If you want to check the effectiveness of your firewall protection, head to ShieldsUP. It is an online firewall vulnerability test tool that provides you with a number of quick online scans. You can run scans to check your system for windows file sharing vulnerabilities, common ports, specified port vulnerabilities, browser vulnerabilities, messenger vulnerabilities and [...]
SafeWeb is a new service from Symantec where you can check any website for viruses, spyware and all other craplets and see whether it can harm your computer. Quite similar to McAfee’s Site Advisor tool. Simply enter the name of the website and SaveWeb will get a short site report. The report shows what SafeWeb [...]
Criminal Searches allows you to check if the person of your interest has a criminal record. Quite useful if you want to do a criminal background check on people you hire for business or domestic services like child care. Type in the state and name of the person, and it will show you whether the [...]
Another web tool that lets you encode any text you want. Encodor makes the encoded text unreadable unless a person knows the password that was used to encrypt it. To Encode text simply paste it into provided field, type in a password and click “Lock”. To decode the text, copy and paste the encoded message, [...]
The Password Chart is a secure online password creator that lets you easily generate strong passwords and quickly access them later using the provided password chart. It may sound a bit complicated, but it isn’t. Here is how it works: (1) First generate the password chart using some random keyword (mypasswords, logins, makeuseof, email etc.). [...]
Securely send text over the web with InfoEncrypt. Enter the text, choose encryption password, and click ‘Encrypt’ to encypt the message. Copy the encrypted text and send it over via email or post it in chat window. And since the message is encrypted you dont have to worry that someone may intercept it. Only the [...]
SpotCrime is a go to website for recent crime reports in your neighborhood (mainly major cities within United States). It scans local police records and news sources for recent criminal activity and maps this information onto Google Maps. In most cases the incidents appear on the website within 3-24 hours after they have been reported. [...]
Are you looking for an easy-to-setup home monitoring security system for your room ? Do you want to see what’s going on in your room from your office PC ? How about getting alerted when someone enters your room. You can get these and many other features with HomeCamera. Basically, with HomeCamera you can setup [...]
Virus Scan is a quick no-registration virus scanner that lets you upload and thoroughly check files for viruses and trojans online. Virus Scan checks file against 20 well-known virus databases (Panda, AVG etc.) and gives you a summary report from each of them. So what you have here is a one virus checker that combines [...]
PasswordBird lets you generate strong passwords that you can remember. Simply enter the name, word and date details that are special to you and click “Create Password”. Next PasswordBird will give you something you should be able to remember. If you don’t like the password it came up with then you can instantly generate a [...]