[dba-Tech] Free security tools

In place of AVG, you might consider Avast http://www.avast.com/
I've switched to it recently and find it less intrusive.

Apart from security, a few other free for home use general utilities for ordinary users would 
be:  

Firefox  - do I need to explain? :-)
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/

Irfanview  graphics viewer and manipulator
http://www.irfanview.com

ATNotes - great sticky notes program - discontinued, but still the best out there
http://atnotes.free.fr/

Simple MP3 Maker - rip audio CDs to MP3
http://www.geocities.com/simplelance/

Foxit - a smaller, faster alternative to Adobe Acrobat Reader
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/

Polestar Virtual Printer - print to PDF or picture
http://www.polestarsoft.com/

and of course
Pegasus Mail - simply the best email program out there at any price
http://www.pmail.com

Then of course, there is all the great software on OpenDisk - too much to list
http://www.theopendisc.com/programs/


-- 
Stuart


On 19 Feb 2009 at 11:47, Tydd Jon - Slough wrote:

> 
> Hi all
> 
> I'm putting a document together on our intranet page about free
> security tools for our users home pc's, and I've recommended AVG,
> Ad-Aware, Spybot and Zonealarm. 
> 
> I've been asked, however, to provide some other tools that people
> might like to use, but googling isn't leading me anywhere useful. So I
> wondered if anyone here would be able to recommend some (with links to
> download locations too??) 
> 
> Thanks muchly
> 
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
> 
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