2004-01-02) ( avwinsfx.exe) (3.71 MB)
http://www.free-av.com/index.htm
http://www.avup.de/personal/en/avwinsfx.exe
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-03)
Encryption Tool Encryption for the Masses (E4M)
(Freeware)
OS: Windows 9x/NT/2000
Languages: English
Description: E4M is an on-the-fly disk encryption product. What this means is create a volume on your hard disk, CDROM, floppy or other media which is essentially just a normal file. The file however is in fact a file system itself. It contains all the structures needed by your operating system to recognise the file as a file system of a particular type such as FAT or NTFS. This is called a "file hosted volume". Or you could choose a blank or unwanted partition on a local hard disk or floppy disks and format it using E4M. You can then mount this new encrypted volume, and use it like you would any other drive. This is called a "Raw partition volume". To your operating system, these new volumes will work exactly like your C drive, or any other drive on your system.
Author: Paul Le Roux Company: --
Program description:
http://woundedmoon.org/win32/e4m202a.html
Download v2.02a (476,708 bytes)
http://woundedmoon.org/win32/e4m202a.zip
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-03)Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
(Freeware)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP, Unix, MS-DOS, OS/2, Macintosh, Amiga and Atari
Languages: English, many other languages
Description: PGP® or Pretty Good Privacy® is a public key encryption program originally written by Phil Zimmermann in 1991. PGP is a powerful cryptographic product family that enables people to securely exchange email messages, and to secure files, disk volumes and network connections with both privacy and strong authentication.
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.pgpi.org
Download page:
http://www.pgpi.org/products/pgp/versions/freeware/
Download page (Win 98/ME/NT/2000/XP) (English) v 8.0.2 (2002-12-03) (PGP803-PF-W.zip) (7937 KB)
http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-03)
File Wiper Eraser
(Donationware) (open source GNU General Public License)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT4/2000/XP. DOS
Languages: English
Description: Eraser is an advanced security tool which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Eraser's source code is released under GNU General Public License. The patterns used for overwriting are based on Peter Guttmann's paper "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" and they are selected to effectively remove magnetic remnants from the hard drive. Other methods include the one defined in the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual of the US Department of Defence and overwriting with pseudorandom data. You can also define your own overwriting methods. NOTES: If you have an older version of Eraser installed on your system, make sure you uninstall it before installing the latest version.
Author: Sami Tolvanen Company: Heidi Computers Limited
Home Page:
http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/eraser.html
Download v 5.7 (2003-08-03) (2.6 MB)
http://download.sourceforge.net/eraser/Eraser57Setup.zip
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-06)
Firewall Kerio Personal Firewall
(Liteware) (earlier version) (free for home and personal use)
OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Kerio Personal Firewall (KPF) is a software agent that builds a barrier between your personal computer and the Internet. KPF is designed to protect your PC against attacks from both the Internet, and other computers in the local network. KPF controls all data flow in both directions from the Internet to your computer and vice versa, and it can block all attempted communication allowing only what you choose to permit. This makes KPF an ideal solution for notebook computers that freely travel in and out of the corporate network, facing exposure to various risks as they connect from different locations. Kerio Personal Firewall protects against information theft, modification or destruction, Trojan horse applications, spyware, unauthorized access from within the local network, denial of service attacks to applications or services.
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
Download: v 2.1.5 (2003-05-09) (2 MB)
http://www.kerio.com/dwn/kpf2-en-win.exe
Alternate download link v 2.1.5 (2003-05-09) (2 MB)
http://download.kerio.cz/dwn/kpf2-en-win.exe
(desc. rev.: 2003-11-30)Agnitum Outpost Firewall (Free)
(Freeware) (last Freeware version) (Unsupported)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English (documentation in German, Hungarian, Russian and Italian)
Description: Agnitum Outpost is a personal firewall. It's standard personal firewall features include "system and application level filtering", "detailed information on all connections and open ports"; "predefined system and application settings for all common tasks (browsing the web, allowing ICQ, allowing DNS or DHCP, etc )"; a built-in log viewer; stealth mode; ICMP filtering; NetBIOS rule creation; wizard mode for automatic rule creation; MD5 authentication, etc. In addition, it supports plug-ins for tasks such as Intrusion Detection, Advertisement Blocking, Content Filtering, E-mail Guard and Privacy Control. The interface is highly customizable. For the plug-ins, it supports online automated update against new attacks. Finally, it needs no configuration before using and it starts protecting your system as soon as it's installed.
Author: -- Company: Agnitum Ltd.
Home Page:
http://www.agnitum.com/
Download: v1.0.1817 (OutpostInstall.exe) (2556 KB)
http://www.agnitum.com/download/OutpostInstall.exe
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-03)Zone Alarm
(Liteware) (free for home users)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: ZoneAlarm protects automatically from the moment it's installed - no programming required. ZoneAlarm barricades your PC with immediate and complete port blocking. And, then runs in Stealth Mode to make your PC invisible on the Internet - if you can't be seen, you can't be attacked. ZoneAlarm delivers simplicity without compromising your security. A getting started tutorial explains controls and alerts to get you up and running quickly. And, to keep you confident that you're always protected, intuitive color- coded alerts rate security risks - in real time.
