Regular backup software isn’t robust enoust to use at the server level. Thats why its recommended you use backup software specially written for servers.

PC BackUp Server Edition runs on Windows Server platforms, including NT 4, Windows 2000, and Windows 2003 server platforms. Whatever your backup needs are, we have the solution for you.

Protects Servers, Desktop Computers, Notebooks and Network Shares.

Backs up to CD/DVD, Hard Drive, Tape, Networks and more.

Bootable Disaster Recovery CD/DVD creation gets your system back up and running in the event of a system crash.

Open File Backups in Windows XP and 2003 - enables compatible files to be backed up even as it’s being changed by users or applications.

Simple Guided Process for Beginners and Professionals. Backups have never been so easy!

Peer-to-Peer Network Backups enables you to protect data on your computer and other systems on your home or business network.

Automatic Scheduled Backups set your computer to protect your data at any time so you don’t have to be reminded.

NEW! Open File Backup for Windows XP and 2003 enables you to backup files that are in use by applications and users. This important feature ensures all of your critical data is backed up.

NEW! Virus Scanning Engine
Computer viruses are a serious threat to your data and applications. PC BackUp uses an advanced virus scanning engine with up-to-date virus definitions to keep your backups free from infection.

NEW! Command Line Utility
Command line options allow for PC BackUp jobs to be utilized from a command prompt and user created scripts. This quick method allows the user to input a single command into a command prompt to run the specified PC BackUp job.

NEW! File Encryption
Protects all communications between you and the backup device or location. Your files will also be stored encrypted on the backup media providing the maximum in privacy and protection.

NEW! Email log delivery
You have the option allowing the backup and/or restore logs to be e-mailed to a certain email address. This keeps you informed automatically on the status of all of your manual and scheduled backups.

NEW! Bootable Disaster Recovery CD/DVD
Backups created with the Disaster Recovery option enabled can speed recovery of your system after a hard drive crash or similar failure where your data is lost. Fully restore your system without installing any of the original software or operating system! Just boot up using the recovery disk, recover the system backup, everything is back like you like it!

Don’t Leave Your Valuable Data Un-Protected
PC Backup protects you in the event of system crashes, file corruption, and other headaches that can cause you to lose your important data like business archives, a precious music collection, tax records, trasured family photos… No matter what’s on your PC, if you don’t want to lose it - protect it with PC Backup.

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PC Backup is user friendly and easy to manage. Simply decide what to backup, which device to backup to, and when you’d like the backup to run. And presto! You’re protected!

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PC Backup’s state-of-the-art technology is simple and easy to use. With wizards guiding you through the setup, configuration, scheduling and restore process, you can easily start protecting your data today.

Simplicity
With an intuitive user interface, quick installation, and easy-to-use wizards - Just simply point and click on an entire drive or individual files or folders and start your backup today.

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Automatically it protects important information like email, family photos, financial information, music collections, business documents … PC Backup’s intuitive scheduler does the work for you - with bullet proof data protection and recovery - just set it and forget it.

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PC Backup is the Gold Standard in personal data protection software. Providing a comprehensive cost-effective backup, restore and disaster recovery solution. PC Backup is your best choice for protecting your data

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I usually talk about utilities for data security and encryption, backups, etc. but I love to play the game Empire Earth. I like to “modify” things once in awhile too. Not game cheats mind you, just modifications.

There is a trainer for Empire Earth you just gotta have if you like playing this game!

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If you use web-based email you have probably ran into a problem trying to send a large collection of pictures or a zip file to someone because of the limits set on file sizes. So How do I split a file into smaller pieces? I’m so glad you asked!

I use a great little program without a fancy name. Its a file splitter program and its called, you guessed it, File Splitter. it breaks any file into small pieces, then creates an executible file that can put them all back together again. Works better than all the kings horses and all the kings men could do for humpty dumpty. (Okay, its late)

What is The File Splitter?
The File Splitter is a free Windows program that will split any file into pieces of any size and later combine the pieces to form the original file. This could prove useful in a number of situations:

Suppose you need to transfer a file from one stand-alone computer to another. A floppy disk is often the only possible means for transferring the file, but if the file is larger than 1.44 megabytes, it won’t fit on a single floppy. Simply split the file onto floppy disks, and then copy the pieces from the floppy disks to the other computer and easily reconstruct the original file.

Many email systems place a limit on the size of an email message. What if you want to email someone a file that is larger than the maximum size? Split the file into pieces smaller than the limit and email the individual pieces.

