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Viruses

Free online scans

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RAV

BitDefender

Kaspersky (per file scan)

AVG: Free Anti-Viurs software.
Avast: Another free Anti-Virus software. Just as good as AVG.
Bitdefender: Very popular anti-virus software.
AntiVir: An anti-virus that has been around for a long time - still free for home use.
NOD32: The obsolute BEST anti-virus protection. 30day trial. Or purchase.
Kaspersky: A Great anti-virus software with a 30day trial. It's very worth the trial!

Worms/Trojans

TheCleaner: This finds/prevents trojan horses. This is on a 30day trial, however very recommended - try it.
DiamondCS: Many high-end programs for worm/Trojan detection, 30day trial.
Windowsecurity: Free online Trojan scanner.

Spyware/Hijacks/Malware

Ad-Aware SE: Great for getting rid of spyware and malware - the items that can cause annoying pop-ups.
SpyBot: Similar to Ad-Aware, however more aggressive. Clean up spyware and hijack attempts.
Microsoft Anti-Spyware: Active prevention that does a really good job.
CWShredder: Takes care of many hijacking software - run if you get many pop-ups or redirecting pages.
HijackThis: Tool to find out if there is "hijack" software or advanced spyware on your system. Please read how to use.
Kill2me: Another stomper of spyware - bring it on.
KillBox: Very nice for taking care of "Abetterinternet" and other n00bish software.
a² free: This bridges the gap with anti-virus and malware. This free scanner cleans Trojans, worms, spyware (all malware).
SpywareBlaster: Active prevention against spyware, adware, browser hijackers and dialers.
HitmanPro2: Incorporates all major Anti-Spyware software and updates/runs them all for you. Too cool.
WinDiz: Windows updates with FireFox. Great if ActiveX is damaged by spyware.

Spam

POPfile: Perfect/Free anti-Spam tool. Involved installation, but once it's set - it's good.
SpamPal: Mail classification program that separates your spam from the mail you really want to read.
OSpam: A great and simple spam solution for any POP account.

Security

Firewall

Zonealarm: Great free firewall. They offer some higher-end to purchase, but the free on is decent.
Sygate. Sygate is a free firewall. Similar to ZoneAlarm, and free.
Tiny: Tiny is a free firewall. It is designed for the more advanced due to the complex features included.
OutPost: An Opensource based firewall. Works very well protecting against worms, trojans and hackers.
Kerio: Smart, easy-to-use personal security technology that fully protects PC's against hackers and internal misuse.
Protowall: Very small application that blocks IP address. Very cool.
Prevx: Stops the attacks that bypass anti-virus and firewall products.

Data Encryption

PowerCrypt 2000: Encrypted files, folders and E-mails. This free file lets you hide all your data.
PGP: "Pretty Good Privacy". Actually it's probably the best encryption software out there. Free - PC/MAC
Cryptainer LE: Secure your data and ensure absolute privacy with Cypherix's powerful 128bit encryption.
BitCrypt: A sophisticated tool allowing for encryption of plain text within a bitmap image.
EasyCrypto: Encrypt both standalone files and entire folders. Many cool options here.
MD5HashGen: Simple application that can generate one-way MD5 hashes - Great for password generations.

Data Destroyers

Eraser: FBI just kick in the door? This little program will erase data to a level that the Dept. Of. Defense uses.
KillDisk: KillDisk conforms to US Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard DoD 5220.22-M.
AutoClave: Hard drive sterilization on a bootable floppy.
SuperShredder: Shred's individual files. It's stronger than DOD specs.
DBAN ("Darik's Boot and Nuke") is a self-contained boot floppy that makes it an appropriate utility data destruction.

IP Spoofing

Anonymizer: Installs a small toolbar into your browser. Moves your connection to proxies around the word. Slows connection.
Proxify.com Spoof your IP address without installing software. The paid version is much faster.

Tuning

Monitor System Resources

SpeedFan: Allows you to see your CPU temperature. Good for overclockers and modders.
Motherboard Monitor: Like speedfan, reads temperature and fan RPM data - alerts you when there's trouble.
Si Meter: Great/free/small application that does live monitoring on system resources.
TDIMon: Lets you monitor TCP and UDP activity on your local system.
InterMapper: Gives a visual in real-time view of traffic flows through and between critical network devices and links.
WinBar: A compact program that lets you monitor your system and provides easy access to frequently used controls.

