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Virus Protection
Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition - Available to home (noncommercial) users for the life of the product. Automatic update functionality. Resident Shield provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run. E-mail Scanner protects your e-mail. On-Demand Scanner allows the user to perform scheduled and manual tests. Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product. Virus Vault safely handles infected files.avast! 4 Home Edition - A full-featured antivirus package. Free of charge for noncommercial use. This version of avast! features outstanding detection abilities, together with high performance. You can expect 100% detection of In-the-Wild viruses and very good detection of Trojan horses, all that with only a minimum number of false alarms.
AntiVir Personal Edition - An antivirus program, free for individual use. Protection against trojans, worms, backdoors, jokes and other harmful programs. Easy operation. Internet-Update Wizard for easy updating.
a-squared (a²) Free - A complementary product to antivirus software and desktop firewalls on MS Windows computers. Antivirus software specializes in detecting classic viruses. Many available products have weaknesses in detecting other malicious software (Malware) like Trojans, Dialers, Worms and Spyware (Adware). a² fills the gap that malware writers exploit.
BitDefender Online Scanner - A fully functional antivirus product. It features all required elements for thorough antivirus scanning and effective cleaning: it scans your system's memory, all files, folders and drives' boot sectors, providing you with the option to automatically clean the infected files.
Trend Micro - A free online tool that checks computers for spyware, and helps remove any infections found. When the detection process is complete, the tool will display a report describing the result including which if any, spyware were detected, and prompt you before the removal process.
Panda ActiveScan - Scans, disinfects and eliminates viruses, worms and Trojans from all system devices, hard disks, compressed file and all your e-mail. Detects spyware (84 percent of malware installed on computers worldwide is spyware).
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Firewalls
Zone Alarm - Easy-to-use firewall blocks hackers and other unknown threats. Systematically identifies hackers and blocks access attempts. Automatically makes your computer invisible to anyone on the Internet. Free for individual and not-for-profit charitable entity use.Comodo Firewall - A complete, easy to manage and effective barrier that keeps hackers out and personal information in.
Jetico Personal Firewall - This firewall offers detailed, configurable event logs, reports, plus the option to view and edit the firewall configuration. The modular architecture is as open as possible to assist with easier security evaluation.
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Privacy and Security
Spybot - Search & Destroy - Detects and removes spyware, adware, dialers, keyloggers, trojans and much more. Spybot is a very popular free tool.Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition - Provides protection from known data-mining, aggressive advertising, parasites, scumware, selected traditional trojans, dialers, malware, browser hijackers, and tracking components.
WinPatrol - Detect and neutralize spyware, adware, viral infections, and unwanted IE add-ons. Detect & restore file type changes automatically. Filter unwanted cookies. Avoid start page hijacking. Detect changes to HOSTS & critical system files.
xp-AntiSpy - A small utility that lets you disable some built-in update and authentication features in WindowsXP including 'Automatic Updates', which runs in the background. This utility was successfully tested by lots of users, and was found to disable all the known suspicious functions in WindowsXP.
StayInvisible.com - Offers a free download of ProxyWay (proxy software) and is a regularly updated source of information about Internet privacy, security, anonymous surfing, proxy servers (HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS) and related tools and programs.
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Web Content Filters
Naomi Internet Filter - An advanced Internet filtering program, easy to use and totally free. Naomi is able to constantly monitor all Internet connections, protecting children from inappropriate online material - such as obscene or violent contents; pornography and eroticism in the form of images or texts; sites that popularize drugs; gambling; terrorism; hate propaganda; occultism; sects; blasphemy, etc.[ Back to top ]
Web Browsers
Firefox - This is an open source browser which will run on almost any platform. Built with your security in mind, Firefox keeps your computer safe from malicious spyware by not loading harmful ActiveX controls. A comprehensive set of privacy tools keep your online activity your business. Imports your Favorites, settings and other information, so you have nothing to lose. Firefox empowers you to browse faster, more safely and more efficiently than with any other browser.FastBrowser - A powerful web browser that can open up to 180 home pages at the same time. An alternative to IE for power users. PC Magazine Editors' Choice.
Avant - A fast, stable, user-friendly, versatile multi-window browser. Now available in 41 languages.
Maxthon - Maxthon Internet Browser software is a powerful tabbed browser with a highly customizable interface.
