SIW is my favorite Windows System Information display program.
SIW (System Information for Windows) is a program that performs computer configuration analysis and diagnostics. It gives detailed information about your computer properties and settings, detailed specs for CPU, motherboard, chipset, BIOS, CPU, PCI/AGP, USB and ISA/PnP devices, memory, monitor, video card, disk drives, CD/DVD devices, SCSI devices, S.M.A.R.T., ports, network cards, printers, operating system, installed programs and hotfixes, processes, services, serial numbers (CD keys), users, open files, system uptime, network, network shares, as well as real-time monitors for CPU, memory, page file usage and network traffic. It displays currently active network connections, passwords hidden behind asterisks, installed codecs, and more.
This program also creates a report file, and is able to run in batch mode.
Everest - Home Edition used to be my favorite system information tool but the company that makes it decided to stop developing the free version. I've also tried other ones like Fresh Diagnose but I like SIW much better; and it doesn't require installation or registration either.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/gtopala/about_siw.html
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
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Does indeed appear to be a very powerful utility, maybe too powerful. How can one be sure that the accounts, user ids, and passwords it recovers aren't sent at broadband speed to hacker or identity theft central?
Type: netstat -a
Thanks. I did the netstat -a thing and 30 lines appeared.
16 lines (the first 16) had something in the "State" column. 5 said Listening and 11 said "Established. The remaining 14 had nothing in the "State" column.
Any idea what all that means?
And even if I'm okay at this moment, how do I know I'll still be okay 10 minutes from now or an hour and a half from now, etc.?
I appreciate the education.
Thanks.
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