System Cleaning

RegSupreme: Clean up the registry from old entries, speed up your system. 30day trial.
RegscrubXP: A great free registry cleaner for XP. Fix those "weird issues" with Windows.
Beclean: is the complete suite of system cleaner. Registry to history - cleans many things.
CCleaner: Removes unused and temporary files from your PC - allowing it to run faster, more efficiently and saving space.
MyUninstaller 1.0: Uninstall anything, clean out old video drivers, uninstall programs that are not in "add/remove".
DriverCleaner: Made to fully clean out the drivers of ATI and NVIDIA.
MSconfig: Get rid of startup programs that slow your PC down. This would be for Windows 2000.
Starter: It's better than Msconfig. Also works with Windows 2000, which is nice due to the fact that 2k doesn't have msconfig.
CleanCache: Clean up all the recent activity on the drive.
PreFetch cleaner: A pre-fetch scrubber to clean out files that are used commonly - can be corruption or spyware hiding.

Diagnostics

Belarc: Takes a snap-shot about a PC (hardware-software) with a full profile report. This is very handy.
EVEREST: (recently AIDA32). Like Belarc, gives full system summary of hardware and software/keys.
IP subnet calculator: A diagnostics tool to calculate your network latency and subnet information.
CPUid: A very small application that tells you about your specific specs. (FSB, core clock, dual channel etc.).
PC Pitstop: A good site to check how your doing on fine tuning your computer. It will also help you fix your issues.
PowerMax: Diagnostics for hard drives made by Maxtor. Download, put on a floppy or CD and test your HDD.
MemTest86: Diagnostics for your RAM. Download, put on a floppy or Cd and test your RAM.
Sygate PortScan: Scans your ports while looking for Worm activity.
ShieldsUP: Port scanning of all ports or custom scans. See how good your firewall is doing.
BandwidthTest: Test your internet connection speed.
BandwidthTest2: Test your internet connection speed.

Customizing

TweakUI: Perfect for somebody who really wants to customize there XP. (5th one down, made my Microsoft).
X-Setup: Like TweakUI but with more functionality and options. Very slick.
ResourceHacker: Get in and really tweak or fix Windows. Great registry GUI hacking.
Matrix Screensaver: Best (only) Matrix screensaver out on the web. Great options. Here is actual text (change name for you)
FOOOD's Icons: Great free icons for XP. Default is boring.
Strokit: Advanced mouse gesture recognition engine and command processor.
ReForce: Windows 2k and XP have an issue with Hz in games. This will allow you to set all games at a specific Hz setting.
Keyboard Remapper: Remap your keyboard keys. Easy enough.
ClocX: Analog clock for the desktop.
Nlite: Remove or add Windows components to your Windows CD - for next time you re-install Windows.
AutoStreamer: Just like Nlite, this is specifically for adding Service Packs to your Windows install CD's.
Digital Blasphemy: Probably the best wallpapers and images on the net.

Task's

Data Recovery

File Recovery: This is free software made by PC Inspector. Really, Really nice if you lost or trashed a file and need it back.
Smart Recovery: Recover data from flash drives: CF, SM, Tumbdrives, micro drives - etc.
Disk Investigator: Discover all that is hidden on your computer hard disk, recover lost data.
File Scavenger: Undelete and data recovery utility for NTFS volumes. 64KB or smaller files can be recovered with free trial.
CDCheck: Utility for the prevention, detection and recovery of damaged files on CD-ROMs and error detection.
Restoration: Tiny program that doesn't install. Perfect if you trashed a file (even emptied the recycle bin) and you need it back.

Browsers

FireFox: Drop Internet Explorer and get a superior browser. Great pop-up blocking features. (no more spyware!!)
Reload Every: Extension for FireFox. Allows you to set reload times on your browser windows so you won't be logged out.
Maxthon: A skin for IE. If you really think using Internet Explorer is a good thing and want tabbed browsing.(MyIE2)
Google Toolbar: The best search engine on this planet~ Now in your browser. Also it is a Pop-up blocker.

