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CasaHobo on vacation
Cleaning Tools
FireWalls
Packet Sniffers,
ports watchers
Encription Tools Movie Viewers Anti-Virus soft Lunix flavors General Tools
protect yourself against viruses FAQ
more proof most virus talk is just histerics
why windoze is a stupid OS
why NT is even worse!
using NewsShark as your news reader
the proxy FAQ
Advanced proxy FAQ
what's a host file and how it can be used
Common programs and the ports they use
how the 'net works FAQ
net commands FAQ
computer terms
quotes, quips, clever remarqs
if you wanna learn a lot more click here then



HD Cleaning Tools

program and URL

what it is used for

BCWipe from jetico.com BCWipe is a freeware from Jetico that wipes: swap file, the free disc space, clusters, slack file, ets(overwrites data as many times as you want to)
Dir Snoop from
briggsoft.com/index.html
excelent shareware that looks to see what traces are left of the files you erased/destroiyed. Get it, learn it, USE IT!
Tolvanen.com has the Eraser V2.1 excelent tiny and fast freeware that wipes free space, folders, files, ets(overwrites data up to 35 times!)
bonaventura.free-online.co.uk has
RealDelete for Win3.x,
Scorch(for Win's Swap file),
Scour(wipes Unallocated Disk Space)
all DOS Program and URLs, all freeware! get Scorch for the Swap File!
direct link to CleanUp freeware to securely erase deleted files(overwrites data up to 7 times)
http://GregoryBraun.com has
FileShredder, DiskCleanUp, Crypto, ets
all shareware products to make sure your deleted files are really deleted(overwrites data up to several times)
WebRoot.com - Windows Washer shareware which cleans/overwrites IE and Netscape folders, cookies, Windows' Recent, find and run history, temp folder, variety of soft like ICQ, ets.
webroot.com/plugin.htm get your Windows Washer plug-ins for more programs like Real Player, ets
Evidence Eliminator shareware very simular to Windows Washer
ShredderLite.com is a a pay soft for erasing/overwriting files
CompleteClean pay clean soft, to securely erase deleted files
Ethereal (GUI for Linux & Win), Ethereal (GUI for Linux & Win)
< A HREF=http://www.virusmd.com>virusMD has tons of info on current viruses



Firewalls, intrusion detection soft

Program and URL

what it is used for

robertgraham.com/pubs/firewall-seen.html
A FAQ about port numbers, Trojan Horses, probes and much more
www.doshelp.com
still investigatin'
AtGuard
Sold to Norton, see
home.pages.at/atguard and
home.pages.at/atguard/Wrq for
Help and Troubleshooting FAQ natur.exit.de/elf/atguard321.zip
(discontinued as stand-alone,
but implemented into Norton 2000) stops cookies, ads, pings, monitors your open connections, ports, ets. monitors your ports for ya; you can still find it around the 'net ONLY use V.3.22.11 (atgd322u.exe size 1.546.480)
Highly recommended
get ALL the faqs
Norton Internet Security Comes along with virus scanners and some other 'tools'
overbloated
Conseal Private desktop
sold to McAfee,
like ZoneAlarm
good for Beginners
CPD95_V206.exe size 1.327.104
McAfee Firewall
comes along with other stuff
you can get it only online via some 'life-update
they fumble around at your HD :-((
license for only one year
keep your fingers away
Conseal Private Firewall
STILL available (CPF9x206.exe size 925.184)
get it !
and get all the faqs from their site ! (as long as they are there)
for the experienced user
Highly recommended
BlackIce Defender
Rumours say 'phoning home from time to time' - so I left my fingers away