There are many other possibilities for using The File Splitter. I’m sure you can think of a situation where The File Splitter would be helpful.

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Why home firewall software is a leaky dike
Dirk Averesch | Hoexter, Germany

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. That’s doubly true when it comes to protecting computers that are connected to the internet. Anyone who thinks that a virtual firewall is enough to protect a PC from the dangers of the internet — such as hacker attacks and unwanted contact with damaging programs — is making a mistake.

That level of safety requires a combination of several protective measures. Firewall software for home use is not much more than a leaky dike.

“It’s dangerous to view a firewall as some sort of PC airbag,” warns Professor Stefan Wolf, who teaches applied computer sciences at the Polytechnic University of Lippe and Hoexter, Germany.

The so-called personal firewall programs commonly used with home PCs are not comparable to the powerful firewalls used in companies or public organisations.

You cannot rely on a personal software to protect the data on your computer. You need to be encrypting that data so that if anyone does get into your PC they still won’t be able to get all of your personal information.

I recommend Digital Vault data encryption software

Digital Vault encrypts, hides and password protects your private files and folders from others on your PC or Laptop. The simple drag-and-drop interface lets you protect your files quickly and easily. You can also use Digital Vault to protect your mobile data on USB Flash Drives, Memory Sticks and Removable Hard Drives. You can even easily email encrypted files which can be opened by the recipient with the free Digital Vault Reader.

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MIT researchers uncover mountains of private data on discarded computers

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–Discarded computers, even those with “erased” disk drives, may harbor confidential information such as credit card numbers and medical records, two MIT graduate students found.

Scavenging through the data inadvertently left on 158 used disk drives, the students at MIT’s Laboratory for Computer Science found more than 5,000 credit card numbers, detailed personal and corporate financial records, numerous medical records, gigabytes of personal email and pornography.

The disk drives were purchased for less than $1,000 from eBay and other sources of used computer hardware. Only 12 were properly sanitized.

“There are many stories in which somebody has bought a used computer and found confidential information on it, but nobody has ever quantified the scale of the problem,” said Simson Garfinkel, one of the students. “So we decided to find out.”

Results from the study, which Garfinkel performed with Abhi Shelat, are being published in the January/February 2003 issue of IEEE Security and Privacy. The research suggests that the secondary market is awash with confidential information, although work needs to be done to get more accurate statistics. More than 150 million disk drives were retired from primary service in 2002.

Of the disk drives acquired, 129 were functional. Of these, Garfinkel and Shelat found 28 disk drives in which little or no attempt had been made to erase any information. One of these drives, Shelat says, had apparently come from an automatic teller machine in Illinois and contained a year’s worth of financial transactions.

Attempts to erase information from the drives were usually ineffectual. On many disks, files that would typically be found in the “My Documents” folder had been deleted, but they could be recovered using a simple “undelete” utility. Undelete programs work because deleting a file does not actually overwrite the blocks on the computer’s disk that are used to hold the file’s information.

Roughly 60 percent of the disks were formatted before they were sold, but even formatting did not properly sanitize a disk because the Windows “format” command doesn’t actually overwrite every block–”the format command just reads every block to make sure that they still work,” Garfinkel said. “To properly sanitize the hard drive, you need to overwrite every block.”

On one of the “formatted” disks, Shelat found more than 5,000 credit card numbers.

Roughly 45 percent of the disks contained no files at all and the disks could not be mounted on the computer. Yet the data could still be retrieved by reading each block of the disk using special tools.

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Okay this one isn’t free, but its worth every penny so I’m reviewing it anyway. Criline Search and Replace is the best software I have ever used to find and replace words or code in multiple pages. There is absolutely nothing better for this task.

Criline Search and Replace v3.3 is a general purpose windows utility for find and replacement that is oriented towards text-based files such as program code, html or php scripts, log files, etc. and binary files such as programs, pictures, mp3 files, etc. This be excellent addition in your programming kit.

Criline Search and Replace v3.3 looks through multiple files for a string and can also replace it with another string. It can search subdirectories and do case sensitive or insensitive searches. Binary mode is also available. You can specify multiple include/exclude file masks and filters based on file date & size. Control over replacements includes a display of replacements before they are made.

Criline Search and Replace v3.3 can also launch associated programs on your found files, e.g., launch your web browser if the search hit occurs in an .htm or .html file.

