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Microsoft Security Essentials

Niranjan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:20:30 +0000

Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.

Microsoft Security Essentials is a free download (for genuine Windows) from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’re green, you’re good. It’s that simple.

Microsoft Security Essentials runs quietly and efficiently in the background so that you are free to use your Windows-based PC the way you want—without interruptions or long computer wait times.

Microsoft Security Essentials Homepage

FortiClient standard edition

Niranjan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:14:02 +0000

FortiClient™ standard edition offers one of the most comprehensive security suites for your PC available – including a full range of Fortinet threat protections for PCs and laptops, even when used on insecure public networks. This free download provides SSL and IPSec VPN, a personal firewall, antivirus/antispyware scanning, Intrusion Prevention and web filtering. FortiGate™ users complete their network security framework with Endpoint Control, Application Detection and WAN Optimization. Automatic updates from the FortiGuard™ subscription service ensure protection against the latest threats.

FortiClient standard edition Homepage

K9 Web Protection

Niranjan — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:39:20 +0000

Blue Coat’s K9 Web Protection is a free Internet and parental controls filter that gives parents control over their family’s use of the Internet. It enables parents to monitor and control what sites their children access and enables them to block offensive or potentially dangerous sites. K9 Web Protection relies on the same enterprise-class Web filtering technology used by Blue Coat enterprise customers around the world, and is wrapped in a simple, easy-to-manage software application that is compatible with both Mac and PC computers. To protect against newly discovered threats, K9 Web Protection is continuously updated by the WebPulse™ service, the Blue Coat cloud-based community watch environment that also updates Blue Coat WebFilter™ and ProxyClient® enterprise products. In this community watch environment, the identification of malware by one member is shared with all to prevent infections or other harm.

K9 Web Protection Homepage

IP Address Management Freeware

Niranjan — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:00:57 +0000

IP address management freeware is a complete solution with the complete feature set of the Infoblox IP address manager, including Smart Folders, Network Map (with subnet management) and leading IPv6 capabilities.  
IPAM freeware from Infoblox allows you to:
• Store specific data filters and get dynamic, real-time results;
• Quickly visualize blocks of network address space and manage subnets with up to 500 IP addresses; and
• Better manage your migration to IPv6.

IP Address Management Freeware Homepage

NS2HTML

Niranjan — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:00:03 +0000

NS2HTML is a tool created to convert the config file extracted from Netscreen devices into friendly HTML rulebases. It is a free tool developed from the need of gathering data from policies used at ancient firewalls under administration. It is developed under GPL license. It’s totally free, under the license terms.

NS2HTML Homepage

AutoScan-Network

Niranjan — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:35:50 +0000

AutoScan-Network is a network discovering and managing application. No configuration is required to scan your network. The main goal is to print the list of connected equipments in your network. It’s a free software and can be installed on Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris and Maemo 4.

AutoScan-Network Homepage

Wireshark

Niranjan — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:33:52 +0000

Wireshark is the world’s foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. Wireshark development thrives thanks to the contributions of networking experts across the globe. It is the continuation of a project that started in 1998. It started as Ethereal but was later re-branded as Wireshark due to trademark issues.

Wireshark Homepage

Sandcat

Niranjan — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:11:20 +0000

Sandcat is a feature-rich and advanced web application security scanner. It’s a windows based application which helps to scan emerging Web 2.0 technologies such as AJAX, traditional Web technologies, and Web programming languages such as PHP. Sandcat’s fast engine interacts with a truly unique, up-to-date and extremely extensive database of checks and uses sophisticated techniques such as the newly introduced filter evasion and false positive reduction to give you stunning results. Sandcat has a free and pro versions.

Sandcat Homepage

Babel Enterprise

Niranjan — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:48:18 +0000

Babel Enterprise is a systems auditing tool. Babel performs a security level check of the machine, or hardening. The check consists of a number of auditing tests that obtain a snap of the security status of each machine. The result is a security index of the system that is given after each execution. Babel Enterprise has a version of its agent for each of the latest Microsoft operating systems, Windows 2003 and Windows XP, and the main Unix system: Solaris 10, AIX 5.x, SUSE GNU/Linux 9 ES and Ubuntu Dapper, although they can be easily adapted to different versions and other UNIX OSs (such as BDS or HP-UX ).

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File Shredder

Niranjan — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:27:48 +0000

File Shredder is free desktop application for shredding (destroying) unwanted files beyond recovery. With File Shredder you can remove files from your hard drive without fear they could be recovered. There are quite a few software tools today for retrieval of deleted files under Windows OS. Those tools, often referred to as “file recovery” software, are taking advantage of shortcoming of WIndows “delete” command that we all use regularly to delete files. Actually, the “delete” operation in Windows only removes bits of information from files so they appear deleted in OS. It is easy to retrieve those files using aforementioned specialized file recovery software. In order to remove, or shred files permanently from your system you have to use a program that is capable of rewriting the files with random series of binary data multiple times. This process is often called shredding. That way, the actual content of the file has been overwritten and the possibilities to recover such a shredded file are mostly theoretical.

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