LeakTest
Personal firewall leakage tester |  
| | | When LeakTest was released, most personal firewalls were easily fooled. Any malicious program could give itself the same name as a trusted program to gain access to the Internet. LeakTest demonstrates and tests for this simple application "masquerading" vulnerability. |
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Size: 25k | Jul 10, 2005 at 10:54
(392.55 days ago) | Downloads/day: 1,322
Total downloads: 6,305,396 | Current Rank: 1
Historical Rank: 1 | | | |
Shoot The Messenger
Simple Messenger Service Disable/Enable |
| | | Windows NT, 2000, and XP hide an hidden Internet server that is running by default. It receives and accepts, among other things, unsolicited network messages that cause pop-up dialog boxes to appear on the desktop. Internet Spammers have discovered this and are spraying pop-up Spam across the Internet. The Windows Messenger server should never have been running by default, and Microsoft has finally fixed that in Windows 2003, but users of previous Windows need to take responsibility for this themselves. |
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Size: 22k | Apr 26, 2003 at 07:52
(1,198.67 days ago) | Downloads/day: 897
Total downloads: 1,753,750 | Current Rank: 2
Historical Rank: 4 | | | |
UnPlug n' Pray
Universal Plug & Play management |
| | | At the end of 2001, Microsoft revealed a critical defect in Windows XP and ME: Windows' Universal Plug and Play service (UPnP) would allow a malicious hacker to remotely take over any system that was running and exposing the UPnP service to the Internet. This UnPlug n' Pray utility lets anyone check for the presence of the dangerous UPnP service in their system, then easily and safely enable and disable it as needed. |
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Size: 22k | Dec 28, 2001 at 15:47
(1,682.34 days ago) | Downloads/day: 679
Total downloads: 2,520,153 | Current Rank: 3
Historical Rank: 3 | | | |
DCOMbobulator
Tame Windows insecure DCOM facility |
| | | Ever since Windows 98, a powerful, but unnecessary and rarely used facility known as DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model) has been an integral part of Windows. The DCOMbobulator checks the effectiveness of Microsoft's security patches and allows the user to increase the security of their system by simply turning DCOM off. |
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Size: 29k | May 24, 2004 at 14:17
(804.40 days ago) | Downloads/day: 532
Total downloads: 1,412,401 | Current Rank: 4
Historical Rank: 5 | | | |
Wizmo
Steve's multipurpose Windows gizmo |
| | | Wizmo is a multipurpose miscellaneous Windows utility that provides an array of single-click functions that are missing from Windows. Triggered by a single mouse click, it can do things like power down your system's displays, activate your screen saver, change or mute the audio volume, restart, reboot, or shutdown your system, and much more. It even includes a rather cool built-in "Graviton" screen saver that simulates the motion of any number of mutually gravitationally attracted celestial objects. Check out Wizmo's web page for the current (and growing) complete list of Wizmo's capabilities and features. |
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Size: 37k | Jul 27, 2002 at 21:19
(1,471.11 days ago) | Downloads/day: 177
Total downloads: 797,691 | Current Rank: 5
Historical Rank: 8 | | | |
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