The public utility software tools for you and this section will be changed every week or month adding or replacing new and excellent software tools. You can download, them for free and can use them for private use. Not for public  sales.

      SOME PUBLIC UTILITY SOFT WARE TOOLS GIVEN BELOW FOR FREE DOWNLOAD

CALL COMMUNICATION

CALL CENTER

Phone answering software (requires a voice modem). It also sends and receives faxes. This listing also appears on the faxing page. (5.6MB)

 | DOWNLOAD updated Jul 22 '00

OLCALL

OLCall is a program that detects when a call is waiting while you are online and then you can disconnect and answer the call or you can stay online and ignore the call. Requires "call waiting" service from your phone company. (1.2MB)

| DOWNLOAD added Aug 9 '03

PHONETRAY FREE

PhoneTray uses your modem to identify the callers before you answer the phone. You must subscribe to the caller ID service from your phone company and have a CallerID capable modem. (2.8MB)

 | DOWNLOAD added Oct 25 '03

ANTI VIRUS

F-PROT

One of the best free ones. Free for non-commercial use. (1.3MB)

 | DOWNLOAD updated Jan 4 '03

SYMANTEC ANTI-VIRUS

Symantec's Anti-virus scanner. This one detects but does not remove viruses. Too old to be of much use. (2.2MB)

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BOOTMINDER

This program will warn you if a floppy is in your A: drive when closing down Windows. This way, you will be less likely to start up again with the floppy still in the A: drive. This means: no boot-virus infection. Bootviruses are the most common of computer diseases. (109KB)

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PRETTY PARK CLEANER

Pretty Park is a privacy invading worm. Every 30 seconds, it tries to e-mail itself to the e-mail addresses in your Microsoft Outlook Express address book. This program will clean your system. (740KB)

 | DOWNLOAD added Mar 31 '00

MAILCLEANER

MailCleaner is a system that helps you to protect your computer from received infected email (that are suspected to contain viruses). MailCleaner constantly checks your incoming mail in order to verify that no viruses are sending to your computer. When an incoming mail is suspected to be containing a virus, MailCleaner automatically deletes it and notifies you. For use with Microsoft's Outlook. (730KB)

 | DOWNLOAD added Aug 3 '00

VCATCH

Scans downloads for viruses. Also scans mail attachments. Ad supported. (1.1MB)

 | DOWNLOAD updated Oct 6 '02

SURFINGUARD

SurfinGuard proactively monitors executable (.exe) programs for malicious behavior. SurfinGuard runs executables in a protected "sandbox" environment and automatically blocks any hidden Trojan or worm that breaches security rules. SurfinGuard prevents malicious code attacks without relying on anti-virus database updates. (8.3MB)

 | DOWNLOAD updated Apr 21 '02

BITDEFENDER FOR ICQ

Uses new technology to intercept; filter, and virus scan all files received when using the popular ICQ instant messaging software. (2.7MB)

 | DOWNLOAD updated Aug 30 '03

AVAST! HOME EDITION

Avast anti-virus. Incremental updates of virus definitions and programs are small, fast and reliable. Free for home users but registration required. (6MB)

 | DOWNLOAD added Dec 29 '01

ANTIVIR

The AntiVir Personal Edition offers the effective protection against computer viruses for the individual and private use on a single PC-workstation. (3.5MB)

 | DOWNLOAD added Feb 26 '03

BITDEFENDER FOR YAHOO IM

BitDefender for Yahoo IM is the first proactive solution that blocks all viruses threatening the system as a result of file transfers through Yahoo IM. (2.7MB)

 | DOWNLOAD added May 20 '02

VCATCH KAZBLOCK

KazBlock scans files downloaded from Kazaa. (1.2MB)

 | DOWNLOAD added Mar 18 '03

BITDEFENDER

Antivirus program. Free for home use. (9MB)

 | DOWNLOAD added Aug 30 '03

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DISK AND FILE UTILITIES                                            

WIDGET PROGRAM MANAGER

Takes a snapshot of your system at the time the program first starts. This snapshot will show all of the processes, modules, and threads that are running on your PC. You will be able to end a process, reboot your PC, and shut down your PC. You will also be able to view the CPU usage, memory load, and others on your PC in real time. (1.0MB)

