Whether you dial-up your ISP or have an 'always on' cable modem, the first item on your agenda needs to be finding a secure firewall to protect your computer. Some firewalls are better than others, but you should never trust clever advertising claiming that a cheap firewall will completely protect your data. Once you have decided on a firewall, be it a hardware or software solution, testing the security of that firewall is essential, and AATools is just a testing utility that verifies the integrity of your security and firewall functions. 

AATools investigates and gathers information about your computer, network status, and service availability. That is a layman’s way of saying it performs an inspection on everything vital to network security as it pertains to the protection of your computer, including the utilization of tools to check open ports, proxies, email lists, Internet applications, and general system information.

Today there is no program, either anti virus nor antitrojan, that can detect unknown trojan horses. To secure your network, you may need to lock down applications that aren't required by any function you currently use. To do this effectively, you have to know what ports are available and what application is utilizing them. AATools Network Monitor displays active services on all ports. Further, AATools Network Monitor maps the ports in use to their respective applications (this feature is available under Windows NT/2000/XP) providing a simple and easy solution to tracking application to port maps. This mapping is extremely useful while monitoring unwanted connections, investigating suspected trojans, viruses, and possible backdoors intrusions.

Advanced Administrative Tools has been selected as the Microsoft(r) and WUGNET Windows XP/2000/NT Shareware Pick of the Week for July 21, 2002

"Useful for system administrators, service personnel or anyone who simply wants to know more about their PC and its connections to the network or Internet, audit your network security." - ZDNet / Hotfiles.com review

Port Scanner with an internal database of ports (officially assigned, unofficially used, or currently affected by network Trojan programs) that analyzes hosts and the different services that have been started on them. Its comprehensive scanning engine gathers all the information about the services, threads, etc. The AATools Port Scanner accurately determines the active ports/services using TCP/UDP port interrogation. 

Proxy Analyzer tests lists of proxies and/or verifies a list of addresses on present proxy servers. It provides the most detailed information obtainable about the proxy itself, including, its headers, locations etc. It is a fully loaded tool for managing proxy lists (with anonymous proxy rating).

RBL Locator (RealTime BlackList Locator) is a special tool, designed to quickly search for an IP address in DNS-Based spam databases. RBL Locator checks an IP address against the most known blacklists. The AATools RBL Locator will help you to determine if you're listed as a "bad actor" within any of the shared blacklists. 

Trace Route - shows you the path a packet sent from your machine to some other machine on the network takes as it hops from router to router. It will show you the IP address and the actual name of each router, line-by-line.

Email Verifier - is your unique solution for the "message delivery error". You don't need to disturb your clients and friends anymore to verify whether their e-mail addresses are still valid or not. Email Verifier connects directly to their SMTP server and checks it for you. Nothing is sent to the recipient.

Links Analyzer - a new state-of-the-art utility that scans all your URLs and IE Favorites and notifies you when a link has been changed or has become invalid. It also doubles as a navigation tool and makes it very easy to find what you are looking for eliminating the need to search inside folders.

Network Monitor - shows you an extremely large amount of supplementary information about your outbound and inbound network connections, additionally, AATools Network Monitor maps open ports to the owning application (for Windows NT/2000/XP only). Network Monitor is useful in diagnosing networks and monitoring your computer's network connections.

Process Monitor - if you want to get a small bit of information on the processes and applications loaded into your PC's memory, including sniffers and hooks, look carefully in AATools Process Monitor...

Whois - a useful network information utility that allows you to find out all the available information about IP addresses, host names, location, NSP name, administrator and technical support contact information of any Internet address.

System Info - collects and displays your system configuration information. Support technicians require specific information about your computer when they are troubleshooting your configuration. You can use System Information to quickly find the data they need to resolve your system problem.

Resource Viewer is intended for viewing the resources of executable files (with the extension .exe and .dll). It displays comprehensive information about program resources including dialogs, icons, strings and more. Resource Viewer can also be used to save resources of any selected module on your hard disk.

Registry Cleaner is designed to clean up unnecessary registry entries in your registry. Using AATools Registry Cleaner increases your computer performance, speeds up the loading of operation system and reduces the number of failures.

• Windows 98/Me/NT4/2000/XP.
• Internet connection or TCP/IP enabled LAN.
• Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher.