AntiVirus Defender Long Description

AntiVirus Defender offers comprehensive protection against viruses, worms, Trojans and dialers. It checks and protects all the relevant system areas of your computer. AntiVirus Defender is a stand-alone utility used to detect and remove major viruses. It is not a substitute for full anti-virus protection, but rather a tool to assist administrators and users when cleaning infected systems. AntiVirus Defender is regularly updated and can detect hundreds of common viruses, worms, Trojans, and dialers (including all variants of the Sober, MyDoom, Nyxem and Bagle viruses). The program offers a scanner that requires minimal processing power for repairing a compromised system. AntiVirus Defender detects over 20,000 viruses variants and also offers full scan memory (active processes).

SwitchMonitor Long Description

Monitors your switches (and optionally routers) for network performance. Uses web-based reporting to show you utilization and errors on each interface on your network. SwitchMonitor sends a daily emailed Network Weather Report (TM) so you can keep a daily tab of the health and performance of your network. View daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly historical utilization information on each interface. Collects network device information to help document your network. Setup and auto-configuration can be accomplished in under 10 minutes for virtually any sized network.

Simple TCP Client Long Description

This program can be a helpful tool for developers and system administrators when they need to develop or test a TCP server application. Just run the application, specify the server address and TCP port and transmit whatever you want. This version is the first release on BestNetworkSoftware.com.

Windows Vista KB941649 Long Description

This update improves the compatibility, reliability, and stability of Windows Vista. This update includes the following improvements:

• It extends the battery life for mobile devices.
• It improves the stability of portable computers and of desktop computers that use an uninterruptable power supply (UPS).
• It improves the reliability of Windows Vista when you open the menu of a startup application.
• It improves the stability of wireless network services.
• It shortens the startup time of Windows Vista by using a better timing structure.
• It shortens the recovery time after Windows Vista experiences a period of inactivity.
• It shortens the recovery time when you try to exit the Photos screen saver.
• It improves the stability of Windows PowerShell.
  This update also resolves the following issues in Windows Vista:
• A compatibility issue that affects some third-party antivirus software applications.
• A reliability issue that occurs when a Windows Vista-based computer uses certain network driver configurations.

POP3Test Long Description

Reviewed by:

BestNetworkSoftware.com Staff

This small and simple utility quickly checks the availability of any POP3 server, but can t test your specific account. POP3Test is a DOS command that doesn t have a Windows interface. It s still simple to use as you merely need to execute it in a command window. Supply the name of your POP3 server, and almost immediately you ll see whether your POP3 server is available. POP3Test helpfully checks whether your e-mail is failing due to a downed server or to your e-mail application. What POP3Test can t do is check your account login and password; that feature is available only for registered users. Anyone comfortable using DOS commands will find this an easy application to operate, useful for all those who depend on e-mail.

Publisher s description

From
Darren Woodford
:

Simple command line utility to test connection to your POP3 server. This program will attempt to open a network connection to your POP3 Server whether it be over the internet or on your LAN. No need to conduct a clumsy TELNET session. Simply type POP3Test hostname or POP3Test IP address at the command line.

CounterSpy Enterprise Long Description

CounterSpy Enterprise, a multiple award-winning antispyware tool, provides robust protection against complex malware threats to protect corporate environments using a hybrid technology that merges the system cleaning properties of traditional antispyware products with the efficiency of powerful antivirus-based technology. CounterSpy Enterprise is powered by a hybrid engine that merges spyware detection and remediation with Sunbelts all-new VIPRE technology (Virus Intrusion Protection Remediation Engine).

VIPRE incorporates both traditional antivirus and cutting-edge antimalware techniques. This marriage of technologies enables CounterSpy Enterprise to respond more effectively than other products to todays increasingly complex and blended threats. Version 2.0.22 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition Long Description

Reviewed by:

Seth Rosenblatt
on October 15, 2009

AVG Free provides the bare necessities when it comes to security, but that should be enough for savvy Windows users. You ll get a combined antivirus and antimalware engine, LinkScanner, and e-mail scanning. AVG Free 9 introduces a few new features, with improvements focused on performance, including claims of faster scan and boot times. One new feature is the Identity Theft Recovery Unit. Only for users in the United States, ITRU is a business partnership with Identity Guard which provides “consumer identity theft solutions,” accessible only from the AVG toolbar in Firefox and Internet Explorer.

The interface is nearly unchanged from the last version, and generally it s easy to use. From the main window, though, you must double-click to get further information on any feature, whether virus scanning, LinkScanner settings, or updating. Streamlining this to one click would be helpful. A scheduling utility automates both scans and updates, while the upgrade ad at the screen s bottom can be easily hidden using the Hide Notification button. When starting a scan, a slider makes it easy to jump between Slow, Automatic, and Fast scans: the faster the scan, the less comprehensive it is, so users should take advantage of the scan optimization that is recommended during installation to speed up that first scan. A progress meter for regular scans would ve been useful, though. Should a virus create serious problems, AVG creates a rescue disk to scan your computer in MS-DOS mode.

The LinkScanner feature protects you from third-party code exploits before they load in your browser and for ranking search results. Annoyingly, when you install its optional toolbar, it commandeers your new-tab page, decidedly inappropriate behavior. The program doesn t obviously tax your system when scanning or when running in the background, although BestNetworkSoftware.com Labs determined that it will significantly slow down your system s boot time, and slightly delay shutting down. AVG also detected some image files as threats, when two other scans decided they weren t–we decided these were false positives. AVG might not be the fastest or the most effective free security option, but it still gets the job done and you re better off with it.

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Publisher s description

From
AVG Technologies USA
:

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is an anti-virus protection tool available free of charge to home users. Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high level of detection capability.

The new 9.0 edition is faster, safer and easier to use. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition gives you free rock solid protection for your basic security needs. The combined anti-virus/anti-spyware scanner in AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition runs up to 50% faster than earlier versions and doesn t get in your way. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition also delivers new anti-phishing detection techniques, which can quickly and accurately determine whether or not a web page is hosting a phishing attack. Additionally, version 9.0 comes with basic anti-rootkit protection to ensure protection against sophisticated hidden threats.

P-Scan Long Description

P-Scan 1.1.2 is a basic but yet powerful and easy-to-use multi-threaded port scanner that allows you finding out about which port on a local network or a workstation is open and which services are running on it. It also resolves hostnames unlike most other port scanners, it allows configuring the lapse of time between each thread.

McAfee WebShield SMTP Long Description

WebShield SMTP is a firewall-independent scanner that easily plugs into virtually any existing network. This is accomplished by implementing a gateway virus scanner that essentially acts like your existing SMTP gateway-the difference being that this gateway contains a world leading virus scanning technology from McAfee. Now SMTP traffic can be scanned without impacting other performance critical systems such as firewalls or mail servers. WebShield SMTP is feature rich with content filtering, automatic updates, remote manageability, alert notification, reporting capabilities, and an award winning AV engine.

1st Up Net Proxy Server Long Description

This caching proxy server brings the Internet to your networked machines over a single connection. It supports WWW, SOCKS4/5, SMTP, POP3, FTP, NNTP, and many more. It has advanced monitoring and blocking features that put you in control of your Internet access. You can specify allowed sites, blocked sites, disallowed words, and even limit the times Internet connections are allowed, putting you in control of your Internet use. This proxy server has been designed to be simple and efficient from the outset and so can be run on a low spec machine.