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4t HIT Mail Privacy LITE
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As suggested by the title, this tool allows the user to encrypt their e-mail, protecting the contents from users who are not authorized to view it, and keeping private information private.
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A-squared Free + Online Armor Personal Firewall
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This tool contains two separate programs, which work together, making security more certain, and broadening the user's security measures. The anti-malware program allows the user to scan for, and remove, malicious software applications, while the personal firewall allows users to filter unwanted, or unauthorized, connections to their PC from the Internet.
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Ad-Aware
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With this tool, users can scan for, and remove, malicious software from their computer. Adware, spyware, and other forms of malware can capture personal information, monitor browsing habits, and stael private information. This program allows users to protect their privacy, by removing these harmful applications.
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AntiHook
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This is a Host Intrusion Prevention (HIP) system, which ensures that no unauthorized persons, or computers, can gain access to the user's PC, files, or information, keeping them safe online.
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Avast Home
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A free anti-virus application, which allows the user to easily, and quicly scan for, and remove, malware threats, trojans, viruses, worms, and many other malicious applications from their PC.
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AVG Anti-Virus
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This virus scanner allows the user to scan their local drives, in order to detect, and then clean, remove, or quarentine the threat, in order to prevent it from doing further damage. Such threats include categories such as a virus, trojan, adware, spyware, worm, and more.
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AVG LinkScanner
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This tool, as the name suggest, scans links in real time, which prevents malicious content from harming the user's PC, by blocking that content, and warning them about malicious links, before there is a chance for infection.
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Avira AntiVir Personal
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This tool will allow the user to protect themselves against virus threats, as well as other types of malicious software, which can damage the computer, steal information, and decrease performance of the computer.
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AxCrypt
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an open-source encryption program, which allows the user to seemlessly encrypt files, as well as compress them, work with them, and send them to others easily.
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BartPE
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This tool allows the user to access a "pre-install" environment, in order to perform various tasks. The user can change the Administrator password of the machine, make a copy, using the Nero plug-in, of files on the hard drive, and explore the contents of the hard drive, all from a bootable CD, or USB device.
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Belarc Advisor
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An application, which scans the user's PC, and build a detailed hardware and software profile, missing hotfixes, out-of-date antivirus protection, and much more, then places them in a web browser for viewing.
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BHODemon
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A BHO (Browser Helper Object) is almost always a malicious piece of software, which will try to steal user information, passwords, account information, deliver ads, pop-ups, and much more. This tool allows the user to remove these pieces of software, in order to prevent these things from happening.
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ClamWin
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This is an antivirus program, which scans a user's computer, and removes threats, such as a virus, trojan, or other potentially harmful file. This type of program is useful for keeping a computer running at its best, as well as helping to protect personal information, and helping to prevent identity theft, credit card theft, or the stealing of passwords.
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Comodo BOClean Anti-Malware
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As the name implies, this tool helps protect users against malware, including spyware and adware, which can steal personal data about a user, and allow a malicious person or organization to make use of that data.
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Comodo Internet Security
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Combining an antivirus and firewall software solution, this tool offers real-time protection, proactive protection, virus scanning, network protection, and protection against malicious software and hackers, all with a single application.
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coSARA
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This tool allows the user to run, under Windows, a combination of coLinux, and SARA (Security Auditor's Research Assistant), presenting the user with a wide variety of security tools, for auditing, hacking, and otherwise making a network secure.
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Cryptainer LE
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This is a small, but affective, encryption utility. This tool allows for the encrypting of a file, inside of a safe format. The program is small, lightweight, and affective, which makes it worth the use.
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CryptoExpert 2008 Lite
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This is an encryption utility, which allows the user to encrypt their data, making it safe, secure, and denying access to unauthorized users, in order to ensure that any private information contained within their files stays out of the wrong hands.
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Cygwin
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This program allows the user to run a wide variety of applications, which are common to UNIX systems, but on a windows machine. Installing the base application then allows users to download these applications, and run them from the program's interface.
