Free and Useful Tools

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Here are some tools that will make your life a lot easier...

Adware/Spyware/Virus/Security

Secunia Online Software Inspector - Detects insecure versions of common/popular programs installed on your PC - Verifies that all Microsoft patches are applied - Assists you in updating, patching, and protecting your PC - Activates additional security features in Sun Java - Runs through your browser. No installation or download is required

Test Your System - PC Flank - Six online tests for vulnerabilities to Internet threats: Quick Test, Advanced Port Scanner, Stealth Test, Browser Test, Trojans Test and Exploits Test.

Also, please see the Spyware section of this site.

Swiss Army Knifes

• GNUWin A CD full of useful utilities, programs and games.
• Hiren's BootCD 10.X - FREE - All-In-One Bootable CD with Partition tools, Disk Clone tools, Anti Virus tool, Recovery tools, Testing tools, RAM (memory) Testing tools, Hard Disk tools, System Information tools, MBR (Master Boot Record) tools, BIOS/CMOS tools, Multimedia tools, Password tools, NTFS (File System) tools, and more. 185 MB download.
• Knoppix A bootable CD swiss army knife of life saving applications. Works even when the computer is down. Here are some of the things you can do with it:
  • Resize Partitions (Free Partition Magic)
  • Security Erase A Hard Drive
  • Recovering A Lost Windows Password
  • Backing Up You Data and Getting On The Internet
  • Image A Partition (Free Ghost)

Single Use Utilities

• Off By One Web Browser The worlds smallest web browser. Great for checking to see if your normal web browser is broken.
• CDBurnerXp Free CD Burning Application - can burn ISO images, data cds, and Audio cds.
• Infrarecorder Another free CD Burning Application - very easy to use and at least as good as the ones you have to pay for.