SpinRite 6.0 for Windows XP (NTFS),
FAT, Linux, Novell, and ALL OTHER file systems! SpinRite now brings its legendary data recovery and drive maintenance magic to the latest file systems, operating systems, and hard drives. It runs MUCH faster than ever before, can help maintain all of your drives in tip top shape, can warn of impending disaster, and wrestle data from dying and nearly dead drives . . . before it's too late.
SpinRite 6.0 is now available for immediate purchase, upgrade, and download. This industry-standard data recovery tool is operating system independent, so it can be applied by users of Windows XP, 2000, Linux, and all other Intel/AMD PC‑platform hard drives and file systems.
Learn more about SpinRite v6.0
Read a few SpinRite success stories from users |
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To Check Your Password's “Crackability”
Please see our Password Haystacks online password testing page! |
Steve Gibson & GRC Now Have Blogs!| | The GRC corporate news
and announcements blog
is at: blog.grc.com | After eleven years, GRC will be formally discontinuing its eMailing list. The trouble was that it had grown SO large (currently 793,989 subscribers) that it had become impossible for us to mail anything without being flagged as a massive Internet spammer. So from now on we'll be using our corporate blog, to which you can subscribe, to announce new GRC services, features, freeware and software. Jump over there and subscribe now! blog.grc.com. |
| | Steve's own thoughts
and commentary blog
is at: steve.grc.com | If you'd like to know more about what's currently going on in Steve's head, learn of his discoveries, and in general what's happening (with many more updates than the corporate account) he'll be putting all of that up on his personal blog, to which you can also subscribe: steve.grc.com |
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You can follow GRC & Steve Gibson on Twitter!| | The GRC News & Announcements
account is: @GibsonResearch | If you would like to receive notifications of new freeware, newly available features of this web site, or Steve's work on CryptoLink (our forthcoming super-robust and super-secure VPN system) GRC's business-related news will be published though the @GibsonResearch corporate Twitter account. | | | Steve's Thoughts & Comments
account is: @SGgrc | If you'd like to know what's currently going on in Steve's head, learn of his discoveries, and in general what's happening (with many more updates than the corporate account) follow his personal Twitter account: @SGgrc corporate Twitter account. |
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Introducing Our Newest Security Freeware: SecurAble
Quickly determine which state-of-the-art security features are being offered by your system's processor chip.
Recent AMD and Intel processors contain three features which can be extremely beneficial to the system's overall security. SecurAble probes the system's processor to determine the presence, absence and operational status of each of these three modern processor features.
Click to jump to SecurAble's information and download page.
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| The DCOMbobulator | 1,818,648 downloads. |
DCOMbobulator allows any Windows user to easily verify the effectiveness of Microsoft's recent critical DCOM patch. Confirmed reports have demonstrated that the patch is not always effective in eliminating DCOM's remote exploit vulnerability. But more importantly, since DCOM is a virtually unused and unneeded facility, the DCOMbobulator allows any Windows user to easily disable DCOM for significantly greater security.
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| Shoot The Messenger | 2,362,312 downloads. |
Even before the latest DCOM/RPC vulnerability (see above), many Windows users were being annoyed by "pop-up spam" notices appearing on their desktops. This intrusion is also facilitated by an exploitation of port 135. Our free "Shoot The Messenger" utility furthers the security of Windows by quickly and easily shutting down the "Windows Messenger" server that should never have been running by default in the first place.
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| UnPlug n' Pray | 3,330,781 downloads |
As originally urged by the FBI, and still urged by prominent security experts, our UnPnP utility easily disables the dangerous, and almost always unnecessary, Universal Plug and Play service. If you don't need it, turn it off. (For ALL versions of Windows.)
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| XPdite | 1,126,015 downloads. |
A Critical Security Vulnerability Exists in Windows XP. (Surprise) Actually, as we know, there are many, but we'll handle them one at a time. This particular vulnerability allows the files contained in any specified directory on your system to be deleted if you click on a specially formed URL. This URL could appear anywhere: sent in malicious eMail, in a chat room, in a newsgroup posting, on a malicious web page, or even executed when your computer merely visits a malicious web page. It is already being exploited on the Internet.
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| GRC "Perfect Passwords" Generator | 10,139,754 uses |
Our server generates maximum entropy, ultra high quality, guaranteed unique custom password material for your use when securing and keying your WEP, WPA, VPN, or other network systems.
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| ID Serve | 925,040 downloads |
Since not all Internet servers are equally secure, knowing which server software a web site is using can be important to your security. Ultimately, the security of your personal data is your responsibility. This free utility can help.
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| Wizmo | 1,131,214 downloads |
Wizmo is a lightweight "Windows Gizmo" offering a wide array of handy Windows commands. With a single click it can power down monitors, trigger a screen saver, set audio volume, and much more. Wizmo also includes an intriguing highly customizable "Graviton" screen saver.
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GRC.COM contains a great deal of content, to which my work continuously adds. Therefore, finding one's way around here can be a chore in itself. I maintain several comprehensive pages to help direct and acquaint visitors with this site's content, and to help them determine what's been updated or added since their last visit.
You can be notified by eMail whenever these main pages (or any others) are changed. See this link for details.
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| My Projects Page | 128 accesses per day |
This page contains a chronological listing of the various projects I have completed, and those that are planned for the future. Most entries contain links to the section of this site where that work is described in detail. By browsing through what I have accomplished, both in the past and more recently, and where I am headed in the future, you can quickly develop a good feel for this entire web site.
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| Freeware Listing | 366 accesses per day |
Everybody likes free software, especially when it's useful, small, and of the highest quality. Our freeware page assembles everything in one place, sorted by current popularity, historical popularity, or age since last update. Each entry contains a link to that program's section of this site, so it's a great way to view this site from the perspective of our free utilities.
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If you are seeking some specific work, or if you prefer to browse a list of completed material not already mentioned above, the following section contains a short description with a link to everything else here:
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