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Filseclab Personal Firewall Professional
A very good Firewall wiz a lot of advanced features. You can allow or disallow programs to connect to the Internet. Naturally you can allow or block all traffic or only incoming or outgoing traffic. It's called Professional Edition rightly but nevertheless it's free. You don't have to create own rules cause a lot of rules are integrated and you can switch e.g. between General Mode or Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) Mode to allow clients only to access the local network or allow them to connect to the internet. Experts are naturally able to configurate their own advanced rules to block IP Addresses and ports or special rules for various programs like browsers. The Filseclab Personal Firewall runs under Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, Server, Advanced Server, XP and 2003.
Some Screenshots: Set 1
Set 2
The Homepage of the Filseclab Firewall and the Online Help page.
NO Firewall, NO Antivirus program and NO Internet Security application could protect you to 100%! If you misconfigure the firewall or share sensitive data thru the internal network and the web without network protection, you could lose your data or could be hacked and lose your money while doing your online banking! You should be a bit wakefully everytime you surf around the web and read the texts on web pages before clicking links!
Other free Firewalls
Comodo Internet Security for Windows XP (SP2) - 7, 32- and 64-bit. You have the choice to install Firewall and Antivirus separately or together during installation process. Visit my Antivirus page, view some screenshots and get more informations.
Firestarter is good Firewall for Linux systems.
PC Tools Firewall for Windows XP (32-bit) Vista/7 (32/64-bit).
Don't want to have Spyware all the time on your Computer? Protect your privacy now! Spybot will find and remove the Spyware. Together with a lot of programs you install Spyware or Websites you visit sends Tracking Cookies to your system which will always send data to record your surfing habits and all of your visited Websites to send special advertisings to you. That's one way why you get all these Spam into your inbox. Integrated is an update function, so that you'll be always protected. Really a great Spyware Removal Tool. Free for private, none commercial use only!
Compatible with Windows 95 - 7 (32/64-bit) and UNIX/Linux thru Wine.
Some Screenshots to have a look.
Visit the Spybot Homepage and get it.
You can get Spybot also for portable use from PortableApps.
SpywareBlaster
This program is the right tool to block all ActiveX based spyware, adware, dialers ... . It blocks spyware and tracking cookies in Mozilla Firefox, Seamonkey, K-Meleon, Flock, Internet Explorer and IE based browsers like Avant, Slim and Crazy Browser. SpywareBlaster is free for personal and educational use, public libraries, registered charities, elementary or secondary schools, degree-granting undergraduate and post-graduate community colleges, colleges, and universities!
SpywareBlaster runs on Windows 9x - 7 (32/64-bit).
Here are two Screenshots of SpywareBlaster.
You will need the VB Runtimes to run SpywareBlaster!
Visit the Homepage and the Support Forum.
ClearProg
Really a great tool to protect your privacy. Delete (secure) all unwanted data garbage wiz one click manually or automatically on Windows startup. Delete Cookies, Temporary Internet Files (Cache), History and typed Web addresses (Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox and Opera), Document History, Windows Temp Files, Media Player History and Office File Lists. In addition you can activate various plugins for different processes e.g. VirtualDub and Winamp. If you have programs which are not listed, write your own Plugin and add it to the plugin file. Secure file deletion and update check is available! Supported languages: Dutch, Catalan (only in ClearProg 1.6.1), Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish and Thai.
Screenshots: Windows XP Windows 7
ClearProg is compatible with Windows 9x - Vista and partially 7.
Take the latest Beta if you have Windows 7!
Download Setup or Portable and visit the Support Forum if you need help.
A good Cleaner for Linux and Windows: BleachBit
CCleaner
Delete data garbage and optimize computer performance with CCleaner. More features: Secure file deletion, update check, disable unwanted start-up entries and manage system restore points.
CCleaner is compatible with Windows 9x - 7 (32/64-bit).
Screenshots: Windows XP Windows 7 64-bit
CCleaner Downloads: Setup Portable
Delete yet more history files with CCleaner: CCEnhancer
Another good disk cleaning tool: Wise Disk Cleaner
xp-AntiSpy
This is a tool to deactivate the Spy Functions of the Operating Systems Windows 2000, XP and Vista. E.g. the Windows Media Player sends always Data to Microsoft. Usually only your Computers configuration, but who knows what else!?! You can manually deactivate these functions but there are much more as only these of the Media Player and it's a lot of work to deactivate all spy functions of Windows manually and you need advanced knowledge to do it. xp-AntiSpy will do it all in one step.
Have a look at Screenshots of xp-AntiSpy.
For Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7.
You can download xp-AntiSpy as setup and as zip file in a lot of languages.
xpy
(Open Source)
Another great tool for blocking the spy functions of Windows. Attention! You will need advanced knowledge for some functions. If you don't know exactly what to do, please read the FAQ first.
Have a look at Screenshots of xpy.
xpy is for Windows 2000 - 7.
Visit the xpy website if you want to try.
Encryption / Decryption
NEVER save your sensitive personal data like account numbers and PINs on your Computers!
AxCrypt - is compatible with Windows 2000 - 7 (32/64-bit). It's really simple to encrypt, decrypt, shred and delete files and folders with AxCrypt. After installation you will see a new entry within the context menu when you rightclick on files and folders. There will also be a submenu with entries like encrypt, decrypt, shred and delete and more.
TruCrypt - Encrypt and decrypt whole drives, patitions and files under Windows (2000 SP 4 and XP - 7, 32/64-bit), Linux (32/64-bit) and Mac OS X. A portable mode for working from removable drives is integrated and there are more than 30 languages available.
Both programs are Open Source Software.
More encrytion software: GnuPG and Gpg4win.
Read the Wikipedia article about GnuPG.
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