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Malware Detector and Removal Tools

  • Free AVG Anti-Virus - Grisoft has made it a little harder to find their free edition, and it is free for only one computer in your home. If you have more than 2 computers, you will need to purchase AVG Pro Single Edition or even AVG Network Edition.
  • avast! Home Edition - Another free for home-use anti-virus.
  • Microsoft Security Essentials - Free, from Microsoft.  Getting good reviews; very small footprint.
  • Spybot Search & Destroy - A very good anti-spyware program - free.
  • Hijackthis Anti browser hijacking and spyware tool.
  • a-Squared HiJackFree - A free way to scan your system and kill malware, particularly good for advanced users.
  • SUPERAntiSpyware - Another good anti-spyware remover and dectector that has both free and paid versions.
  • Malwarebytes Anti-Malware - This is the first tool we've seen that will remove Anti-Virus 2008 & 2009.  Great.
  • Remove Fake Antivirus - Works surprisingly well.  I recommend booting into Safe Mode and then running after installation.  You can reach Safe Mode by restarting your system, and pressing F8 before Windows begin loading.

Anti-Spam

  • SpamBayes - Works great with Outlook; not quite so easy to setup with Outlook Express.

Microsoft Office Replacement

  • OpenOffice - a good, free Microsoft Office replacement.

PDF Viewers, Creators and Convertors

Great Chrome Add-ons

 

  • Chrome SEO - Gotta keep up with search engine statistics.
  • Delicious Bookmarker - As I’ve said before, Delicious is a great place to store links to websites for later use – even years later.
  • Facebook for Google Chrome - Keep up with your notifications from the button.
  • IE Tab – For those sites that only work in IE (I pity the fools that build these sites)
  • RSS Subscription Extension – An obvious missing feature.
  • Send Link – Another obvious missing feature.  This one adds a “mail to:” button.
  • StumbleUpon – Incredibly useful timewaster for Internet surfing.
  • TooManyTabs for Chrome – Run with a dozen or more tabs open?  Get lost?  TooManyTabs to the rescue.
  • Xmarks Bookmarks Sync – Although bookmark sync is available for the Chrome browser, Xmarks kicks it up a notch by storing passwords, too.

 

Great Firefox Add-ons

  • IE Tab - Open Internet Explorer-only sites within a tab in Firefox.
  • Colorful Tabs - Colors every tab in a different color to make them easy to distinguish.
  • Delicious Bookmarks - Access your bookmarks wherever you go.
  • Foxmarks Bookmarks Synchronizer - Synchronize your Firefox bookmarks across multiple computers.
  • ScribeFire - Full-featured blog editor integrated into Firefox.
  • Tab Catalog - Show thumbnail-style catalog of tabs.
  • Tabs Open Relative - Tabs open to the right of the current one.
  • Tab Mix Plus - Duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus MUCH more.
  • Stumbleupon - Possibly the greatest web-surfing tool of all time.
  • Secure Login - A username and password tool similar to Opera's Wand.
  • Download Statusbar - Control downloads from a tidy statusbar - without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.
  • Classic Compact Theme - Compresses, without losing functionality, of the file menu, tabs, icon bar, etc.  Especially useful for any widescreen monitor and most laptops.  I even use it on my conventional aspect 19" monitors in my office because you can never have enough vertical real estate to display a web site.

