Freeware - Security tools

PDF Unlocker
Click here to download PDF Unlocker is a simple and useful application that will remove the password and restrictions on any PDF file that you can read.
There are two types of passwords that can be used in a PDF file.
1. A password that restricts some functions. Such as printing, copy & paste. This is the most common type. {Owner}
2. A password to open the file for reading. {User}
Using this application is very simple. After installation:
To remove type 1, that is printing, copy & paste restriction, just drag your PDF file on to the link on your desktop (on to PDF Unloacker icon). With in a few seconds it will remove the password and allows printing or copying & pasting the contents from the PDF File. To remove type 2 requires you must know the password to open the file. You can then remove this password and any restrictions.
Right click Remove PDF Password link (icon) and choose edit.
Directly after '-sPDFPassword=' Place open password, without quotes. Close and save file.
Then drag and drop the PDF on to the link on your desktop. You can rename the file if you want.
The application is tested and found to be working properly and fast. It can be removes 40 or 128 bit passwords.(source)

CurrPorts v1.48
Click here to download CurrPorts displays the list of all currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports on your local computer. For each port in the list, information about the process that opened the port is also displayed, including the process name, full path of the process, version information of the process (product name, file description, and so on), the time that the process was created, and the user that created it.
In addition, CurrPorts allows you to close unwanted TCP connections, kill the process that opened the ports, and save the TCP/UDP ports information to HTML file , XML file, or to tab-delimited text file.
CurrPorts also automatically mark with pink color suspicious TCP/UDP ports owned by unidentified applications (Applications without version information and icons)

Eraser Data Removal Tool

License: freeware
2,65 Mb. | Homepage | Download | Report broken link |
Most people have some data that they would rather not share with others - passwords, personal information, classified documents from work, financial records, self-written poems, the list can be continued forever.
Perhaps you have saved some of this information on your computer where it is conveniently at your reach, but when the time comes to remove the data from your hard disk, things get a bit more complicated and maintaining your privacy is not as simple as it may have seemed at first.
Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.Eraser is FREE software and its source code is released under GNU General Public License.


Freebyte Backup

License: freeware
326 Kb. | Homepage | Download | Report broken link |
Freebyte Backup is a freeware backup program for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP. It allows one to easily copy (and filter) a large number of files and directories from various sources into one backup directory.
It is possible to backup all files found in the specified set of input directories, or to have only certain file types copied. Files can be filtered according to file-extensions.
With the optional 'Incremental backup' feature, the program only copies files which have not yet been part of a backup. It is also possible to specify a date, so that only files changes/created after a certain date/time are copied, or to only copy files if they are more recent than the corresponding files at the target location.
Additionally, one can view a report which lists all the files; of each file one can see wether the files is copied or skipped, the file size, file date, source and target locations, total number of files copied, total number of bytes copied.
For each backup set, a different profile can be created specifying different input and output directories and filter settings.
Has command-line parameter for automatic and scheduled startup in combination with programs like Freebyte Task Scheduler.



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