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free Protection For Your Computer
mattytun
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Protect Your Computer For Free!!
Protecting your computer doesn't have to be an ongoing expense these days. There is more than enough quality protection available for free if you know where to find it. That's right, zilch, zero, gratis.
From the list below, choose one anti-virus program and one firewall (any more than one of each may cause conflicts and performance issues). Then take any number of privacy and anti-spyware/trojan programs.
Free Anti-Virus Software
Free Anti-Rootkit Tools
Free Firewall Software
Free Anti-Spyware Software
Free Spyware Prevention Software
Free Privacy Protection Software
Free Online Virus & Spyware Scans
Free Single File Scanners
Protecting your computer doesn't have to be an ongoing expense these days. There is more than enough quality protection available for free if you know where to find it. That's right, zilch, zero, gratis.
From the list below, choose one anti-virus program and one firewall (any more than one of each may cause conflicts and performance issues). Then take any number of privacy and anti-spyware/trojan programs.
Free Anti-Virus Software
- AVG Free Edition
- AntiVir Personal Edition Classic
- Avast Home Edition
- Bit Defender Free Edition (no real-time protection)
- ClamWin Free Anti-Virus
- eTrust Anti-Virus *90 day free trial
Free Anti-Rootkit Tools
- GMER
- Rootkit Revealer
- F-Secure's Blacklight
- IceSword's Anti-Rootkit - English Version
- DarkSpy's Anti-Rootkit
- AVG's Anti-Rootkit
- Sophos Anti-Rootkit
Free Firewall Software
- Comodo Personal Firewall
- Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall.
- Zone Alarm
- Outpost Free Firewall **Not for XP
- Ashampoo Free Firewall
Free Anti-Spyware Software
- AVG Anti-Spyware **30 Day Trial of Full Version Reverts to Freeware
- SUPERAnti-Spyware
- Ad-Aware 2007 Free
- Spybot Search & Destroy
- Tenebril Spycatcher Express
- Windows Defender
- a-squared
- Spyware Terminator
Free Spyware Prevention Software
Free Privacy Protection Software
Free Online Virus & Spyware Scans
- Eset Online Scanner
- Kaspersky Online Web Scanner
- Panda ActiveScan
- F-Secure Online Virus Scanner
- Trend Micro HouseCall
- Trend Micro (Europe) (Java)
- eTrust Web Scanner
- Bit Defender Online Scan
- Ewido Online Trojan Scanner
- WindowSecurity.com Trojan Scan
Free Single File Scanners
Can't sleep, quit counting sheep and talk directly to the shepherd :cool:
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