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List of Steven's must-have utilities:
- AdAware from LavaSoft
- SpywareBlaster
- SpyBot Search & Destroy
- Anti-trojan A2 (A Squared)
- MailWasher
- Mozilla FireFox
- Not a utility, but a great website for DNS issues and info: www.DNSstuff.com.
- WebpageAnalyzer checks a webpage for file size, graphics, multimedia and calculates download speeds for that webpage. Optimize your web page with this handy service.
Here are some links to some of my favorite utilities:
- AdAware is a very useful utility to search your system for spyware or malware.
- DSL Reports is a good place to find info for setting up your broadband connection. Very good forums, also. My network setup as listed on DSLReports.com.
- DShield.org is an attempt to collect data about cracker and virus activity from all over the internet. Check here to see if your router is supported with prewritten clients.
- Mozilla FireFox is a great replacement browser for OS/2, Windows, Linux and MacOS. This is just a wonderful (IMHO) browser, without the overhead of tying into other applications. You can add additional "extensions" into FireFox, which allows you to only use what you want to use. More information on the extensions is available here.
- HiJackThis is a great utility to examine certain key areas of the Registry and HD, and it lists their contents. Very useful to find information about BHO (Browser Hijack Objects,) spyware, adware and malware.
- MailWasher is available to help cut down on spam emails. Check your email, view or delete/bounce the spam on the server, before downloading the messages. New! PopTray 3.0.2 is now available for checking your email on the mail server. PopTray allows you to view, or delete email on the server, and you can add the sender to your WhiteList or BlackList.
- Markus Jansson has an excellent website for his Privacy and Security Page. Lots of great links for securing your PC's.
- Spam-me-not is a simple anti-spam email link obfuscator for your webpages. Easy to use. I use it for my webpages. Note:I now have a local of this great little utility. It is located at my No-Spam directory for your use.
- My Privacy & Security Page at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has some great info and utilities for Windows PC privacy and security.
- SpyBot Search & Destroy is available here. Good for tracking down spyware on your Windows PC. Use this utility with AdAware and your anti-virus to keep your system clean.
- SpywareBlaster is another one to help keep spyware, malware and other files from installing in the first place. Check out the other great tools on this site, that are also available.
- Trojan Hunter is available, with a free evaluation copy to download and "try before you buy."
- Another anti-trojan program is A2 (A Squared) from Emsi Software.
- Grisoft, Inc. is the website for AVG AntiVirus and Kerio Firewall. Free, trial and commercial versions are available. Now available is AVG Personal Email Scanner.
- InfoZip is a freeware PKZIP/PKUNZIP compatible utilities. Versions include Windows, OS/2, Novell, and most flavors of *nix.
- Zone Labs is the maker of ZoneAlarm Free and ZoneAlarm Pro, excellent firewall utilities for your Windows PC's. Check out their other security offerings on their website.
- You can find updates for Windows 98 and 98SE here at microsoft.com.
- A list of the NIST internet time servers is here.
- Cryptograms is a neat website for learning how to decrypt cryptograms. It also includes an online utility to assist with decrypting other cryptograms.
- Here's a nice little color selector for your webpage. And check out my WebColors page for more color selections.
- Nice website to get lots of info for your domain. ToolUrl.com
- Get this neat graphic for your website or sig at Danasoft's website.
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