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The one I use is http://www.SnapFiles.com/.

Pre-Gore days yes, NSA was discussed much

I remember talk of the 8 key words that would have a message treated differently, it's certainly grown, just consider any message set over seas to be "treated differently" these days.

Cain and abel ? it's a advanced password recovery tool
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/c...

4.3 Key Words & Search Terms
Cain and abel Scammers

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It's been maybe half a year since I was last there, but for years I found Major Geeks to be OK; their reviews and how-tos could be helpful. Tucows used to get good recommendations but for whatever reason I rarely used it.

A site I've used for many years even before the name change, mostly for Windows stuff, is http://www.snapfiles.com/. They've got freeware and shareware, user and editor reviews, all no bullshit stuff. I think it's a highly under-rated place.

Let me see if I got this straight: You are using Windows "classic" ala the Windows 95 GUI, and are actually bitching that something has a GUI that isn't from the stone age? Wow, I thought your kind died off with Win2K. Meanwhile the rest of the world, be it Windows, OSX or Linux, has actually moved away from the Win95 GUI into desktops that...oh what is the word...oh yeah, don't SUCK. Have you ever even TRIED the modern GUI in Windows 7? Breadcrumbs, the new taskbar, useful gadgets, it is all really nice and actually makes things easier which is why everyone moved away from win95.

But tell you what, since the Hairyfeet supports the right to be weird, allow me to introduce you to Evil Player for your audio needs and K-Lite Mega for your video needs. Evil Player has NO GUI, simply a box you drag and drop your audio in, uses less than 40Kb, and fits in great with winClassic, and K-Lite has Media Player Classic Home Cinema, which has the GUI of Media Player 6 (which fits perfectly with classic) and which I've found does hardware acceleration much better than VLC. If you have a GPU from this century you'll find MPC:HC accelerates all the major formats quite nicely. Unless of course you are still using windows Classic because you are on win98 or Win2K, in which case may God have mercy on your poor unsupported soul.

There's an app for that.

I don't have all the answers for you, but at least try not use shareware. Try to use freeware if you can help it. For instance, WinZip used to be good may be ten years ago, but now there are many much better, and easier to use, freeware alternatives (thought, out of all those candidates, you'll have to read their licenses to make sure the one you select is pure freeware. These days, there are many shareware programs that falsely advertise themselves as freeware).

Ignoring the long list of foolishness that is your statement about using FTP to transfer confidential and legally protected patient information

Ignoring the rest of your post, an examination of the results of the results of googling ftp encrypted shows FTP can be secure. The first result is Encrypted FTP a secure FTP server and client. I don't know about your medical file but I bet mine could easily consume at least several megabytes, between the typed records (a couple of hundred pages alone), MRIs, CT Scans, and others. I know of no way to send them digitally that is faster than FTP, there might be but I don't know. Actually a few days ago I asked my health care coordinator at my doc's office if she received my medical records yet, which she requested from the hospital a few months ago. I see here again Thursday and ask again, because she didn't know.

Falcon

Yikes, what the fuck hospitals and doctors do you work for?

Can we say major HIPAA violation? Clear text passwords, no data encryption for EMR?!?

FTP can be encrypted.

Falcon

Like http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/safe-calculator/safecalc.html Would be good to hide the encrypting program. I would not trust it for the data.

Make sure to keep your old copy of "Foxit Reader". Foxit has also gone the way of the lenovo. Old Foxit. RIP. :(

I recommend that you get this little free utility called ZoomIt and add its shortcut to your startup folder (assuming you're on Windows, and not Linux -- most Linux flavors can configure this with Compiz Fusion). It's not going to make your sub-netbook more manly, but it might just make it more useful.

I installed ZoomIt on my mom's sub-netbook which is even smaller than yours (its screen is 8.4 inches and it has Windows XP Home edition), and it definitely helped. Let's say you want to show someone something on your screen, you just press Ctrl-1 to zoom in (it uses the pointer of your mouse to know where to zoom in) and to come back to normal -- you just release those keys. This zooming effect is really smooth and gets even better if you hook up a mouse with a wheel on it. Also, as an added bonus, the program allows you to draw on the surface of your screen once you're zoomed in, which is useful if you want to call attention to a particular part of the screen.

And of course, it comes in really handy if you have to strain your eyes to read some of the stuff on that small screen. Some of the Internet browsers (like Opera) also have some decent zooming facilities, but it's better I think to get used to one zooming facility that you can use everywhere on any application that you might be working on, and it's definitely one of the most usable ones -- with one of the smallest memory footprints -- I've seen out there.

In Windows, the software will keep pestering you about all of the above.

