GRC.COM Goodies

For those not familiar with Steve Gibson and the goodies available on his site, I figured I’d post some links to some pretty useful software tools and freebies.

Script-free Pure CSS Menu

Always the security purist, Steve Gibson has done the research to come up with a script-free CSS menu system for his GRC.COM site.  Info on the project, including a link to the commented CSS file can be found on Steve’s GRC site.

Spinrite

While you’re poking around the GRC site, don’t forget to check out Spinrite – "The World’s Premier Magnetic Storage Data Recovery, Repair and Maintenance Utility".  I’ve used my copy a to recover a few hard drives that have either failed or where Windows was unable to fire up properly because of some hard disk damage.  Consider this a testimonial from a satisfied customer – $89 well spent.

SecurAble

Another neat (and free) tool from the site is SecurAble.  This small executable doesn’t require installation and it will probe your system and determine whether your system:

• Supports 32 or 64 bit instructions
• Supports Data Execution Prevention (D.E.P.)
• Has hardware support for virtualization

Here is the info displayed when I run SecurAble on the Dell XPS M1730 laptop:

Securable is one of those must-have tools to have on your thumb drive.  It’s great for finding out:

A: whether the features above are supported on your system and

B: whether they’re enabled.

Lots of other interesting stuff on the site, so now that Steve’s got a menu up, poke around and see what might be a useful addition to your software toolbox.

Doug White