[Caipirabob]

Ping!

I know you like these threads.

For those who are looking for some decent protection, I'd suggest "Peerguardian" or at least appreciate your thoughts on it.

[martin_fierro]

FREE PC PROTECTION: (Not an exhaustive list. Your results may vary. Void where prohibited. For entertainment purposes only. No wagering, please. Whattayawantfernuthin'.) (Thanks, but "Buy a Mac" doesn't qualify as "FREE PC protection")

Free Alternative browsers: Mozilla FireFox Opera Free Antiviral protection: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition Free Firewalls: ZoneAlarm Sygate Personal Firewall (thanx KoRn) Test your firewall from without with: ShieldsUP! DSL Reports Port Scan Test your firewall from within with LeakTest Free General Anti-Malware tools: Prevx Intrusion Detection (thanx TomGuy) WinPatrol (thanx TomGuy) Free Popup ad killers: Bayden Systems Popup Popper: Blocks popup ads well in MSIE Shoot the Messenger: Close that friggin' Messenger in Windows XP Free Spyware removers: Spybot S&D AdAware Free System Diagnostics: Everest Home Edition (thanx TomGuy) Free Windows Update: Windows Update LAST BUT NOT LEAST: Explore Linux as an alternative OS: Try Linux without installing it on your hard drive, via a free bootable CD-ROM! Download Knoppix (or one of these other Linux distributions), burn the ISO file onto a CD-ROM, and reboot with the CD-ROM in its drive. If you later want to install Knoppix on your hard drive, here are some tips. Ubuntu Linux (free, user-friendly download)

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placemarker

[ellery]

bump!

[A Cyrenian]

Great post. Thanks for the information.

[tet68]

Ref.bump

[OriginalChristian]

Your expenditure of time and effort for the common good is commendable. Thank you very, very much.

Godspeed...

[OriginalChristian]

Your expenditure of time and effort for the common good is commendable. Thank you very, very much.

Godspeed...

[2nd amendment mama]

Bookmark for later

[Rev DMV]

save and bttt

[SpottedBeaver]

Thanks for the post... bump.

[bad company]

Bookmarked and bumped

[Dazedcat]

Nice list, thank you for doing this.

Here it's been AVG anti-virus, Zone Alarm firewall and the Firefox web browser for quite awhile now. Life online couldn't be any better.

[wzlboy]

ping for later review....

[Proud_texan]

A pretty good list. A couple that I use:

The first is fgrep, a command line utility from the DOS days that still runs just fine from the command prompt. Blazing fast, it'll find just what you're looking for: http://www.covesoftware.com/fgrep/fgrep.htm

Treewalk DNS server. Why would you want to run a DNS server? Most likely the one you use at your ISP is overloaded and the bottleneck in your surfing. Easy to set up and see if it improves anything for you: http://ntcanuck.com/

What? No mention of Powertoys? Yeah, they're from the evil Microsoft but cleartype tuner alone makes it worth a mention: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

[Tee4Two]

ping

[Jack of all Trades]

mark

[hobson]

For those who may want to purchase software like Photoshop and Macromedia products, check out http://soft4download.com. These guys purchase unused licenses from OEM's (i.e., Dell, HP) and re-sell them CHEAP -- Photoshop goes for 69.95 as opposed to 600.00.

[LanPB01]

Bookmark

[rwfromkansas]

Rock on.

Sweet list.

By the way, does anybody know what the cause might be for my Windows PC having the backslash look like a W with a horizontal line through it when it displays a file location?

It works fine in Mozilla when I type the backslash like this \, so it obviously is not the keyboard...somewhere the computer is screwing up the interpretation of the symbol. It is not a big deal since it isn't causing any problems, but it is annoying....