Here's to help out some of the requests on the boards, and offer some free solutions to anti-virus, firewall, and spyware!!
Anti-Virus
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AVG Free Edition
Homepage :
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/
AVG Free Edition is the well-known anti-virus protection tool. AVG Free is available free-of-charge to home users for the life of the product! Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high-level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers. AVG Free is easy-to-use and will not slow your system down (low system resource requirements).
Highlights include:
* Automatic update functionality
* The AVG Resident Shield, which provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run
* The AVG E-mail Scanner, which protects your e-mail
* The AVG On-Demand Scanner, which allows the user to perform scheduled and manual tests
* Free Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product
* AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files
* Great customer satisfaction!
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VCatch Basic Version 5
Homepage :
http://www.vcatch.com/download.html
VCatch is a new, free tool, developed to protect your computer from web viruses. Whether you use an Email application, Web based Email, ICQ, or one of the new file-sharing programs (iMesh, KaZaA etc.); VCatch is the tool for you.
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AntiVir Personal Edition
Homepage :
http://www.free-av.com/
Even though viruses have now grown very numerous, one thing hasn't changed: our commitment to provide you with all-round protection. The reliability of AntiVir is demonstrated in numerous comparison test and references featured in independent trade journals.
The AntiVir Personal Edition offers the effective protection against computer viruses for the individual and private use on a single PC-workstation. In order to make possible an easy operation, the AntiVir Personal Edition is developed to the essential points.
You'll be amazed how thoroughly AntiVir protects:
* detects and removes more than 80,000 viruses
* always among the winners of comparison test featured in computer journals
* the resident Virus Guard serves to monitor file movements automatically,
e.g. downloading of data from the internet
* scanning and repair of macro viruses
* protection against previously unknown macro viruses
* safeguard against cost generating dial-up program
* protection against trojaner, worms, backdoors, jokes and other harmful programs
* easy operation
* Internet-Update Wizard for easy updating
* Protection against previously unknown boot record viruses and master boot record viruses
* Quality "Made in Germany"
* support is free of charge via AntiVir Bulletin Board
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avast! 4 Home Edition
Homepage :
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
avast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home users, non-commercial users. Both conditions should be met! Our company offers Home Edition free of charge, since in our opinion, it is possible to avoid global virus spreading by efficient prevention; however, many user are not able or do not want to pay for antivirus software. This page will show you the most important features of this program.
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Bit Defender
Homepage :
http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/d...php?menu_id=21
The program is an intelligent anti-virus tool, providing lots of useful features, such as entire system scanning, the ability to isolate dubious files in "quarantine", live updates to keep your system secure, a task scheduler and an interface that can be "skinned".
For Linux, MS Dos, Palm, Windows CE, ICQ, Messenger.
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Firewall
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Outpost Firewall FREE
Homepage :
http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
Free firewall for Windows. Created by Agnitum
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Omniquad Personal Firewall
Homepage :
http://www.omniquad.com/downloads.htm
Free personal firewall for Windows created by Omniquad.
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Zone Alarm (Basic version)
Homepage :
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/conten...jsp?lid=nav_za
Note from the editor: Zone Alarm is not bug-free, in the sense that it can block or 'lock up' your Internet connection totally, making an uninstall/re-install necesssary. We have had this experience over the last few years on a number of computers with Zone Alarm.
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Kerio Limited free edition
Homepage :
http://www.kerio.com/us/kpf_price.html
For home users, Kerio Personal Firewall 4 is available in two flavors - the full edition and the limited free edition.
After installation, KPF works as the full edition for 30 days, after which it becomes the limited free edition.
Limited free edition does not provide the content filtering capabilities such as blocking pop-up windows, ads, VB scripts, cookies, etc. and other extra features.
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Premidius Firewall Lite
Homepage :
http://www.primedius.com/PersonalFirewall.htm
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Spyware
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Ad-aware
Homepage :
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Protect yourself from "spyware" with this handy free utility. (Spyware consists of sneaky software programs that use your Net connection--usually to report data to advertisers--without your approval or knowledge). Ad-aware removes spyware on your PC and scans your memory, registry and hard drive for known spyware components.
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SpywareBlaster
Homepage :
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareBlaster doesn`t scan and clean for so-called spyware, but prevents it from being installed in the first place. It achieves this by disabling the CLSIDs of popular spyware ActiveX controls, and also prevents the installation of any of them via a webpage.
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Spybot - Search & Destroy
Homepage :
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
Spybot - Search & Destroy is an adware and spyware detection and removal tool. This includes removal of certain advertising components, that may gather statistics as well as detection of various keylogging and other spy utilities. In addition, it also securely removes PC and Internet usage tracks, including browser history, temporary pages, cookies (with option to keep selected) and more.
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Perfect Process 1.1
Homepage :
http://www.veloci.dk/index.asp?visnu=ppdownl.htm
Perfect Process is a spyware/adware shield that protects your computer in real-time from more than a 1000 potential spyware and malware programs. The program can also connect to a network machine and perform a remote scan (administrator privileges required). In addition, Perfect Process provides several additional tools, a startup manager, and a detailed process viewer that provides in-depth information for many running processes, as well as statistics for recently started programs, browser home page protection and more.
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SpywareGuard 2.2
Homepage :
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html
SpywareGuard provides a real-time protection solution against so-called spyware. It works similar to an anti-virus program, by scanning EXE and CAB files on access and alerting you if known spyware is detected. If this is the case, it initially blocks access to the file and then allows the user to select an action. SpywareGuard provides a fast scanning engine, signature-based scanning, heuristic/generic scanning, a control panel, and an online-update utility for downloading of definition updates.
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