Bullshit, troll. But, I understand you'll want to exaggerate this to make your point. Of course, you won't mention that windows gives you the largest choice of software, period. That's the only reason you have a suppository (!) in Linux, because otherwise it would be to hard to find anything. Hell, pick most any category in Linux, I can find more choices on SnapFiles than you will find for Linux. That's a hard truth you won't EVER admit.

That is indeed incredibly stupid - although I've not encountered it after playing a game normally, if a fullscreen game *crashes* I am indeed SOL. ..well, partly.

Grab this:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/iconrestore.html

It allows you to easily store and restore the layout of your desktop icons - perfect for these situations.

Lesson for next time: Use a phone with automatic blogging so the photos are off the phone and on the Net before they can stop you.

Or he could just recover the deleted photos/videos from his mobile. It's not like the organizers thought (or took the time) to overwrite the deleted bits.

Free Software activists start a protest on private property, are asked to leave by owners/organisers and forgo negotiation, instead opting for point-blank refusal.

Private property? The event was organized on the grounds of a Public University under the pretext that it was promoting a public cause -- Free Software. No doubt, the organizers and Novell received a steep discount for promoting their Anti-Free Software stance under the guise of Free Software. And I hope that the University looks at banning and/or leveling fraud charges against those organizers.

In any case, I hope that the protesters and on-lookers think to use recovery software to recover the pictures and the videos that were deleted from their camera phones. I'm looking forward to seeing an actual video of what happened.

But I neither do have a Windows machine

VMware. XP SP3. No key needed for 30 days.

Why test software which sucks?

Because software tends to change over time? In 2000, Norton A/V was actually pretty good software. Now it's horrible. The other way around happens on a regular basis, too.

So I'd better inform others about it and then they can skip it :D

"Informing" others with badly outdated information and no facts is worse than useless. Maybe what you find annoying might be a good feature for others. Ever think of that? When you can't give even a hint of what the problem was, you can't give a constructive opinion.

LOL again: Anything which looks like this must suck, period :D. Custom interfaces ftw! Not.
http://www.snapfiles.com/screenshots/avast.htm

So you base your opinion of the value of security software solely on the appearance. Welcome to security theater. Do you work for DHS, by any chance?
I actually like the interface. It makes things very simple for non-savvy users, by giving a recognizable physical appearance. IE, a car stereo/CD player type thing. Besides, if you want a more standard interface, the pro version has it.

There you go....what you find annoying is a benefit to others.

But I neither do have a Windows machine

VMware. XP SP3. No key needed for 30 days.

Why test software which sucks?

Because software tends to change over time? In 2000, Norton A/V was actually pretty good software. Now it's horrible. The other way around happens on a regular basis, too.

So I'd better inform others about it and then they can skip it :D

"Informing" others with badly outdated information and no facts is worse than useless. Maybe what you find annoying might be a good feature for others. Ever think of that? When you can't give even a hint of what the problem was, you can't give a constructive opinion.

LOL again: Anything which looks like this must suck, period :D. Custom interfaces ftw! Not.
http://www.snapfiles.com/screenshots/avast.htm

So you base your opinion of the value of security software solely on the appearance. Welcome to security theater. Do you work for DHS, by any chance?
I actually like the interface. It makes things very simple for non-savvy users, by giving a recognizable physical appearance. IE, a car stereo/CD player type thing. Besides, if you want a more standard interface, the pro version has it.

There you go....what you find annoying is a benefit to others.

But I neither do have a Windows machine or an intrest to figure out why it did suck again. Why test software which sucks? So I'd better inform others about it and then they can skip it :D

LOL again: Anything which looks like this must suck, period :D. Custom interfaces ftw! Not.
http://www.snapfiles.com/screenshots/avast.htm

But I neither do have a Windows machine or an intrest to figure out why it did suck again. Why test software which sucks? So I'd better inform others about it and then they can skip it :D

LOL again: Anything which looks like this must suck, period :D. Custom interfaces ftw! Not.
http://www.snapfiles.com/screenshots/avast.htm

You're trolling or you've just been looking in the wrong places. The latter is something easy to do in the world of windows where you have > 90% of the world's applications to choose from. Snapfiles freeware section is a good example of free software that is not "cripleware", though there are also shareware selections available.

For Linux, you can also find free software, but MANY times the programs themselves aren't fully functional or contain serious bugs. If you have the time and know how to fix it yourself, that is an option, but not a viable one for most people.

What you fail to understand, is that within the Windows world there are different types of programmers. Those who, like you say, horde their creations. Yet, there are also those that release free software for absolutely no charge. Both types exist, but you only present one side. No decent free software on windows? Liar.

Instead of emulating the CD description, just copy the entire CD into a folder and either map a network drive to it, use daemon tools, or virtual drive creator. One of the tricks I use is to name the volume/drive the same as the CD's name and i've never had any problems.

