CyberNotes: Ultimate System & Network Tools App

September 25th, 2007

5 Comments Written by Ryan

Time Saving Tuesday

I have an application that nearly every geek out there will love, but may fail to understand everything that it actually does. Let me introduce you to Net Tools (download mirror), the all-in-one solution that could very well replace dozens of separate apps on your computer.

Net Tools is comprised of nearly 200 mini apps that are included in the 25MB download. Some of the things that are included are extremely simple tasks, but look at it as being a suite of applications that brings everything together in one convenient place.

–Getting Started–

After you install Net Tools for the first time, the program will seem rather uneventful. To get going just click the ”Start” option from the menu bar, and choose one of the mini apps from the sub-menus:

–Mini Apps Overview–

I could have put together a list of everything that comes with Net Tools, but instead I thought I would provide an image that lists out everything that’s included. In the next section I’ll highlight a small fraction of them.

–The Mini Apps–

Now I’ll point out some of my favorite things that Net Tools includes, but remember this list only represents about 15% of everything that comes with the program:

IP Address Scanner
HTTP flooder (DoS)
Mass Website Visitor
Anonymous E-mailer
E-mail Spoofer
File Comparison
Mass File Renamer
Create Local HTTP Server
Memory Leak Tester
Bandwidth Monitor
CPU Monitor
Windows Startup Manager
Mouse Record / Play Automation (Macro Tool)
Timer Shutdown/Restart/Log Off/Hibernate/Suspend/ Control
Hash MD5 Checker
Direct Peer Connecter (Send/Receive files + chat)
Easy and Fast Screenshot Maker (also Web Hex Color Picker)
File Shredder
Steganographer (Art of hiding secret data in pictures)
Internet Explorer Password Revealer
Hide Secret Data In Files
File Split & Merge
Net Tools Mini (Client/Server, Scan, ICMP, Net Statistics, Interactive, Raw Packets, DNS, Whois, ARP, Computer’s IP, Wake On LAN)
File Encrypter/Decrypter
FreeMAC (MAC Address Editor)
WebMirror (Website Ripper)
Google PageRank Calculator
Quick Website Maker and Web Gallery Creator
Remote PC Shutdown
Tray Minimizer

–Overview–

As you begin using this, you’ll quickly become familiar with the F3 key on your keyboard. That is the search function so that you can type in the name of the application you’re looking for instead of hunting through the rather tedious unsorted menus.

After you get Net Tools up and running, I recommend customizing the menus so that they aren’t so darn cluttered. Then enjoy the large set of applications that are now at your disposal.

Net Tools Homepage (Download Mirror)

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September 25th, 2007 at 7:42 am RJ

This is a nice heads-up to a ‘All-in-One’ box of tools.

Two main things come to mind:

1. not a big deal, but this required .NET framework?

2. I looked at the list of applications included in Net Tools and feel the perhaps for Mr Joe Bloggs, the number of tools may be leaning toward overkill!?

But still a nice tool box to have in a ‘never know when I might need to use it’ sorta way!
September 25th, 2007 at 9:18 pm Ryan (Author)

Yes, .NET is needed for this to run. There is no doubt that this is pretty much overkill, but if you found yourself installing two or three individual applications just to do a few of these tasks I would say this bundle is worth having.
September 27th, 2007 at 10:08 pm damage

i like the Timereboot it’s a usefull tool
Check it out!

See ya!
September 30th, 2007 at 11:33 am MarkB

No offense but I don’t know how much I’d trust a tool from someone who is actively working on an “Email Bomber”. There is no legitimate reason to send email to thousands of users at once. I very much like this site and the software it recommends but IMHO your making a mistake by pushing a tool made by someone who enables spammers and script kiddies. His scripting tools are malicious and don’t come close to falling in the White Hat side of the fence.
September 30th, 2007 at 9:12 pm Ryan (Author)

MarkB wrote:

No offense but I don’t know how much I’d trust a tool from someone who is actively working on an “Email Bomber”. There is no legitimate reason to send email to thousands of users at once. I very much like this site and the software it recommends but IMHO your making a mistake by pushing a tool made by someone who enables spammers and script kiddies. His scripting tools are malicious and don’t come close to falling in the White Hat side of the fence.

There is actually a reason for a tool like this…to test out the performance of your own server. I’ve used this when setting up my own email server to see how many simultaneous emails it can receive before it would crap out. So it is a tool that administrators would use.