Utilities and Other Applications

  • License Crawler - Simple utility for scanning serial numbers and registration keys for software installed on a PC.
  • Belarc Advisor - Does the same as License Crawler, but also reports on hardware and other internals.
  • File and Folder Unlocker - This utility allows you to delete files and folders that are locked to be unlocked and then deleted if necessary.
  • Revo Uninstaller - More powerful than Microsoft Windows Add/Remove Programs.
  • Ultimate Boot CD - An INCREDIBLY useful CD that you can create and boot to with dozens of utilities to wipe data, recover files, run diagnostic test, partitioning, etc. For Advanced users.
  • Sysinternals Utilities - Once an independent company, now part of Microsoft, Sysinternals have created a number of beginner and advanced utilities for Windows, such as Contig, a defrag utility, which also is included with Power Defragmenter below.
  • Defraggler - From the makers of CCleaner, is another great tool, this time for quickly defragging your hard drive.  Completely free for personal and corporate use.
  • JkDefrag - Free defragmenter that has a screensaver version - just set it to be your screensaver, and whenever the screensaver is invoked, it defrags your hard drive.
  • Microsoft Powertoys - Useful utilities from Microsoft such as TweakUI, SyncToy, Color Control Pallet, and Alt-Tab Replacement.
  • Local Cooling - used to find energy savings from turning monitor and harddisk off.
  • Free Duplicate file removal tool- Search windows and remove duplicate files with this tool.
  • FreeUndelete - From OfficeRecovery.com comes a free utility to undelete files from NTFS, FAT32 and FAT16 drives.
  • Win Data Recovery - Recover deleted files, files from repartitioned hard drive, even damaged drives.
  • Carbonite, unlimited online backup for only $49.95 per year. We use this at Kirkham Systems.
  • Office Compatibility Pack - Allows your older version of Microsoft Office to open and edit the new file formats of Microsoft Office 2007.
  • 7-Zip, the free file compression utility.
  • Password Corral uses strong encryption to protect your passwords. If you are like me, you probably have hundreds of user names and passwords, and this free utility will protect them, yet remain easy to access. I recommend using a strong password that you do not use for anything else to protect the passwords inside Password Corral.
  • KeePass - Another good password storage program. KeePass is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish).
  • Eraser - a great way to permantly wipe data from your hard drive. You can wipe files, directories, or even entire disk with this FREE utility.
  • BlogDesk - a great productivity booster if you have a single or multiple blogs.
  • StumbleUpon - download this tool, and you can randomly search the web for sites others find interesting in the categoreies you choose.
  • ieSpell - a spell checker plug-in for Internet Explorer.
  • Internet Explorer Collection - Installs and runs multiple version of Internet Explorer from version 1.0 to 8.0 RC.  Indispensable for web developers.  Pretty much useless for everyone else.
  • Inline Search - You know when how you start typing something and some applications just drill right down and find while you are typing, such as Quicken? Well, this Internet Explorer plug-in does this for the search function in IE.
  • Open Last Closed Tab - Does exactly what it says. If you accidently close a tab, press [ALT]+[X], and it will reopen after installing this Internet Explorer plug-in.
  • Norton Removal Tool - completely removes Norton products from your computer.
  • Winamp Media Player - nice easy to use media player for video's and songs.
  • VLC Media Player - A very basic media player. Can play many file types. Also can play incomplete files.
  • DVD Flick - Comprehensive video burning tool.  Burn nearly any video file to a DVD for playback in a normal DVD player.
  • Memtest - Here is a link to a download for a bootable memory testing tool. In order to use this you must burn it to a bootable disk with nero or another CD burner.
  • CCleaner - CCleaner is a free and fast system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history.
  • FastStone Screen Capture is a free and powerful screen capture utility that will save to a variety of file formats, and allows you to tweak the capture before saving. You use options that allow you to capture certain objects, such as Window, menu, toolbar, etc.
  • NK2info - this utility will retrieve email addresses that you have sent to with Outlook, but did not save in Contacts.
  • PC Decrapifier - Remove "trial" versions of software from your new PC, speeding it up.
  • MyUninstaller - removes those pesky programs that will not remove or uninstall themselves properly.
  • NetStumbler - for finding wireless access points and checking for available channels or for mac use macstumbler.
  • YahooPops - I'm not sure if this causes problems with Yahoo's Terms of Service, but it allows you to access your Yahoo! mail directly into an Email client, such as Outlook for free.
  • StartupRun - Easier to use and more informative than using Microsoft's built-in startup manager, msconfig. Use this application to speed up not only your Windows boot time, but also the overall performance of the PC by turning off unnecessary programs that rob your computer of memory.
  • Notepad++ - A great notepad replacement. Designed for programmers, useful for just about anyone that needs a text editor.
  • VLC Media Player - This media player will play practically all types of video files.
  • Free FLV Converter - Download and convert YouTube videos and more.
  • Dial-a-fix - no, this is not a modem fixer.  It is a utility that can fix Windows Installer problems, Windows Update problems
  • Synergy - Use your desktop keyboard and mouse to run your laptop.
  • EBCD - With EBCD you can recover deleted file, even file re-deleted from Windows Recycle Bin; wipe single file or a whole disk so that it will be impossible to recover it in any way; recover data from accidently formatted disk; recover master boot record of HDD.
  • ExplorerXP - Good replacement for Windows Explorer.
  • Iconoid - Magically hide and unhide desktop icons.
  • VirtualBox - Run multiple operating systems on the same PC, simultaneously.
  • Driver Control - Deep inspect drivers installed on your computer, search for updates, Google to find out what they are.
  • StylePix - Gimp too advanced?  This is a good graphics/photo editor.  Free.

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