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Unique Free Software

Virtual Network Computing (VNC)
Remote control software which allows you to view and interact with one computer (the "server") using a simple program (the "viewer") on another computer anywhere on the Internet. The two computers don't even have to be the same type, so for example you can use VNC to view an office Linux machine on your Windows PC at home. VNC is freely and publicly available and is in widespread active use by millions throughout industry, academia and privately.
The source code is included !
Very Recommended !

Wireshark (formerly Ethereal)
Wireshark is a free network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. It allows you to examine data from a live network or from a capture file on disk. You can interactively browse the capture data, viewing summary and detail information for each packet. Wireshark has several powerful features, including a rich display filter language and the ability to view the reconstructed stream of a TCP session.
Source code is available !
Very Recommended !

UPX - the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
UPX is a free, portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer for several different executable formats. It achieves an excellent compression ratio and offers very fast decompression. Your executables suffer no memory overhead or other drawbacks.
Source code is available !
Very Recommended !

7-Zip
Very good file archiver. Supports the following file formats: ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM, DEB and 7z - great open-source archive format that provides much better compression than in Zip files.
Very Recommended ! It's much better than all commercial archive managers like WinZip and WinRAR.
GOM Player
Great alternative to Windows Media Player. Supports many file formats without require you to install the appropriate codec. It also provides other useful features, like playing broken AVI files, and capturing a single frame.
Inno Setup
Inno Setup is a great open-source installer for Windows. It allows you to create a single setup executable to install your software. Supports all 32-bit Windows versions: Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, XP and 2003.
Very Recommended !
VisualCron
VisualCron is a Windows-based program that works like the integrated task scheduler, but have more features and flexibility.
Requires .NET Framework 1.1
API Monitor
API Monitor is a great and unique tool that spy on WIN32 API calls.
Very Recommended for Windows programmers !

Freeware Web sites created by developers

AnalogX Utilities
Good freeware utilities. Some of them are quite powerful and unique. Try it !
David & Cecilia Taylor's Web Pages
Audio Tools, Disk Utilities, Image Utilities, Weather Satellite Tools, Network Tools, and more.
Blaiz Enterprises - Portal
Nice freeware utilities.
JoeJoe's freeware utilities
Nice freeware utilities.
bCheck's apps
Nice collection of freeware utilities.
GravityFX
Nice collection of freeware utilities released under GNU/GPL license.
Freeware Utilities
Freeware and Other Utilities by Funduc Software
Jans Freeware Collection
Collection of over 100 freeware programs written by Jan Verhoeven
viksoe.dk
Great collection of freeware utilities, most of them are provided with full source code.
rohitab.com
Nice collection of freeware utilities created by Rohitab Batra

Security and System Administration

Windows SysInternals (Acquired by Microsoft)
SysInternals is a great Web site for both programmers and system administrators.
It provides technical information and advanced freeware utilities, some of them are provided with full source code. They have very useful utilities that you won't find anywhere else.
Very Recommended !

Windows NT/2000 FAQ
Great site, providing hundreds of questions and answers related to Windows NT, Windows 2000, SQL Server, Exchange Server, Outlook, IIS and much more.

Security Software Technologies
Security Software Technologies is a computer security software company providing a great password auditing and recovery application for Windows NT and Windows 2000.
Unfortunately, Their applications is not freeware, but you can try it for 15 days.

passwordportal.net
Links to commercial password recovery services, password cracking sites, password management software and related sites, services and products.

NTsecurity.com
NTsecurity is a portal that provides information and links related to Windows NT and Windows 2000 security.

Microsoft Technet: Tools and Checklists
This section in Microsoft Technet Web site provides security related tools and checklists.
This site is very useful if you want to secure your network.

HackYourself.com
This Web site provides security checking service: it can scan your computer and find security holes that hackers might use for breaking into your computer. The basic security scan service is free
It also provides some tools and other information related to security.

Security Administrator
Another Web site that provides wide information related to security: FAQs, forms, code library, and more...

Network Security Library
This Web site contains wide information about network security. It provides information about Unix, Windows, Netware network, firewalls and more...

secureroot.com - computer security resource
Everything related to computer security: articles, books, forms, mailing lists, tool, links to other sites, and more.

Astalavista Security Group
Astalavista web site contains a lots of utilities, tutorials, scripts and links related to security. The site is updated constantly.

New Order
New Order is a great Web site that provides articles, tutorials, utilities, and links related to networking security. The site is updated constantly.

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