DOWNLOAD added Aug 31 '00

SPACE MONGER

SpaceMonger is a tool for keeping track of the free space on your computer. Each file or folder on a given drive is displayed in a box in the main window whose size is a relative comparison to all the other files in your system. So, for example, if the "Windows" box takes up 90% of the screen, the "C:\Windows" folder and all its sub-folders and files are taking up 90% of your "C:" drive. (103KB)

 | DOWNLOAD added Oct 22 '00

MPOWER

As you work with your computer, opening and closing applications, the system memory becomes fragmented. This means that you have less memory available to your applications. Executables and Dlls often remain in memory long after they're closed, until something forces them out. MPower defragments and frees your RAM giving more stability to your system and avoiding needless use of swap file. This application will also benchmark (speed test) your hard disk drives and your CPU load. (769KB)

| | DOWNLOAD added Jan 21 '01

FREEMETER

FreeMeter is a utility that monitors system performance. Some things that can be monitored include: Disk Space Usage, CPU Utilization, Disk Transfer Rates, Memory Usage, Running Processes, Page File Usage and more. (541KB)

| | DOWNLOAD added Mar 22 '01

FIND UNUSED FILES

Have you ever wondered how many files are unused on your disk for the last 300 days? Find Unused Files can show you a report of such files. You can tell it to look for files which have not been used for a certain number of days. (580KB)

  | DOWNLOAD updated Jun 23 '02

DEPENDENCY

Most programs require the support of additional files sometimes not included in order to run properly. Dependency will show you the dll's and ocx's as well as their size and location that the exe of the program is dependent upon. (95KB)

 | DOWNLOAD added May 13 '01

TYPE PARSER

This utility is used to get information on the usage of your drive, by grouping similar extensions and showing how they are distrubuted on your hard disk. (383KB)

| | DOWNLOAD added Sep 14 '01

RUBY

A program designed to catalog the files on CD-Rs. A search can be initiated on the database just like the Windows Find feature. Find the disc that a particular file is on with this utility. Can also catalog floppies, Zip disks, other removable media and even hard drives. (4.2MB)

 | DOWNLOAD updated Dec 22 '02

DISK INVESTIGATOR

Display the true drive contents by bypassing the operating system and directly reading the raw drive sectors. View and search raw directories, files, clusters, and system sectors. Verify the effectiveness of file and disk wiping programs. Undelete previously deleted files. (557KB)

| | DOWNLOAD added Oct 26 '02

DISCLIB

Disclib is a CD collection organizer program. It may be used as a catalogue of CDs. After creating the catalogue, disclib stores file and folder names and tree, allows user to categorize folders and files, and allows searching all the files from the collection CDs without need to place them in CD reader. Disclib may place in the catalogue any windows folder not only folders on CDs. (1.1MB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD updated Mar 22 '03

PARTITION MANAGER

Ranish Partition Manager is a boot manager and hard disk partitioner. It gives users high level of control for running multiple operating systems, such as Windows 98/NT/XP, Linux, FreeDOS, and FreeBSD on a single disk. (169KB)

| | DOWNLOAD added Mar 24 '03

RESTORATION

Restore files which are deleted from the recycle bin or deleted while holding down the Shift key by mistake. Conversely, this program has another function that makes it almost impossible to restore all deleted files. You can use it after deletion of confidential documents. (193KB)

| DOWNLOAD added May 22 '03

DBF TO CSV

DBF2CSV is a free utility to convert .DBF database files to .CSV text format (comma-separated values). Full source code is included. Written in Perl. Also includes three tiny Perl v4 interpreters in case you don't already have Perl installed. Runs under Windows, DOS, OS/2, Linux, Unix, etc. and probably any other OS that supports Perl version 4 or 5. (440KB)

 | DOWNLOAD added Jun 29 '03

FOLDERS REPORT

The FoldersReport utility scans a drive or a base folder that you select, and displays essential information for each folder that it finds: The size of all files inside the folder, The real files size on the disk, number of files inside the folder, number of hidden files, number of compressed files, and number of subfolders. (22KB)

DOWNLOAD added Jul 23 '03

MST ISUSEDBY

Software Tool which you can use to determine what process on your system has a particular file open. This is important, for example, if you want to copy or delete a file and you don't know why it isn't working. (552KB)

| | DOWNLOAD updated Nov 16 '03

PC INSPECTOR FILE RECOVERY

Data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems. (2.8MB)

 | DOWNLOAD added Oct 1 '03

FIVE

FIVE has been designed to detect whether files have been modified between 2 uses of FIVE. Enables users to encrypt/decrypt selected files and check whether selected files have been tampered with. (465KB)

 | DOWNLOAD added Nov 30 '03

PGP (PRETTY GOOD PRIVACY)

This encrypts your E-mail to keep it private. Someone could intercept your mail. Worse, some twisted soul at your internet provider could make copies of all your messages (for later blackmail). That's illegal though. (4.0 MB) freeware.

 | DOWNLOAD updated Dec 31

F-PROT DESKTOP ENCRYPTION Version 2

This encrypts files and folders on your computer. Easy to use. Strong encryption. It is critical when using this kind of product to make the password as long as possible. The password is usually easier to break than the encryption. (I wonder how many people will be encrypting their stolen shareware?) Free for non-commercial use. (1.5MB) freeware.

