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Screensaver7
05-29-2008, 10:29 PM
Information and Benchmark Tools

AIDA32 (http://www.majorgeeks.com/download181.html)
AIDA32 is a professional system information, diagnostics and benchmarking program running on Win32 platforms. It extracts details of all components of the PC. It can display information on the screen, print it, or save it to file in various formats like HTML, CSV or XML. For corporate users, AIDA32 offers command-line switches, network audit and audit statistics, remote system information and network management.

AquaMark 3 (http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Benchmarks/AquaMark.shtml)
AquaMark allows PC users to easily benchmark their current and next-generation PCs by measuring and comparing the performance of the systems.

Auslogics System Information (http://www.download.com/Auslogics-System-Information/3000-2094_4-10686831.html)
Auslogics System Information provides you with computer and Windows details, installed devices, running processes and services, memory and CPU usage, and other information. You can explore details of your computer hardware, disk drives, processor, video card and monitor.

CoreTemp (http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/)
The uniqueness of it is that it shows the temperature of each individual core in each processor in your system! You can see in real time how the CPU temperature varies when you load your CPU. It's also completely motherboard independent.

CPUInfo (http://www.cpuinfo.de/index.php?lang=en&category=2&articleid=0)
CPUInfo is a Windows based program, which shows extensive information about the available processors. For this purpose the software searches different sources of a computer system especially for processor details and show them in a categorized style.

CPU-Z (http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/CPU-Z.shtml)
A freeware program that provides some information about your CPU.

Everest Home Edition (http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html)
It offers the world's most accurate system information and diagnostics capabilities, including online features, memory benchmarks, hardware monitoring, and low-level hardware information.

Fresh Diagnose (http://www.download.com/Fresh-Diagnose/3000-2086_4-10065841.html)
Fresh Diagnose analyzes and benchmarks your computer system. It can handle many types of hardware, including CPUs, hard disks, video systems, and mainboards.

GPU-Z (http://www.majorgeeks.com/download5796.html)
GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU.

Hijackthis (http://www.majorgeeks.com/Trend_Micro_HijackThis_d5554.html)
Trend Micro HijackThis is a free utility that generates an in depth report of registry and file settings from your computer. HijackThis makes no seperation between safe and unsafe settings in its scan results giving you the ability to selectively remove items from your scan results identified as malicious or unwanted from your machine.

Motherboard Monitor (http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311)
Motherboard Monitor (MBM) is a tool that will display information from the sensor chips on your motherboard in your Windows system tray.

PC Wizard (http://pc-wizard-2008.en.softonic.com/)
PC WIZARD 2006 is a powerful utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some further analysis. It's able to identify a large amount of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards.

Prime95 (http://www.majorgeeks.com/Prime95_d4363.html)
For overclockers, Prime95 has a feature called "Torture Test" that allows maximum stress testing on the CPU and RAM. There are several options allowing the stress test to focus on the memory, processor, or a balance of both.

SpeedFan (http://www.majorgeeks.com/download337.html)
SpeedFan is a freeware program that monitors fan speeds, temperatures and voltages in computers with hardware monitoring chips.

WinDirStat (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=91252&package_id=96219)
WinDirStat (WDS) is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Windows. It shows disk, file and directory sizes in a treelist as well as graphically in a treemap.

Firewalls FREE/Commercial

ZoneAlarm Pro - Commercial (http://www.zonealarm.com/store/content/home.jsp)
This powerful firewall software program not only protects your computer from hackers, it also protects your personal data by blocking spyware and adware as well as protecting your identity with the myVAULT utility.

Shield Deluxe 2008 - Commercial (http://www.cnet.com.au/downloads/0,239030384,10627589s,00.htm)
The Shield Deluxe 2008 combines reactive antivirus and spyware detection methods with the latest proactive technologies to provide your computer with the most effective protection against malicious programs. The product is simple to install and set up, while offering advanced users a range of versatile settings for fine-tuning the program.

Comodo Firewall - FREE (http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/download_firewall.html)
Comodo Firewall is a free-to-use application. The best way to constantly monitors and defends your PC from internet attacks.

Prisma Firewall - Commercial (http://www.prismafirewall.com/)
Designed for home and small office settings, Prisma Firewall software provides a reliable solution to intrusion prevention, a personal firewall for individual PCs.

Net Firewall - Commercial (http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Firewall/NeT-Firewall.shtml)
Stateful firewall solution built to protect Windows-based systems not currently protected by a firewall.

Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall - Commercial (http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Home-Home-Office/Sunbelt-Personal-Firewall/)
Blocks all externally originated IP traffic, making computer invisible to outsiders. Also detects alterations to files so as to block Trojans.

Outpost Firewall - Commercial (http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/)
Agnitum Outpost is the first personal firewall for Windows developed with Open Architecture. The Open Development Process proved its efficiency with the development of the Internet and with Linux.

