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FTKImager
Forensic disk imager and file recover.
SprinRite – amazing utility for repairing hard drives
A truly amazing product that can recover drives from disaster.
Calibre
The ultimate eBook management utility.
This amazing utility allows you to organize your eBook, PDF and other documents into a collection that you can be proud of.
Darik's Boot and Nuke
Utterly destroy the contents of a drive with this bootable software.
ESET Social Media Scanner
Scan and protect your Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Keep your Facebook and Twitter accounts safe from malicious links. Also scans your friends accounts (only what you can see that they have posted to you) and alerts if malicious links or content are found.
FileZilla
Amazing FTP product
FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface.
Free Download Manager
Download multiple files with east.
Gpg4win – Secure email and file encryption with GnuPG for Windows
Secure email and file encryption.
Keepass Offline Password Store
Keepass Offline Password Store
Launch Sysinternals Tools
Quick and easy way to launch Sysinternal tools.
Linux USB Creator
Linux Live USB is a great product for creating bootable USB devices to install Linux to. It will also pull down the appropriate Linux distro for you so you don't have to find it yourself.
Incredibly useful for creating "Live" Linux distros for forensic examinations or just Linux fun.
LockHunter
LockHunter is a free 64/32 bit tool to delete files blocked by any processes
Notepad++
One of the best text and code editors around.
Oracle Virtualbox
Create virtual computers. Great for Linux and other uses.
VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction.
Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6 and 3.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD.
VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Oracle ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.
PEStudio
PEStudio is a unique tool that performs the static investigation of 32-bit and 64-bit executable.
PEStudio is a unique tool that performs the static investigation of 32-bit and 64-bit executable.
Malicious executable often attempts to hide its malicious behavior and to evade detection. In doing so, it generally presents anomalies and suspicious patterns. The goal of PEStudio is to detect these anomalies, provide Indicators and score the Trust for the executable being analyzed. Since the executable file being analyzed is never started, you can inspect any unknown or malicious executable with no risk.
Remember The Milk
Remember everything and be reminded on iOS and Android.
Remember The Milk is an amazing product that is in the realm of reminders and notes. There are many alternatives but I keep coming back to the simplicity of RTM. Support is excellent and within 24 hours.
Revo Uninstaler
Uninstalls software.
A wonderful product, both free and paid, that allows you to uninstall software. The key benefit of the product is that is also allows for some real deep cleaning of the software and uninstalls those messy left overs that uninstallers sometimes leave behind.
Speccy – System Information
See your system information.
Speccy is an advanced System Information tool for your PC. Need to find out what's inside your computer? No problem! Speccy will give you all the information you need.
Sysinternals
The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files.
This amazing collection of Windows troubleshooting tools is essential for one's toolbox.
Treesize
Both freeware and paid versions are available. I've used the freeware product many times and have also purchased this amazing little utility that allows you to find out where your big files are on a computer so you can clean them up.
TrueCrypt (Hosted by GRC)
TrueCrypt (Hosted by GRC). A trusted source to download TrueCrypt.
TrueCrypt is the only full disk encryption I trust to be secure and reliable.
WinImage
Amazing imaging software. Also has the ability to skip media errors and continue.
WinMerge file comparison utility
Great utility for comparing the contents of virtually any file.
Wireshark
Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what's happening on your network at a microscopic level. It is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions.
XMind: The Most Professional Mind Mapping Software
Outstanding Open Source mind mapping software.