Freeware: Proactive

	Secure-It  License: Freeware
	Secure-It is a local Windows security hardening tool, proactively secure your PC by either disabling the intrusion and propagation vectors proactively or simply reduce the attack surface by disabling unimportant functions. It secures Windows desktop PCs and Internet servers against new dangers by blocking the root cause of the vulnerabilities exploited by malware, worms and spy ware . In some cases Secure-it is even able to protect your PC against threats prior to a patch release of the vendor. * Harden your Local Zone Security (My Computer) settings. * Proactively disable scripting or Active-X controls which proved potential propagation vectors in the past. * Reduce potential intrusion vectors by disabling non used services. * Various other protections. Author: YASC LTD| Date: 18-02-2005 | Size: 712 KB
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	Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (Network Installation Package)  License: Freeware
	Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) provides new proactive security technologies for Windows XP to better defend against viruses, worms, and hackers. In addition to a more robust security infrastructure, SP2 improves the security configuration options of Windows XP and provides better security information to help users faced with security decisions. Before starting this driver installation we suggest you make sure you are installing the latest driver version available. Follow readme instructions/help file for installing drivers when available. Sometimes you need to restart your system for the new installed driver to become active. You can install this driver with the following operating system: Windows XP Author: Microsoft| Date: 10-08-2004 | Size: 50 KB
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	HDDlife  License: Freeware
	Worried about hard drive failures? Get HDDLife - a real-time hard drive monitoring utility with alerts, malfunction protection and data loss prevention functions. This hard drive inspector is an advanced proactive hard drive failure detection system which controls all of your hard drive risks. HDDLife uses S.M.A.R.T. technology, and works both for single PCs and large computer networks. S.M.A.R.T. technology was developed by hard drive manufacturers to accurately predict hard drive life span and prevent HDD malfunction. HDDLife displays S.M.A.R.T. attributes in real-time and alerts the system administrator if particular hard-drive attributes exceed threshold values and are at risk. The system administrator can then backup data and/or replace endangered hard drives. HDDLife loads on Windows start, compares new attribute values with the previous values and consumes absolutely no memory. The program is extremely straightforward - no fundamental knowledge of PC or hard drive technology is needed whatsoever. Zero failures during the last four years for the 100000 hard drives monitored! 100% FREE to download and try. Main Features:   • Controlling the health of your hard drives using the S. M. A. R. T. technology.   • Constantly monitoring the state of your hard drives in the background mode.   • Displaying the temperature of your hard drives.   • Disk free space info and monitoring.   • The full list of features. Author: BinarySense, Ltd.| Date: 1-51-2006 | Size: 6348 KB
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	Purge-it  License: Freeware
	Purge-it! allows the End-User to take a look inside his System, see what Programs are running, which Ports are open The User does choose what happens to his system, and can clean himself from various Malware such as Backdoor, Trojans and Spyware. It heavily resides on the capability of the End-user. In order to deploy Purge-It! at its full strength the user needs to know at least the basics. Its up to the End-User to develop generic methods at monitoring the integrity of their system. Author: YASC LTD| Date: 10-01-2005 | Size: 712 KB
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	System Safety Monitor Free Edition  License: Freeware
	System Safety Monitor (SSM) is a Host Based Intrusion Prevention System which will protect your system from all known and unknown malware, rootkits and "zero-day" attacks. SSM proactively keeps track of all running programs' behavior and blocks malicious or suspicious actions. Learning mode will help you to easily configure the required security rules. Compatible with most of well known security software. 100% freeware. Working at the Windows Kernel level SSM monitors in real-time: * Malware and Rootkit Installation * Driver Loading * Program Execution * NT Services Installation and State Change * Program State and Memory Modification * Thread and Process Suspension and Termination * Direct Physical Memory Access * Global Hook Installation * System Registry Modification * Window Opening * IE Settings Change * Startup Menu Modification Author: System Safety Limited| Date: 11-08-2006 | Size: 3216 KB
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	MyCyberFriend  License: Freeware
