Protect your system with Wondershare Time Freeze

Easy & Effective System Protection Tool

Wondershare Time Freeze is an easy and effective virtual system freeware to keep your computer safe from viruses, spyware, and other malicious threats. It puts the actual system under protection and creates a virtual system partition, on which you run applications and surf the internet. All traces and malicious threats will disappear after reboot. You can also save changes to the actual system.

Virtual System Protects Real System

Virtual system as a twin of the actual system: Wondershare Time Freeze creates a virtual environment for your operating system, on which you run applications and perform online activities. By this way, the actual system is under protection and will not be infected by common viruses, malware, and other malicious threats.

Eliminate computer history: After you reboot computer, all history will be lost. You may surf internet safely, and play around with computer with No trace left.

Test at ease: test software and game installations safely on virtual system. And you can easily remove unwanted programs by rebooting computer.

Save system maintenance costs: simply reboot computer to roll system back

Easy-to-Use Folder Protection

Effectively protect your privacy: you can disable access to selected folders or prohibit others to make change to files in protected folders.

Safe from virus: keep your files and folders completely safe and clean. It is recommended to use System Protection and Folder Protection together to keep your computer safe.

Access Password Protection

Manage the program with a custom password setting. Keep inexperienced users from making change to your settings and configures.

Free, Easy-to-Use and Effective

It is easy switch between real system and virtual system, differing from other virtual system tools. With Wondershare Time Freeze, you don't need to reboot computer to go back to actual system, just exit the system protection mode. You can save or discard virtual system data freely.

Platform: 32-bit of Windows 7 / XP / Vista / 2000

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Fight spam email with http://scr.im

Use scr.im to get less spam

Leaving your email as plain text in forums, on Twitter or on classified sites makes you an easy spam target: spam robots and email harvesters constantly browse these sites to collect new victim emails.

Don't share your email on public sites. Instead, use our free service that will convert your email address (joe@email.com) into a safe and short URL (for instance http://scr.im/joe). People willing to email you will go to this URL that will reveal your email address, after a simple test that automated scripts and bots cannot pass.

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Secure your broswer using Qualys BrowserCheck

Qualys BrowserCheck is a tool that scans your browser looking for potential vulnerabilities and security holes in your browser and its plugins. This tool will also help you fix the security issues discovered by the scan.

The threat of browser-based data breaches is growing. The number of vulnerabilities in browser plugins is on the rise. Now is the time to be proactive about the security of your web browser.

Unless you are using Firefox as it have a plug-in checker. Otherwise, this tool is useful for other browsers such as Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari etc.

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Convert NGR format to ISO using nrg2iso

Since only Nero software and select other programs can open NRG files, convert NRG files to a more common file format such as ISO (disc image file) to open them more easily on your computer with software like WinRAR by extracting the files.

nrg2iso converts Nero CD images into ISO-9660 CD images.

The string "fertig." is translated to "finished."

Warning: This program can not convert audio CDs.

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Protect yourself from Windows shortcut exploit

Update:

Microsoft is issuing a permanent patch for the shortcut vulnerability, it is recommend that users uninstall the Sophos Windows Shortcut Exploit Protection Tool before applying the Microsoft fix from Window Update.

What is the Windows Shortcut Exploit?

The Windows Shortcut Exploit, also known as CPLINK, is a zero-day vulnerability in all versions of Windows that allows a Windows shortcut link, known as an .lnk file, to run a malicious DLL file. The dangerous shortcut links can also be embedded on a website or hidden within documents.

The exploit works when you open a device, network share or WebDav point carrying an infection you don't need to click on anything for the exploit to work, even if you have AutoPlay and AutoRun disabled.

The above vulnerability have been confirmed by Microsoft. To read it, click here.

Windows Shortcut Exploit Protection Tool by Sophos

-Detects the Windows Shortcut Exploit

-Blocks exploit from running

-Works with your existing anti-virus

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Open, Extract image & text from PDF file using Nitro PDF reader

Nitro's new free PDF reader takes the key features that you want in a PDF reader, a familiar interface, and smooth functionality and combines them into an eminently usable program that doesn't get in between you and your documents.

Nitro has turned the free PDF alternative business model on its ear by providing you with a smart selection of watermark-free editing, drag-and-drop PDF creation, and tabbed PDF reading.

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* Remember to create a folder before extracting, otherwise it will be all around the place once you finish extracting.

Summary:

Simplicity and familarity

Nitro Reader utilizes the Microsoft® Office®-style Ribbon interface. Tasks and tools are separated into tabs, grouped by functionality, and represented graphically with easy-to-understand text labels, providing an immediately familiar user interface that won’t leave you searching for help.

Work with multiple PDF files at the same time

Nitro Reader offers tabbed viewing of individual PDF files, enabling you to easily work between multiple documents within the same window, and even split open documents horizontally or vertically for simultaneous viewing.

Undo and redo viewing history

With Nitro Reader, you can cycle back and forth, similarly to typical Undo/Redo commands, through viewing steps and paths, magnification levels, bookmark/link paths, and more. Simply click the Previous View and Next View buttons within the Page Controls bar to retrace viewing steps.

Extract image within the PDF file

Nitro Reader enables you to save all images contained in a PDF document as separate files to any folder or destination without modifying the original PDF file. Specify the format (BMP, JPG, PNG, and TIF), differentiate between color and monochrome with separate options, and use the Extract Images tool to create an exhaustive inventory of graphical content from any PDF file. With intelligent extraction, Nitro Reader can even choose the most appropriate format for each image.

For more features, visit here.

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Check unknown words with TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus in your computer

TheSage's dictionary comprises more than 145,000 references with multiple detailed definitions (over 200,000). It provides comprehensive coverage of English, including encyclopedic information (geographical, historical, political,...), academic knowledge (medicine, biology,... ) and more. There is also a large collection of examples of usage (approx. 35,000).

TheSage's thesaurus is tightly integrated into its dictionary, providing nearly 1,200,000 relationships between definitions (synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, meronyms, holonyms,...).

Some additional and notable features include: structured lookup display, advanced wildcard search, tabbed interface, anagram search, customizable user-interface, flexible copy-to-clipboard functionality, multi-session history, local installation (no internet connection is required).

It is 100% portable. (Just remember to click on the option portable when running the program for the first time.)

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