Criline Search and Replace v3.3 works on Windows 95, 98, 98SE, ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, XP and Windows 2003 Server.

Major advantages of version 3.3:
- Hexadecimal mode.
- Fastest search algorithm.
- Regular expressions support.
- Comprehensive user interface.
- Keeps your files safe as the process of replacement is undertaken in memory, not in files.
- Extremely fast, easy to use and excellent documentation is included.
- It is a great time-saver for programmers and Webmasters
- Include function for rename many files.

Main Features of version 3.3:
- Find and replace in zip-based archives.
- All parameters saving
- Regular expressions searching
- Script replacing
- Multi mask searching
- Autobackup files
- Include and exclude file masks
- Date, time and attributes masks for the files found by the file mask, path, and filter settings
- “Size limited” searching
- “Case sensitive”, “Prompt for replace”, “Whole words only” replace options
- “All local disks” searching
- Multi and single line searching and replacing
- Replacement in filenames and foldernames
- File renamer mode support.
- You can save the report about the found files and detailed information about the occurrences found in them.
- You can find files by specifying the path, name masks, and a query. You can search documents for a phrase or several words, multiline or regular expression and use the search engines style queries.
- You can modify files one at a time or change them all with a single mouse click. Support is offered for both single and multiline entries.
- This useful tool is fast and easy to use and of particular value to Webmasters who need to deal with ever-changing content on their Web sites.
- The powerful string search feature supports Boolean operators and displays and highlights matching strings. The even more powerful replace facility lets you insert text before or after search phrases, delete text, and replace text with spaces, in addition to standard text replacement.
- The current version, was requested thousands of times from the TUCOWS software servers, and became very popular. Over the last five years, Criline Search & Replace has become a favourite tool due to its speed and small footprint. It has been downloaded around 100,000 times from this server, around 25,000 times from its mirror in the US..
- Thousands of satisfied customers.

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Ever get a file with software with the NFO or DIZ extension after the dot and couldn’t figure out which program to open them with?

NFODIZ is a small program used to view and edit the NFO and DIZ file types as well as other ASCII text files.

This program has been written to help the people who needs to see the ASCII art in the old-fashioned way the DOS does.

And of course you know if we review it here, that means it is probably free. It is! Download it here!

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Everyone is always asking me about which anti-virus software to use. Here is how I rate some of the ones you have to pay for.

Norton - Anything made by Semantec or Norton sucks. I can’t put it any other way. Whenever I have to go fix a problem on someone’s computer, its the first thing I uninstall. Then I have to edit the registry to get rid of all the entries it has made there. its worse than anything I’ve ever seen. There is sometimes more than 100 entries to delete in the registry AFTER you do the uninstall. it causes problems like poor performance and some programs won’t work at all with it installed. Sometimes simply getting it off someone’s computer fixes all the problems they were having. Thats my personal opinion of course. Some people seem to like it.

McAfee - Not much better than Norton and both cost too much.

AntiVir - This is free anti-virus software and it does detect viruses well, but unlike earlier versions it is starting to be a memory hog.

AVG - The best I have used and its the one I recommend to everyone. You can get it here.

NOTE: Don’t depend on your anti-virus software to also remove spyware. Get a good Anti-Spywaqre Program like this one in addition to your anti-virus software.

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Have you ever lost your laptop or had one stolen? Do you know how much personal and financial data is stored on your computer? Passwords, cookies, history folders, documents, and even your temporary Internet files tell a story. If you lose that data to someone it could be disasterous to you. Future company plans and more things that you write about and store on your computer can compromise you in ways you never imagined. Identity thieves would love to have all of your data.

Encrypting your sensitive files is very important. I recently decided to use Digital Vault, because it encrypts, hides and password protects my private files and folders from others on my PC or Laptop. The simple drag-and-drop interface can be used by novices and its fast as well.

You can also use Digital Vault to protect your mobile data on USB Flash Drives, Memory Sticks and Removable Hard Drives. You can even easily email encrypted files which can be opened by the recipient with the free Digital Vault Reader.

Read more about Digital Vault Here. There is a free trial version too.

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Any graphic designer or webmaster that doesn’t have this tool already needs to get it now. Its freeware. It is a small utility that just has an eyedropper. You drag the eyedropper onto any image or background or picture or whatever you want and it will give you the hex code for the color you drop it onto.

What more can I say? I couldn’t find the standalone version so you can download it here.

If you want to get it in a suite with some other free tools, Click Here.

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