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Posted in PC Maintenance, Security, Utilities on Feb 8th, 2008
CCleaner is a free utility designed to clean your Windows system of unnecessary temp files which slowing your PC over time. CCleaner offers native support for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera. It is fully customizable, and will remove items such as: URL history, cookies, auto-complete entries, index.dat, recycle bin, recent documents, temp and log files all of this […]
Posted in Security, Virus/Spyware Removal on Feb 5th, 2008
AVG by Grisoft is a basic no frills freeware anti-virus solution. Some notable features include daily automatic virus definition updates, a basic scan scheduler and email virus protection. AVG is great for a quick and dirty last minute solution. I’ll often bundle it with the PC’s I custom build for friends and family as […]
Posted in Networking, Security, Utilities on Feb 4th, 2008
Angry IP Scanner is a wonderful, simple to use, IP scanning utility which allows the user to quickly determine IP usage on a Local Area, or Wide Area network. Its simple to use interface delivers a birds eye view of the following: Within an IP range - live vs. dead hosts, ping statistics, host name, […]
Posted in How-To, Networking, Security on Feb 3rd, 2008
Ethereal, the legendary industry standard protocol analyzer has become Wireshark. Wireshark is a must-have for any networking enthusiast and provides a very detailed view of how networked systems communicate. Also known as a packet sniffer, Wireshark was developed from one of the best ones to ever exist. The features that come with Wireshark are […]
Posted in Backup/Recovery, Security, Utilities on Jan 29th, 2008
ZipGenius is the perfect all-in-one zip and compression utility. It converts and opens .zip files as well as 20 other compression formats. You can also create self extracting .EXE files for distribution as well as add a customized signature to your archives. The one reason I prefer to use ZipGenius over the free utility in […]
KeePass is a utility for managing the myriad of passwords required to navigate the modern Web. Since I’m very conscious of network security I must have well over 100 different credentials ranging from security critical sites such as brokerage accounts to novelty sites like MySpace.com. Can you imagine having to remember all of those credentials?
KeePass […]
Posted in Backup/Recovery, Security, Utilities on Jan 24th, 2008
RockXP is great for retrieving lost activation keys and passwords in WindowsXP. This utility can save you hours of phone calls to Microsoft in resolving a lost product activation key for a reinstallation of WindowsXP. RockXP also comes with a nice password generator and will even help with recovering lost MSN Messenger passwords. The RockXP […]