Detekt

Amnesty International

New technologies have provided some people with the ability to control and spy on the work and communications of others by installing spyware on their PC. Detekt is a tool developed by nonprofit organizations and human rights advocates whose aim is to inform you whether third parties have access to your computer. Amnesty International and Privacy International are just some of the organizations behind this tool. The latter NGO's main objective is to monitor privacy invasions by governments and other enterprises. Detekt is able to detect if your PC has a spy program through which information is being sent to third parties, and once it's gone through your operating system, you can know whether or not that computer is safe. If this program finds any kind of spyware that shouldn't be there, you will be immediately alerted and receive a set of instructions for further action, which you can follow step-by-step to get rid of these violations of privacy.

AutoKrypt

HitekSoftware.com

If you're looking for a program that can protect your most important files and documents and you're willing to invest some time, then you should consider using Autokrypt. Autokrypt is a program that will keep your files and folders safe; its biggest benefit being the complete automation of the file encryption process. You can configure multiple folders so that any file you save there is automatically encrypted, manage profiles to automate the protection of different types of data, or periodically zip any group of files. Lastly, it includes a system to generate encryption passwords that you can manage from the program's interface.

Anvi Folder Locker

Anvisoft

If you share your computer with family or friends or just want to protect your files, Anvi Folder Locker is a handy program that lets you hide folders or apply passwords to them to prevent others from accessing the contents. The interface is very simple, so even if you don't have much experience, you won't have any problems getting it to work. To use Anvi Folder Locker, just add items with the 'add' button on the top. There are no limitations to how many folders you can add. Once you have everything that you want on your list, you'll see a tab beside each option with six different locks for you to choose from: unprotected, which is self-explanatory; hidden, to make it disappear from view; locked, to require a password in order to access it; read-only, to prohibit any edits to your documents; and hidden and locked, to hide a file and prevent access with a special password. If you want to change the protections for any document, just select or deselect options as necessary, even if you only want to pause it for a few minutes. You can also cancel it by completely disabling the protection, or you can remove files from the list with a single click, limiting outside access to your files.

Xvirus Personal Guard

Mysecuritywin

Xvirus Personal Guard is a comprehensive protection program that helps you easily and conveniently manage all the threats that could put your computer at risk. Its interface is perfectly structured to help you find all the features it offers at a simple glance and can use each one knowing exactly what each one does. This program offer protection for the entire system, including all the files, the possible malware that you may face while browsing, and the trojans that are unknowingly hidden in external memory drives, for example. This program is divided into the following tabs: home, scan, update, shields, toolbox, and settings. In the first window, you can see at a glance the condition of your computer, which can help you decide which feature to use to clean your PC. In second place, the scanner lets you see all the possible threats in detail that have been installed on the computer and while you can't delete them from the Xvirus Personal Guard interface, you can find their locations to select all the files you want to delete. Next, the updates help you make sure your computer is entirely up to date, preventing any viruses from making it past outdated and unsupported software. The shield option offers a great help when it comes to working with certain files that could put your computer at risk without you realizing it, like downloads with a harmful element, suspicious looking websites, or any pen drive that's infected by a virus from an unknown source. These options protect your computer from infections, no matter where they come from. All the protections included in this program can be activated continuously, deactivated individually, or adjusted to a set of customized values so you don't leave your computer unprotected for even a second. Since this program doesn't eliminate the viruses, it offers a shortcut from its interface to your active antivirus to help you locate what your tool can't find to delete it with the program you use regularly.

DoNotSpy11

pXc-coding

Deskman Network

Anfibia

If you want instant protection for your computer, Deskman Network helps you block any dangerous elements with different levels of security. With its many functions, you can be sure at all times that your information and privacy are safe. The main defenses of this program focus on blocking applications, restricting access to your computer by third parties, and filtering malicious websites that can compromise the health of your operating system. These functions are divided into four tabs to make things even easier to set up: - Desktop. This section lets you hide icons on the desktop to prevent accidental erasure, as well as disable Start menu items, hide the taskbar, or disable system keys, function keys, and mouse buttons. - System. Here you can restrict access to the Control Panel, disable USB drives, block access to Windows Explorer, manage tasks, and prevent access to certain drives, so you can isolate access to any part of your system from third parties. - Applications. In this section, you can add all the folders and processes you want to run. If you don't know which ones you need to make your computer run properly, click the Get Processes button, and a list of everything that is currently running will be displayed. From that list, you can mark anything you don't want to reactivate on your computer. - Web. This last tab helps you block all those malicious sites that can cause harm to your system. Use it to avoid ads or keep your children from accessing inappropriate content. With all these options, you can configure your system as you like, checking and unchecking the boxes to best suit your needs and protect your system without jumping through too many hoops to set it up.

