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Protecting your computer:
It's essential that you protect your computer. There are bad people out there on the web. These programs are free and, on the whole, once installed look after themselves.
We recommend downloading them all!
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Free Anti Virus - damned good for being free! The premium version is better but we take our hats off to this company, updated daily and we have been using this on one of our computers for over five years and it has stayed safe!
AVG Anti Virus:
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Scumware Removal Software |
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Pop up stopper - Actually, we use the Google tool bar. It stops those nasty pop ups and is easy to configure. I know that we have pop up stoppers with Internet Explorer but we've found them a little over zealous. Install the Google Task Bar but remember to set Google's SafeSearch, it blocks web pages containing explicit sexual content from appearing in search results. To do this click on 'preferences' next to the search button.
Pop up stopper:
http://www.google.com/downloads
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Zone Alarm has an enviable reputation for getting the job done. It can cause a little consternation when it alerts you to a program accessing the internet. The program may have a legitimate reason for accessing the internet and you may have never heard from it before but once set up it's awesome.
www.ZoneAlarm.com
Windows Firewall
Remember that Windows has a Firewall that is pretty effective from stopping others seeing you on the Internet... and if they can't see you they can't get to you!
You can easily access this from the control panel!
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Everything for free and easy to use!
There are applications that run faster, work just as well and are not Microsoft made! I'm not knocking Microsoft, it's just that when you get all the software you want it ends up costing more than the computer itself!
The computer industry has the sickly habit of bundling "trial" software with new computers that expires at the end of 3 months! Now I was a Microsoft junkie - nearly everything was MS but I got a new computer and couldn't find my serial numbers for the programs I re installed, so until they came through I made use of free software... and found it was faster had all the facilities i was after!
So I recommend these to you in the safe knowledge that they are comparable in all ways and will take less space up and run faster in most computers!
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Mozilla is a web browser like Internet Explorer and Thunderbird is an email client like Outlook Express.
Free and really good!
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