Adobe Reader - free software that allows everyone - from business professionals to home users - to view, print, and search PDF files easily and reliably using a variety of platforms and devices.NGO in a Box - Security Edition
ADDITIONAL TOOLS
Below we list programs of general use and tools that did not fit into the main sections. They all relate to security of information and communication. These tools are not covered in the manual, and we won't be able to provide the same support for them. You may nevertheless find them very useful and practical! Please check for a newer version of the program before installing.
Adobe Reader - free software that allows everyone - from business professionals to home users - to view, print, and search PDF files easily and reliably using a variety of platforms and devices.
NetTime - simple time synchronization client for Windows 95/98/NT/2000. Its main claim to fame is that it is small, simple and unobtrusive.
DBAN - Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.
Recover My Files - Recover deleted files from hard drives, floppy disks, digital cameras, USB drives, ZIP disks, compact Flash cards, smart media and Sony memory sticks. Recover Office, RAR, Hotmail, Yahoo mail, text e-mail and other file types. The program retrieves items emptied from the Recycle Bin, items contained on formatted hard drives, and items lost due to a system crash or virus. It will even recover temporary files for documents that were never saved.
IsoBuster - is able to rescue lost files from CD or DVD, save important documents and backup your system. It includes support for Direct CD compressed files and blanked DVD+RW media in 41 languages.
By default, Windows, Internet browsers and other programs (like Microsoft Word) store huge amounts of temporary files, log files and other information that contains a lot of your personal details. To locate and erase them all is a challenging task. But some tools may help you.
CCleaner - deletes unused and temporary files from your system, including Internet Explorer cache, History, Cookies, Index.dat, Recycle Bin, Temporary files, Log files and many more. Those deleted files still need to be wiped-out (see Eraser above).
Registry First Aid - cleans the Windows registry to speed up your computer and stop program crashes. Software un-installations sometimes leave behind nagging file references in the Windows registry, pointing to files that no longer exist. With time, you can end up with hundreds of these files that may slow down your computer and cause software to lock up. This program eliminates the above. It scans the registry for orphan files and folder references, finds these files or folders on your drives and corrects your registry entries to match the located files or folders. If your registry has links to files for deleted applications, Registry First Aid will find these invalid entries and remove them from your registry.
Abakt Backup - a versatile, easy-to-use backup-tool for Windows. Files and directories are selected using a combination of advanced filters. Uses wildcards, sets and other advanced masks to select files to backup, besides creating a standard ZIP archive. You can call other compression tools (like 7-Zip) to create backups. Also, it is possible to simply copy, move or delete the selected files.
DeepBurner - DeepBurner is an CD and DVD burning package. It supports a wide range of internal and external (USB 2.0 and FireWire) CD and DVD writers. Burn any data, copy any disc, make backups, create photo CD albums, make ISO CDs and Video DVDs.
Encryption tools
TrueCrypt - is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read without using the correct password or encryption key. Until decrypted, a TrueCrypt volume appears to be nothing more than a series of random numbers. Entire file system is encrypted (i.e., file names, folder names, contents of every file, and free space). TrueCrypt never writes decrypted data to any storage device.
Steganography - enables you to use digital data-hiding techniques (steganography) to hide and encrypt files within other files (carriers) such as picture or sound files. This allows you to encrypt sensitive information, while hiding it in a file that will not look suspicious, so nobody even knows that there is any encrypted information. Features strong 256-Bit encryption algorithms, advanced compression, the ability to create password yourself. Those files, containing hidden files, are fully functional and are identical to the original files. This software is a free 15-day trial version with the option of registration.
Google Mail (Gmail) - is a free webmail service, notable for providing over 2 gigabytes of storage space. It is one of the few webmail systems that allows for secure downloading of emails using secure encrypted POP or encrypted (https) web access.
There has been a great deal of criticism regarding Gmail's privacy policy. Most of the criticism, however, was against Google's plans to add context-sensitive advertisements to e-mails by automatically scanning them. Privacy advocates raised concerns that the plan involved scanning their personal (assumed private) e-mails and that this was a security problem.
Putty / WinSCP - PuTTY is an SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP client. It was originally available only for Windows, but is now also available on various Unix platforms (as well as several other platforms as unofficial ports). Provides secure connections to remote systems. It integrates with WinSCP and then you are able to do all basic operations with files, such as copying and moving (to and from a remote computer). It also allows you to rename files and folders, create new folders, change properties of files and folders and create symbolic links and shortcuts.
Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a desktop protocol to remotely control another computer. It transmits the keyboard presses and mouse clicks from one computer to another relaying the screen updates back in the other direction, over a network. VNC is platform-independent: a VNC viewer on any operating system can connect to a VNC server on any other operating system. There are clients and servers for almost all operating systems and for Java. Multiple clients may connect to a VNC server at the same time. Popular uses of the technology include remote technical support, and accessing files on your work computer from your home computer. It is recommended that you use VNC over a secure tunnel (i.e. SSH) to ensure the data are not intercepted easily.
VNC Clients - The VNCs client included on this CD are specific for the Win32 platform.
Smart FTP - This program allows you to connect to FTP servers to update/download files. For example, it can be used to update html files on a webserver. This has proxy support as well as SSL functionality allowing for encrypted file transfers. Free for Personal, Educational and Non-profit organizations.