Netscape 8 for Windows - Netscape's latest release is based on the open source Gecko engine.
MYweb4net - A tabbed multiple-site IE based web browser that has the ability to run in the system tray. It incorporates a large collection of powerful features like built-in pop up killer, skinned window frame, form filler, site group, quick-search, auto login, hidden sites, built-in commands and scripting, online translation, script error suppression, blacklist / whitelist filtering and much more.
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Web Browser Plug-ins
EarthLink Toolbar™ with ScamBlocker™ - Displays a visual protection rating for Web pages you are visiting. Alerts you before you enter a page on a list of known fraudulent Web sites. Includes EarthLink's innovative Pop-Up Blocker tool and a built-in Google search box for fast, convenient searching. Includes up-to-the-minute, clickable news headlines in 11 categories.Foxie - A collection of free security, privacy and productivity tools. Empowers you to browse faster, more safely and more efficiently than with any other browser by blending tabbed browsing, ads & pop-up blocking, Malware cleansing and privacy & security protection with smart search capabilities to enhance your browsing experience. Foxie is not a web browser and fits seamlessly into your IE browser.
Dogpile Toolbar - Rated #1 Browser Toolbar Plug-In by PC World magazine. Features include a pop-up blocker, News Ticker and SearchSpy™ - Watch scrolling terms to see what people are searching for in real-time. Cursor Search - Search any word(s) from a web page or MS Word document by right-clicking your mouse.
FireTune - FireTune for Mozilla Firefox v1.x was developed for an easy and fast optimization of your browsing experience with Firefox. It is based on a collection of popular and well working optimization settings used and tested by the experts. Usually you have to optimize Firefox manually, which can be time consuming and difficult for the novice user.
Winamp Player - Play music and video files.
Macromedia Shockwave Player - A must for a true multimedia experience on the Internet.
Macromedia Flash Player - Enjoy the most vivid content on the web. Watch video without extra downloads. Interact with applications on your favorite sites.
Apple QuickTime Plug-in - The Apple QuickTime plug-in lets you experience QuickTime animation, music, MIDI, audio, and video
Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 for Windows XP - View and print Adobe PDF files on a variety of hardware and operating system platforms. Editor's Note: Adobe bundles software in a 27 MB download which includes Yahoo Toolbar with Anti-Spy and Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition. You may choose to deselect the optional programs, reducing the download to 20 MB
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Web Site Creation
So your ISP provides web space for your personal home page? Here are a few tools to help you create your web presence.DHE Web Editor - A graphical editor for web pages. It allows you to create your own site without writing HTML code. You have simply to position objects applying graphical effects, shadows, insert images, events and you'll obtain a dynamic cross-browser site.
Enersoft SiteGenWiz - A web site generator for HTML novices and people who just want a web site without the hassle of coding HTML. Select from various frameworks, define a menu structure for your pages, choose colors, fonts, bullets and background images. Create and edit your pages with the built-in editor. You have formatting options like headline, sub headline, text, bold, italic, underline and you can define links to other web pages and add images. Automatically generate sitemaps and image galleries. With the upload utility you can upload the finished result to your host site.
Nvu - Makes managing a web site a snap. Anyone can create web pages and manage a Web site with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML. An open-source wysiwyg (What You See Is What You Get) HTML+CSS editor based on Mozilla's layout engine.
WebDwarf V2 - Easy to use drag-and-drop Web page editor. This is a powerful (free!) software program. Features: WYSIWYG drag and drop editor with pixel level positioning. Layout Guides with Snap Grid and Snap-To operations. Alignment Toolbar with group control, relative positioning. Text editor for entering Formatted Text, Titles and Code. Vector editor for rectangles, ellipses, pie shapes and polygons. Renderer for flat, linear, cylindrical, radial shading and transparency. FTP client publisher with Gather Option. Fully integrated support for both HTML and SVG. Documentation, tutorials and on-line support.
YoPoW - Provides an easy to use step-by-step interface that lets you create a web album from your image collections. Simply select the folder that contains the images you want to publish or use the built in wizard.
ColorPic - The versatile color picker. So you like the color you found on a web page or in an image? Pick any color displayed on your monitor. Easy to use with any other program.
