Open Source Windows Security Software
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View 1615 business solutionsBrowse free open source Security software and projects for Windows below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Security software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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KeePass
A lightweight and easy-to-use password manager
KeePass Password Safe is a free, open source, lightweight, and easy-to-use password manager for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, with ports for Android, iPhone/iPad and other mobile devices. With so many passwords to remember and the need to vary passwords to protect your valuable data, it’s nice to have KeePass to manage your passwords in a secure way. KeePass puts all your passwords in a highly encrypted database and locks them with one master key or a key file. As a result, you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. And the databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known, AES and Twofish. See our features page for details. -
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WinSCP
WinSCP is a free SFTP, SCP, S3, WebDAV, and FTP client for Windows.
WinSCP is a popular free file manager for Windows supporting SFTP, FTP, FTPS, SCP, S3, WebDAV and local-to-local file transfers. A powerful tool to enhance your productivity with a user-friendly interface and automation options like .NET assembly or batch file scripting. Use WinSCP also for file editing, directory synchronization and site management. WinSCP is open-source and well documented. It is available in English and many other languages. -
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ZAP
The OWASP ZAP core project
The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is one of the world’s most popular free security tools and is actively maintained by a dedicated international team of volunteers. It can help you automatically find security vulnerabilities in your web applications while you are developing and testing your applications. It's also a great tool for experienced pentesters to use for manual security testing. ZAP is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. It is designed to be used by people with a wide range of security experience and as such is ideal for developers and functional testers who are new to penetration testing. ZAP provides automated scanners as well as a set of tools that allow you to find security vulnerabilities manually. It stands between the tester’s browser and the web application so that it can intercept and inspect messages sent between browser and web application. -
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Scrollout F1
An easy-to-use anti-spam email gateway
• Designed for Linux and Windows email system administrators, Scrollout F1 is an easy to use, already adjusted email firewall (gateway) offering free anti-spam and anti-virus protection aiming to secure existing email servers, old or new, such as Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, Postfix, Exim, Sendmail, Qmail and others. • Built-in multilayer security levels make configuration effort equal to a car radio. • It combines simplicity with effective protection using powerful open source with additional set of rules & filters. • Available as 64bit: - ISO image (Internet connection required during installation) - install from scratch (Internet connection required during installation). • Minimum Requirements (for 5,000 messages/day): 1 GB of RAM 30 GB storage drive 1 Processor x86/AMD64 1 Ethernet x 1 IPv4 address UDP ports: 53 123 4500 6277 24441 TCP ports: 25 80 443 2703 -
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Ghidra
Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework
Ghidra is a free and open-source reverse engineering framework developed by the NSA for analyzing compiled software. It supports a wide array of instruction sets and executable formats, offering features such as decompilation, disassembly, scripting, and interactive graphing. Designed for security researchers and analysts, Ghidra provides a robust environment for understanding malware, auditing code, and performing software forensics. It includes both GUI-based and headless analysis modes. -
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Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy Server
Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy Server implements multiple spam filters
The Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (ASSP) Server project aims to create an open source platform-independent SMTP Proxy server which implements auto-whitelists, self learning Hidden-Markov-Model and/or Bayesian, Greylisting, DNSBL, DNSWL, URIBL, SPF, SRS, Backscatter, Virus scanning, attachment blocking, Senderbase and multiple other filter methods. Click 'Files' to download the professional version 2.8.1 build 24261. A linux(ubuntu 20.04 LTS) and a freeBSD 12.2 based ready to run OVA of ASSP V2 are also available for download. NOTICE: V1 development has been stopped at the end of 2014 (1.10.1 build 16060). Possibly there will be done some bugfixing in future. Please upgrade to V2, which is and will be actively maintained. -
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Safe Exam Browser is a webbrowser-environment to carry out online-exams safely. The software changes any computer into a secure workstation. It regulates the access to any utilities and prevents students from using unauthorised resources.
