STARR

So how do you know what your staff (or family) are doing on your PCs? Are they working on your account - or playing solitaire? IOPUS surveillance software can tell you exactly who is doing what on which PC at any time during the day or night.

Effective security on computers can save a computer user thousands of dollars every year. This stealth-monitoring utility is the equivalent of a security camera (and much more), increasing production dramatically, whilst causing no disruption to working practices or draining network resources.

The Stealth Activity Recorder & Reporter ("STARR") coMBines PC and internet's surveillance tools to monitor the use/abuse of PC. With this program you will know who is doing what on which PC, and you can, if you wish, even let them know you know. It creates ONE HTML-File that contains everything that you choose to log (keystrokes, used applications, visited website links,....).The HTML file is fully searchable for specific keywords (e. g. "xxx") and thus makes the evaluation of the log file a snap ! Too Good to be True? Check it out!

• "STARR" allows you to log keystrokes, user names, passwords, path names, access times, windows titles and send the log file by email, all invisible.
  
• "STARR" has a "Surfing Spy" to record all URLs of visited websites. The report can made in plain text or HTML (just Click & browse to the recorded sites). All information is stored in a password protected encrypted text file.
  
• The "STARR" program is invisible on your screen and is easy to apply and install for all Windows platforms. The logging engine itself is a powerful application that runs invisibly in the background. The logging engine is guided by the STARR COMMANDER which allows you to choose and set up options easily.

Minimum System Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000.

Version: 1.34
Download: STARR.EXE
File Size: 455KB
Licence: Demo - 30 day trial
Homepage: http://www.iopus.com/starr.htm

Ultimate ZIP Cracker

It's hardly surprising that this neat little app comes out of Russia, home of the international cracker. What is surprising, however, is that it appears to be freely available for download from mseveral reputable software sites, passing under the guise of a password helper utility

The Ultimate ZIP Cracker (UZC) uses several powerful algorithms to restore lost ZIP, ARJ, MS-Word, and MS-Excel passwords. UZC is fast, capable of testing more than 2,400,000 ZIP passwords/sec on a Celeron 400Mhz. The new Password Recovery wizard offers the easiest way to restore your password. Tooltips are added to make the program more convenient. How this.

The 6.2.1 update also features an enhanced dictionary with over 140,000 words. All these words can be transformed by mutation algorithm. This is a fully functional version of Ultimate ZIP Cracker. The only exception is that the passwords detected are not shown. To prove that the passwords are actually detected the program allows you to view the beginning of each encrypted file. A new option now available from the Web site allows you to purchase individual passwords detected by the trial version on-line in a minute! Full registration costs $35.

Minimum System Requirements: Windows 95/98/NT/2000.

Version: 6.2.1
Download: ZIPCRACK.EXE
File Size: 653KB
Licence: Shareware - 30 day trial
Homepage: http://www.home.ru/vdg/buildframe.html

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