Chase and Sam

Welcome to the Home Page of Chase Thompson and Sam Knowles. We're tech journalists, web designers and computer security consultants based in Birmingham Alabama. You can hear us weekly on WAPI 1070 AM in Birmingham (11:00 am) and also see us on TV (Thursday night, 9:55pm) hosting Tech Check on WBRC6 - the local Fox affiliate.

Freeware

Every week, you can find great downloads on this page. We feature freeware, open source software, and any high quality (and malware free) software download we can find. Regular show listeners like Uncle Monster and Tollie often contribute to this page.

Uncle Monster’s Downloads: HostsMan, CurrPorts, Make Instant Player and OphCrack

This week I’m sending links to some
very cool applications that I’ve come
across. One lets you make a self
running executable file from a video.
Another can crack Windows Passwords.
One for managing your hosts file and
another for working with open ports on
your computer.

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MakeInstantPlayer 1.08

http://www.download.com/MakeInstantPlayer/3000-2064_4-10759598.html?tag=rbxcrdl1

MakeInstantPlayer is a tool for converting your Videos
to self-running executable files. This small utility lets
you add your personalized splash screen and/ or
homepage url to your favourite videos. This version
is the first release on CNET Download.com.
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Ophcrack 2.3.4

http://www.download.com/Ophcrack/3000-2094_4-10664548.html?tag=rbxcrdl1

http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/

Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on
rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of
rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method.
It comes with a GTK+ Graphical User Interface and runs
on Windows, Mac OS X (Intel CPU) as well as on Linux.
*  » Runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, …
* » Cracks LM and NTLM hashes.
* » Free tables available for Windows XP and Vista.
* » Brute-force module for simple passwords.
* » LiveCD available to simplify the cracking.
* » Loads hashes from encrypted SAM recovered from
a Windows partition, Vista included.
* » Free and open source software (GPL).
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HostsMan 3.1.55

http://www.abelhadigital.com/2007/12/hostsman-3155-released.html

HostsMan is a freeware hosts file manager and editor.
Features:
* Automatic update of hosts file
* Enable/Disable hosts file
* Built-in hosts editor
* Scan hosts for errors, duplicates and possible hijacks
* Hosts file backup manager
* Exclusion list
* Local HTTP server
* …
Requirements
* Windows 98SE, Me, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista
* Windows Installer 2.0 or later (for Installer version only)
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CurrPorts v1.40

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html

CurrPorts displays the list of all currently opened TCP/IP
and UDP ports on your local computer. For each port in the
list, information about the process that opened the port is
also displayed, including the process name, full path of the
process, version information of the process (product name,
file description, and so on), the time that the process was
created, and the user that created it.
In addition, CurrPorts allows you to close unwanted TCP
connections, kill the process that opened the ports, and
save the TCP/UDP ports information to HTML file , XML file,
or to tab-delimited text file.
CurrPorts also automatically mark with pink color suspicious
TCP/UDP ports owned by unidentified applications
(Applications without version information and icons)

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