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Probably the Best Free Security List in the World
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This huge list of free computer security products and services has been compiled over several years and is continuously updated. The purpose of the list is to provide a comprehensive documentation of the security products available rather than specific recommendations. If you are seeking recommendations then check out our comparative reviews of security products (links to them are shown in the list with The products on this list are almost exclusively free with a few exceptions. These include useful products without a free alternative that offer lifetime licenses or commercial products of outstanding merit. If you are looking for a particular type of product use the index table below to go to the appropriate page. If you simply want to browse the list then click the link at the top of the index to view the list as a single huge page. Note that in some cases the links in the list point to executables. In such cases replace [dot] with . and the link will work. We encourage you to use the comments section below to let us know about dead or incorrect links, suggest products that could be added or simply to tell us about your experience with particular products. We really value these suggestions and look carefully at each one. Sometimes this takes a little time but rest assured your comments will be noted. Disclaimer: We have tried to make sure that all links are legitimate. So in case of a "detection" by your antivirus the most likely explanation is it being a false positive. However, as cybercriminals compromise multitude of web sites daily, we would like to be informed for any potentially malicious links. Some of these programs may also harm your PC if they are misused. You use any of the applications at your own risk. Alias: http://tinyurl.com/free-security http://bit.ly/DQNn0 http://goo.gl/nw5c |
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$ Not free (only if freeware options are lacking).
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FF = Firefox, Ch = Chrome, IE = Internet Explorer, AB = All browsers, OB = Other browsers XP = for Windows XP, V = for Windows Vista, |
Only provides malware detection. May have paid version(s) that includes removal.
Supports Windows 64-bit.
Portable / mobile version exists or Live media (CD/USB/etc.)
Online service or Cloud app.
Nagware.
Bundled with adware.
Includes OpenCandy or other controversial adware.
CNet download links or other downloaders with adware.|
What's New
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| 5-4-13 | 15 anti-rootkits |
| 8-4-13 | Checklist To Prepare Yourself In Advance of a DDoS Attack |
| 9-4-13 | Chocolatey,Pandora Recovery |
| 14-4-13 | Shellbag Analyzer & Cleaner,Synei System Utilities,Check5,SecurePassword Kit,SoftEther VPN |
| 16-4-13 | PC Hunter |
| 18-4-13 | How to easily enter safe mode in windows 8? |
| 21-4-13 | Gogeek |
| 23-4-13 | Junkware Removal Tool, GEGeek Tech Toolkit |
| 25-4-13 | Reboot Restore Rx |
| 1-5-13 | Baidu PC Faster,USBOblivion,Fastest Duplicate File Finder,unhide,Error Messages for Windows |
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Registry Alert, Ratool,WBICreator (Windows Bootable Image Creator),AskVG Apps (Tweaking with Vishal), Malware Scene Investigator,Synei Disk Cleaner |
| 12-5-13 | Ma-Config,VPN Gate,tinc,encrypt |
| 15-5-13 | Duplicate & Same Files Searcher,File Extension Fixer (ExeFixer) |
| 16-5-13 | Beep Codes Viewer |
| 19-5-13 | AttackVector Linux, ADHD, HookME |
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Network traffic analyzing:
IP Sniffer (http://erwan.l.free.fr/)
Microsoft Network Monitor
Cain & Abel (http://www.oxid.it/cain.html) (easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, etc.)
Analyzer (3.0 Alpha is the version I have installed) from NetGroup, Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
Auto Debug for Winsock (http://www.autodebug.com/download.php)
lloonn
thanks for the list, very detailed, they certainly have gone to a great dal of trouble to look at what is available.
we are working on that, but its a few weeks away. Something about "You pays your money, you takes your choice." Nobody pays us anything.
This is great, but I had installed Super Anti Spyware cos you had it listed at the top of another list, and it isn't on this list at all. I 'lost' my PC Doctor, and can't 'fix' it for some reason. It won't uninstall so that I can reinstall it. I have tried everything, so that will have to wait until I can afford to pay for professional help. Anyway, I will try another one of your top-rated programmes until then. I'm just curious as to why SAS didn't make your new list. Thanks again for all that you do, BTW.
How about giving credit where credit is due?
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=242949
Same person (ako) posts both here and Wilders and the list originates at his website, which is referenced in this article.
