Software

Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix (specialists). It scans the system and available software, to detect security issues. Beside security related information it will also scan for general system information, installed packages and configuration mistakes.

This software aims in assisting automated auditing, software patch management, vulnerability and malware scanning of Unix based systems. It can be run without prior installation, so inclusion on read only storage is no problem (USB stick, cd/dvd).

Lynis assists auditors in performing Basel II, GLBA, HIPAA, PCI DSS and SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) compliance audits.

This FREE tool integrates into Microsoft Outlook and allows users to quickly and easily submit missed spam samples and email that was wrongly categorized as spam to McAfee Labs. McAfee Spam Submission Tool version 2.2 can also be used with McAfee Secure Content Management appliances and McAfee Quarantine Manager to train the Bayesian database.

The tool supports auto Black/Whitelisting and has an installer that supports automated script-based installations. Supported platforms: Microsoft Windows 2000, XP with Microsoft Outlook 2000 or later.

Here is the official free trial Microsoft Windows 7. The latest generation of Microsoft Operating System. You can download it for testing usage at the official Microsoft technet website here. The official version will be released within next Friday 9 January 2009

Some of useful links:

• Windows 7 Download Site
• Official Windows 7 Site
• FAQ: How to get the Windows 7 beta

Amanda Community Edition is a free and stable version of the world's most popular open source backup and recovery software Amanda. Linux, Solaris, Windows and Source packages are available. Amanda 2.6.0p2 is the Latest Stable Release. Amanda 2.6.1 beta release is also available.
- backup_server package should be installed on the Amanda backup server. The package contains the Amanda server and client.
- backup_client package should be installed on the Amanda client (computer that is backed up by Amanda server). It contains only the Amanda client.

AVG Free Edition is the well-known antivirus protection tool. AVG Free is available free of charge to home users for the life of the product. Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers. AVG Free is easy to use and will not slow your system down (low system resource requirements.