Free iOS Ads Remover

Tenorshare

Free iOS Ads Remover is a program for Windows in which you can remove annoying ads that make it awkward to do the different tasks you have to carry out every day on your iOS device. The interface in Free iOS Ads Remover is quite simple and helps you intuitively manage the process for getting rid of ads. You simply connect your iPhone, iPod, or iPad to your computer and the program will guide you through the process in a few seconds. Once you've got an idea of which apps and logs on your device that you want to remove the ads from, just select them and Free iOS Ads Remover will take care of torpedoing popups, floaters, flash ads, overlay screens, fullscreen ads, or even scrolling banners. If you want to get rid of all advertising on your iOS device, Free iOS Ads Remover is an interesting program to do just that with no hassle and with your privacy protected at all times.

Crystal Security

Kardo Kristal

Scan your computer looking for suspicious files and automatically create lists where you can separate the corrupted or infected files from those that are completely harmless. It works like a normal anti-virus program, scanning your system looking for danger and malware that could damage your computer. However, it also categorizes what it finds either as harmful elements or as items that are simply suspicious. Using these lists, you can delete any file that could be really dangerous or carefully examine the items that the search has flagged as inappropriate, which are sometimes not harmful at all. On the other hand, you can also move files from the whitelist to the blacklist with a simple click. You can also simply keep the protection active so that suspicious items automatically appear on the blacklist in the future without having to scan your computer.

Aobo Porn Filter

Amobile Spy

Aobo Porn Filter is an application that offers great assurance by providing safe browsing for your family, preventing access to pornographic websites, games and harmful applications. With this program, you establish a password and without it, it's completely impossibly to access any blocked content. This way, when Aobo Porn Filter establishes a filter to protect and block certain websites, only the person with the password will be given access to them. Once you install the program, there's no need to configure anything, since the tool sets the blocks completely automatically, so that users with limited knowledge on the topic won't have any problem using the application. In addition, it allows you to manually increase the list of prohibited websites, so if you find a page that is not censured, you can easily add it to the list. With this program, you can block websites, key search words, and save Web history. Plus, it provides undetectable execution and full functionality with all user accounts ... all of these and more features are what make Aobo Porn Filter the perfect protection tool for your computer.

Voodoo Shield

VoodooSoft

Granite Portable

N/A

Granite Portable is a simple application to protect your USB drives against unexpected changes or edits by third parties. Granite Portable is so easy to use that even if you don't know much about security you can still can protect your device using its simple interface. Basically, Granite Portable offers a vault-folder where you can store very important files regardless of file type and without size restrictions. To access the folder, you'll need to use a username and password you've set up yourself. You can also disable the write option in your memory so that even if someone gets in, they can't change anything. In addition, Granite Portable can protect your device from viruses, so you'll never lose important data. All this in a standalone version of Granite that can run on any computer without installation.

PutAside

Justice

PutAside is a tool that lets you hide all the windows you have active on your desktop in just one click. You can also choose any key shortcut you want, so that by simply clicking a couple of keys you can minimize all of your open windows or, all of them expect one (similar to the typical alt tab). The application is very small and takes up few resources, so regardless of the computer you find yourself on it should not pose a problem for performance. PutAside is an interesting application for those who work in an office and who might have to, occasionally, close many windows very quickly.

Toolkit to Disable Automatic Delivery of Internet Explorer 10

Microsoft

Some Windows users have run into an unexpected update of Internet Explorer 10 which, when you have automatic updates activated, will install itself without warning. This presents a problem for those of us who would prefer to use another, older version of the browser. Luckily, the problem is now reversible thanks to an official patch from Microsoft. This tool blocks the automatic download of Internet Explorer 10 to computers equipped with automatic updates from Windows Update, and it never expires, thus preventing any similar problem in the future. However, if you ever want to download Internet Explorer 10 manually, from the Microsoft Download Center or another source, the patch will not stop you. To install the patch you'll just need to download it, run the EXE, and accept the user agreement. Once that's done, you need to choose where you'd like to save the four files that the toolkit contains and run a command prompt through Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt (right-click to run as administrator). Once you get there, you should write 'CD' followed by a space and the route in which you have extracted the four files. Hit enter and then write 'ie10_blocker.cmd /B' (without the apostrophes) and hit enter to define the blocker within the computer and visualize confirmation. After this process is completed, Internet Explorer 10 will not install itself.

