Security

Security - Free and Open Source Educational Software

All computer systems connecting to the Internet should maintain a firewall, anti-virus software and anti-spyware software. You should apply the latest updates and patches and keep up-to-date with security by reading information from the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team web site at http://www.auscert.org.au/.

Security

Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and Anti-Spam

ClamWin - Free Anti-Virus software (Windows, Linux) http://www.clamwin.com/ (GPL)
Avast - Anti-virus software Home Edition (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.avast.com/ (Free)
Avira - Anti-virus software Personal Use (Windows, Linux) http://www.free-av.com/ (Free)
AVG - Anti-virus software Free Edition (Windows) http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1 (Free)
Spybot - Search and destroy spyware (Windows) http://www.spybot.net/en/ (Free)
Winpooch - Anti spyware and anti trojan watchdog (Windows) http://winpooch.free.fr/page/home.php?lang=en (GPL)
SpamPal - Mail classification program that can help separate your spam from your mail (Windows) http://www.spampal.org/ (Free)

SpamAssassin - Powerful Open Source Spam Filter (MacOSX, Linux)

http://spamassassin.apache.org/ (Free, Apache License)

MailScanner - Free Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam Filter (Linux)

http://www.mailscanner.info/ (GPL)

Firewalls

CoreForce - Personal Firewall (Windows) http://force.coresecurity.com/ (Apache License)
ZoneAlarm - Free Personal Firewall (Windows) http://www.zonealarm.com (Free)
ThreatFire - Free Firewall for Personal and Business use (Windows) http://www.threatfire.com/download/ (Free)
FWBuilder - Firewall Builder requires NetFilter (Linux) http://www.fwbuilder.org (GPL)
Shorewall - High-level tool for configuring Netfilter (Linux) http://www.shorewall.net/ (GPL)

SmoothWall - Linux distribution that converts a redundant PC into a hardened internet firewall device (Linux)

http://www.smoothwall.org/ (GPL)

NuFW - An Authenticating Firewall to authenticate connections through your gateway requires Netfilter (Linux)

http://www.nufw.org (GPL)

Computer Forensics

TestDisk - data recovery software to recover lost partitions with support for English, French, German and Spanish (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk (GPL)
PhotoRec - recover lost files including video, pictures and documents (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec (GPL)

Autopsy - Forensic browser requires Sleuthkit (Linux)

http://www.sleuthkit.org/autopsy/ (Free)

Sleuthkit - Collection of command line tools to investigate a computer (Linux)

http://www.sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit/index.php (Free)

Security Diagnostics

WinPcap - windows pcap link layer network access (Windows) http://www.winpcap.org/ (free Netgroup License)
Wireshark - Windows network diagnostic tool to view the contents of network packets replaces ethereal (Windows, Linux) http://www.wireshark.org (GPL)
Nmap - Nmap Security Port Scanner (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://insecure.org/ (GPL)
Analyzer - configurable Network Analyzer for Win32 requires WinPcap (Windows) http://analyzer.polito.it/ (free Netgroup License)
Nessus - Network vulnerability scanner (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.nessus.org/ (Free for personal use, Nessus Software License)

More Security Tools

gpg4win - A graphical installer with WinPT and GnuPG Privacy Guard (Windows) http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~twoaday/download.html (GPL)
Metasploit Framework - development platform for creating security tools and exploits written in ruby (Windows, Linux) http://framework.metasploit.com/msf/ (Metasploit Framework License)
Top 100 Network Security Tools for Windows, MacOSX and Linux http://sectools.org
Open Source Software for Windows, MacOSX and Linux - security http://www.opensourcelist.org/tags/security
FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory - security http://directory.fsf.org/security/

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