May 31st, 2007
Check Your Internet Security with Shields UP!!
Probe Your Ports: Shields UP!! is a free service of Gibson Research Corporation. It is a tool that you can use to probe your own computer to check for security vulnerabilities, namely open ports. Shields UP!! is trustworthy and discreet, and has been relied upon for more than 50 million scans since its inception.
New and Improved: If you are already familiar with Shields UP!!, but you haven’t checked it out lately, you may want to. Mr. Gibson keeps enhancing it, adding more and better tests to the suite. He has named to the current version the “Port Authority Edition.” Details of all the new features are listed at www.grc.com/np/pa-features.htm. Continue Reading »
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7-Zip is a rock-solid file archiver for Windows with a high compression ratio. It is the premier archiver for the LZMA compression format (a.k.a. 7z). Indeed, the 7-zip web site is also the home of the LZMA SDK (Software Development Kit). 
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