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Graphics Viewers
IrfanView - Edit and convert graphics files with this topnotch image viewer. A fast and simple viewer and editor that supports all major graphic formats.Image Browser Arctic - A multifunctional graphic viewer. Easy to use. Multiple viewing modes - full screen, thumbnail, normal view, etc. View multiple images at the same time.
P3dO Explorer - An easy-to-use Explorer-ish image viewer and multimedia manager for your digital imagery. View, organize, edit, print your pictures. Save time with a fast, enhanced graphic navigator.
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yMail - A POP3 e-mail client with an intelligent filter which trains itself to recognize spam from the contents of your inbox. It can also be used purely as a pre-filter for your existing mail program, sitting in the system tray and cleaning spam automatically before you download it. yMail also includes e-mail notification, displaying an unobtrusive icon when you have mail waiting.
Thunderbird - Makes e-mailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the industry's best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, built-in RSS reader, quick search, and much more.
Eudora - A powerful e-mail management tool with features to increase your productivity and enhance your communications.
YPOPs! - This is not an e-mail client. It is an application that provides POP3 access to Yahoo! Mail, which disabled free access to its POP3 service on April 24, 2002. YPOPs! emulates a POP3 server and enables popular e-mail clients to download e-mail from Yahoo! accounts.
Incredimail - Add exciting and lively animations to your e-mail (not as an attachment). Lets you take full control over what your emails look like. Select from hundreds of e-mail backgrounds that fit any mood or occasion.
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Connectivity
Connection Keeper - Prevents your Internet connection from appearing idle or inactive. Editor's Note: Some ISPs prohibit the use of software to simulate Internet activity. Refer to your ISP's user agreement and/or terms of service.StayAlive Pro - Simulates Internet activity so you don't get disconnected from your ISP. Editor's Note: Some ISPs prohibit the use of software to simulate Internet activity. Refer to your ISP's user agreement and/or terms of service.
ISP Timer - A useful utility to monitor your monthly dialup time. The program counts down, displaying the time left during the current month, automatically resetting at each new month.
Logtime - A small but powerful utility that tracksr time and cost while connected to your Internet Service Provider. It supports a wide range of charging schemes used by ISPs and phone companies all over the world.
Speed Test(tm) - A tool to help you measure and determine your true Internet connection speed and data throughput. The simplest and most accurate performance measurement tool available.
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Pop-Up Blockers
Internet Explorer 6 has a pop-up blocking feature. This functionality, however, is only available for Windows XP users with Service Pack 2.The most popular FREE pop-up blockers are built into browser toolbars provided by search engines such as Yahoo!, Google, Ask, Windows Live (formerly MSN), Netscape and Dogpile.
Pop-Up Blocker Test - How effective is your pop-up blocker?
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Instant Messengers
Yahoo! Messenger - Make free worldwide PC-to-PC calls over the Internet. All you need is a headset, or a microphone and speakers.Gaim - A multi-protocol IM client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr networks.
Bitwise - Secure instant messaging for insecure times. Encrypted cross-platform P2P IM without ads.
Trillian - Connects to all major chat networks, including AIM®, MSN®, ICQ®, Yahoo!®, and IRC! Unlike other multi-IM products, no accounts need to be registered to begin.
ICQ - Chat, send messages and files, exchange Web page addresses, play games, create your own home page, and much more.
AIM - AOL's instant messenger is a great way to exchange Instant Messages with your friends, family and coworkers on the Internet.
Windows Live Messenger - (formerly MSN Messenger) Microsoft's version of instant messaging.
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Blog Hosts
What's a blog? Blogger offers the best description on the many uses of a blog.Yahoo! 360° BETA - Let people know what's interesting or important to you. Post photos. Start a blog. Share lists and recommendations, anything. Show who you are and what's in your life -- all your delights, dislikes, and playful passions.
LiveJournal - A simple-to-use (but extremely powerful and customizable) personal publishing tool, built on open source software. Joining the site is free. Users can choose to upgrade their accounts for extra features.
AOL Blogs - AOL offers a free blog for people using AIM (also free).
BlogCity - Publish your blog using a powerful and easy-to-use interface. Create a personal online diary / scrapbook / photo journal... whatever! Blog-City removes the barriers, making it easy to get published online.
Bloglines - All-in-one blog and news feed search, online subscriptions, news reader, blog publishing and social sharing tools.
Blogster - "Where the world blogs."
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