I downloaded and ran first day worked great. The next day it was gone had to find it again. It ran the next day as I found it. the next day it was gone again and when I found it I got an error message. will not run any more as all it gives me is an error message as data base not found. Funny it is right beside the link. Guess this one is a dud. Will look for other detection programs.

Good basic tool.

2003 and V-64 n - it -works .

@#89
Come on now. You think that if there was such a way extract the installer that it would be posted so readily for GAOTD to adapt to? Now im not saying its not possible, on the contrary it certainly is, just very very annoying and time consuming to deal with just to have GAOTD change the method a few days or weeks later.

OTOH, functionally achieving the same result is rather simple... :)
The trade off, however, is that you must execute the GAOTD executable at least once within the time offered and then once it has launched the embedded installer... Well with comments like #78 the technically inclined and enterprising among you, I'm sure, have been using this to archive the giveaway's installer for some time. If you haven't... I'm sure you can poke and figure it out now... ;)

Ahh it's amusing. I'm sure that since this post was made after the end of a giveaway that no one will read this page, much less scroll alll the way to the bottom and this tidbit, like so many others, will be lost to the recesses of the web...

Very good product, runs smoothly on Vista 64-bit and I really like this program.

Actually detects attacks,and works great.

Thanks for the share GAOTD!

@Roj Bloughmeekokvic #107: Thank you for your comment.

This makes it all clear to me: If wireless is not supported it should have said so in the requirements in the first place. It would have saved me lots of time. OKAY, this software is not compatible for me, clear, I'll leave it at that.

Roj, thanks again really very much indeed.

Normally I wouldn't do this, especially at the end of the give away.
I've spent the last 10 hours kicking this programs head in, and I must say, I am impressed. While I know this give away ends in about 20 minutes I think after being critical in my first comment, this software is worth it. I am a regular here and check it every day. This is probably one of the best software's I have picked up here. In my opinion it ranks up there with Starburn and Edraw max.
Nice job by the developers. Easy to use, easily usuable GUI, automatic policy updates and the ability to effectively monitor a large LAN and catch both wireless and switched interfaces. Nice job. Won't make me give up Snort, BUT, I was able to talk several of my less tech savy friends through the simple installation and configuration. Not something that would be even remotely thinkable with Snort.
Quality choice today GOTD. Very nice.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but to monitor network traffic that is neither from nor to your own adapter would require an adapter capable of such a feat, usually referred to as "promiscuous". I'm not sure how many NICs these days are promiscuous, especially considering the vast majority of users here are probably using the NIC that's built into their mainboard.

Something they might have mentioned in the "requirements" section.

Not a bad little program for monitoring traffic on your PC but this is all it does. If you want to block certain people or institutions try Protowall:A light weight NDIS IP filter designed to run independently alongside a personal firewall for the sole purpose of blocking large amounts of IP addresses, where almost all other firewalls cannot. This for the more paranoid surfer that wants to know who is watching and tracking you.

I use Panda Antivirus Suite and I love it. Mo computer runs very slow because Panda controls every move I make, but it it reliable. Slow but safe.
Better a slow and safe computer than none at all.

Installed & runs great on XP sp2. No problem or slowness about that at all! As said above, I can't evaluate it real well til I've used it awhile, but after 10 mins it's seeming to record stuff fine.
Like a lot of others, I would very much like to know if this is a 1 year subscription or what. It's ok if is, but wish I knew.

@ #51-Couldn't you just uninstall it? WHY would u want to reinstall your whole system instead??? Seems like WAYYYY overkill to me. And takes a lot more time than uninstalling it. We see it didn't actually make your PC un-useable, so..kinda like killing a fly with a sledgehammer.

And I agree with the others about the thumbs buttons. Wish GOTD would just take it off totally. BUT I NEVER use it, so I kinda cancel out "Mike". :)

For those who are worried about whether the software is registered you should know that sax 2 2.0 was offered in the past in GAOTD. Version 2.0 also showed an empty box on the 'About' box and it also had an empty registration number and has worked fine since November 08.

Version 3.0 is an upgrade, but so far the only different thing I see between both is the art work. I like the new one better.

People, the reason free software is up at all is so you can review it and tell the producers what you think of it and so you can spread the word. You don't just rate it down because you don't use it or have no clue what it is. If enough of us keep doing that, companies are going to go elsewhere to host their software. So please rate (and drink) responsibly. Thank you.

I've downloaded and tried it on both my XP SP3 and Vista SP1. No joy. It just sits there ticking it's up time away. No data; no activity noted and no help. Back to the drawing board, boys. In short; worthless.

