Windows – free way to monitor a serial port on Windows 7 x64

At my previous job we often had to deal with console ports on networking equipment, meaning we had to have access to a serial port even though our current laptops didn't have one.

We used something that works like this, just not that particular model. This should work fine for connecting a modem to.

When it comes to modems I would steer clear of internal modems and try to find an external one if possible, since the compatibility of internal ones is usually very limited and the driver development often abandoned.

I use combofix successfully on 64bit Vista regularly. In my experience, 64bit does take advantage of system operations regardless of whether or not application does. Although I wouldn't agree that vista 64 is 100% rootkit free, it is a lot harder to get rootkits on a 64bit OS. It is difficult for manufacturers of hardware to make drivers for 64bit still, I don't think we will see too many 64bit root kits for a while. And if you hate on 64bit get used to it, whether you like it or not, 4gb of ram will become obsolete. When it does 64bit will be required.