ESafe Firewall
Freeware comes along with virus scanner etc
no time to test it yet
Jammer from
http://www.agnitum.com/products
no time to test it yet
SyShield NOW Sybergen Secure Desktop see a short review at Steve Gibbons site
no time to test it yet
still available : Syshield V1.11
new version : Sybergen Secure Desktop
NetPd http://www.xemico.com/netpd/
ZoneAlarm
good for beginners
still seems to be a bit buggy (system freezes from time to time)
BlackICE Defender firewall from
Network ICE
trully excelent firewall software highly recommmanded
cybernex.net/~krusty/firewall
Conseal firewall (Signal 9) firewall
watches over each connection atempt and asks you if you want it. for the trully paranoid!
Leech Software.comNetMontor soft monitors your ports for ya
NtTtoolBox.com has
PrcView, TCP/IP View, InZider
PrcView watches all your NT, Win9X proccesses,
TCP/IP View watches your connections
InZider observes all your NT, Win9X proccesses,
Stay away from the NetBus!
Proxomitron from
members.tripod.com/Proxomitron
awsome totally free soft designed to stop ads, cookies, all kinds of info your browsers give out and can be hooked with a proxy. GET IT!
JunkBusters trully excelent free firewall software that stops ads, cookies, ets!
geocities.com/SiliconValley/Hills/8839/ activity monitoring Program and URLs



packet sniffers, ports watchers

program and URL

what it is used for

Tamos.com (network tools)-
CommView
for capturing and analizing network packets
PacketStorm-Sniffers a viraety of packets sniffers for non-Win OS like UNIX, ets
Sysinternals
(utilities soft for Win9X, NT)-
filemon, portmon, regimon, ets
filemon lists all the processes running on your box, portmon watches your ports, regimon cleans your registery;
all freeware/shareware
the freeware NetMonitor from
Leeach Soft
it offers: ICMP Statistics Option to view listening ports DNS caching Option to resolve hostnames or not Hostname and IP displayed on status bar Log location selection Added 'Ports to watch' options Icon About Box
Advanced Administrative Tools
utility from
atools.8m.com
multithreaded network explorer. It's a four-in-one program, including Port Scanner, CGI Scanner, Proxy Checker, and E-mail Verificator.
the freeware WinDump from netgroup-serv.polito.it/windump/
WinDump is used to watch and diagnose network traffic according to various complex rules. WinDump is the porting to the Windows platform of TCPDump, the most used network analyzer for UNIX. WinDump uses a libpcap-compatible library for Windows (winpcap) and a network capture driver that implements the BPF specifications.
InziterNTSecurity.nu- to find out which programs are listening at which ports



Encription Tools

program and URL

what it is used for

Jetico.sci.fi has
Best Crypt
excelent container type encription software, uses BlowFish, ets very easy to use, comes with the BCWipe cleaner
pcug.org.au/~njpayne
CrypTex
encryption freeware that uses SHA-1 and RC4 to encrypt files using a 160-bit key, and generates a salt value for each file to ensure that no two files are encrypted with the same keystream
DataFellows.com offers
the F Secure Encryption
a multy feature encryption tool with its own shell, 256-bit Blowfish, 168-bit Three-key-3DES and On-the-fly encryption; there is a freeware version available
datafellows.com/f-secdesk.htm
F-SecDesk
the direct link to d/l F-Secure desktop
jdyne.hypermart.net
JBoot 6.1
a freeware utility that puts a PW on your PC when you boot up, very simple to use, but I am NOT sure how secure it is
PGP 6.0.2
Pretty Good Privacy
encription tool get PGP from McAfee now; or the freeware versin from the MIT
hertreg.ac.uk/ss/ ScramDisc uses the 168-bit 3DES (EDE) 256-bit Blowfish, problem with it, it encripts indivigual fiels and their names can STILL be seen<
Zero-Knowledge systems offers pseudo(meaning the proxy servers they use will still know who you are and what you look at) autononimous Net access including e-mail, Usenet(news groups) ets


Anti Virus soft

Program and URL

what it is used for

nwinternet.com/~pchelp a lot of info on the notorious Back Orfice from Cult of the Dead cow
homestead.com/moosoft/cleaner.html
The Cleaner
checks for trojans, viruses. Funny thing is some people calaim The Cleaner tiself is a trojan, he-he
surf.to/netbuster NetBuster havent checked it yet.