Also, the Wilders post is referenced, and linked to, above in the Article, in the last sentence.
Thanx Steve, Ako's also an Editor here now, as you can see in his comments.
COMODO does not provide a proper Uninstall file. I had to spend $50 (June 2009) to get a computer shop expert to find out why I could not "ping" websites. The culprit: COMODO had lodged a file somewhere in my registry and COMODO's Uninstall would not remove it! Beware.
SAS is there.
Ako
Can you read?
I agree. Like Prevx or Defencewall.
I'll check these soon.
Ako
OK. I'll check this...
Ako
OK. I'll check this...
Ako
http://www.filseclab.com/eng/products/twister.htm
this is not free
Great list, but you may wish to add KIDZUI under the Parental Control section:
http://yknot.terapad.com/index.cfm?fa=contentGeneric.qmqsbnjhpjbleuia&pa...
It filters behahior via an extensively white-list filter, as opposed to a difficult to update black-list approach. Check it out.
Yes, but cheap : "lifelong licence"
Thanks!
I assumed that is why it had "(lifelong license)" next to it, but I suppose the word purchase or something like that could have been added to make it clearer to all.
The article does say up top that the list is "mainly" for freeware, indicating some non-freeware would be listed.
Thanks!
Ako
What comodo product are you talking about and version ? There are 5-6 comodo products listed.
untangle is a shitty toy man. it's like a playdo kids toy "my first firewall". nobody can take it seriously.
Thank You very much indeed for the time and trouble of all those involved.
What's bad about untangle and what would you suggest as an alternative with a friendly UI and easy linux install?
Yes XP/Vista. It would be very hard to check what are compatible with Vista/Windows 7
(Some more additions)
Vulnerability scanning:
Windows Vulnerability Scanner (http://www.pspl.com/download/winvulscan.htm)
Rescuing files from broken CD/DVD:
IsoPuzzle (http://www.geocities.com/marsoupilamis/DocEnglish.htm)
Why is CDCheck not here?
System rescue:
Ultimate Boot CD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com)
lloonn
This is a good list, but there are more than just a few things on it which are not really free (and, by that, I mean things other than the few which are labeled, right on the list, as not free). But this is a freeware web site. We come here so that we don't have to sort through the free-vs-commercial stuff ourselves (like we must do on the above list). In that sense, then, this list does almost as much of a disservice as it does a service.
Also, we are linked, on many of the items, to something other than the maker's web site. That's an unnecessary extra step. Our time is valuable, too; and if we were looking for web sites which only describe the products, and then link from there (or sometimes don't even link) to the maker's site, then why would we want to do that from a site (this one) which does exactly the same thing?
Additionally, not all the links are to English web sites... even when an English version exists. And, please: I get that not everyone speaks/write/reads English... this, that I am writing, is not an arrogance or a conceit. It is based, simply, on the inescapable fact that this is an English-speaking/writing web site. Therefore, all links from it should be to English-speaking/writing web sites.
Finally, some of the products listed are dead... begging the question of whether the person who compiled the list bothered to ensure that it was current, or perhaps relied too heavily on old notes accumulated over a long period of time.
Thank you, otherwise, for the excellent list...
...a list which, to avoid confusion, should, in my opinion, be, as quickly as possible, integrated into the appropriate categories throughout the rest of the site rather than being on this one, single-page list. But, again, that's just my opinion... as is the rest of this posting.
I completely agree with your point about a few not free things on the list. Actually, I think they have no right to be here at all.
As for the rest of your message... It looks like some people behave as if they paid money and now wait for technical support, bug correction, blah, blah, blah. Maybe they did, maybe they didn't, I just don't know.
Please tell me some examples of not free and not labelled. If there are non-free products worth mentioning I want to include them.
I'm not going to check this list all the time checking links. Last time it was done 2 weeks ago. Next time will be a rather long time in the future. Unless someone wants to help in this.
There are various reasons not linking to original pages. Laziness is only one of them.
Please tell me some examples of a non-english site when such is available.
Some "dead" products are still useful. Processguard is an example. Give examples of dead useless products.
Thanks for comments! :)
These non-free products - I think it's a dead end, since the FULL list of commercial products worth mentioning has to have a few hundred items more. There is less than a dozen or so of them here, and on seeing this some people may start to insinuate that you are simply trying to promote them.
Overall great list indeed, thanx.
lloonn