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December 2010
Written By: Roger on December 23, 2010
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Windows: Process Explorer
Download: Process Explorer
Purpose: Monitor and manage running programs
Platforms: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7; Windows Server 2008, 2003
Cost: Free
The great granddaddy of program monitors, Microsoft’s free Process Explorer just hit version 14. If you’ve never used Process Explorer, you’ve never seen what’s really going on under Windows’ covers. [...]
Written By: Roger on December 23, 2010
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Wiseval Photophant
Download: Wiseval Photophant
Purpose: Image resizer/converter
Platforms: Windows 7, Vista, XP; Windows Server 2008, 2003
Cost: Free
While there are many photo resizers floating around, there’s one I come back to again and again. Wiseval Photophant handles batch resizing, format conversions, watermarking, and renaming with just a couple of clicks.
If you want to [...]
Written By: Roger on December 23, 2010
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Windows: Recuva
Download: Recuva
Purpose: File undelete
Platforms: Windows 7, Vista, XP; Windows Server 2008, 2003
Cost: Free
File undelete has been a mainstay of the PC utility market since the days of DOS. As far as I’m concerned, there’s never been a tool that performs file undelete better than Recuva (pronounced “recover”). It’s fast, [...]
Written By: Roger on December 23, 2010
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Windows: SyncToy
Download: SyncToy
Purpose: File synchronization
Platforms: Windows 7, Vista, XP; Windows Server 2008, 2003; 64-bit version available
Cost: Free
Microsoft’s free SyncToy originally appeared as part of the Windows XP PowerToy package. SyncToy has been improved regularly. The latest version takes advantage of Ray Ozzie’s Sync Framework. SyncToy 2.1 has been around [...]
Written By: Roger on December 23, 2010
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One group of security professionals is using Trojan horse access points cloaked in printers and other office equipment to infiltrate clients who want their defenses tested.
“We have been toying with a variety different ways of getting hardware onto the network,” says Steve Stasiukonis, managing partner of security services firm Secure [...]
Written By: Roger on December 23, 2010
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Russia has finally buried the US…in spam. Russia topped the list of sources of global spam, with the US a distant 18th, according to Kaspersky Labs’ October spam report.
Kaspersky Labs said that the volume of spam coming from Russia doubled in October compared to September, as did the spam volume [...]