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BleachBit
deletes junk files to free disk space and improve privacy
BleachBit frees disk space and maintains privacy. Cleans cache, Internet history, temporary files, logs, cookies, Firefox, Google Chrome, Flash, Windows, Linux, and more. Downloads are at www.bleachbit.org and source code is at GitHub. -
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System Informer
View and manage processes, services and more with this powerful tool
System Informer is a free and open source process viewer. This multi-purpose tool will assist you with debugging, malware detection and system monitoring. -
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Process Hacker
View and manage processes, services and more with this powerful tool.
Process Hacker is a free and open source process viewer. This multi-purpose tool will assist you with debugging, malware detection and system monitoring. -
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Metasploitable
Metasploitable is an intentionally vulnerable Linux virtual machine
This is Metasploitable2 (Linux) Metasploitable is an intentionally vulnerable Linux virtual machine. This VM can be used to conduct security training, test security tools, and practice common penetration testing techniques. The default login and password is msfadmin:msfadmin. Never expose this VM to an untrusted network (use NAT or Host-only mode if you have any questions what that means). To contact the developers, please send email to msfdev@metasploit.com -
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x64dbg
An open-source x64/x32 debugger for windows.
An open-source x64/x32 debugger for windows. Development is done on GitHub (https://github.com/x64dbg/x64dbg). Daily snapshots are uploaded here, snapshots for every commit can be found on http://releases.x64dbg.com -
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ClamWin
Antivirus software with virus scanning and virus definition updates
Looking for free Open Source Antivirus for Windows? Download ClamWin Free Antivirus and get free virus scanning and free virus definition updates. Free Antivirus software for Windows, using the well-respected ClamAV scanning engine. Includes virus scanner, scheduler, virus database updates, context menu integration to MS Windows Explorer and Add-in to MS Outlook. Also features easy setup program. -
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Tor Browser
Browser for using Tor on Windows, Mac OS X or Linux
Tor Browser enables you to use Tor on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux without needing to install any software. Tor is a software that bounces your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers. This effectively prevents anyone watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit; it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location; and allows you access to sites which are blocked. Tor Browser can run off a USB flash drive, comes with a pre-configured web browser to protect your anonymity, and is self-contained (portable). -
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Eraser
A security tool to remove sensitive data from your Windows hard drive
Eraser is a secure data removal tool for Windows. It completely removes sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. -
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VeraCrypt
Open source disk encryption with strong security for the Paranoid
VeraCrypt is a free disk encryption software brought to you by IDRIX (https://www.idrix.fr) and based on TrueCrypt 7.1a. It adds enhanced security to the algorithms used for system and partitions encryption making it immune to new developments in brute-force attacks. It also solves many vulnerabilities and security issues found in TrueCrypt. This enhanced security adds some delay ONLY to the opening of encrypted partitions without any performance impact to the application use phase. This is acceptable to the legitimate owner but it makes it much harder for an attacker to gain access to the encrypted data. All released files are PGP signed with key ID=0x680D16DE, available on key servers and downloadable at https://www.idrix.fr/VeraCrypt/VeraCrypt_PGP_public_key.asc VeraCrypt can mount TrueCrypt volumes. It also can convert them to VeraCrypt format. Documentation: https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Documentation.html FAQ : https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/FAQ.html -
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waircut
WPS wireless protocol audit software for Windows
Wireless Air Cut is a WPS wireless, portable and free network audit software for Ms Windows. It is used to check the security of our wps wireless networks and to detect possible security breaches. You can check if the router has a generic and known wps pin set, if it is vulnerable to a brute-force attack or is vulnerable to a Pixie-Dust attack. You can see the Installation instructions on Wiki. ------- Wireless Air Cut es un software de auditoria del protocolo WPS en redes wireless, portable, libre y gratuito para Ms Windows. Sirve para comprobar la seguridad WPS de nuestras redes wireless y detectar posibles brechas de seguridad. Puede comprobar si el router tiene establecido un pin wps genérico y conocido, si es vulnerable a un ataque por fuerza bruta o si es vulnerable a un ataque Pixie-Dust. Ver Instrucciones de instalación en la wiki. -
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SeedCrackerX
Minecraft mod designed to reverse-engineer