2days GAOTD has been running since I loaded it (on 32bit XP Home sp3)
at 3:30pm HK time yesterday. Detects every adapter within the system including bluetooth! I did activate logs and it seems to have gathered an amazing variety of information about my network traffic (3 PC's + 4 Laptops all networked on a firmware hacked wrt54g linksys wireless/wired router)! As regards to activation isn't the successfully activated pop-up enough? Lol Keeper for me;) Cheers GAOTD & Ax3Soft.

Ok - tried it. Installed as 'admin' all that.

What a total, absolute P.O.S. Clueless Noob... you are correct...it will not detect your adapter because it appears that WiFi adapters are not supported - only wired LAN adapters, which is absolutely crazy.

Next problem... the help files are a bad chinese translation... I'll leave it there.

Finally - interface doesn't conform to any Windows standards. Honestly, forget the $182.20... they should be paying US to pollute our computers with this junk.

- Roj

For those that receive email a day late click on the HOME page at the top left of any download page and access the current GAOTD way from there.

Program GUI looks decent, but can't tell if the program itself is decent, because I didn't have much time to test it (just checked if the detection feature works).
For those who don't see any adapters listed, select Detection -> Start Detection from the main menu.

in addition to my comment # 80 ...

for people who can't find any adapters or can't make it work in their OS ... you should know that , this software must be run with administrator rights ... so if not , then this s/w will not work ....

Installed and ran on Windows XP SP3. It also detected the fake NIC for Parrallel Workstation. Appears to do what is says it can.

No. 78 by Rush.

The best and most practical comment thus far. Hope to read more of yours.

downloaded and installed on Windows 7 RC ... and works fine too ...

but like all others here, still confused weather i've full registered version or not ... because reg. space is blank ... but still software works in full extent .. so i guess , may be its something like programing glitch ??? ...

but thumbs up for this giveaway ... perhaps one of the best giveaway ... i use SNORT for my linux, but its not this easy to setup ...

Doesn't work on Windows 7 64-bit for those that are curious. Works fine for me on Windows 7 32-bit. As for the cost of this program, I don't believe for a minute that this small 5mb file is anywhere near being worth $181.20.

I prefer Cisco Network Magic Pro as a comparable product however.

Simple solution regarding emails a day late. Check the Giveaway of the Day website each day. I have Giveaway set in my bookmarks toolbar and one simple click on it each morning shows me the offering. Much easier than typing complaints on these boards.

I think it takes just about the same amount of time for the page to load as it would for an email to come up. For those catching the emails on your cell phone or some other device you would still have to sit at your computer to download the program. Simply allocating a time slot in your busy day to click a bookmark MIGHT make you a happier person to be around.

Of course some people just love to be grumpy and they should carry on getting late emails and complaining. The rest of us will simply laugh as we click NO on your comments.

The program appears to work ok although there is no visible indication that it is full registered version. It would be nice if at least in the "about" window, it could indicate that it was registered to GAOTD so we know.

doesn't work on Vista 64 bit, installed it, removed it, reinstalled it, removing it again.
you'd think if they are charging that much money for it would have had the kinks out of it.
I also could not get the activation code either time, the only page it opened was this one.

I'm pleased to see I'm not the only person who finds these ridiculous comments to software they don't want. @#10 - I don't think I've ever seen a negative score that big before at the moment it's -236 ... U must be so proud ! What's worse is U are a "Mike" - I didn't think any any of us Mike's could be that STUPID !!! - It's a good job I don't sign on as Mike or everyone would think I'm the NEGATIVE one.

As I've mentioned in previous posts - GAOTD is aimed at EVERYONE who downloads from the site - NOT JUST A SMALL FEW who expect the software THEY REQUIRE to be delivered daily.

By telling GAOTD that U don't want the software - what do U expect them to do - print an official apology to U ???

There's a good chance that I & many others will find this useful.

I didn't need the DVD Rip software or the Audio software - BUT I DIDN'T MAKE AN ISSUE OF IT. MANY OTHER USERS will have needed these softwares & other proggies - that I don't need & they were the target audience.

JUST BECAUSE U & others like U are NOT the target audience of this particular Software or any other for that matter - DOES NOT MAKE IT ANY LESS WORTHWHILE !!!

Maybe U'd like to e-mail GAOTD a list of the software U require & the days they are to post them !! ?? !!

THIS MIKE SUPPORTS GAOTD !!! Keep up the good work Guys !!!

I'm off to try this little proggy on my Network.

