GFI LANguard is the award-winning network and security scanner used by over 20,000 customers. It scan your network and ports to detect, assess and correct security vulnerabilities with minimal administrative effort. As an administrator, you have to deal separately with problems related to vulnerability issues, patch management and network auditing, at times using multiple products. However, with GFI LANguard these three cornerstones of vulnerability management are addressed in one package. It gives you a complete picture of your network set-up and help you to maintain a secure network state faster and more effectively.
To add further value, GFI has now released a freeware version of GFI LANguard, in line with ‘We Care’ initiative to offer a helping hand in these hard economic times. Using the freeware version, companies can scan up to 5 IPs for free using the product’s full feature set – with no restrictions whatsoever.
Vista is far from perfect but it’s possible to make it a little more perfect and a little more useful by downloading and installing some free utilities for it. If you have no idea where to start or which programs to look for, here are some that will get you well on your way.
These are not listed in any particular order but are grouped by category.
Vista Optimizers
Vista may not operate the way you want, right out of the box and besides removing some startup entries, these programs will do their best to optimize and configure Vista to operate the way you want and not the way Microsoft thinks you want it to operate.
Tweak VI, this program is designed to optimize your processor, hard drive access and various other features to make Vista just a little faster. There is an “Auto Optimize” button that will take care of it for you but note that could turn off some of the more advanced features that you may actually use. Thankfully, it has a built in “Settings Restore” feature in case you don’t like the changes it makes. Available in both free and pay versions.
Advanced Windows Care is another tweaking program but of a different nature. This is kind of an “all-in-one” optimizer, malware immunizer/scanner and junk file/registry cleaner. It works as advertised and is very effective at immunizing against many common malware threats (mostly spyware and malicious cookies) and the registry cleaner not only deletes errant entries but can also “repair” and “optimize” entries that are not functioning as they should be. It will also help you optimize your startup programs. Available in both free and pay versions.
CCleaner is a rather simple utility but is nonetheless effective. It’s sole purpose is to clean out junk files and errant registry entries, however, it can only delete registry entries and cannot repair them. I have found it best to run Advanced Windows Care first to repair and delete entries and use CCleaner to catch anything that Advanced Windows Care may have missed. Completely free but the author accepts donations.
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GreenSQL is an Open Source database firewall used to protect databases from SQL injection attacks. GreenSQL works as a proxy and has built in support for MySQL. The logic is based on evaluation of SQL commands using a risk scoring matrix as well as blocking known db administrative commands (DROP, CREATE, etc). GreenSQL is distributed under the GPL license.
GreenSQL-FW: 1.0.0 Released :
GreenSQL team is ready to present new version of GreenSQL. GreenSQL intercept SQL commands being sent to MySQL, checks them, and then either halts the query or passes it on to MySQL proper. Then it returns the query results to the calling application. Currently only MySQL database is supported. This release includes a new version of firewall and a management application.
This is a major application release geared towards application stability, ease of use, performance increase and elimination of bugs.