I just spend most of the morning installing Windows XP on a computer system. While the installation itself takes some time the configuration afterwards is surely the most time consuming part of the process. Windows XP comes with many services enabled that are usually not needed by most users and that can allow hackers to [...]
Kaspersky Application Vulnerability Analysis
We usually do not cover commercial software here at Ghacks. There are only a few exceptions to that rule. One is if we got our hands on the software and are allowed to give it away for free, another if the software has a feature that is worth writing about. Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 seems [...]
Automatically Identify Running Processes
Assassin SE is a software program for that will scan, identify and rate all running processes on a computer system running Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista. The program will automatically scan all running processes during startup and display information about them in a table. Among the information provided are the name, [...]
File Analysis
Windows File Analyzer is a file analysis software that can be used to various system specific files. The portable software can be executed from any location on the hard drive and is compatible with all Windows operating systems from Windows 95 to Windows Vista. It requires knowledge of the location of those system files to [...]
Ghacks Christmas Giveaway: ESET NOD32 Antivirus
Today is the last day of the Ghacks Christmas Giveaway. We were able to hand out lots of licenses to popular commercial software programs to our readers. The application for today is ESET NOD32 Antivirus, a antivirus software by the Slovakian company ESET. NOD32 is offered as a 32-bit and 64-bit edition for Windows 2000, [...]
Password Protect Applications
If you do not want that your kids are running the latest ID software blockbuster, that someone snoops around in your email client or that someone destroys your perfect win streak in Solitaire you might want to consider using a software like Empathy which can password protect any executable file.
Empathy is a portable application that [...]
Ghacks Christmas Giveaway: Sandboxie
Sixth day of the Ghacks Christmas Giveaway. We have handed out licenses to some very popular software appplications such as Newsbin Pro, MediaMonkey Gold or Kaspersky Internet Security in the last days. Today’s application is Sandboxie, a security software program that can run selected applications in a closed environment on the computer. Sandboxie is compatible [...]