Good reply from AC, just to add to that.

1. In my experience, flash memory can sometimes fail totally. This may be due to it being often removable, and accessed in rather non-robust ways, (USB ports, card readers). Hence (presumably) gets nuked by static etc. My attempts at recovering such 'dead' flash devices have not been great, so far. When it's dead, it's dead...even re-format does not work sometimes.
Presumably, internal flash 'disk drive replacements' would be rather more robust.

2. When flash drives first came out, 'classical' data-recovery tools seem to have difficulty recovering from acidental deletes and formats etc., since they seemed (I'm not an expert) to be looking for HDD-like behaviour. I remember reading an interesting paper long ago about the consequences of 'random walk' data storage for recovery... Since then, things have improved, and a lot of tools claim to be/are able to recover data from flash. Of course, I never need these, since I have good backups, ahem.

BTW, I was recently at a client site (for once without my PC and DVDs, CDs, flash drives etc. stuffed with tools) when the sales manager wiped his hard disk. Their in-house IT support was - as usual - no help. I download one of my fav. simple tools,
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html
ran it from a USB, copied the undeleted files to a USB HDD and bingo! Another happy customer.

Check it out - if the PC boots (into windoz) it does the job...

Get the UBCD or UBCD4Win for some good tools. Particularly, UBCD4Win includes several freeware and open source tools for file recovery. My favorite happens to be testdisk, followed closely by Restoration. (Make sure, if you use the UBCD4Win, you build these tools into ISO. Just follow the directions at the site, it is real easy.)

like what, a keylogger?

(FYI, I run windows)

normally, I use "restoration"; it's a great application to recover deleted files. It supports all MS operating systems and all MS filesystems, it's small, free and required no installation so you can run it from a floppy, which is nice. I never had any problems with it on various HDDs, USBs, SD cards and XD cards - until:
My USB thumbdrive generated the following error in windows "The drive is not formatted" - oh bugger. But after trying many different applications (and buggering the drive further in the process - it ended up not even recognising that there wa drive there at all), I found PC Inspector File Recovery, which did manage to recover all my files. I still stick with Restoration for most of my needs - it's a cleaner looking app, but if/when it fails, I look to PCiFR.
The reason I don't use PCiFR all the time? As I said, I don't like the interface, you have to install it (and if you install something on the drive that you need to recover data from, you run the risk of overwriting the data) and Restoration is small. They're both free.

Restoration: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html
PCiFR: http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome .htm

"The machines I want to deploy on are domain-connected systems, basically serving kiosk roles in a warehouse. Usage is frequent, usage of a system is shared, and access needs to be quick and easy."

Sounds like this guy needs a quick system for employees to check some info. It DOESN'T sound like the submitter is working in a nuclear plant, a bank vault, or any other highly secure facility.

Check http://www.snapfiles.com/get/naturallogin.html/ out. It's a shareware program ($30 to buy) that uses USB flash drives and inserting them into a USB port automatically logs them into the windows system. Sounds like it will work with the existing windows login scheme.

Retina scanning, RSA keys, and fingerprinting sound cool, but they're probably overkill, and overly expensive. They have their place; but I'm inferring that the submitter doesn't need to be THAT secure.

I worked at Lowe's (the home improvement warehouse) and we had to make shelf tags, check stock for customers, order products for customers, run registers, and clock in/clock out. We did it all with one system with an employee number and social security for password. It would have been easier and cooler if I didn't have to give out my SSN every time I checked stock on an item for a customer.

You could try ID3-TagIT if you are running Windows. You can tag an album all at once by looking up the tags in CDDB.

I'm sure you're aware that neither of these issues are anything that the Firefox team can do anything about. You should be addressing your complaints and bug reports to the developers of the plugins that implement those functions. That'd be Adobe, right?

Or he could be requesting native pdf support without adobe's plugin. via gs code or similar. I'd like to second that.

He also might try making Adobe open outside of Firefox for Pdf files. Also http://www.snapfiles.com/get/pdfspeedup.html check this app out.

Increased storage requirements (hard drives are not free)

You store your spam? Why? Do you want to be able to reference that p3N15 3n14rg3m3n+ later on or something?

Increased system overhead (processors and RAM aren't free either)

Sorting spam is only a resource problem if your system is already running at 90+ percent CPU usage. In that case, you should be upgrading already, anyway.

Anti-Spam software is not free.

Spamassassin: free. Thunderbird: free. NoSpamToday!: free. If you need to use Outlook, Spamaware: free.
If you're paying for spam-filtering software, you're getting ripped off.

My time to delete your unwanted messages is not free. (I bill 150+ per hour)

If you have good spam filtering software, which you haven't paid for, you don't need to do this.