	MyCyberFriend is an 'AI-like' program for children 8-12 yrs old to chat and interact with Human like Robots. With its instant messaging like feel the robot friends become more of a friend the longer they chat on different free flowing topics. The 2 main Friends are a robot boy and girl that think and act like they are real. The robot friends are proactive not just reactive. This helps with the illusion that the human child is interacting with a REAL friend. The available free flowing form of chatting and other MyCyberFriend subjects permit the 8-12 yr olds to interact on any topic that age group is interested in. Always nice, polite, and supportive even moms will like and approve of this. It allows games, telling jokes, singing songs, telling stories . They have there own background, likes and dislike as all kids do. MCF creates a fun safe harbor for children to be children on the Internet. Following the COOPA laws, MyCyberFriend never collects any personal information that would allow a way for a REAL human to contact them. Author: MCFIII Inc.| Date: 05-01-2004 | Size: 604 KB
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	AliveChat BETA  License: Freeware
	AliveChat 3.0 Beta is a FREEWARE which allows you to connect with your web site visitors in real-time via a browser-based chat interface. The application is 100% hosted by WebsiteAlive's data centres, so there is nothing to download and install. Your company representatives can now support customers while increasing operator productivity and reducing telephone and call center costs. Some features include unlimited operator/client chat sessions, proactive chat, real-time site monitoring, repeat visitors identification, site metrics and performance analysis tools, operator to operator chatroom, typing indicator, departments, automatic call distribution, and hotkeys (saved phrases and urls). Please visit www.websitealive.com for more details. Author: WebsiteAlive| Date: 01-09-2004 | Size: 12 KB
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	eMailPalSetup_v5.0  License: Freeware
	Complete email security and productivity enhancement tool for Windows desktop users offering anti-spam, proactive virus prevention, email encryption and email compression in a complete and convenient desktop software package. eMailPal offers a high degree of personalization and automation such as filter's sensitivity control, selectable message handlers on a per-message category basis, user-specifiable white and black lists, auto-synchronization with the email application's address book or contact list, self-configuration (absolutely no setup is required), self-learning for filter performance improvement plus many more. Compatible with all email applications such as Microsoft Outllook, Outlook Express, Qualcomm Email, Netscape Communicator, Mozilla, etc. and all commercial anti-virus software. Features:  * Anti-spam  Block annoying spam, scams, frauds and messages with objectionable content with high catch rate (~100%).  * Anti-virus - New !!!  Protect user from known email-borne viruses through a popular open source ClamAV anti-virus software, which is capable of deep archive attachment inspection for popular archive formats such as bz2, zip, gzip, tar, cab, RAR 2.0, Micrsoft CAB, OLE, CHM and SZDD. (see this article on how ClamAV compares to other commercial anti-virus software).  * Pro-active Anti-virus  Protect user from unknown email-borne viruses through pro-active prevention technology. Also detect virus from using your system as a virus or spam launch pad, which could lead to blockage of your email service by service provider.  * Anti-phishing - New !!!  Protect user from email phishing designed to steal your personal data, a.k.a. identity theft.  * Safe and Fast Message Delivery  Automatically archive attachments in outgoing message in a single compress zip archive attachment to:þ       - Avoid the message being blocked or dropped by a sensitive anti-virus defense system along delivery path or       - Speed up message transmission on a slow congested link  * Privacy Protection  Protect your privacy while communicating with another eMailPal user via email, using eMailPal user-friendly secure email channel.  * Safe Message Handling and Management þ       - Never drop any of your messages       - Never allow a message with dangerous content from reaching your Inbox without being secured or audited       - Safe and user-friendly quarantine message manager  * On-line Updates - New !!!  Automatic virus database updates.  * Other Highlight Featuresþ       - Personal spam sensitivity level control to optimize false positives or enhance protection       - User-defined keywords and phrases - New !!!       - Auto-synchrorization of your contact list with eMailPal's buddy list       - Bounce-back messages from those you do not want to be in touch with       - Self-improve from user's message management and traffic pattern       - Unlimited number of remote POP3 mailboxes per-user       - Unlimited number of users on a multi-user Windows NT-class operating system and maintain separate per-user quarantine area and setup profile       - Work with all popular email applications and any email client software adhering to SMTP/POP3 protocols  * User-friendly Featuresþ       - Eliminate learning burden with an intuitive easy-to-comprehend Explorer-like message management user interface       - Ease of installation, setup and use       - Simple on-off control without rebooting the system. Author: i-Guard.Net Inc.| Date: 10-04-2006 | Size: 10678 KB