By the way - ANYONE with a Home Network who DOESN'T USE VISTA - I seriously recommend U try downloading "Look @ LAN" IT IS EXCELLENT & FREE" !!! http://www.lookatlan.com/oldindex.html

It's brilliant on my XP Pro systems BUT Sadly it's NOT Vista compatible BUT they're currently working on a NEW version that will be !!!!

Thanks Again GAOTD

Cheers all :o)

- Mike -
(Macs-PC)

@47 Why do you have to wait for an email to check GAOTD? Why not just go & look each day as many others of us do & if there is something to interest you, fine. If not, just leave. The offers are catering to a wide area of interest so you can't expect something to suit you every day, that doesn't mean they are garbage.

This is a great program. On an IBM ThinkPad I had to uncheck "Capture packets in promiscuous mode" general settings on the Adapter tab for the program to work. On my desktop the program worked as is.

@ #1 et al. Yes this gets an "auto" thumbs downs!

Reason is very simple and already stated. It is business software. The terms for download and use are "strickly personal usage".

OK after consideration I did download it.. Had no problems installing on XP sp3. It found my network adapter fine, hit start and it is running fine. Now i need to figure out how useful it is to a home user.
Also GOTD pop up said product was registered fine, thats good enough for me.

THUMBS UP GOTD TEAM...thanks for all the wonderful toys!!

Ok I have just thought of something interesting:

People veiw this site from all over the world.
This site offers a giveaway for 24 hours or one day. How does this effect timezones?
Where does this site get its information about our timezones from? Does it get it from our ip address or computer clock time? Well then if someone had a proxy ip address could they get a giveaway up to 24 hours in advance or after it was supposed to expire for their area?

This would mean that if someone somehow missed a giveaway that they wanted they might still be able to technically get it, right??

I am going to test this theory out. But first of all thank you GAOTD for this interesting and useful piece of software!

Note to GAOTD: If you would really like to increase your audience size try putting some Video Game Creating Software on this site. Since I have seen a lot of giveawayoftheday software tickers on other sites lately I think this would be a great advertising strategy. Besides that's how I found out about this cool site.

if you dont know what a 'packet or packet sniffer is' then you wont need this. as for 'detecting' hackers get a hardware router. Most have some kind of rudimentary firewall built in. They are not expensive and will protect you from 'port knocking'.
No need for nmap to find ports and SAX2 or other app to document it. What are you going to do? log a ip over some port and protocol? then what? you think they use there own ip to scan/hack a machine? Most malware is installed by the users themselves in some way. your compromised machine just sends out a SYN request and waits for instructions.

I am sure everyone who comes to this site would like to know of a way to activate a giveaway on a different date. Please, I am sure there is some smart computer person who could help us out that views this site. Thanks GAOTD!

Great software thanks gaotd. Do you have web site builder software to test as well, that will be great. K

Is there anyway I can activate this software on Monday? There must be a way somehow?(I can't install this piece of software until Monday because: what would the purpose be of installing it on my home computer without a network) Thanks GAOTD!

In one word...Craptastic, in two words: don't download!

very hard to completely remove, it leaves registry items and is very intrusive, further more it really is a bit of garbage because it tells you nothing more that un-nessasry stats

XPPro32SP3 Home on a two computer wireless: Loaded and worked AS ADVERTISED. No blue screen on reboot even though I didn`t need to reboot. Thought I would try to induce some of the problems listed in many of the comments above. The only thing I found was the registration was blank as it should be unless you intend to register it again. If you reinstall your OS, it`s registration area will be blank and you will have to enter the key again.

As for taking the program from home to work you might try using the Almeza MultiSet(GAOTD May 12),ZIP or CD to make a copy from your program files and see if that works at work.

It seams to me that a lot of the problems that people talk about (not necessarily today) may be from different settings/programs(not necessarily the OS)/not enough hard drive, memory, drive partitioning on their computers. Always check system requirements to see if you are compatible.

AND ONE LAST THING: This is a technical forum, let`s please keep all comments that way!!!!

Thanks GAOTD for all that you have brought into our lives.

For those worried I installed it and adjusted my computers time to this date on every year up to 2014 and still no nag screen. By that time there will be a better program.

Sax2 is great! Detects my TOAST network just fine! :-)

Hey! What type of awful people downvoted my last post? What do some of you people have against TOAST!?

Toast is such a crunchy, crumby, bready part of our lives - who can hate it? Sheesh.

Ok, installed. But with no activation key what happens when we
have to rebuild our computer. Will we still be able to install
and use with no activation key?

