Cryptainer LE
Free 128bit Encryption Software

Secure your data and ensure absolute privacy with Cypherix's powerful encryption software, Cryptainer LE. It 's powerful 128 bit encryption, creates multiple 25 Mb encrypted containers (vaults) on your hard disk. These encrypted vaults can be loaded and unloaded when needed. You can view, modify and hide all types of files with a single password.

Features:
Creates an encrypted container (vault) to store any type of data.
128 bit strong encryption
Simple drag and drop operation
Easy to use, Impossible to break.
Works on all 32 bit as well as 64 bit versions of Windows.
Cryptainer Mobile edition encrypts any data on any media (USB Drives, CD ROMs, Flash Disks etc)
Send Secure E-mails
Win 95/98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
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CryptoExpert 2008 Lite
Store and protect your important information

CryptoExpert creates encrypted virtual disks and these disks are visible as usual disks with drive letters (for example, G:, H:, Z:, i.e. with any drive letter that is not used by other system devices).

The data stored on a CryptoExpert disk is stored in the container file. A container is a file, so it is possible to backup a container, move or copy it to other disk (CD-ROM or network, for instance) and continue to access your encrypted data using CryptoExpert.

Any free drive letter (or choosen letter) in the system may be used to mount and to open an encrypted file-container for access. When the virtual disk is opened, you can read and write data as if it were a conventional removable disk.

You can do anything with a CryptoExpert virtual drive that you can do with a normal hard drive; only that with CryptoExpert, the encrypted volumes require password authentication before the files become accessible.
Win 2000/XP
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PC Tools ThreatFire
Detect malicious computer activity

PCs are under constant attack from viruses, spyware and identity theft. Every day you hear about a new threat to your PC. They're coming faster than ever before, they're getting harder to stop and traditional antivirus products are not able to keep up.

Will your antivirus software catch the latest malware that just came out today? In most cases, no, because it simply does not know how to detect it yet. But ThreatFire's ActiveDefense technology does, and has proven to provide up to 243% more protection when combined with traditional AntiVirus products. See the table below.

Last Updated 18 January 2010
Win XP/2003/Vista/7
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Spybot Boot CD
Create a bootable security restore CD

The problem with security software is that they rely on the latest definition updates to protect your computer. Install and use free anti-virus software and you may find that you have to manually update your definitions. If you forget, you may find you’re not protected. The worst case scenario is that you’re infected with a Trojan, reboot your computer and find that you can’t get back in to your machine. You could boot back in to Windows Vista, if you have the restore CD, but you still need to be able to remove the infection.

Some Internet security suites ship with a bootable restore CD, but not many. How many of us actually realise we have the option to create a restore CD? It’s not always made obvious within the software.

For this reason, it might be a good to look at an alternative and one provided by a reputable third party.

The developers behind Spybot are working on a restore CD for Windows 2000, XP or Vista with the aim of booting in to a basic operating system that would enable you to check your installed operating system and check for possible virus, Trojans or spyware
Win XP/2003/Vista
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Sweepi
Clean up your System

Is your system slower and less efficient than it was before? YooApplications presents Sweepi, a free tool that will help you solve this problem and protect your privacy. Windows automatically files great amounts of data on your hard drive that document your work and your usage of the internet. In time this data gets to be so large that it influences the efficiency of your system. Additionally, this data can be used by spyware programs to document your internet history and to accede to your personal data. Sweepi will help you find the unnecessary data quickly and safely destroy it.

What’s new in Sweepi 5?
Clear presentation
Also available in English
CleanUp Wizard
Revolutionary deletion procedure

Sweepi Bootmanager
Improved backup function
Entries in the description database

Sweepi ShortCutter
Definition of exceptions
Faster search
Scan several drives

Sweepi Liveupdate
Component-based updates

Sweepi Slicer
Secure destruction of file

Last Updated 24 August 2009
Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
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Sysinternals Suite by Microsoft
60+ individual troubleshooting tools and help files

The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files. It does not contain non-troubleshooting tools like the BSOD Screen Saver or NotMyFault.

The Suite is a bundling of the following selected Sysinternals Utilities:

Please note: Contains many executable files, run setup on each file that is needed.

Last Updated 19 January 2010
Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista
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AnalogX DHCP Fix

Windows is a very 'open' system; not open in the sense of Microsoft giving people access to proprietary information, but open in the sense that the system is very trusting of other systems. When your computer is at home, not talking to anyone else, then that's fine; but once you're on the big bad internet, some people like to make their computers lie to yours, and that's just not right...