PCTools Firewall - FREE (http://www.pctools.com/firewall/)
PC Tools Firewall Plus is a powerful personal firewall for Windows that protects your computer from intruders and controls the network traffic in and out of your PC.

eConceal Pro - Commercial (http://www.mwti.net/firewall/firewall.asp)
eConceal Pro for Windows is a powerful, highly advanced Network Firewall designed to protect your PC against attacks via the Internet or Local Area Network.

Webroot Desktop Firewall - FREE/Commercial (http://www.webroot.com/En_US/consumer-products-desktopfirewall.html)
Webroot Desktop Firewall offers great two-way protection. It keeps your data safe while also keeping hackers out! Novice users will appreciate the easy setup of Webroot Desktop Firewall, while experts can fine tune it to their advanced needs using the sophisticated features and options.

Injoy Firewall - Commercial (http://www.download.com/InJoy-Firewall/3000-10435_4-10291230.html)
The visual appearance of the Firewall GUI is highly configurable, allowing network administrators to tailor the appearance to suit their own — or the customer's — unique computing environment and needs. Other features include: Access Management, Traffic Shaping, IPSec VPN Support, and Nat Gateway.

SurfSecret Firewall - Commercial (http://www.surfsecret.com/landing/SS_Firewall.html)
Protect your computer from hackers who have the ability to - Delete, modify, or steal files from your computer. - Implant viruses or worms. - Read your email - or send email under your name. - Steal personal and credit card information resulting in identity theft.

Anti Virus Free/Commercial

avast! Home Edition - FREE (http://www.download.com/Avast-Home-Edition/3000-2239_4-10019223.html)
Avast Home Edition is a complete ICSA & Checkmark certified antivirus, Checkmark certified anti-spyware & anti-rootkit package.

AVG Free Edition - FREE (http://free.grisoft.com/ww.download)
Basic antivirus and antispyware protection for Windows available to download for free. Limited features, no support, for private and non-commercial use only.

Avira AntiVir Personal Edition - FREE (http://www.free-av.com/en/download/index.html)
AntiVir software is a reliable free antivirus solution, that constantly and rapidly scans your computer for malicious programs (such as viruses, Trojans, backdoor programs, hoaxes, worms, dialers etc.), monitoring every action executed by the user or by the operating system and being able to react promptly when a malicious program is detected.

BitDefender - FREE/Commercial (http://www.bitdefender.com/site/Downloads/)
BitDefender Free Edition uses the same ICSA Labs certified scanning engines found in other BitDefender products, allowing you to enjoy basic virus protection for no cost at all.

ClamWin AntiVirus - FREE (http://www.clamwin.com/content/view/18/46/)
ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge.

ESET NOD32 - Commercial (http://www.eset.com/download/)
Eset's NOD32 A/V product is well-known for being one of the most industrial strength A/V products on the market.

F-Secure Anti-Virus - Commercial (http://www.f-secure.com/downloads/)
F-Secure Antivirus is a great product that offers many of the standard functions associated with antivirus software, but also goes above and beyond the bar set by others with efforts by F-Secure to educate the people that use F-Secure Antivirus on general security practices as well as specific threats.

Kaspersky AntiVirus - Commercial (http://usa.kaspersky.com/downloads/)
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0 provides you with traditional anti-virus protection based on the latest protection technologies. You can work, communicate, surf the internet and play online games on your computer safely and easily.

McAfee VirusScan - Commercial (http://www.mcafee.com/us/downloads/)
McAfeeŽ VirusScanŽ 8.0i takes anti-virus protection to the next level, integrating elements of intrusion prevention and firewall technology into a single solution for PCs and file servers delivering truly proactive protection from the newest threats-including buffer-overflow exploits and blended attacks.

Panda Antivirus - Commercial (http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/downloads/?sitepanda=particulares)
Panda Antivirus features a new UltraFast scan engine, 30% faster than its predecessors, Panda's exclusive SmartClean technology, which not only disinfects viruses but also restores system settings damaged by the latest trojan horse technologies, and its low use of system resources.

PC Tools AntiVirus - FREE/Commercial (http://www.pctools.com/antivirus/)
With PC Tools AntiVirus you are protected against the most nefarious cyber-threats attempting to gain access to your PC and personal information. Going online without protection against the latest fast-spreading virus and worms, such as Netsky, Mytob and MyDoom, can result in infections within minutes.

Spybot-S&D - FREE (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html)
Spybot - Search & Destroy can detect and remove a multitude of adware files and modules from your computer. Spybot also can clean program and Web-usage tracks from your system, which is especially useful if you share your computer.

Symantec Norton AntiVirus - Commercial (http://www.symantec.com/norton/products/overview.jsp?pcid=is&pvid=nav2008)
Symantec is the world leader in providing anti virus software solutions to help individuals and enterprises assure the security, availability, and integrity of their information.

