Useful links and downloads

[melliska]

If you have any issues/problems with any of these links please contact the forum moderators.

ALL THE LINKS THAT ARE FIT TO PRINT

1. FREE ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE

• AVG 9.0 Free Edition
  
  
• Avast Antivirus
  
  
• Avira AntiVir
  
  
• Microsoft Security Essentials
  
  

2. FREE ONLINE VIRUS SCAN

• Trend Micro Housecall

• Eset Online Scan

3. FREE ONLINE TROJANSCAN

• Windows Security

4. TEST YOUR CONNECTION SPEED

• SpeedTest

5. FREE ANTI SPYWARE PROGRAMS

• SUPERAntiSpyware

6. PASSWORD MANAGER AND FORM FILLER

• LastPass
  
• RoboForm

7. FLY AROUND THE WORLD

• Google Earth

8. FREE WEB BROWSERS FOR SAFER SURFING

• Mozilla

• Google Chrome
  
• FireFox

• Opera

9. FREE BIDIRECTIONAL SOFTWARE FIREWALL

• Comodo
  
• Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall

10. USE HIJACK THIS FOR BROWSER HIJACKING/TOOL OF LAST RESORT

• HijackThis

11. INTERNET TRAFFIC REPORT

• Internet Traffic Report

12. The BELARC ADVISOR builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server.

• Belarc Advisor

PS...Hi everybody!!! *hugs* Melissa

Life is a lesson you learn when you're through.

[jimnms]

For testing bandwidth, I find this tool more acurate:

http://speedtest.dslreports.com

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Learn from the mistakes of others, you won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.

[rdf]

thanks melly, you're the best :-)

[PN]

Microsoft Fix it Center Online

Fix it Center Online

The Ultimate Boot CD For Windows

Ultimate Boot CD

Free Online Spyware/Virus Scanner

To remove Malware use Malwarebytes.

NirSoft provides a unique collection of System and Desktop utilities.

Sysinternals AutoRuns can be used as an alternative to MSConfig.

Not all of us can afford to buy important apps with hefty price tags even if the rest of the world can. So why not try the least expensive alternatives ? free ones?

Adobe Photoshop ? Alternative: The GIMP ? http://gimp.org/

MS Office ? Alternative: ABI WORD ? http://www.abisource.com/

OpenOffice - for Windows and Mac - http://download.openoffice.org/ or LibreOffice

Adobe Illustrator ? Alternative: KARBON14 ? http://koffice.org/

VMware or Parallels - Alternative: Sun VirtualBox - http://www.virtualbox.org/

Norton Ghost or Acronis TruImage - Alternative: Runtime Drive Image XML - http://runtime.org/

For more Alternatives to software: - Alternativeto

For burning CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray - http://cdburnerxp.se/en/home

Online VirusScan - Microsoft Safety Scanner

http://www.openwith.org/

[corlorde]

This is a great start page. Has lots of info, the dictionary-google-you name it.

Be seeing you,

~Corey

REFDESK

Heaven doesn't want me, and hell's afraid I'll take over

[joyt]

TechSupportGuy Forums

really helpful people who actually enjoy solving pc problems!

joy
"Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom under encouragement."
~ Donald A. Laird

[bigbob]

Great site for drivers: http://www.driverguide.com/

[Wise Young]

bigbob, neat sites. I just tested the speed of my connection... 2.7 Mbytes/second (peak) and it took 3.1 seconds to download a 1 Mb file (continuous). Not too shabby considering that it is through an old Apple Airport connected to a cable network. Wise.

[bigbob]

Wise, I cannot take credit for the connection speed link. It was posted by melliska for PN.But while I am posting if anyone goes to www.driverguide.com the login is: drivers and the password is all.

[tvot]

I got some excellent programs here and they come without adware. CDBurnerXPpro worked better than Nero.
http://www.webattack.com/freeware/freeware.html