Movie Viewers

Program and URL

what it is used for

various codexes codeczone.da.ru/codec.htm codexes for the Microsoft Player
various codexes gungans.de/h11/ more codexes for the Microsoft Player

Virtual dub from
geocities.com/virtualdub/index.html
turn AVI's into Mpegs; very nice program but rather for advance users
Pecker Joint from
members.tripod.com/~grok/PPJ11b.zip
to join all them AVIs movies together; did I also mention its all free, no strings attached?
Active Movie 1.0
(required for Quolity Movies)
lookin' for a d/l site
Quick Time3 from
www.apple.com/quicktime
quicktime/download
its -QT movie player that you might need for some movies
Quality Motion Player from
mcgav.lab.kdd.co.jp/qm/indexe.html
is another movie player for some japanese formated movies It plays most standard media formats and doesn't have any significant disadvantages
Windows Microsoft Player from
microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer
the default movies(.MPG, .MPEG, .ASF) and MP3 player for Windoze, kinda...WinAmp plays MP3 files better
RealPlayer from real.com
for .rm files
the default player for .RM files. the new version playes AVIs too because Microsofts' palyer doesnt play them anymore!
WinRAR from www.rarsoft.com/
for combining rar files
often big movies are posted broken down into pieces by WinRAR program. to combine them use WinRAR.
VIVO player from
egg.real.com/vivo-player/vivodl.html
I had to d/l it once to watch some silly anime vid



diff flavor linux

program and URL

what it is used for

freeBSD from www.freeBSD.org
Caldera from
Red Hat from



General ToolZ

for main actor
UltraEdit-32

Program and URL

what it is used for

ACDSEE ACDSee.com an excelent image viewer-jpegs, gifs, pings, ets
nwinternet.com/~pchelp/bo/bo.html Back Orifice Information
Back Orifice DETECT for Windows Back Orifice DETECT for Windows
Change Name use it to change the names of many image files at once
Disk CleanUp cleans the remainds of your previously deleted files
WS FTP IP switch.com FTP uloader
a direct link to d/l CPPOPUP CP Guesser from a direct link to d/l CPPOPUP CP Guesser
Cute FTP
.
use it to download/upload to FTP sites, also has an MP3 search enine inside
gozillause it to d/l zips
D'peg
a duplicate pic organizerto clean up your duplicate pix
File magnet
Use File Mag-Net to quickly scan web sites and newsgroups for files by filtering out heavy graphics, advertisements, broken links and SPAM.
download.com
use it to find shareware, freeware there
a dir link to gozilla.exeuse it to d/l zips
freeware.com the freeware place
gmsk162e.exe another GMask Link
GMask
Gmask 2 this is the japanese vesion but it DOES have an English link
cppopup1a.exe
FLMaSK 3.01a site
FlMask 3.0 Latest Win 95 version
FLmask and other stuff a japanese site and a japanese version
Kanjitkit97
to read japanese sites
typ60d.exe Jap to English translator
Flmask
FZC Zip Guesser
GuardDog from cybermedia a firewall to set up on your PC- havent tried it so i dont know how it works or how good it is
FZC Zip Guesser

Lha
www.st.rim.or.jp/~otake/archives/lhasa011.exe
the japanese eqivalent of WinZip (they just have to be different..;-))
LHA213.exe
LviewPro
LviewPro
News Grabber
Engine to search News Servers/Groups
hackers proof98
dont know whats for
linksweeper
to check a lot of links at one time
NJstar
japanese word processor
MagicSpell-read your ICQ messages a-loud
NetInfo looking toolZ
nst301a.zip
nst301a.exe
netscan tools
<support.microsoft.com Microsoft dlls/TD> the place if you need any .dlls
home.cnet.com/software/ yet another place billing itself as for paranoids; ho-hum
NoNADS shareware and freeware Program and URLs
used to find free news-servers
NewsShark nice easy to use free news reader. NOTE it sends ads to your PC so yoiu better know how to stop those by using a firewall
netscantools direct d/l
042-1144954. for NetInfo finger
for gathering info about IP connections
tons of news readers right here
Newsposter
Newspost (~950 kb)
the Opera browser Opera Browser
a simple to use and a tiny browser from Europe. Cost money though...
PeckJoin
for joining AVIs together
partition manager
Picaview (32 bit)
Powertoys (204 kb)
PluckIta news-reader
eboa.com/Sheriff
JSheriff/JSheriff.zip
The Snake search Engine for Web PagesThe Snake
A search Engine for Web Pages The Snake
use it to d/l complete web pages fast