Trend Micro Anti Virus - Commercial (http://us.trendmicro.com/us/products/personal/antivirus-plus-anti-spyware/)
Trend Micro AntiVirus is the essential security you need to safeguard all your data and files. With automatic scans, updates and outbreak alerts, you can rest easy knowing you have systematic, ongoing protection against the latest malicious viruses, worms, Trojan horse programs, and spyware.

ViRobot - Commercial (http://www.hauri.net/download/)
ViRobot by HAURI is a solid product that is based on BitDefender for its antivirus engine. Please see the BitDefender Antivirus review for details on its capabilities.

Privacy Software

CCleaner (http://www.download.com/CCleaner/3000-2144_4-10315544.html?tag=lst-4-1&cdlPid=10837066)
CCleaner is a system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space.

Webroot Window Washer (http://www.download.com/Webroot-Window-Washer/3000-2144_4-10017839.html?cdlPid=10746362)
Window Washer washes away your online and offline computer activities, giving you more privacy and increasing your PC's performance. It cleans areas such as the cache, cookies, file history, and Registry items.

Privacy Guardian (http://dw.com.com/redir?edId=3&siteId=4&oId=3150-2144_4-10706864&ontId=2144&lop=linktitle&tag=lst-4-3&ltype=dl_elite_gen&pid=10706864&mfgId=6257086&merId=6257086&destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.download.com%2FPrivacy-Guardian%2F3000-2144_4-10706864.html)
Privacy Guardian is a safe and easy way to clean activity and history traces and securely delete online Internet tracks stored in your browser and in hidden files.

Tracks Eraser Pro (http://www.download.com/Tracks-Eraser-Pro/3000-2144_4-10732663.html?tag=lst-4-5)
Tracks Eraser Pro is designed to protect you by cleaning up all the tracks of Internet activities on your computer.

Free Internet Eraser (http://www.download.com/Free-Internet-Eraser/3000-2144_4-10661659.html?tag=lst-4-10)
Free Internet Eraser is Internet-privacy software that cleans up all your history and past computer activities.

ATF Cleaner (http://www.majorgeeks.com/ATF_Cleaner_d4949.html)
ATF is a new, freeware, temporary file cleaner for Windows, IE, Firefox and Opera with a simple, easy-to-use interface.

CleanCache (http://www.majorgeeks.com/CleanCache_d4122.html)
CleanCache is a free (for 1 - 2 systems), very powerful Internet Explorer 6.0 and Windows XP cleaner.

HDCleaner (http://www.majorgeeks.com/HDCleaner_d1287.html)
HDCleaner clears the fixed disk and removes unnecessary file garbage from all available drives. The most important groups of files, about BAK, CHK, GID, ~ * *, TMP, are before-configured already and need to be only selected.

DustBuster (http://www.majorgeeks.com/DustBuster_d1182.html)
DustBuster is a garbage file removing utility. It searches for junk files and temp files that are of no use and are just taking space on your hard drive.

Advanced Disk Cleaner (http://www.majorgeeks.com/Advanced_Disk_Cleaner_d4352.html)
Fast, powerful, and easy to use disk cleaner which frees up valuable disk space by finding and removing the many garbage and temporary files left behind by other programs.

WinSysClean (http://www.majorgeeks.com/WinSysClean_2008_d292.html)
WinSysClean is the most effective registry cleaner, there is no other registry cleaning tool which is easier to use or more effective than WinSysClean with just a single mouse click.

Eraser (http://www.majorgeeks.com/Eraser_d4221.html)
Eraser is an advanced security tool, which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.

Online File Scanners

Jotti's Malware Scan (http://virusscan.jotti.org/)

Kaspersky Virus File Scanner (http://www.kaspersky.com/scanforvirus)

Virus Total (http://www.virustotal.com/)

avast! Online Scanner (http://onlinescan.avast.com/)

ThreatExpert (http://www.threatexpert.com/filescan.aspx)

Dr.Web (http://online.drweb.com/)

StopAndStare
05-29-2008, 10:40 PM
Where did you get that information from?

Screensaver7
05-29-2008, 10:43 PM
google and reviews o.O

EaEaEa
05-29-2008, 10:44 PM
well.... i have mac, so i can't use a single one :\

Screensaver7
05-29-2008, 10:49 PM
well.... i have mac, so i can't use a single one :\

mac users are unlucky, but some commercial stuff have mac versions

bman2206
05-30-2008, 12:53 PM
This was pretty much already posted...

vAero
05-30-2008, 12:55 PM
Good job.Hopefully this will help some people with computer problems

StopAndStare
05-30-2008, 03:33 PM
This was pretty much already posted...

Where was is posted?

Screensaver7
05-30-2008, 07:26 PM
he means this
http://www.pawngame.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20666

but it doesn't have benchmark tools or online file scanners or a list of firewalls, plus it doesn't tell you if it's free or not.