AnalogX DHCP Fix is just a simple program that closes a security hole in Windows 95/98/2000 that can make it possible for another computer to monitor every piece of information that comes and goes from it. The program will allow you to enable or disable the registry entry that closes this particular hole.

It's very easy to do and will only take you a couple seconds to once more bring a calming sense of security to your computer... Until the next hole is found.
Win 98/Me/NT/2000
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ESET SysInspector
View extensive, detailed system information about your PC

ESET SysInspector is a free, state of the art diagnostic tool for Windows systems. It is also an integral part of ESET Smart Security 4 and ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4. It peers into your operating system and captures details such as running processes, registry content, startup items and network connections.

Once a snapshot of the system is made, ESET SysInspector applies heuristics to assign a risk level for each object logged. Its intuitive graphical user interface enables the user to easily slice through the large volume of data using a slider to select objects of a particular color coded risk level for closer examination.

ESET SysInspector is a convenient utility for the tool box of every IT expert and first responder.

Key Features:
Ability to generate and save a detailed log to be used by an IT expert or uploaded to an online forum for diagnosis
Option to exclude private, personal information from being saved in logs
Integrated Anti-Stealth technology allows discovering hidden objects (e.g. rootkits) in MBR, registry entries, drivers, services and processes
Ability to compare two existing logs for differences makes it easy to detect changes over time
Log entries are assigned a color code risk level for easy filtering
Intuitive hierarchical navigation of logs
Fast and compact single file executable, ideal for first responders to run from a USB drive without lengthy installation
Win 98/Me/NT/2000
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Free Wipe Wizard
Safely & securely wipe files from your PC

Free Wipe Wizard erases private files and sensitive information in a secure manner. We guarantee that the file erased with Free Wipe Wizard can never be recovered with any other tool. Even if your disk lands in the hands of F.B.I. your erased information remains inaccessible. The erased information will hold secure even if special methods are used to sense weak magnetic information off your hard disk surface!

Complete Data Security for Everyone
Free Wipe Wizard is fully functional and free of charge. The tool takes care of your files in a simple and efficient manner. Just run the tool, select a file to delete and click "Delete File" to wipe off its content forever. No data recovery tool can ever restore the contents of your file - guaranteed!

Why Are We So Confident?
Anyone can guarantee 'complete confidentiality' or 'ultimate security'. The question is whether or not they are ready to back their claim. We are completely confident in our software because we used the US Government standard seven-pass wiping to overwrite your data in a theoretically proven, completely tested, cryptographically secure way. A cryptographically strong sequence of random numbers is generated for each wipe, making it absolutely impossible to access the erased information even if your hard drive is disassembled and viewed under an electronic microscope. Needless to say that any software tools for data recovery will pass on data deleted with Free Wipe Wizard.

Proper Implementation
Not all implementations of secure file delete are equal. Some are just using zeroes to wipe your data, and some are using weak random key generators. While these tools defeat software-based data recovery utilities, they fail to provide the ultimate data security that only a proper tool can guarantee.

Free Wipe Wizard is based on a cryptographically strong open-source code, and is distributed with GNU General Public License.
Compatibility

Free Wipe Wizard supports NTFS, NTFS 4, NTFS 5, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, and VFAT file systems.

Free Wipe Wizard supports hard drives (HDD), digital cameras, floppy disks, Zip disks, Jaz disks, Smart Media Cards, Sony Memory Sticks, Compact Flash cards, MicroDrives, Secure Digital Cards, xD Picture Cards, Flash cards, PC Cards, Multimedia Cards, and any USB disk
Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista
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Secunia PSI
Secure your computer from software vulnerabilities

The Secunia PSI is the FREE security tool that is designed with the sole purpose of helping you secure your computer from software vulnerabilities. Software vulnerabilities affect all applications installed on your computer, from the Operating System down to your email client, office application, instant messaging, and so on.

Secunia is the world-leading provider of vulnerability intelligence. Secunia collects, evaluates, verifies, and analyses security information from public mailing lists, security and vendor websites, coordinated vulnerability reports, and internal research.

To help you secure your computer from software vulnerabilities, Secunia PSI will scan your computer for installed software and determine if any applications lack security updates.