What was your list of complaints again?

Increased storage requirements (hard drives are not free)

You store your spam? Why? Do you want to be able to reference that p3N15 3n14rg3m3n+ later on or something?

Increased system overhead (processors and RAM aren't free either)

Sorting spam is only a resource problem if your system is already running at 90+ percent CPU usage. In that case, you should be upgrading already, anyway.

Anti-Spam software is not free.

Spamassassin: free. Thunderbird: free. NoSpamToday!: free. If you need to use Outlook, Spamaware: free.
If you're paying for spam-filtering software, you're getting ripped off.

My time to delete your unwanted messages is not free. (I bill 150+ per hour)

If you have good spam filtering software, which you haven't paid for, you don't need to do this.

What was your list of complaints again?

Tabbed IE variants have existed for more than 4 years.

http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/misctools/fwbrow ser.html

Ok, I checked it out (I found it at snapfiles) I don't know what good a process "balancer" will do. Let's take the case where I click on an EXE, which may or may not be infected. The Anti-Virus needs to scan the file after the system opens it, but before the app itself initializes and runs. If the load balancer drops the priority of the AV down, because it's busy scanning, then that will just delay when the app begins. Am I missing something here????

After all, with tools like RockXP around, won't it just be easier to trade/hijack legitimate activation files and eliminate the middle man in this scenario? At least with online activation Microsoft has a fair idea where the piracy problem is coming from-- they know which keys are the real problem, and also (typically) have a good idea of the IPs where the piracy is occurring. The telephone route will just push the pirates farther underground, and make them harder to find, IMHO.

If MSFT wantes to punish piracy, they have a perfect avenue right now-- add a kill routine to the activation process. Heck, the more certain the piracy, the more massive the kill. Since an OS pirate is probably running other pirated software, you're able to kill multiple birds with one stone. Just ask DirecTV or Dish Network-- their boxes detect piracy, and it's game over for the box. If it's their mistake they fix it, and they make very very few mistakes.

DiskDB is not the most beautiful program, but it works very well. ( http://www2.neweb.ne.jp/wd/morimoto/en/diskdb/inde x.html ) Or you could try one of the programs listed on this page: ( http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/system/fwdiskcat .html ).

For those interested, yes, Xequte is the real developer. I went to the websites that gave the awards (which both the real and fake pages have the logos for). I had to Google for some of them.
WebAttack.com
TopShareware
Shareware River
The File Transit
Those four pages link to Xequte's website, not the fake one..

http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/
goverment protection http://methlabs.org/methlabs.htmsercurity

tools http://www.insecure.org/nmap/nmap_download.html http://www.bluetack.co.uk/
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/activeports.html

thats it for now
should have clicked preview oops..

Unfortunately it vanished when my massive new 1.2 gig drive failed years and years ago. I'll ask if anyone still has a copy, but it was still pretty unfinished when I gave up on it. You had to edit a config file on your server in order to set up an entry. There is a windows program by the same name, although it does not look like anyone has touched it in a few years either.

You don't want anyone to see what is on your hard drive? Then check out this nifty tool... http://www.snapfiles.com/get/deadman.html

Microsoft Word, Works Word Processor, Open Office, Word Perfect, Jarte, Abiword, Notepad, Wordpad, gedit, KEdit, emacs, and with tons more here.

Ah! Then try Security Taskmanager instead of that crappy windows taskmanager. Sorry, it's not free, but has a trial period. http://www.snapfiles.com/get/securitytask.html Also, StartupManager (the free one that I can't recommend highly enough, see grandparent) catches stuff that tries to run at startup which is at least a valuable tipoff that something is wrong.

The trick with qttask.exe is that you've got to rename the executable. qttask.exe.bak or the like.

Even with Sysinternals' ProceXP, Spybot, Ad-Aware, BHODaemon, Hijackthis, ect, I can't find the damn thing's entry point.

As far as Real goes, I'd recommend Real Alternative instead.

Or, use the service which is free, and has been for a while:

SnapFiles


NeoThermic

yer could try this thing.

Lockergnome's (brief) writeup

the download page


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I always look on WebAttack. They have changed their name to Snapfiles, but they have a ton of programs.

The freeware section is big.

link in parent shows "file not found"

try this link

Excellent Freeware Site
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeeware/ (used to be webattack.com)
I used to be addicted to freeware and this was one of my favorite places to get a fix.
All the software is well categorized.
I can often find what I'm looking for here.

http://www.nonags.com is good too.

Tod

now known as snapfiles.com

This one is classified as: "Error between keyboard and chair". It's resolved by yelling: "Learn to use the internet, dumbass".

See the selection of freeware audiorecorders on Snapfiles.

Lack of Windows freeware, my ass.