FTP/Remote Administration

FileZilla: An FTP program that is superior to "Cute", and is Free.
WinSCP: Open source SFTP client for Windows using SSH and SCP protocol's. Secure FTP.
FireFTP: If you use FireFox browser (like you should be) - use this plug-in for FTP functionality in your browser.
Gmail Drive: If you have a Gmail account you can use this to create a drive on your system to drag-n-drop files for backup.
TightVNC: Remote control software- see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard.
RemoteDesktop: Microsoft remote desktop client side installer for older Windows versions.
eMando: Client/server package which you can use to control and manage a computer over a LAN or the Internet.
Gserver: A very small remote control software - does not install, just run the .exe. Made for slow connections.
DirectUpdate: Get an Email of your WAN IP address changes even behind a router (for dynamic ISP's). 60day trial ($15.00 - buy).
DynDNS: A full list of dynamic IP administration software tools.

CD Burning/Ripping

CDBurner-XP Pro: Just like it sounds, burning program for Windows. Free.
ISORecorder: Small program to burn images of CD's. Once installed, right click an .ISO's or a ROM drive and "create CD image".
DeepBurner: A full featured Burning app for CD's, DVD's and ISO's. Much like Nero only totally ~~Free
CDex: A free tool allows you to Rip you CD's into MP3's.
DVD Decrypter: Rip DVD's to your hard drive. This will decrypted DVD's to files to be stored (as .VOB files).
DVD Shrink: Remove extra features and compress to fit a DVD (VOB file) to a single blank DVD.
DVDbackup: Free DVD backup tool.

File Sharing/Communications

LimeWire: Great GNU file sharing application. Works fine with SP2.
Shareaza: Like kazaa, however it combines all good P2P networks into one. This is an open source application (GPL).
Azureus: A great torrent client to download "items". Offers multiple torrent downloads, queuing/priority systems.
Skype: Make phone calls for free (VOIP). Sounds better than your normal phone.
Spontania: Video for Skype.
iTalk2U: Basically like Skype, but with some advanced features. WebClick2Call is great for site admin's.
Trillian: Perfect for friends and family who use different instant messaging clients. This combines them all into one.
GAIM: The Open Source AOL IM client -but without the ad's. Combines IM clients all into one.
TeamSpeak: Talk to one another with voice. 1on1 or a bunch of people. Great for multi-player games.
AllSeeingEye: (ASE)- Find your friends playing any popular multi-player game.
XFire: Like "Messenger", however for gamers. Find your friends and join the game they are playing- all in real time.
Agent Newsreader: The best newsreader there is. free

Office Applications

OpenOffice: It's a free Office suite and is back-ward compatible with Microsoft Office.
Palm Organizer: Now have the awesome Palm organizer for Windows. Easy to use and nice for free.
WinRAR: Superior to WinZIP.
PDFcreator: Create PDF's. Download a ghostscript and the patch - print to PDF.
ZipGenius: Zip tool suite - all the functions of a typical compression utility plus extra features.
ThunderBird: ThunderBird replaces that Outlook mail client with a real mailbox.
SunBird: Want the nice calendar in Office 2003? This stand-alone calendar is very sweet.
TinySpell: A very small application that spell checks for you while you type anywhere - I need it. ;)
AceMoney: A freeware personal finance manager. Like MS Money or Quickbooks -free.
CopyX: This little customizable backup/copy utility is in Windows by default - but this makes things easy.
SyncBack: Powerful program that backups and synchronizes your files to: same drive, different drive, CDRW, Network, Zip.
ESBCalc: is a Freeware Scientific Calculator.
BackRex: Outlook Express and Outlook backup tool. Most features in the free version.
Attachment Options: Outlook add-in that provides an interface for changing which file types are restricted as Level 1 attachments which are hidden by Outlook.

Text Editors/HTML Editors

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Crimson Editor: is a professional source code editor for Windows.
jEdit: is a mature and well-designed programmer's text editor that has been in development for over 5 years.
Vim: is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. - voted best text editor
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HTML kit: A full featured, highly customizable Website builder. It's GUI like Dreamweaver.
Matrix Y2K: A free and very slick GUI Website builder like Dreamweaver.
Nvu: Web editing environment based on the Mozilla platform and its Gecko layout engine.

Misc.

