Andrew's Anti Snooping Tool (AAST) is a "boss key" program for keeping your privacy from others whether you are at work, at school, or at home. It is able to hide every type of window, including full-screen video games, web browsers, media players etc.
Note: The application website is no longer available, so I have made a copy available for direct download (courtesy of webfork).
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice. The application files are in the zmbv subfolder. Launch AAST.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | ClickyGone Portable |
Andrew's Anti Snooping Tool overwrote many .ini files on my mobile device... that sucks !
I don't know how my program wound up on this site lol. If anyone has any specific bugs and can reproduce them (so i can debug the program) please email me at aast@andrewshangout.com and i'll try to fix them.
Sometimes this tool get messed up closing programs/windows. But it usually works after either
1. Closing AAST or
2. Closing the window and reopening it.
And also, it could see some other improvements but altogether, its very handy.
Surprising and great privacy tool that takes up very few system resources. Helps cut down on so-called "shoulder surfing," or being watched on your laptop in public places. Can also be used at work to make it look like you're working but I wasn't able to get it to include correct "exceptions" programs, so it would look like I wasn't working on anything at all.
I liked the idea but there's a bug that when you close aast with hidden progs running, the progs won't show up again even if you restart aast. The only way to turn off the hidden progs is by using process explorer. K/B shortcuts doesn't work unified with mouse movement. You can use keyboard shortcut to hide a program but it won't show up with mouse movement and vise versa. I hope the developer can rectify this problem.
While I could not find a download there, I did find the original web-page at http://web.archive.org/web/20080208175131/http://www.andrewshangout.com/aast.html
(In case anyone is interested in finding out more.)
If anyone is interested in trying to contact the author he might be reached through this website http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6237015902