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From: Bjorn S. on 26 Sep 2009 19:38 (1) PROGRAM NAME: Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) (2) LINK: (Home Page or download if different) http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/ (3) DESCRIPTION: The Secunia PSI is a free security scanner designed to help you secure your computer against vulnerabilities in programs. It provide details on the software installed on your computer and gives you direct links to update programs that are potentially not secure. "The Secunia PSI works by examining files on your computer (primarily ..exe, .dll, and .ocx files). These files contain non-specific meta information provided by the software vendor only. This data is the same for all users, and originates from the installed programs on your computer - never from their configuration. After examining all the files on your local hard drive(s), the collected data is sent to Secunia's servers, which match the data against the Secunia File Signatures engine (https://psi.secunia.com/) to determine the exact applications installed on your system. This information can then be used to provide you with a detailed report of the missing security related updates for your system." -- All the best, Bjorn S. - I only post via <news.individual.net> or <news.broadpark.no>!
From: Shadow on 26 Sep 2009 19:54 On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:51:29 +0200, Bjorn S. <bsusenet(a)broadpark.no> wrote: > >(1) PROGRAM NAME: OpenExpert > >(2) LINK: (Home Page or download if different) >http://www.baxbex.com/openexpert.html > >(3) DESCRIPTION: > "OpenExpert - Open With submenu for explorer's menu > Ever had the problem that you frequently use a file type with > more than one application, while you can only associate one > application with that file type? OpenExpert enables you to specify >any number of suitable applications for each file type. In this > way, when you open a file, instead of being restricted to using a > single pre-determined application, you can easily choose among a > list of suitable applications." Nice. Old, didn't know it existed. Seconded []'s
From: REM on 26 Sep 2009 20:27 > Bjorn S. <bsusenet(a)broadpark.no> wrote: >(1) PROGRAM NAME: Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) >(2) LINK: (Home Page or download if different) >http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/ >(3) DESCRIPTION: >The Secunia PSI is a free security scanner designed to help you secure >your computer against vulnerabilities in programs. It provide details >on the software installed on your computer and gives you direct links >to update programs that are potentially not secure. >"The Secunia PSI works by examining files on your computer (primarily >.exe, .dll, and .ocx files). These files contain non-specific meta >information provided by the software vendor only. This data is the >same for all users, and originates from the installed programs on your >computer - never from their configuration. After examining all the >files on your local hard drive(s), the collected data is sent to >Secunia's servers, which match the data against the Secunia File >Signatures engine (https://psi.secunia.com/) to determine the exact >applications installed on your system. This information can then be >used to provide you with a detailed report of the missing security >related updates for your system." Second!
From: Bjorn S. on 27 Sep 2009 01:13 (1) PROGRAM NAME: AnVir Task Manager Free (2) LINK: (Home Page or download if different) http://www.anvir.com/taskmanagerfree/ (3) DESCRIPTION: AnVir Task Manager Free is a freeware edition of AnVir Task Manager. It offers several security features, system monitoring features and Windows enhancements. A startup monitor, startup manager and delayed startup option is part of the package. You can upload files to Virustotal with it, for a quick analysis and detection of viruses, worms, trojans and other malware. It can limit the CPU usage for processes that eat a lot of CPU, suspend/resume processes and threads and free process memory. It monitor processes, services, Internet connections, CPU, disk, memory, DLLs, drivers, locked files and windows. It can show icons and tooltips in the Windows tray for CPU, memory, network, disk load, HDD temperature, and battery (but only 2 icons in the free version). It can also find locked files and DLLs. The free version has some support for viewing of download- and upload speeds and amount of data transferred. It also includes a Tweaker for many Windows settings. When the program is running, it can also maniuplate the windows of other applications: Click on title of any application to hide window to system tray, make window semi-transparent, pin window 'always on top', change window size to 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 and change priority of the process. Anvir Task manger is compatible with all popular antivirus packages. It can replace the Windows Task Manager and can also be run as a portable application. Seee the full list of features here <http://www.anvir.com/task-manager-windows-startup.htm> [comment by bs: A very feature rich and IMHO a priceless application this, even if I have only tried some of the many features it offers. I use another free task manger (dtaskmanager) my self as a replacement for Windows own. I find Anvir's a bit to feature rich for my day to day need. Instead I keep Anvir's as a run-on-demand program which I use when I suspect something is not quite right on my system. The GUI is nice, and while the information can seem plentiful at times, it is well organized. I also tend to run Anvir from time to time just to check that I did not miss anything with my regular startup monitor (Winpatrol). When I load the Anvir Task manager, its startup monitor will go through all new startup entries and services added since last time I ran it, and then prompt me for each new item. I also like the easy to use (right click) upload to Virustotal. Very nice and handy] [note to RM: when I have added my comments in brackets, it means they are not meant for the final list/publishing, just for the readers here Btw, of the above I guess the first paragraph (three lines) of the description would suffice] -- All the best, Bjorn S. - I only post via <news.individual.net> or <news.broadpark.no>!
From: Ron May on 27 Sep 2009 13:27
On 26 Sep 2009 20:27:09 GMT, Gordon Darling <me(a)privacy.net> wrote: > On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:39:20 +0200, Bjorn S. wrote: > > > Craig wrote in <h9lq6p$951$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>: > > > >>Bjorn & Gordon, > >>would it be ok to transfer your nomination and 2nd to HTTrack? > > > > No problem. > > +1 > > Regards > Gordon Done! -- Ron M. Help improve the ACF experience. Please don't feed the trolls. New to the group? Check out http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/ and try to ignore the threads that aren't freeware related. |