Trojan horses are not as big a problem as they used to be. Trojans are malware that are installed in the guise of another software, in some ironic cases an antivirus, and then infect your computer with even more harmful content. The best way to avoid Trojans is to always make sure that you can trust the software that you are downloading, especially you obtained it via P2P or Torrenting.
As the detection of malware, viruses, trojans and other harmful software has become more advanced, unfortunately, so have the malicious software and their developers. One of the biggest challenges is rootkits. Rootkits are a special kind of software tool used to hide trojans, viruses and other malware from your antivirus scanner and other security products.
While these dramatically reduce the chance of infection, unfortunately, they only work once the threat is through the door. Intrusion Detection Software IDS works by monitoring your network activity in real-time and shutting it down, should it detect a threat.
Snort is the best freeware option out there. It has a large community of users to help you out and is relatively easy to set up and get running with. Unfortunately, it has no GUI so if you have no technical experience it could cause you some problems. There are plenty of reasons for wanting to surf anonymously, ranging from simple self-preservation to wanting to avoid governments and hackers. For a free anonymous surfing option, Tor remains the best alternative. By routing your connection through multiple layers hence the onion logo , it becomes extremely difficult to find out where the data is coming from.
Unfortunately, it does come with the downside that it is extremely slow and only protects your web browsing. If you can think of application software, there is more than likely a free version of it. Many of these freebies substitute for their commercial counterparts. Ubuntu is one of the most popular versions of Linux, which contains many of these softwares, and goes a long way to helping you create a free software suite independent of large co-operations.
Windows Explorer is fine for simple file management activities, but when you have some serious work to do, you need a two-pane file manager. Though there are a lot of possibilities out there, I have found FreeCommander to be the best.
Either way, keeping track of your emails, meetings, and contacts can become exhausting. Luckily, eM Client is here to help you out. Naturally, it also integrates with a huge range of email. For more information check out our best free secure email guide , or for some paid options our best secure email guide.
The regular clipboard in Windows has limitations. One item at a time and no retention after logging off. Clipboard replacement utilities provide the ability to hold multiple items and store them for future use, even after logging off. There are many free clipboard replacement utilities available, including PhraseExpress.
PhraseExpress is available across multiple platforms and has secure cloud syncing to help you keep track of items you have copied many other devices.
Luckily, there are a lot of good options out there with CoffeeCup undoubtedly being one of the best. It comes preloaded with a lot of useful features, has helpful tutorials, and is available for both Windows and Mac. On top of this, they also have some great tutorials and forums to help you out.
This category can be considered near defunct as most email providers now have spam filtering built in. SPAMfighter is the best in this category. The need for pop-up stopper utilities has fallen away in recent months as many browsers such as Firefox now have this function built in. However, dedicated pop-up and AdBlockers do a much more efficient job - with AdBlock being the best all rounder. However, there are plenty of other tracking and privacy issues when it comes to your browser.
While the default search algorithms of both Windows and Mac have improved over the years, I personally still feel like they can be slow. When trying to find a file or email, the last thing you want to be doing is sitting there waiting for the results to load. Not to mention that in most cases results are loaded in an incomprehensible format. Lookeen helps overcome this by integrating with your platform, searching quicker, and displaying results in an easy to view format.
Simply put, Lookeen is the best desktop search tool around. All PeaZip packages are safe downloads, do not contain advertising or harmful software, and are identified with cryptographically secure SHA hash published on official dowenload site. Portable packages, available for Linux, macOS, and Windows operating systems as alternative to installable packages, does not need installation: simply extract and use the application for maximum ease of deployment. Each release contains program's packages for different supported operating systems, documentation, and sources.
See complete change log and release notes for list of updates and new features of the application, and for SHA hash values of each package published in the current release.
Download pages of Win64 and Win32 installers also shows SHA hash value of each packages for increased security of users. Info- ZIP is another free, portable, open source archive software for Windows.
You can create two types of archives with it namely Zip and Self-Extracting. The Zip archive method is used for all types of files , documents , and folders.
However, self-extracting archive method is mainly used to archive EXE or program setup files. Using the explorer window, you can specify the name and path of the archive and also set the Archive Type ZIP or Self-extracting files. Now, click Open Button to select files and folders that you want to archive and then press OK button to start archiving process.
In this freeware, you also get few other handy features like WizDiff to compare files and folders , Wiz Editor it is a simple text editor , Archiver Scanner to find archived folders and files , etc.
Zpaq is the next free open source archive software for Windows. It is actually an incremental journaling command-line archiver software that creates append only archives. Append-only archive means both the old and new version of data saved in an archive. This software not only creates archives, but you can also extract archives using it. When you launch this software using Command Prompt , you can view all the necessary commands to create archives , extract archives , etc.
The archived file created by this software will always contain. Similar to add command, you can use Extract Command to extract an archive and List Command to compare external files to archives according to dates. In general, it is not an easy software to operate but still, it fulfills its main purpose with any hiccups. Noah is yet another free open source archive software for Windows. Using this software, you can archive as well as compress multiple files , folders , documents , etc.
Plus, an inbuilt Extractor is also present in it, through which you can quickly extract archived files as well. Overall, it is another easy to use open source file archive software through which you can quickly create and extract archives.
This software is mainly used to create a self-extracting archive and self-extracting installer. The self-extracting archive option is used to create archives of normal files , documents , folders , etc. This software not only creates archives, but it also compresses the archived data at the same time.
To change the type of compression, you can select different Compression Methods such as Fast , Normal , Maximum , Ultra , etc.
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