Kind of retro site with a @yahoo.com email. Very weird for an advanced IT guy. "searchmyfiles" is awesome, by the way.
NirSoft Freeware (2008)
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Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)
#22I've seen and used nirsoft products for years, never realized his name was Nir Sofer. What a great name for a software developer.
Almost as good as Mike Rowe .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft
It's strange to me that people still remember this. It's been 14 years, but I guess it's nice to be known for something :)
Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Almost as good as Mike Rowe .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft
It's strange to me that people still remember this. It's been 14 years, but I guess it's nice to be known for something :)
Wait...are you the legendary Mike Rowe????
Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's strange to me that people still remember this. It's been 14 years, but I guess it's nice to be known for something :)
Wait...are you the legendary Mike Rowe????
Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)
#25> Each time that a popular AntiVirus software begins to detect one of my utilities as Virus or Trojan, my email is flooded with messages from worried people that think my Web site is infected with Viruses. Some of them even blame me that I spread Viruses through my Web site. I wonder if there is a defamation/libel type of lawsuit here. Anti virus vendors are making false accusations.
>I wonder if there is a defamation/libel type of lawsuit here. Anti virus vendors are making false accusations.
Some (many? most?) will report these applications as 'potentially unwanted applications' (PUAs) and sidestep the issue of blame or malicious intent, often asking the user if they want to proceed rather than just denying access.
Source: former Sophos employee.
Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)
#26I've lost count of the number of times I used mailpv.exe to recover clients 'lost' email passwords.
Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)
#27I haven't used windows in years, but when I did, downloading all of the nirsoft tools was on my new box checklist. I can't go to the site to see what has been added though, my company proxy has it blocked.
Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)
#28Nirsoft and Sysinternals should be part of Windows. Add Notepad++ and you have a decent OS all of a sudden.
I thought Sysinternals was acquired by Microsoft?
Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)
#29> While many software companies create a bloated installation package with size of 1 - 3 MB, the size of single utility in NirSoft is usually less than 100KB. The early 2000s were a different time. While as modern day electron apps are regularly 100+ MB.
im really fed up with this argument. most "native" apps use big chunks of the platform "frameworks" and are not platform independent, which was introduced by os companies and politics in the first place. most modern apple native apps are the ones that crash the most while electron are stable as fuck.
Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)
#30> Each time that a popular AntiVirus software begins to detect one of my utilities as Virus or Trojan, my email is flooded with messages from worried people that think my Web site is infected with Viruses. Some of them even blame me that I spread Viruses through my Web site. I wonder if there is a defamation/libel type of lawsuit here. Anti virus vendors are making false accusations.
I wonder if there is a defamation/libel type of lawsuit here.
If that would ever fly, I want to take action against mail servers that tell me my mail is "spam" when it clearly isn't and was double opted-in by their users :-D