Freeware Programs: SoftPerfect Research

SoftPerfect Personal Firewall 1.4.1 A network software firewall designed to protect your PC against attacks from the Internet. It offers customizable security using user-defined rules for packet filtering. The program is easy to use, comes with a set of predefined rules and it is free.

SoftPerfect Network Scanner 3.9.181 A free multithreaded IP, SNMP and NetBIOS scanner. Both system administrators and general users can use this software. It pings computers, scans for listening TCP ports and displays shared network resources (including system and hidden).

SoftPerfect File Recovery 1.1 A free and useful tool to restore accidentally deleted files from hard disks and other storage media. It supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and NTFS5 with compression and encryption.

LAN Search Pro 8.2 LAN Search Pro is a free utility for fast file searching across your LAN. LAN Search Pro provides a lightning fast search engine and includes the ability to search hidden network resources, restricted access resources, IP subnets and much more.