GateWall   
http://usergateproxy.com

GateWall proxy server is a fully-fledged Internet management tool for providing local network users with Internet access using only one Internet connection. It provides centralized administration of all connections, utilized bandwidth and time users spend online; it automates calculations of consumed traffic, billing and Internet usage reporting. GateWall provides a flexible network control by automating connection, work schedule, billing, traffic calculation and other routines with the help of "rules" - predefined scenarios. For example, without any human intervention, the program can shift the user billing plan from regular to special one, based on the web addresses visited, date, or specified time; it can restrict Internet access based on the users time online, traffic limits for a day or month, IP-addresses, URL strings, or specified traffic speed limits. The administrator can view a detailed status of active session for each user - including IP address, user name, bytes sent or received, and visited URLs. By setting URL filtering policies, the administrator can restrict the user access to irrelevant websites, set up ad-filters and expose company bandwidth abuse. GateWall can send users emails with detailed Internet usage statistics at regular time intervals. GateWall includes statistics module that allows making various reports on Internet usage and exporting them to MS Excel format. Among other useful features there are: Network Address Translation (NAT), various user authorization methods, port mapping (allows traffic to be redirected from one port to another), resource publishing (provides Internet access to local network resources), HTTP resources caching, remote administration, and many others. Featuring an intuitive, well-designed interface, GateWall can be used by beginners as well as advanced users. GateWall supports HTTP, FTP, POP3, SMTP, IMAP4, Telnet, IRC, NNTP, ICQ and all other protocols over UDP/TCP. FREE 30-Day trial is available.

File Monitor   
http://lowestech.net

LTC File Monitor software allows you to compare a local file with a remote file easily. This can be over any network connection. The software is designed to verify web page content at the binary level. This helps protect and detect when your page content is changed. The software uses your SMTP server to send text based emails to your email enabled cell phone, pager, and your Inbox. Features available are: -Select local files to verify against remote files -Monitor network or http:// files -Easily manage file list -Live status of file verification - scrolling -Select how often to verify the file list -Select your own sound file for the alarm -Send emails -Add multiple CC's to the alarm email messages -Select alarm frequency (when triggered) -Turn monitoring on/off -Easy to read colour coded screen --Red is bad, yellow is caution, and green is good. --*Designed to give you information at a glance. -Simple, easy to use screen -Try it before you buy it!

Abacre Antivirus   
http://www.abacre.com

Abacre Antivirus is new generation of antivirus software. The antivirus reliably protects Windows-based computers from internet viruses, worms and Trojans spreading via email and local networks, macro viruses and old executable viruses. It’s strictly based on the five main principles: 1. Reliability of healing viruses due to novice virus detection algorithms and regular updates; 2. Stability of work; 3. Fast scanning speed, because of intelligent and sophisticated algorithms with optimizations; 4. It does not disturb: extremely low load of CPU; works in background; completely automatic and self-awareness; it disturbs a user when it’s really needed; 5. Reasonable price. Our tests showed that even some well-known anti-virus software with automatic updates still miss in finding and healing some new viruses. That it’s why we recommend you to use at least two antivirus programs on your computer. Abacre Antivirus is perfect addition to your security pack.

Active Backup Expert Pro   
http://www.orionsoftlab.com

A full-featured backup tool creates automated zip- or cab-format backups of local and network files on hard disks, CDs and other removable devices, local network or FTP site. A Wizard guides you through the steps of the backup-set creation: selecting the folders and filters for included and excluded files, specifying the storage folder and setting to schedule. Once you have configured your backup-sets, the ABE will create the unlimited number of backups at timed moments. Though you can use a shortcut or a hotkey to launch a backup anytime you wish. Use Incremental or Differential mode to back up only new and changed files. You can easily restore the files from any backup, view or edit their content. The export and import features are useful to synchronize the folders on two or more PCs and to span large backups across multiple discs. Other features include selecting files by date, size and attributes, Blowfish backup encryption, creating self-extracting backups, the support for the Command-line and ActiveX automation. The ample documentation is available. The ABE Pro creates the unattended backups by using the Active Task Manager included into the installation package. This automation utility can work as a stand-alone application to help you to schedule other tasks. Though, you can use the MS Task Scheduler to automate your backups as well.

ByteWedge Professional   
http://www.fogsoft.com?adv=subm

There are many scientific, engineering, medical devices and instruments that use the RS-232 (serial port) interface to send data to a computer for further logging and analyzing. It works well when you can plug your device into your computer with a serial data cable. But, what if you need to gather information from remote devices that cannot be plugged into your PC directly? Even having a device located in the next room can became a real problem. Needless to say, that it is a BIG problem if you need to obtain data from a mobile instrument used to make measurements in different locations in your city or even in a wider area. This is where ByteWedge Professional can help. In addition to the normal RS-232 data processing operations, the program also allows you to transfer data from remote devices across TCP/IP networks. Just plug a device into a laptop connected to your local network or to the Internet and receive data on your server as if it were directly connected to the server's serial port. You can easily process data from multiple devices on the same server saving the results into the same database. Sometimes you cannot get your laptop connected to a network. ByteWedge can help you in this case too. ByteWedge comes with a freeware utility called Serial-File. This allows you to save data from a device to your laptop disk. The server where your copy of ByteWedge professional is installed, will be able to read data from this file as if it were a serial port. ByteWedge Professional includes a vast range of tools to process data from various devices. You can parse data on-the-fly, apply filters and load the results into databases or other applications. The program supports ODBC, OLE, DDE and other data interchange protocols. The program allows you to receive data from up to 255 local or remote devices simultaneously.