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Disk Investigator
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With this tool, users can see what information is stored in the protected, unsearchable areas of their hard drive. Passwords, personal information, and account information can all be stored here, and this tool allows the user to see it, and ensures that they know where to find it.
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Empathy
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This tool will allow the user to password-protect an EXE file, which can be transferred to another PC, without losing that protection, in order to keep taht particular file safe, secure, and ensure that no unauthorized persons, or entities, can access this file, without permission.
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EncryptOnClick
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This is a program, which allows a user to quickly, and easily, encrypt their files. With the simply click of a button, personal data can be safely locked up, in order to prevent unauthorized access.
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Eraser
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This tool allows users to securely erase their files, ensuring that they are not recoverable, even by advanced users. This can protect private data, important documents, usernames, passwords, and much more.
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Ettercap-NG
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This application allows for various MITM (Man in The Middle) attacks, such as ARP poisoning, packet stealing, port stealing, spoofing, and others. NOTE: This is the UNOFFICIAL Windows binary, put here for the convenience of the user. See the Home Page for the source.
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File Shredder
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Securely erase files, in order that they cannot be recovered. This is useful for erasing private data, important personal information, and important documents.
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FREE CompuSec
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This is a whole disk encryption program, which encrypts the entire hard drive, and all of its contents. The user must know the boot password to even access the hard drive, making all data on the drive securely encrypted.
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FreeOTFE
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This is an "on the fly" encryption program, which allows the user to create a virtual disk, on their PC, and then move files there, which will encrypt them, in order to keep the data secure, and make it safe.
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FreeProxy
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A suite of tools, which allows the user to utilize proxies, when browsing the World Wide Web, in order to maintain privacy, and anonymity. This suite features a wide variety of both tools and proxies.
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GMER
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This tool scans for rootkits. These malicious programs can be hidden in other applications, utilize hidden processes, and otherwise hide themselves, making them undetectable to conventional methods of scanning. This application was specifically designed for locating and removing rootkits.
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GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG)
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This tool allows users to encrypt, and digitally sign, their data, communications, and other things, which may contain private, or personal information.
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Hotspot Shield
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While online, it is important to protect users' privacy, in order to keep their information secure, and protect them from being tracked on the Internet. This tool will protect users from tracking sites, by allowing users to anonymously browse web sites.
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Identity Finder
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The rate of identity theft is increasing at a drastic rate. This tool allows the user to scan their hard drive, for personal information, such as credit card number, phone numbers, social security numbers, and other personally identifiable information. The user can then encrypt this information, or delete it from their hard drive, in order to protect their identity from hackers.
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KDKFile Pro
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An encryption program, which allows users to encrypt files, folders, passwords, and ensure that they are safe and secure, protecting the contents from unauthorized viewing.
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KeePass
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This is an application, which allows the safe storage of the user's personal account information, in order to make it safe to keep track of all the different passwords on a computer. Simply create the profile, for each site to which a password belongs, and thsi program will store them in an encrypted file, which makes it secure, safe, and functional, to store many passwords on the computer.
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KeyScrambler Personal
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With this tool, users can feel secure, that their keystrokes are not being monitored by a keylogging program, as this tool will scramble the keystrokes, namking it less likely that personal information, passwords, and other important information can be stolen.
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Laptop Alarm
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This tool is meant for users who take their laptops into public areas. The tool will sound a loud alarm, when the laptop is unplugged from AC power, the mouse is moved, or someone tries to shut down the PC.
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Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
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A small, but very powerful anti-malware scanner, which offers frequent database updates, very quick system scans, and an easy-to-use interface, among other great features.
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My Certificate Wizard
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This tool allows a user to quickly, and easily, create a certificate, which can then be used to sign data, such as e-mail, instant messages, and more, being transferred across a network, or between networks, in order to verify the validity, and security, of this data.
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Nessus
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This tool allows a user to scan for vulnerabilities, within a network, in order to secure, or penetrate that network. There is a database, which can be updated, of vulnerabilities, to assist the user. Note that a free activation code is required, in order to update this software, and can be obtained from the Home Page.