Max File Encryption

Softeza Development_2

Max File Encryption is a tool that allows you to encrypt any type of file, hide it, and also create encrypted packages. It uses a strong, safe ciphering algorithm which will make it completely impossible for someone else to decipher your password. In order to decipher it, you (or the user that you are sharing the information with) just have to use the correct password. The program is very useful when you have to send important information by email or bring it somewhere on a mobile device. Max File Encryption is the perfect tool to protect your information.

Dad's Around

N/A

Dad's Around is a lite application that allows you to hide and minimize all open windows, set screen in black or mute sound using hotkeys. By default, the hotkey is Windows+Z, but we can change it and choose another one if we want. However, these two keys are together, so it's easy to press and remember. Default settings make screen to turn into black when we press the hotkey, so we recommen d you to unmark the turn into black checkbox and it will hide all windows. Dad's Around is really useful when you are at work and you see your boss is coming and you don't want him to know what you are doing.

CASecureNet

N/A

Filtrar

Filtrar.com

Simple Run Blocker

Sordum.org

Simple Run Blocker is a program designed to give parents and other computer users special controls that can prevent little kids from using programs not recommended for children. Now you don't have to worry about the programs you use for work, or special projects being deleted or edited on accident. This program blocks the programs you add to the list from running in a pretty simple way: just drag the .exe file to the main interface. Everything you save to the list will be automatically blocked. Simple Run Blocker has a drop-down box with three options: block only the list, block all except the list, and disable blocking. So, depending on the option you choose, you should either add the programs you want to block or the ones you want to keep available. The interface is very basic and, apart from the programs that appear in the lower window, includes only two icons: one to add more programs to the list and another to delete them from the list. You can also use Simple Run Blocker to hide or restrict access to any drive. In the 'hide or lock drives' option, you can see all your computer drives and select the ones you want to hide or lock.

Time Boss

Nicekit Software

Time Boss is a control application that controls what users do on a computer. With this program, you can limit the time for which each session can remain open, be it for a day, or for a week. You can also limit the time to a complete time slot. It's up to you really. Plus, Time Boss shows you a graph with the complete usage statistics in which you can check for yourself how much time other users spend on the PC. But since a control application is not worthy of being called that if it doesn’t allow you to restrict access to specific programs or websites, Time Boss lets you block specific internet addresses, the running of dangerous programs, and access to disks and folders.

BlockAllow

N/A

BlockAllow is a simple tool to restrict access to certain websites or content while browsing with Internet Explorer. In the program's main window you can see two columns: one on the left where you can see the allowed sites, and another on the right with the blocked sites. Any web address or word you enter in the right column will be completely blocked, making it impossible to browse or search for it via Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc. You can set a series of passwords to access the program or uninstall it. This makes it nearly impossible to breech the program's security ... as long as a different browser isn't used. BlockAllow is a pretty limited application. On one hand, it does its job well and correctly blocks the pages you indicate, but on the other hand it's easy to get around its protection by simply using another browser like Mozilla Firefox.

USB Manager

Makesoft

It seems like there are more and more peripheral devices connected to your computer every day, just to complete daily tasks. This influx of peripheral devices makes USB Manager, a windows program that manages all the devices connected to your PC's USB ports very useful. USB Manager has a very simple interface. The main screen shows categories of devices that you can connect to your computer, and the program automatically locates most peripheral devices, such as printers and scanners, external storage hardware, or audio systems. Once it has located the peripheral devices connected to your computer, USB Manager allows you to enable or disable them with a single click, block devices, or protect a connection using a password. USB Manager is a great program to improve the security of your PC by giving you control over all external connections.

Any Weblock

N/A

Any Weblock is a small application, thanks to which you can block any website by just entering the domain name into the program window. If the number of options and features seems limited, remember that Any Weblock's main advantage lies in its simplicity, since you don't need any specialized knowledge to block as many domains as you want. When another user tries to access one of the blocked pages, they will receive an error message as though the website were down or their connection broken. In other words, those users won't know that a blocking program is activated and stopping them. Any Weblock is a helpful tool to block specific websites that you don't want other people visiting. It is extremely useful for parents.