484,031 users have already installed the Secunia PSI and 41,515,416 user applications are currently monitored.

Last Updated 26 November 2009
Win XP/Vista
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Steganos LockNote

Encrypts everything that’s important to you, on laptops, PCs, USB sticks, CDs and DVDs.

Steganos LockNote will change the way you work with confidential notes. Application and document in one: the mechanism to encrypt and decrypt a note is part of it. Secure, simple, independent. No installation required.

Store your most valuable notes as a LockNote
Hide your serial numbers, passwords, phone numbers and everyday notes in a safe place. Your informations will be encrypted using a password and most modern AES 256bit encryption technology.
Secure, yet simple
Just double-click a LockNote and enter your password to access your text files as usual.
No installation required
Move LockNotes wherever you want, as often as you want. A LockNote document does not require much more hard drive space than an unencrypted document.
Encrypt existing text files in no time at all
Simply drag and drop existing text files on a LockNote window: they will be encrypted automatically.
Open and free
LockNote is open source and is based upon open source technologies, e.g. the certified CryptoPP program library for strong encryption..
Win 2000/XP/Vista/7
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McAfee SiteAdvisor for IE
Traffic-light approach to website safety

McAfee Site Advisor is a good way to sort the good websites from the bad, online.

Once installed it appears as small area of text in the bottom right hand corner of the browser window. This changes colour depending on the website. Green signifies a website that can be trusted, yellow a site that might send lots of emails or red for sites that are known to send spam or bundle adware into downloads.

Clicking on this text gives the option to read more information about the site. This includes the number of emails received after registration and whether the website links to any suspicious sites. Downloads hosted on the site are also checked.

Most websites are tested by computers at McAfee but it is possible to submit a user report if you feel that a website has been the cause of spam or adware.

In this case the website will be looked at by a member of the McAfee team, rather than relying on automatic checking. The site owner can also leave a message responding to the rating
Win 98/NT/2000/XP
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McAfee SiteAdvisor for Firefox
Traffic-light approach to website safety

Even with the better security of Firefox compared with Internet Explorer, McAfee Site Advisor is a good way to sort the good from the bad online.

Once installed it appears as small area of text in the bottom right hand corner of the browser window. This changes colour depending on the website. Green signifies a website that can be trusted, yellow a site that might send lots of emails or red for sites that are known to send spam or bundle adware into downloads.

Clicking on this text gives the option to read more information about the site. This includes the number of emails received after registration and whether the website links to any suspicious sites. Downloads hosted on the site are also checked.

Most websites are tested by computers at McAfee but it is possible to submit a user report if you feel that a website has been the cause of spam or adware.

In this case the website will be looked at by a member of the McAfee team, rather than relying on automatic checking. The site owner can also leave a message responding to the rating.
Win 98/NT/2000/XP
Mac OS X
Linux
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Comodo Internet Security
All-in-one security solution


Internet Security combines the power of COMODO's award-winning Firewall and AntiVirus software to protect your PC from malicious software and Hackers. Best of all it's FREE!

Award-winning Firewall Protection
AntiVirus Software
Proactive Security

Comodo Internet Security will help you detect and remove viruses, Trojans, and other malicious software and hackers, and keep them out of your computer. In one easy-to-use bundle that won't slow down your computer. All free, really! No Credit Card Required for this download.

Last Updated 01 Febuary 2010
Win XP/Vista/7
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nLite
Windows Installation Customizer

Have you ever wanted to remove Windows components like Media Player, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, MSN Explorer, Messenger...
How about not even to install them with Windows ?

nLite is a tool for permanent Windows components removal and pre-installation Windows configuration. After removal there is an option to make bootable image ready for burning on cd or testing in virtual machines.
With nLite you will be able to have Windows installation which on install does not include, or even contain on cd, the unwanted components.

Features
Service Pack Integration
Component Removal
Unattended Setup
Driver Integration *
Hotfixes Integration **
Tweaks
Services Configuration
Patches ***
Bootable ISO creation

* - Textmode (CD Boot) and normal PnP
** - hotfixes with white icons, *KB*.exe, including update packs
and Internet Explorer 7
***- supports generic SFC, Uxtheme, TcpIp and Usb Polling patching.

nLite supports Windows 2000, XP x86/x64 and 2003 x86/x64 in all languages.
Requires .NET Framework Version 2

Last Updated 24 August 2009
Win 2000/XP/2003
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