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	Comodo Antivirus  License: Freeware
	Free Comodo AntiVirus – Eliminates all known viruses, worms and trojans from desktops and networks. Comodo AntiVirus - Eliminates all known viruses, worms and trojans from Windows computers. Features on-demand & on-access scanning, email scanning, process monitoring, worm blocker, scan scheduling and more. It’s easy to use; will not slow down your PC and is free for life to the end user.Specifically engineered to deliver the very highest protection, Comodo AV boasts an industry leading feature list that's packed with the latest and most sophisticated technologies. Detects and eliminates viruses from desktops and networks Constantly protects with real-time On Access scanning online Proactive Heuristic analysis intercepts unknown threats Daily, automatic updates of virus definitions Isolates suspicious files in quarantine preventing infection Full inbound and out bound E-Mail scanning Simple to use: install and forget Updated virus definitions are automatically downloaded according to a schedule of your choice or by a single click on the 'updater' button. Once installed, Comodo AntiVirus will unobtrusively sit in your system tray, silently and efficiently defending your system from the latest virus outbreaks.Unlike the stripped down versions of commercial software that other software vendors offer for free, this is the full, completely functional version of the product. Free Lifetime License - After downloading and installing Comodo AntiVirus, just register with us and you will be sent a free license. After activation, this license will never expire. Author: Comodo Group| Date: 20-09-2007 | Size: 35442 KB
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	Dynamic Security Agent  License: Freeware
	Privacyware Dynamic Security Agent (DSA) delivers easy, immediate, signature-less protection from known or new malware and all forms of unauthorized use for Windows desktops and servers. An intelligent multi-layered defense, DSA continuously evaluates system processes, applications, WinAPI calls, registry settings and other system variables to reveal, alert, quarantine and block potentially malicious activity. DSA incorporates system and email anomaly detection components that baseline normal computer operation and detect unacceptable deviations from typical use. DSA is an ideal, zero-day defense complement to virus and spyware scanners and firewalls. Stop malware, viruses, drive-by downloads, spyware, adware, rootkits, phishing and other threats with DSA. Dynamic Security Agent’s layered approach to PC and enterprise endpoint defense addresses the Windows vulnerabilities and progressive techniques that hackers exploit to gain unauthorized system access and deliver malicious payloads. DSA provides Application Security by providing detailed alerts for incoming and outgoing application-specific Internet traffic. DSA also models and monitors system behavior to identify and block activity characteristic of known malware, hacking, phishing and other threat types so that personal computer users and IT managers within small, medium or large organizations can more effectively and proactively protect the environments and private data for which they are responsible. Privacyware DSA’s configuration is easily managed via the simple main menu. Privacyware DSA is an ideal and proactive complement to conventional virus and spyware scanning software as well as personal and server firewall applications. Privacyware DSA supports Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2000/2003. Author: Privacyware| Date: 05-25-2006 | Size: 1580 KB
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	PRTG - Paessler Router Traffic Grapher  License: Freeware
	PRTG Traffic Grapher is an easy to use Windows application for monitoring and classifying bandwidth usage. It provides system administrators with live readings and long-term usage trends for their network devices. PRTG is mainly used for bandwidth usage monitoring, but may also be used to monitor many other aspects of a network such as memory and CPU utilization. With PRTG Traffic Grapher the user receives comprehensive bandwidth and network usage data that helps to optimize the efficiency of the network. Understanding bandwidth and resource consumption is the key to better network management: Avoid bandwidth and server performance bottlenecks; Find out what applications or what servers use up your bandwidth; Deliver better quality of service to your users by being proactive; Reduce costs by buying bandwidth and hardware according to actual load. The Freeware Edition of PRTG Traffic Grapher is completely free for personal and commercial use and may be downloaded for free. PRTG Traffic Grapher is designed to run on a Windows machine in your network for 24 hours every day, and constantly records the network usage parameters. The recorded data is stored