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[v5.7] Little Snitch – Make all Internet connections visible and fully controllable

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When your Mac computer is connected to the Internet, countless connections will be quietly built in the background. Once some application connects to the Internet, it can send any information that it wants to send to any place in the world. In order to monitor these connections, better maintain our privacy security, and especially withstand the tracking software, Trojans, or other types of malware, we usually have to use the boring and difficult to use firewall software. Even worse, the inbuilt firewall program of Mac OS is only able to control incoming connections, has no monitoring and controlling capabilities for outgoing connections.

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[v9.23] ChrisPC Anonymous Proxy – Enjoy your privacy and surf anonymously

Using proxies to indirectly connect to (from a non-real IP address) Internet used to be primarily used to speed up the web browsing. But now, as bandwidth widens, it is more often used as a means of breaking through Internet blockages and a method of achieving anonymous Internet access (i.e., hiding a user’s real IP address and protecting user’s online privacy and security).

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[v1.2] DoNotSpy – Prevent Windows from putting your privacy at risk

Windows 10 started to blatantly monitor and steal user privacy info, this is a public fact that is daunting for advanced computer users. Because it secretly monitors user behavior and privacy in the background, without notifying the user or getting user’s permission. It then uploads the relevant data to Microsoft’s official servers, FBI headquarters, and other selling ways. At the same time, this process takes up lots of your network bandwidth. Especially, most of the related settings are hidden and do not allow users to selectively shut down at all.

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[v6.x.x] Wise Care 365 – Popular Windows cleaner, optimizer and accelerator

Wise Care 365 (its predecessor is Wise PC Engineer) is an all-in-one type of free product of WiseCleaner that integrates the main functions of WiseCleaner’s many popular products (mainly Wise Registry Cleaner, Wise Disk Cleaner and Wise System Monitor) in one place. In other words, the essence of Wise Care 365 is a toolbox that brings WiseCleaner’s previously released series of system optimization & cleanup tools together, and adds some advanced features. So, the functions Wise Care 365 covers are comprehensive enough.

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[v1.18] CCleaner for Mac – May be still #1 tool for cleaning your Mac OS

When it comes to system junk files cleaning software on Windows, many users will recommend Piriform’s CCleaner first – which has almost become one of must-have tools for any computer. CCleaner is free, small, has multi-language interface, and runs fast. Especially, it is fairly stable and safe to use, even the novice computer user won’t encounter a problem due to misuse. CCleaner for Mac is a free system useless files cleaner, system optimizer and privacy protector specially designed and developed for Mac users. It is actually the Mac version of CCleaner.

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O&O ShutUp10 – Free antispy tool for Windows 10

Each of the released versions of Microsoft Windows is not perfect, this is the fact that can be accepted by the public. But the behavior of Windows 10 started to insanely stealing its users’ privacy info (euphemistically called: data mining) has been deeply embedded into the every process of the whole system operation, while this is unbearable for any senior Windows users. So we have to resort to some third-party applications to protect the security of our digital privacy.

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[v11.1] Folder Password Lock Pro – Hide, lock or password-protect files, folders and drives

Whether on your own computer or a public one, we always have some important or privacy-related files and data that do not want others to see or get. In this case, what we can do is to use some software to protect them in primarily five ways: monitoring (passive), hiding (junior), locking (can be easily hacked by advanced computer users), password protecting (ditto), encrypting (the safest, but not convenient).

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