SeedcrackerX is a Minecraft mod designed to reverse-engineer and determine a world’s seed by analyzing in-game structures and environmental data. It operates by collecting information from structures such as shipwrecks, temples, and monuments, then using that data to progressively narrow down possible seeds until the correct one is identified. The mod automates much of this process, initiating cracking procedures once sufficient data has been gathered, often requiring only exploration of specific structures. It includes a graphical configuration interface that allows users to control which structures are used and how data is collected. The system can also integrate with a shared database to contribute discovered seeds, enabling collaborative data gathering across users. Advanced features include brute-force algorithms that refine seed candidates based on structural patterns and hashed seed calculations. -
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ophcrack
A Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables
Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellman's original trade-off, with better performance. It recovers 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords in seconds. -
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Angry IP Scanner
A cross-platform network scanner that is fast and simple to use
Angry IP scanner is fast and friendly network scanner for Windows, Linux, and Mac. It is very extensible, allowing it to be used for very wide range of purposes, with the primary goal of being useful to network administrators. -
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Darik's Boot and Nuke
A hard drive disk wipe and data clearing utility
Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot image that securely wipes hard disk drives (HDDs). DBAN is appropriate for personal use, bulk data destruction, or emergency data destruction for HDDs, but is not recommended for solid-state drives (SSDs), sanitization that requires auditable compliance documentation, or technical support. -
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Xenos
Windows dll injector
Xenos is a lightweight Windows DLL injector built on top of the Blackbone library that specializes in injecting custom dynamic libraries into target processes for purposes such as modding, testing, or security research. As an application rather than a library, it provides a concrete example of how to leverage Blackbone’s robust process and memory manipulation APIs to perform manual and automated DLL injection into both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows applications. Xenos supports a variety of mapping techniques including manual mapping, and it is configured to work across supported Windows versions from Windows 7 to Windows 10 x64, making it useful for developers and modding communities working with older or newer games and applications. By basing its core functionality on Blackbone, Xenos benefits from the underlying library’s advanced memory manipulation capabilities such as process attachment, memory allocation, and loader-agnostic injection methods. -
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DVWA
PHP/MySQL web application
Damn Vulnerable Web App (DVWA) is a PHP/MySQL web application that is damn vulnerable. Its main goals are to be an aid for security professionals to test their skills and tools in a legal environment, help web developers better understand the processes of securing web applications and aid teachers/students to teach/learn web application security in a classroom environment. The aim of DVWA is to practice some of the most common web vulnerabilities, with various levels of difficulty, with a simple straightforward interface. Please note, there are both documented and undocumented vulnerabilities with this software. This is intentional. You are encouraged to try and discover as many issues as possible. Damn Vulnerable Web Application is damn vulnerable! Do not upload it to your hosting provider's public html folder or any Internet facing servers, as they will be compromised. It is recommended using a virtual machine (such as VirtualBox or VMware), which is set to NAT networking mode. -
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Password Safe
Popular easy-to-use and secure password manager
Password Safe is a password database utility. Users can keep their passwords securely encrypted on their computers. A single Safe Combination unlocks them all. -
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Robin
AI-powered tool for dark web OSINT search and investigation
Robin is an AI-powered open source tool designed to assist investigators and researchers in conducting dark web OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) investigations. It combines automated dark web search capabilities with large language models (LLMs) to analyze and summarize information discovered across hidden services and Tor-based search engines. The tool helps refine investigative queries, collect results from multiple dark web sources, and filter relevant intelligence using AI-driven processing. Robin also performs scraping of discovered pages through Tor sessions, allowing users to gather additional context from dark web sites while maintaining the required network routing. By integrating AI models, the platform can interpret results, highlight key information, and produce summaries that help analysts understand findings faster. The project provides a modular architecture separating search, scraping, and AI processing components so it can be extended with new data sources.