in an internal database for later reference. Using an easy to use Windows interface you can configure the monitored sensors as well as create usage reports. For remote access PRTG Traffic Grapher comes with a built-in web server to provide access to graphs and tables. All common methods for network usage data acquisition are supported: SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol is the basic method of gathering bandwidth and network usage data. It can be used to monitor bandwidth usage of routers and switches port-by-port as well as device readings like memory, CPU load etc. Packet Sniffing: With its built-in Packet Sniffer PRTG can inspect all network data packets passing the network card to calculate the bandwidth usage. NetFlow: The NetFlow protocol is supported by most Cisco routers to measure bandwidth usage. Author: Paessler AG| Date: 11-07-2008 | Size: 26600 KB
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	ManageEngine OpStor Free Edition  License: Freeware
	OpStor is an integrated storage network-monitoring tool offering fault recording, performance measuring, inventory and business reporting functions through a simple web client. SAN fabric switches, RAIDs, Tape Libraries, HBA and Host servers from popular vendors, such as Brocade, McData, NetApp, Hitachi, StorageTek, ADIC, Qlogics, etc., are managed via SNMP and other protocols. OpStor auto discovers storage devices using In-band, Out-of-band, and vendor specific algorithms. All the device properties are collected and the devices along with their sub-components are modeled. Administrators can rely on OpStor for reports on alarms, performance, utilizations, inventory, trends, etc. from their storage networks. Proactive fault management captures traps, sensor faults, and Status Change Notifications; correlates; and reports them to administrators through e-mail or SMS messages. For example, OpStor manages more than 80 system-level fault conditions from NetApp devices, more than 40 from ADIC, and so on. Apart from alarm escalation options, daily and weekly reports are sent to the administrators on storage infrastructure health. OpStor does periodic status polling and collects data on performance and utilization. This data is stored in the database and used to generate performance, utilization, and availability reports for all the storage devices and its sub components. OpStor also generates reports on Top N available and performing devices. OpStor allows plotting of real-time graph with live, SNMP-based, non-intrusive, Fibre Channel port level data collected from fabric switches. These are useful for troubleshooting at the port-level. Up-to-date device inventory is maintained and reports are generated on device location, device vendors, alarm distribution, problem tickets, etc. All the reports can be saved as pdf or printed for future reference. With all the features required for a SME storage administrator, OpStor comes to you at an affordable cost. Author: AdventNet Inc.| Date: 05-07-2005 | Size: 39070 KB
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	DriveSentry  License: Freeware
	Combining Antivirus, Antirootkit, Antispyware and drive firewall technologies, DriveSentry provides FREE security for home users.  DriveSentry offers proactive up to the second security for your system and personal data, enabling you to work, play and interact with your computer on the Internet with confidence.  DriveSentry's new approach to protection combines a blacklist of over 1 million virus signatures, a whitelist of trusted programs and statistics from the Advisor Community. Using this Tri-Security technology, DriveSentry only allows good programs to access your drives (including removable drives) ensuring that you are protected against the known and the unknown.    Key features:  - DriveSentry Free alerts user when signature update required  - DriveSentry Upgraded activates real time, automatic, 'tricklefeed' updates  - Protects all drives including removable and external drives  - Monitors and logs all program access  - Only allows 'good' programs to access your drives  - Protects your system and personal data  - Protects you from Zero day threats  - Real time automatic updates of the Advisor database  - Protection from known and unknown threats  - Uses unique whitelisting technology  - Scan your system for over 1 million viruses  - Real time program advice from Advisor Community  - Automatically blocks/quarantines malicious files    DriveSentry is one of the smallest/lightest Antivirus products at just over 1.5mb, leaving your PC's resources free to do other tasks. DriveSentry is certified by Checkmark labs for independent validation on the strength of its Antivirus/Antispyware security.  If you value your personal data and want to keep your system safe from the latest threats, install DriveSentry to ensure that you are protected when traditional antivirus fails.  Visit www.DriveSentry.com for more details on DriveSentry and its sister product DriveSentry GoAnywhere, which provides portable antivirus protection for USB storage devices. Author: DriveSentry Inc| Date: 01-08-2008 | Size: 1565 KB
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