Author: -- Company: Zone Labs
Home Page:
http://www.zonelabs.com/
Release History
http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/free/information/znalm/zaReleaseHistory.html
Download v 4.5.538.0 (2003-12-19) (4890 KB)
http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/free/1012_zl/zlsSetup_45_538.exe
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-03)
Packet Sniffer Ethereal
(Freeware) (open source)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT4/2000/XP and many other platforms
Languages: English
Description: Ethereal is a free network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. It allows you to examine data from a live network or from a capture file on disk. You can interactively browse the capture data, viewing summary and detail information for each packet. Ethereal has several powerful features, including a rich display filter language and the ability to view the reconstructed stream of a TCP session. NOTES: follow installation instructions at: http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/win32/
Author: -- Company: Ethereal
Home Page:
http://www.ethereal.com/
download v 0.10.0 (2003-12-12) (13 MB)
http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/win32/ethereal-setup-0.10.0.exe
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-03)
Password Manager Whisper
(Freeware)
OS: Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Whisper 32 is a very easy-to-use Password Manager for Windows 95 and Windows NT. Features: Store all of your passwords in one file. Password protection. Built-in password generator. Passwords may be set to expire at user-configurable intervals. Never type in passwords or user-names: use the Windows clipboard to transfer them. Automatic backups. Attractive interface. NOTES: I have not tested this version on any operating system besides WindowsXP, so I can't promise it will work. I have been told it works on Win98, so it may actually work on any version of Windows
Author: Shaun Ivory Company: ivory.org
Home Page:
http://www.ivory.org/index.html
Download WinXP v 1.15 (2003-08-12) (362 KB)
http://www.ivory.org/software/whisper.xp.zip
Download v 1.12 (422 KB)
http://www.ivory.org/software/whisper.zip
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-03)PINs
(Donationware)
OS: Windows (32-bit)
Languages: English
Description: PINs is a free feature-rich Windows program for safe and comfortable storing of any secure information like passwords, accounts, PINs etc. PINs uses a secure 448 bit Blowfish algorithm to ensure the data are not crackable. The password used for securing access to stored data is not saved anywhere. PINs does not require installation and does not need any special dlls, drivers or system files. This means that PINs can run directly from floppy - including data files - without installing anything. PINs is OSI Certified Open Source Software.
Author: Mirek Wojtowicz Company: Mirek's Free Windows Software
Home Page:
http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/
Download page v.4.50.0.86 (2003-03-19) (PINs450.exe) (689 KB), (PINs450.zip) (689 KB)
http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/pins.html
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-03)Password Safe
(Freeware) (open source)
OS: Windows (32-bit)
Languages: English
Description: Password Safe is a password database utility. Users can keep their passwords securely encrypted on their computers. A single Safe Combination unlocks them all.
Author: -- Company: --
Program description:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/
Download v 1.9.2c.2 (2003-10-14) (pwsafe-1.9.2c.2-ppc-exe.zip) (255 090 bytes)
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/passwordsafe/pwsafe-1.9.2c.2-ppc-exe.zip?download
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-03)
Password Viewer Revelation
(Donationware)
OS:
Languages: English
Description: Reveals passwords hidden beneath the asterisks
Author: -- Company: SnadBoy Software
Home Page:
http://www.snadboy.com/
Download v 2.0 (219 KB)
http://www.snadboy.com/RevelationV2.zip
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-03)Open Pass
(Freeware)
OS: Windows 9x
Languages: English
Description: Forgot your password and all you see in that window is a bunch of asterisks ******? Start OPEN PASS!, move the mouse over the asterisks and voila, your password becomes text you can read.
Author: -- Company: S&A Company
Home Page: n/a
Download v 1.1 (4 KB)
ftp://ftp6.de.freebsd.org/pub/msdos/mirrors/stuba/pc/utilmisc/openpass.zip
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-03)
Script Defense Script Defender
(Freeware)
OS:
Languages: English
Description: AnalogX Script Defender will intercept any request to execute the most common scripting types used in virus attacks, such as Visual Basic Scripting (.VBS), Java Script (.JS), etc and can even be configured to intercept new script extensions as needed! It's very simple to use and helps to ensure that you do not inadvertently run a script no matter what email program you use, or even if you get it via another method.
Author: Analog X Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/sdefend.htm
Download v1.02 (222kb)
http://www.analogx.com/files/sdefendi.exe
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-03)ScripTrap
(Freeware)
OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: ScripTrap traps scripts when they attempt to run on your computer and provides the option of blocking them or letting them continue to run. You can also check the intercepted script with your anti-virus program before you decide to run it or not. ScripTrap will also warn you when Microsoft Word and Excel files are about to run, possibly saving you from executing documents that could contain malicious macro code by giving you that important second chance after inadvertently opening an email attachment! ScripTrap provides you with filtering capabilities so you can choose to automatically accept or reject selected script files without prompting. You can also choose to only intercept scripts that try to run from temporary directories, having most likely been placed there when about to be run from an email attachment. Unlike similar offerings ScripTrap will remove all traces of itself upon uninstalling including removing all associated registry entries and folder/file deletion.
Author: Robin Keir Company: --
Home Page:
http://keir.net/software.html
Download: v1.03 (40kb)
http://keir.net/download/strap.exe
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-03)Script Sentry
(Donationware) (free for personal use)
OS:
Languages: English
Description: Script Sentry allows safe scripts to run on your system while alerting you if a script might harm your system. In addition, Script Sentry prevents against malicious scripts hidden in ShellScrap (hidden SHS and SHB extensions) files, Word/Excel macro viruses, malicious HTA files, and accidentally run REG files. You can specify which scripts/files should be allowed to run and Script Sentry will invisibly allow those to run. Script Sentry is a "set it and forget it" application so it takes up exactly 0MB of memory unless it's needed. NOTE: Script Sentry is not a replacement for a good anti-virus program, but a supplement to it. An anti-virus program might stop a script virus once you update it's virus definition files, but before you do that the virus has a window of opportunity. Script Sentry simply helps close that window. NOTES: Requires Visual Basic 6 Runtimes and Windows Scripting Host.
Author: Jason Levine Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/
Program description:
http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/scriptsentry.asp
Download: v 2.7.1(2002-07-04) (164 KB)
http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/downloads/ScriptSentry.zip
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-03)