Pecker post
for posting huge files such as MP3s, MPEGs, ets, did I mention its all free, easy to use and free?
SamSpade
Sam Spade page
IP look up, DNS look up, ets, ets, ets
Sam spade download
stegoraphy software for hiding info in image files
Save Tray soft
TidyDisk
is a handy utility for cleaning unwanted and unnecessary files off your hard disk.
ThumbsPlus yet another pix viewer
TransLinGO! home page(English) can be used to view japanese pages in english, vary easy to use soft
SBnews
a very easy to set up and use news-reader version for Win3.1 primerally for d/ling jpegs off usenet
SBnews
the Win95 version of SBNews
the best Hex editor hands down!
mozaic Killera
Mask Remover for MAC
the freeware URLRequester DownLoadSlave with it, you can order any file from the internet and DownLoadSlave.com will deliver it to your email address. I see...hmmmm
l0phtnetcat the Netcat soft for UNIX
CompletelyFreeSoftware software, Program and URLs:
shrug....oh well, its free, check it out
Conseal the
Cyber-Geography Research- applications for routing info
disappearing.com/main.html soft for making your email dissapear(gets permanently deleted I guess, but from where servers?) dont ask me more, I do not know. Anybody wanna try them?
Wingate from WinGatedeerfield.com offers the Wingate proxy product
DriversGuide.com the drives place-if you need ANY drivers for your CD-ROM, ets
CompletelyFreeSoftware
Tweak UI d/l Tweak UI maybe useful to some people maybe not, it lets you tweak windoze; but the same thing can be done if the users have enough of that DOS knowledge...DOS? whuts dat??
Tweak D/l 2
Tweak for Win98 the Win 98 version of Tweak UI maybe useful to some people maybe not, it lets you tweak windoze; but the same thing can be done if the users have enough of that DOS knowledge...DOS? whuts dat??
ZDNet Software Library - UltraEdit-32
winamp.comMP3 player
Wincode (UUencode Decypher Engine
for Win 3.1 Wincode and More UUencode Decypher Engine translates between different coding systems
98lite.netto remove IE from your Win98
winfiles.com
The only place you need for Win apps! (use the search function)
Winzip
you should knowe what this Program and URL is used for by nowe..8-)
Xferpro for Win3.1 16 Bits
Xferpro for Win3.1 (16 Bits ftp site Xferpro for Win95
(32 Bits)ftp Xferpro200 for Win95Z 32 (Bits) combining movies together
The Zip place
FTP site for XferPro(16 bit)
FTP site for XferPro(32 it)
XferPro(32 bit)
Koolguy's ListMaker
boot using a zip disk
The 1X browser
Swap File Overwriter
fortunecity.com/campus/french/784/httport1.zip

where to look for software

Look for Software
softcom.net bcpatton51 useful general links bcpatton too DownLoad.com Filez.com HotFiles.com the FreeSite.com jumbo.comfree stuff NetBoost ShareWare.com TUCOWS.ocm Winfiles.com zdnet.com/swlib

Program and URL

what it is used for



HotFiles.com



DownLoad.com


Tucows.com



WinFiles.com





to be checked




Program and URL

what it is used for


Virtual dub turn AVI's into Mpegs
PowerQuest Corporation - Main Product Page
more vid drivers
pc_oscar
SUSE.com-LINUX SOFT
hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/basket.bin
NeoLite and NeoTrace
nsclean.com-pay clean soft
linuxberg.com,linux
Universal Translator 2000
PowerQuest soft for looking at HDs makers of soft for HD restoring
Information about TransLinGO! (English)
Netboost
softcom.net bcpatton51
useful general links

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