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S-TOOLS 4

This product is kind of cool. It has a couple of uses. It can hide a secret message in a picture file so no one suspects there's a message. This can also be a way to mark a picture like a copyright proof of ownership. (273KB) freeware.

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SCRAMDISK

Scramdisk can create virtual disks with a choice of a number of 'industry standard' encryption algorithms. A unique encryption product. (126KB)

| | DOWNLOAD added April 8 '99

EBAK

Can encrypt and of course decrypt files. Has one of the easier ways of encrypting email messages I've seen. Not strong encryption. (1.1MB)

 | DOWNLOAD updated Dec 27 '99

SECURITY MANAGER

SecurityManager 99 is an application for encrypting individual files and the contents of entire folders using the DES method (Data Encryption Standard). When data is encrypted the original files are automatically overwritten, making it impossible to restore their contents with file utilities. (1.1MB)

DOWNLOAD added Oct 12 '99

IRON KEY

Iron key creates self extracting encrypted executables so the person you send them to doesn't need the software. Just the password. (790KB)

 | DOWNLOAD added Jun 17 '00

CAMOUFLAGE

Camouflage allows you to hide files by scrambling them and then attaching them to the file of your choice. This camouflaged file then looks and behaves like a normal file and can be stored, used or emailed without attracting attention. (2.6MB)

 | DOWNLOAD updated Apr 29 '01

MAXCRYPT

Selected files, folders, and even drives are automatically encrypted when the computer is shutdown and decrypted when you log in. (1.1MB)

  | DOWNLOAD updated Dec 22 '02

ABI CODER

This file encryption software uses a 448 bit Blowfish and 168 bit 3DES encryption algorithms. ABI- CODER allows you to encrypt files and folders with just a click of the mouse. ABI- CODER also allows you to create self-decrypting files that allow you to send or transfer encrypted files to people that do not have the software installed on their computers. (634KB)

 | DOWNLOAD added Sep 21 '01

POINTCRYPT

An encryption program that provides for quick encrypting and decrypting of email messages. Most internet service providers save to disk every email message that passes through their system. By using PointCrypt, a person's emails are unreadable to anyone except the person who has the mutual corresponding pass phrase. (571KB)

  | DOWNLOAD added Oct 18 '01

FINECRYPT

Professional encryption tool which provides highly secure encryption with a single mouse click without entering password or key; encrypts files, folders and whole directory trees; creates encrypted archives; creates self-extracting encrypted executables which can be decrypted without FineCrypt; encrypts with password and with key; key manager; file manager; session keys and passwords; wipe utility; statistical analysis of ciphertext; 10 encryption algorithms; 4 encryption modes; full integration with Windows shell. (4.9MB)

 | DOWNLOAD updated Oct 11 '02

EASYCRYPTO

You can encrypt both standalone files and entire folders. The high level of security is ensured by using the well-known unbeatable 128-bit key BlowFish algorithm. You can also add several files or entire folders to an encrypted EasyCrypto ZIP file. When you send this type of archive to someone, the recipient just needs to install EasyCrypto to extract the folders. Free for personal use. (1.7MB)

 | DOWNLOAD added Dec 19 '01

ABC CHAOS

Easily encrypt files into your personal data archive. (360KB)

 | DOWNLOAD updated Oct 4 '03

PINS

PINs is for storing any secure information like passwords, accounts, PINs etc. PINs uses a secure 448 bit Blowfish algorithm to ensure the data are not crackable. The password used for securing access to stored data is not saved anywhere. (625KB)

 | DOWNLOAD added Jul 9 '02

AXCRYPT

Strong file encryption, integrated with Windows Explorer. Encrypt, compress, decrypt, wipe, view and edit with a few mouse clicks. Cryptographic primitives are AES-128 and SHA-1. Secure memory handling - no keys or data in the paging file. (230KB)

 | DOWNLOAD added Dec 12 '02

RIPCODER

Uses DES+ encoding for strong encryption. Deletes source file if needed. (804KB)

 | DOWNLOAD added Jan 15 '03

SECURETASK

Professional task manager, with which you can automatically perform various security-related tasks on your computer, such as: automatic encryption, automatical wiping, automatic system cleanup. (2.9MB)

  | DOWNLOAD added Feb 2 '03

IOPUS SECURE EMAIL ATTACHMENTS

With iOpus Secure Email Attachments you can send self-decrypting archives that "unpack" themselves. The recipient just double clicks on the file and enters the password at the prompt displayed. The original files are then decrypted, extracted and written to your disk automatically. Uses 448 bit encryption. (551KB)

 | DOWNLOAD added Mar 13 '03

BMPPACKER

Hides data in encrypted for in images like .bmp's. (1.1MB)

 | DOWNLOAD added Sept 6 '03