FSRaid: Want to read and reconstruct your PAR files? Get it now.
Bootdisk.com: Good if you need a fresh DOS boot disk to Fdisk that HDD.
SystemRescue: This combines "Image drive/Ghost" and "Partition Magic" and many other tools. Free.
NetStumbler: Find WiFi access points. Test signal strengh of hotspots.
AirSnare: AirSnare is an intrusion detection system to help you monitor your wireless network.
WiGLE and Jwire: WiFi Access Locators. Before traveling, take a look at access points you can get on for free.
RoboForm: A free password manager and one-click web form filler. Just be carefull who uses your PC.

Multimedia

Media Players

QuickTime Alternative: No need to download and install "QuickTime", use this instead. Much smaller application.
RealPlayer Alternative: Don't ever install "real one player", just use this instead.
Winamp: Winamp is a great audio player with radio and TV tuner.
VLC DVD: VideoLan is a perfect DVD/Divx media player. Much like PowerDVD.
iTunes: A digital jukebox with a download music store inside.
Musicmatch: A good alternative to Windows Media Player. It's just preference at this point.
DivX: Play MPEG2 files. Great player.

Codecs/Rippers/Converters

Audacity: Audio/sound mixer, that is of course FREE.
SLD codec pack: All Dvix, Xvid etc. codecs combined in one install. Great for using Windows Media Player for these file types.
K-Lite: KL is a large "all-in-one" codec pack.
Bink Rad Video: Perfect tool to rip movie's into an executable player. End-users don't need special codecs to use.
RockNTuneRipper: Record those downloaded music files to high quality MP3 or WAV file format. (edit MP3 ID tags).
VCDgear: Designed to extract MPEG streams from CD images, convert VCD files to MPEG, correct MPEG errors and more.

Photography/Imaging

UnFREEz: Make animated .GIF's very easily and free.
Movie13: .GIF animator with 98 animation wizards including text and actor wizards.
The Gimp: Want PhotoShop but don't want to pay for it? Get the Gimp.
Paint.NET: Image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows XP.
IrfanView: Modify, organize and add effects to almost any image format.
Picasa: Photo organizer that allows you to share photo's easily online with others- very powerful program made by Google.

Video Editing/Ripping

Pivot: Make stick figure animations!. This is cool.
Wink: Make flash tutorials for websites or software "how-to's". 'Teach mom how to use OpenOffice by watching.'
Anim8or: A free "Maya" program. Very tight software that lets you make your own "Toy Story".
Blender: A free GNU 3D manipulation tool. Make movies and effects.
Avid: Perfect for students, DV camera owners, video enthusiasts or anyone exploring video editing.
Zwei-Stein: A non-linear, non-destructive video compositing and editing system which offers many advanced features.
ABC VideoRoll: Easy to use, free video editing. Company no longer exists and some experience bugs with it. Seems ok.
WAX: High performance and flexible video compositing and special effects software. Look at there other free software too!
VirtualDub: Great for capturing and editing your .AVI movies and converting to Divx. Many more features.
Doom9 and Videohelp: Both are great sites to get any other software/help you may need for video encoding.

Games

Enemy Territory: A free and great multi player FPS game. (system intensive)
Americas Army: A very good FPS game that is absolutely free. Play online, sharpen your skills. (system intensive)
Tux Racer: Race downhill on your belly. A solid and pretty game.
Netrek: multi-player battle simulation with a Star Trek theme, team-oriented strategy game with a first person perspective.
Pocket Tanks: Remember Gorilla with the bananas? This is an all new 3D graphical war with a friend or PC-Turn based fighting.
Civilization II: It's "just like" old skewl Civ. Under the GPL licence. Open is everything.
BZFlag: A free multiplayer battle tank action game. They even have a CTF league.
Aqua Bubble: "Tetris like", launch colored bubbles to match like colors.
Head over Heels: More of a platformer (ala Mario). Graphic and cool.
Think Tanks: Comical fast action. Play against online buddies or against the PC.
Ricochet Xtreme: "Breakout" like. - Cool graphics.
SubmarineS: Blowing up stuff is cool.
Dark Throne: massively multiplayer online fantasy game you can play right through your web browser.
PacMan in the office: Yes, a "mini" Pac-Man game.
SolorWolf: is an action/arcade game written in Python. Gather blocks and avoid fireballs.
Many Flash games: Don't need to download or install, just fun flash games.

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