Useful Links
Anti Virus and Security Suites
Agnitum Outpost Pro A premier firewall
solution. Agnitum also offers an excellent Antivirus and a very effective
Security Suite. These products are easy on resources and simple to use.
Agnitum Outpost Product List Here is a complete list of Agnitum Oupost products. You can purchase or renew your product here.
By Grisoft Software. AVG can be purchased
with Antivirus only, Antivirus with firewall or AVG Security Suite. Set up and
installation is very straight forward.
Here is a complete list of AVG
products. You can purchase or renew your AVG product here.
Online Virus and spyware scans
McAfee AVERT Stinger Download and run this program regularly. It will detect and eliminate many of the more common viruses. This is a great program if your Anti Virus is having trouble eliminating some viruses.
Trend Micro Free Virus Scan Scan your machine for viruses. This is a free service by Trend Micro
Panda Active Scan Scan your machine for viruses. This is a free service by Panda Software
Firewalls
Kerio offers a personal firewall and several firewall options for your server. Kerio blocks banner ads and pop ups. If you download and install the free version you will have all the features for 30 days, then it will become the free version unless you purchase the product.
ZoneAlarm Pro An excellent firewall. Very simple.
Gibson Research Check and see how well your firewall is working.
Arin Whois Find out who an IP address belongs to. Many firewall's will report an IP address, but not its owner.
Internet Browsers
Mozilla Firefox An excellent web browser. More secure than Internet Explorer. Has a built pop up blocker. Recomended by most computer professionals.
Slim Browser An excellent web browser. Has a built in pop up blocker and URL filter. You can add or delete any site you want from your Pop Up Blocker or URL filter. Slim Browser also lets you tab between web pages. Simple to use and very fast!
Spyware Prevention and Removal
Ad Aware Stops annoying ads by eliminating the unwanted cookies. This does a great job of stopping popup ads without interfering with necessary cookies.
CWShredder This product eliminates Cool Web Search and its variants.
Hijack This can be downloaded from this site.
Malwarebytes A very important tool for eliminating Malware and other threats.
SpywareInfo This web site is a good resource to obtain current information on spyware, pop up windows and other threats. Some useful downloads are also provided.
Spybot Search & Destroy One of the best solutions for eliminating spyware we have seen
Spyware Blaster 2 Prevents Spyware from being installed on you machine in the first place. Works extremely well with Spybot Search & Destroy
Webroot Spy Sweeper If you have Spyware that you just can't seem to get rid of Spyware Sweeper may well be the product to do the job. Webroot Spy Sweeper gives you a 30 day free trial.
Maintenance
Ace Utilities A great program for cleaning your registry, cleaning history, eliminating temp files and much more.
Atomic Clock Here is a great way to keep the clock in your computer accurate, down to the second. You can download a free sync utility.
CacheManXP can greatly improve the performance of you computer by optimizing several caches, auto-recovering RAM and fine tuning a number of system settings.
IO Bit Smart Defrag is a great utility to defrag your hard drive. Once it is set up, it will defrag your drive whenever your cpu usage is below a pre-set limit, which is by default 10%. We have found this utility very useful and it free to download and use.
O&O Software provides an excellent defrag program. It is more efficient and much faster than the defrag program that comes with Windows. O&O Software also provides O&O SafeErase, O&O UnErase and O&O DiskRecovery
System Mechanic Allows you to optimize Windows. An excellent program. This utility is great for optimizing your broadband connection and network.
TweakAll A great product for fine tuning your Windows and there is no charge to use it!
Check out Internet and Email Virus Hoaxes
Most virus warning are hoaxes. Use these sites to check them out.
Stop Email Spam
Sneakmail allows you to send and
receive email and never give out your actual email address. An excellent way to
enjoy chat rooms or buy online and not be bothered by spammers.
How to stop email spam For more detailed instructions on stopping Spam.
Boycott Internet spam! Cauce Coalition
Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
Web Development
1st Page 2006 A very popular HTML editor. It is free and very useful. This site also has many useful resources for improving or starting your site.
AMAYA A very useful WYSIWIG HTML editor. It is free and greatly simplifies entering tables. It is also very handy for entering text. If you need web pages that are compatible with any web browser this should be your editor or choice.
Anybrowser This site has many useful tools, in particular you can check to see which browsers your pages are compatible with.
Netmechanic Use this site to get your pages optimized. This site will help you eliminate errors and compatibility problems from your web pages.