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Nmap
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Nmap is a tool, meant for security auditing, and network exploration. It can be used to identify security threats, exploits, and other possible risks to network security, identities, and important information.
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Offline NT Password & Registry Editor
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This is a bootable CD, which allows the user to reset their forgotten or lost Windows password, and then allow them to access their computer. Note that if the files are encrypted, this will not allow the user to access those files.
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openSSL
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This program allows the user to create, and utilize, digitally signed certificates, for the encryption of data trasnmitted over a network, or between networks. This can be useful for private data, identity-related data, or communications.
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ophcrack
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This tool allows the user to crack a password, which will allow them access to the machine, using the cracked account. Some tables are available at the web site, or a user can create their own. There are also other tables available, elsewhere on the Internet. A live CD, both for XP and Vista, is also available at the Home Page.
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OSSEC
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This is an open source, host-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS), which allows the user to detect, and prevent, unauthorized intruders, from accessing the user's PC, as well as their information.
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Password Dragon
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With this application, users can securely store all of their accounts, including passwords and usernames, in a highly-encrypted vault, which they can then access with a master password, allowing them to store all of their passwords directly on their PC, while keeping them secure, and making them inaccessible by other unauthorized parties.
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Password Prime
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This tool allows the storage of all of the user's accounts and passwords, in a single file, for easy access, organization, and quickness.
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PC Tools AntiVirus Free Edition
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A virus scanner, which will thoroughly scan the user's PC, and remove any viruses, and other harmful threats, which could harm the user's PC, steal personal information, or perform other malicious actions on the user's system.
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PC Tools Firewall Plus
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This is a free firewall, which protects the user's PC from unauthorized access, via the Internet or the network they are on. The firewall is designed to be used by users of all levels, both notice and advanced, and features various degrees of control, and a variety of other features also.
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Pocket KillBox
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With this tool, the user can delete a file, which is currently in the running processes. What this means is that a file, currently in use by another application, can still be removed, by this program, which will attempt to end that running process, and then remove the file. This can be handy for removing malware, or viruses, which might be running at the time.
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Process Blocker
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This tool allows the user to prevent a process from running. While this beta version does not prevent the process from running, it will kill the process within a second or two, keeping it from continuing to run, which can be good for killing malwarey, a virus, or other dangerous processes, or those which drastically reduce performance.
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Process Terminator
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With this tool, users can quickly, and easily, terminate running processes, in order to speed up their PC. In addition, they can view the CPU usage of each process on the easy-to-use interface.
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PuTTY
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This is a Telnet/SSH secure shell access application, allowing users to access other clients and servers, using these connection types, in order to perform various tasks on these machines, and get information from them.
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Recover Files
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With this tool, users can recover deleted files, that have even beenr emoved from their Recycle Bin. This makes accidentally deleted data available, and can allow users to recover pictures, documents, or other information, that they thought lost.
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Recuva
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Accidentally deleting a file, even if the user's settings send it directly into delete, rather than the Recycle Bin, does not mean the file is gone. This tool allows the user to recover files, which ahve been deleted, from their hard disk, in order to access those files, and recover lost files.
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RemoveAny
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As the name suggests, this is a tool, which can remove software. However, it is not just an uninstaller, as it is meant to remove spyware, adware, and other malicious programs, which could cause harm to a PC. This tool can find, and remove, harmful applications, which might otherwise be difficult to remove.
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Rising Antivirus Free Edition
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As the name suggests, this is an antivirus program, which allows the user to scan for malicious software, quarentine, clean, or delete the software, and protect their personal computers, and personal data, from being hijacked, hacked, or otherwise damaged by malicious parties.
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Rohos Mini Drive
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This tool allows a user to ensure the encryption of their USB drive, in order to protect the data contained on such a portable device, ensuring that no unauthorized parties can access their private data.
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Samurai
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This tool is a host-based Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), which ensures that unauthorized users cannot access the user's PC, data, and files, without permission.
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Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI)
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This tool allows the user to scan their PC for vulnerabilities, unpatched applications, and many other security threats. This can be a vital step, in protecting personal information, as well as other information stored on the hard drive, or typed in by the user, both on, and offline.