Anti-Porn

tueagles.com

Anti-Porn is a parental control software with which you can limit access to websites that contain pornographic material and content not suitable for children. You can also restrict internet access to specific hours (great to prevent them from going online at night) and restrict potentially dangerous sites, such as chat rooms or online videogames. The applications keeps a log of all internet use as well as all the websites to which access has been attempted, so you won’t only know what websites have been seen, but also which websites have been blocked. Anti-Porn is a very complete tool that will allow many parents to relax and stop worrying while their kids go online.

Net Nanny

Content Watch

Net Nanny is an application to control and monitor how anyone uses the Internet on a particular computer. Logically its main function is to keep you informed on your children's online activity. Just as it's not advisable to let little kids walk down the street by themselves, it's also not a good idea to let them browse the Internet without any restrictions. This program thus lets you view their browsing history, and also block certain content and websites or even block social networks and chat sites. Net Nanny's options take everything into account. The best part is that the program's intuitive and user-friendly interface lets you access the application's many options in just a click. Net Nanny is a very useful application that should be used properly. Monitoring your kids' online activity is one thing, and spying is another.

AdFender

AdFender Inc.

AdFender is a useful tool that removes all the ads that assault you as you browse online, such as banners, ads that play before videos, and pop-ups. Besides blocking all the ads that bother you as you browse, AdFender will also protect your privacy by deleting cookies and blocking domains with malware threats. AdFender will improve your user experience, since you won't have to wait until the ads go away in order to access your content. Getting rid of ads improves the quality and speed of your browsing. No matter which browser you use, AdFender will block any and all ads in Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera. It's very easy to use: you just run it and let it work in the background. And at the end of the day (or your Internet session), it will tell you how many ads it saved you from seeing.

EfreeSoft Boss Key

EfreeSoft

Kryptelite

Inv Softworks LLC.

Kryptelite is a free version of the program Kryptel that you can use to encrypt your files in order to safely protect important information. With Kryptelite, you can create a group of encrypted folders containing all of the files and documents that you need to keep safe. This tool is capable of protecting anything from a single personal folder to an entire professional database, so you can protect a large amount of information with no trouble. There is no size limit for files or folders. You can also lock files directly from any USB unit, meaning that you can protect any file that you have, even if it's not stored on your system's hard drive.

Arm Adult Finder

ArmCode

Arm Adult Finder is a blocking tool that allows you to block access to websites with porn or violent content. The program is very easy to use and has a very intuitive interface. You are just some seconds away from running it. Once it's running, Arm Adult Finder will filter contents and it will be impossible to access +18 websites. No matter the web browser you use, it will filter activity of Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. Of course, the control panel of the program offers configuration settings to personalize the filter. Enter words and sentences to help the program filter websites. You can also set websites you don't want to be visited or select the ones you want to be visited and restrict access to the rest. Arm Adult Finder is one of those applications that will be really helpful for parents to protect their children when they are surfing the Internet.

Disk Drive Security

N/A

USB Disk Security is a great program that can hide or lock your network or USB drives, plus disable the AutoRun feature when inserting a disk. This way, you can prevent other people from using your computer without permission. With USB Disk Security Password, you can restrict access to all these options in a very simple way. It's as simple as locating the 'lock' option and choosing a password. If you can't find the drive you want to protect, you can use the search engine to locate exactly what you want. One of the best parts of this program is the option to hide certain USB memory drives completely so that next time that pendrive is inserted into the computer, the computer won't open it or read any of its contents. To locate it, the user will have to use USB Disk Security. After blocking everything you want to protect from prying eyes, you can even add a password to the program itself to keep anyone from modifying your settings.

CD-DVD Lock

Ixis Ltd

CD-DVD Lock is really good way to protect your private data if you share your PC. Not only will you be able to restrict access to a certain drive, but you will also be able to block access to partitions, hard drives,... You have to choices: Hide them, so people will not know they exist (it can be an attractive choice if you have confidential info in it) or password protect them, so the other user can see them but he or she will need the password to access. It is a fast way if you don’t want to waste time. Of course there are better protection systems, but this one is very fast and if the others users are not really advanced ones, you can take it easy.