It looked to be an interesting program, but didn't work for me. Running the app appears to do absolutely nothing. No app, no process, nothing, nada, zero, zilch. Uninstalled, and waiting for midnight.

Out of curiosity, why $181.2? That seems strangely overly-specific for an MSRP. Not that it matters I guess. :)

The thumbs up or down is a good way for these companies to gauge the interest in their product. They can tell how many tried it by how many times it gets downloaded, and they can tell what you thought of it from the comments. The only way for these companies, however, to effectively gauge how many people looked at their product and decided....Nah. From a marketing perspective that information is one of the most valuable things you can get.

The Software:
I'm a Snort user. It's free (my favorite), open source, reliable and widely used. Anyone who has or does use Snort on a regular basis, however, will tell you that it is an art form. There is running Snort and there is having Snort running. A huge difference. If you aren't familiar with the command line, batch files, system logs and the like... you'll get that way fast if you have to use Snort. It is NOT for the everyday casual user. You don't run it and forget it. You run it and love it.
I am going to give this software a go though. Supposed to be good with XP x64. That's a plus but it's also supposed to give Vista x64 fits. $399 was the highest price I saw for it and the $181 was the lowest. I looked around and couldn't find a whole lot of reviews on it, good or bad. That's almost a good thing these days, although I couldn't find it compared to the big dogs like snort or Sonic Wall. If it was horrible, network security experts would have taken great pleasure in blasting it. Tearing up a weak piece of s*** firewall or IDS is a lot of fun. Makes you feel smart, them feel stupid and customer feels like spending some cash. (My other favorite.)
Anyone who "reviews" this software's effectiveness the same day they download it has no idea what they are talking about. Review the set up, yes. Review the GUI, sure. Rating how well it works, though, can only be done by someone who has been using it, and tested it. IDS systems are all about placement and rules. All one can legitimately say about this software is that it is worth trying and today....IT IS WORTH TRYING.
However, tomorrow will come and when it does serious users should check out: www.snort.org
Less experienced users should check out: www.untangle.com
Both- Open source, cross platform compatible and free. (Although Untangle does have a paid version as well as paid upgrades. Their free version though is good.)

@#10
What if everyone here did that? Then maybe something you'd want would get the thumbs down by someone else. Some people should really think before they speak. BTW, I am not interested in this product, but I'm not "voting" either way.

The online registration worked only after I disabled all web content filtering. The installation process was very rough. I kept getting "file in use" messages that didn't name the file or what was using it. I captured the temp file made by the installer, we25B.tmp during the failed install attempts, then used Dependency Walker to profile it. When executed in this manner, the install process completed.

Once installed, it detects my network adapters and captures traffic as it should. It's useful for capturing and analyzing traffic but it's not worth $180 by any means. At the moment, I'm not sure if it does anything more than the Open Source alternatives.
Rick

#10 as a point. If the developer wants to know what we think, the usefulness (or lack thereof) is part of what we think. If we tell them what is wrong with it they can fix it. If the problem is that it works, but nobody wants it, that's something they should know, too.

I have been reading these posts for a couple of years now and like many others use these comments as informational and a kind of "heads up" on the software. And like other USERS totally get annoyed with people who comment on the software without USING it! I think if GOTD would allow the comment section to open only AFTER they have activated it then we could STOP all the useless "I don't want/like this software".If you can't say something positive or constructive then SHUT UP ALL YOU UNGRATEFUL MOOCHES!!!! And for all of you who are so helpful and giving to us USERS ... Thank You so very much and keep on in SPITE of the moochy morons out here.

@#28 and #30: As long as there's no 'That application is/seems useless to me' option in the rating section, I'll continue to vote it thumbs down. I don't vote to address the developers/publishers, they surely have their ways of getting user feedback on their products.

I agree w/ #9 (Justin C.) Even though my shortcut says that it is starting in a normal window, it doesn't act like it. It's almost as if it was ported from another OS, like Linux or the new Chinese operating system, "Kylin".

I also don't see any of my adapters, although I haven't given up yet.

I am running 64bit Vista Ultimate SP 1 on a WPA secured 11g wireless network.

#63 - No, it's not supposed to apply to this giveaway. Once in a blue moon, people have reported that developers have posted giveaway's here that have had time limits, but I'm not sure how often, if ever , been verified. If it happens, it's because the developer didn't understand or didn't honor it's agreement with GOTD.

I appreciate all GAOTD does . But , this is sad . Not for a home user . This is a waste for anyone using it in home for 1 or 2 computers . This is more a Corporate environment software . I do not mind software that stinks but , I would like something worthwhile to look at .