Comments on: FREE: eToolz – GUI for ping, traceroute, WHOIS and more

By: TB

TB — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:49:31 +0000

RAR has been common for years. Any good IT pro MUST have & know the tools to do the work. I have heaps of archive tools installed.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:56:12 +0000

Damien, RAR is not a common format anymore and since Windows can’t extract ZIP files, most IT pros don’t have an archive tool installed. It is just annoying if you have to download another tool first before you can get started.

By: Damien

Damien — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:02:24 +0000

OMG! Are you guys retarded?
What IT professional cant open a RAR file?
Cool tools btw.

By: Zimo

Zimo — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:03:02 +0000

Sorry, i didn’t reply to your question.

This is the F-Secure definition for “riskware”:

“Riskware is software that can pose a security risk that is not malicious by its nature. Such software has usefulness that can assist a knowledgeable user, but can also be bundled and used by malicious software.”

So, it’s evident that there aren’t real problems…

By: Zimo

Zimo — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:50:45 +0000

Hi Michael,

the problem is probaly generate by anti-virus, it locks eToolz.exe.

F-Secure Client Security 7 (with today updates) reports that eToolz.exe is a riskware with name: “NetTool.Win32.Etoolz”

Bye, and thanks for your blog.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:07:56 +0000

Kyle/ Leonardo, it seems to me that there are still many who prefer rar somehow, especially open source tools.

Zimo, it works here on Vista. What problems did you have? Sophos didn’t complain about eToolz. What exactly is riskware for F-Secure?

Hugh, you can switch the menus to English as I described in the article. What didn’t work under XP?

By: zimo

zimo — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:15:48 +0000

F-Secure antivirus alert that NetTool.Win32.Etoolz is a riskware…

By: Hugh

Hugh — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:34:57 +0000

Sorry but had problems running it on XP here and the German interface seemed to be present on the menus – this could be me. So I went back to my old faithful Sam Spade (home site seems broken, so Google it to find a download). Been looking for a modern replacement but no luck so far.

Sam Spade “mini-review” – It is a very old app but does a lot of the basic stuff very well (DNS, ping, quick traceroute, dig, whois, SMTP checks and simple web page gets). As it is old the interface is “crusty” and it has one odd bug which is annoying (SMTP check uses MX in reverse order) but it runs on everything up Vista SP1 and Server 2008 (x86, have not tested 64 bit). There are better specialised apps for some functions e.g. PingPlotter for traceroute. N

By: zimo

zimo — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:27:26 +0000

Is eToolz Windows Vista compatible?

I try without success, but i haven’t found any comment in the web site.

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By: Leonardo

Leonardo — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:50:06 +0000

Who zips rars these days? I thought them guys would’ve moved to rars with par2 addons by now.

By: Sly

Sly — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:31:04 +0000

Who archives as .zip these days? I thought .rar had become the defacto standard of all SysAdmins

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:10:32 +0000

Who archives as rar these days? I thought .zip had become the defacto standard. Ugh… I guess I have to fire up a VM so I can install something to open this.