Software and Utilities
The items on this page are all copyright IWR Consultancy, with the exception of some supporting code which is covered by the GPL or other free software license. In most cases, sourcecode is available. All are free from spyware, nagware, malware or other undesirable content. None are time-limited. Please do bear in-mind that most are designed for use by a network administrator, and as such they may be dangerous in the hands of a user who doesn't properly understand their purpose!
MyLogon
Probably our most popular download, this is a replacement logon-screen for Windows. Unlike most of the other logon-screen replacements you will find, this one is functional in nature rather than being an exercise in pointless prettification. (Though to keep the narcissists happy it does allow you to display your company banner!) Aimed at small local area networks, it allows a client computer to log-on and access resources on one or more fileservers. With MyLogon installed on the client, the user logs-on to the server instead of locally to the client computer. In this respect it's similar in function to the Active Directory logon which Microsoft promotes, except that it's far simpler and easier to setup and manage. Plus, it provides a network logon for Home versions of Windows, which is not (intended to be) possible by the standard method.
Note that this utility is only of value to computers on a LAN.
Description Sourceforge Project
Simple Software-restriction Policy
We all know that running as a limited user greatly reduces the amount of damage which malware can do to your system. What is not so widely-known is that another feature of recent Windows versions, Software Restriction Policies, can offer even more protection by preventing most types of malware from being launched in the first case.
So, why are software policies not more widely-used? Mainly. I suspect, because they have to be set-up using the Group Policy Editor, and are buried deep within a mass of labyrinthine options. That, and once activated, turning the policy off, for example when installing legitimate software, is equally laborious and complicated.
What I've done here is to write a script which creates and implements an 'off-the-peg' policy to suit most desktop computers. The settings can be adjusted if necessary, but unless you have an exotic setup the chances are it will suit your computer without adjustment. That, and the script provides a neat system-tray option to turn the policy off when required. This takes effect immediately, with no need to log-off or reboot.
This version is an Beta, however I've been using it on my regular desktop for several months and have found it to give no problems. In fact -and this is always a hallmark of good security software- I mostly forget it's there.
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ReProfiler
A very frequent helpdesk request is that of the user who has mysteriously lost access to their files and settings, the Windows desktop having defaulted back to how it looked the first time the computer was used. The same issue will almost always arise when a computer is joined-to or taken out of a Domain.
These kinds of problem are almost always due to profile-association issues. ReProfiler makes it easy to fix these issues, without the need for a knowledge of registry-editing or the like as would normally be required. Please be aware that this is a powerful system utility which can do serious damage if used incorrectly. Also, the present version is still undergoing testing, hence it is classed as Alpha software. Use at your own discretion.
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JunctionBox
A utility which overcomes some of the difficulties created by the presence of cyclic junctions inside Windows Vista and Windows 7 user-profiles.
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ScanMail
An antivirus add-on for the popular MDaemon mailserver.
ScanMail acts as an interface between the mailserver and a Windows port of the well-known Clam AV antivirus package. Checks incoming mail for malware, and also detects most phishing emails. Automatic update of definitions.
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Security Concerns:
There have been some recent reports of antivirus false-positives with software from this site. Unfortunately this is a situation faced by all software-developers, and there is no easy or quick solution. We have in the past tried changing the methods used in various routines to avoid known causes of false-alerts, but apart from being very time-consuming it's a hiding-to-nothing since the next set of antivirus definitions will create a different set of false alerts. It would seem that some antivirus vendors are flagging virtually any program which makes system-changes as potential malware. Since most of the utilities listed here are system-tools, that creates something of a catch-22 situation. Notably, the better AV products produce no such false-alerts. Our advice here is pragmatic: If you want protection which actually works properly and doesn't keep annoying you with false alerts, then you need to change your antivirus software.If you have any doubts as to the integrity of the downloads, please compare the MD5 checksums listed here with those generated by any freeware MD5 tool before contacting us. Only if they differ is it likely that a file on the webserver has been tampered with.
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