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Spybot Search & Destroy
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This tool is used to scan your computer for malicious malware, which can monitor your browsing habits, cause pop-ups, and slow down performance. The program will find, and remove, these threats, in order to keep your computer clean and secure.
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SpyMe Tools
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This tool allows the user to monitor their registry, and hard disk system, in order to ensure that no unauthorized changes, and also protect themselves from threats, such as malware. The tool can also allow users to compare their current registry to a previously saved state, to see if any changes have been made.
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SpywareBlaster
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Removing spyware from a PC is a critical component of security, and keeps the user's private data safe, prevents others from monitoring their online browsing habits, and more. This tool will easily, and effectively allow the user to remove these types of applications.
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SpywareGuard
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This is a tool, which protects the user against malicious programs, which might otherwise steal information, track browsing history, and utilize the user's computer for malicious intent. This program protects users against these applications, and ensures that their PC is not accessed, without proper authority.
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Startup Control Panel
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This program allows the user to access their startup items, from their Control Panel. This can be handy, and allows the user to enable or disable items from running at startup. This can be used as an alternative to msconfig.
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SUPERAntiSpyware
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This tool allows users to scan for, and remove, harmful programs, which can allow unauthorized access to the user's PC, steal personal information, and monitor the user's browsing habits, if not removed.
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System Explorer
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While users can think they are aware of everything running on their system, there can always be hidden processes, running in the background, taking up valuable memory. This tool allows the user to see these processes, to ensure that only the essential ones stay running, and help speed up, and protect, their system.
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Technitium MAC Address Changer
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This tool, as the name implies, allows the user to change/spoof their MAC address, and make it whatever they would like it to be, protecting their privacy on the Internet.
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ThreatFire AntiVirus
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This program will scan the user's hard drive, as well as other storage media, to detect malicious software, such as viruses, trojans, worms, spyware, adware, and other tools, which can harm the user's computer, as well as steal the user's personal information. The user can then remove these files, or attempt to remove the virus from that file, as well as securely store the file, in order that it cannot continue its malicious operations.
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Trend Micro HijackThis
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This tool allows the user to reclaim their web browser, which can be contaminated by malware, causing pop-ups, hijacked pages, and information loss. This tool allows the user to get rid of these harmful pieces of software, and restore their browser settings, in order to prevent these harmful programs from functioning.
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TrueCrypt
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This is a powerful encryption tool, which allows a user to encrypt their important files. The benefit of this tool is that it is fast, and does not require large amounts of memory, like many other encryption tools, to do its job. Although it uses a small amount of memory, it does so without a decrease in security, or quality.
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Ultimate Boot CD For Windows
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UBCD4Win is a tool, which allows a user to boot from a CD, and utilize many useful applications, of which a full list is available at the Home Page, and perform a wide variety of tasks on the machine. This can be handy for security purposes, troubleshooting, auditing, and solving problems, which may be more difficult, or impossible, to solve, when booting from the machine itself.
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Unlocker
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This program allows a user to "unlock" a "locked" file. This means that the user can move, rename, or delete a file, even when it is currently in use by the system. This can be handy for removing files left over, after an uninstall, removing an unwanted DLL, or removing a file, which is attached to adware, spyware, or a virus of any kind, in order to prevent that malicious program from running.
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VIPRE Rescue
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The idea behind this application is that it can run a command-line scan and repair on a PC, when it has gotten too bad for conventional methods to work properly. If a PC becomes infected with multiple malware programs, viruses, worms, or trojans, it can prevent many applications from running, including security programs, which are often targeted by these malicious applications. This tool is meant to allow the user to still scan for and remove these applications.
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Winsonar
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This tool allows the user to monitor processes on their PC, which allows them to ensure that no unauthorized programs are running in the background, and no malicious software will comprimise the security of their PC.
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XCA
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This tool allows the user to create digital certificates, which can be used for the safe transmission of data across a network, or multiple networks. Various certificate types are supported.
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