HDDScan - hard disk diagnostic utility

With HDDScan, you can check the performance of your hard disk using a variety of tests.

HDDScan

In addition to read and write scans, which you can adjust according to the size of sectors and data blocks, you have access to other verification tools. This application lets you display media details for specific functions, or use a widget to check hard disk temperature in real time.

Using the S.M.A.R.T. report, the software lists the health status of the storage medium and associated parameters. As the application does not need to be installed, your Windows registry keys remain intact.

You can also place HDDScan on an external device and run it directly on any computer.

OS: Windows 10 & 11

Language: English

Price: Free

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Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware – protects your PC against malware, ransomware…

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (MBAM) is anti-malware software, in other words, more than just anti-spyware. Of course, he takes care of traditional spyware, but particularly focuses on what resists conventional antivirus and anti-spyware. To put it simply, it is used in disinfection on specialized forums, and can overcome many infections where certain specialized tools must be used (with the necessary precautions).

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware

You can, however, use MBAM as a regular tool; it is accessible, multilingual and offers a quarantine to restore what has been deleted, in case of a problem. It deals relatively well with Bagle, Vundo and various tough and especially recent adware. These infections evolve very quickly, and traditional antivirus and solutions often fail to keep up. The results are really effective, in any case much better than what we are used to with a lambda anti-spyware.

In short, you probably have here one of the first tools of the new generation, because under the hood, what runs is much more technologically advanced than a classic static list of elements to check for, and with a real heuristic engine (detection of new potential threats) and generic, against parasites with random names, which have long fooled many structurally simpler programs.

This quality induces a certain slowness compared to our habits, during the scan, far from being a defect, it is the mark of a real scan of the contents of the files (the slogan of the program is: elimination of harmful, byte by byte). It has a real-time scan module, but paid, the only limitation of the program. In the past, this kind of limitation hasn't stopped millions of people from installing ad-aware, so it shouldn't be an obstacle for MBAM.

You have understood that this program has convinced me, and I have used it regularly in recent months on real cases of infections where antivirus and traditional tools give up their apron. The version you can download is fully functional and free, you just have to do without the real-time module. In freeware mode (therefore without a resident module), it completes a software configuration.

OS: Windows and Mac OS, iOS & Android

Language: multilingual

License: Freeware, paid version (for the resident module)

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F-Curator – offline application that organizes your Web favorites

F-Curator

F-Curator lets you create a database of website links for your personal or professional project, keeping track of categories, names and icons, in case you need to reach them quickly and easily, without going through your Internet browser's favorites or bookmarks.

F-Curator

This program can help you create a neat website repository, allowing the user to create multiple categories for easy sorting and access.

The application includes offline support, data persistence and remote resource integration. Drag-and-drop sorting and integration is another useful feature to avoid wasting time. For each favorite, if an icon is associated with the imported website link, it will be displayed in the application, which could facilitate any search thanks to this aspect.

Access is simplified by adding categories…

F-Curator

... to which you can copy the favourites you want, either manually or by dragging and dropping them from the browser:

F-Curator

All items, categories and favorites can be moved, re-edited or deleted with ease:

F-Curator

A search tool is also included for those who already have a large database and wish to navigate straight to their points of interest.

Finally, you can export the database for archiving purposes (ZIP) in HTML format. If you then have several application areas, you can import an archive directly to complete or use its contents.

F-Curator is an interesting application that could prove useful to those looking to create a system of useful links for various projects and uses.

Language: English

O.S.: Windows and Mac OS via separate downloads

Downloads and updates : F-Curator Win or Mac versions

Official website : F-Curator