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[Beaming Up]

My basic most important progs

Firewall-ZoneAlarm(free-top of page-"may" cause some issues) http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp?lid=zadb_zadown

Free anti-virus-have used all the paid ones and this one IMHO is the best-frequent updates(2X per week)
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php

Free online virus scan and repair
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Spyware removal program(free with frequent updates)
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

Free security test-click on "common ports" and "all service ports"-My pc is 100% in "Stealth mode"=invisible.
http://grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1dkyd2

Free popup stopper-http://www.panicware.com/product_downloads.html

I previously had Spybot also but found the updates were very infrequent.
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download

Website to turn "Big Brother/Microsoft" "spyware/low security" off(it's a default setting)-many other valuable tips/info
http://www.blackviper.com/

An excellent pc help site
http://www.thecomputermechanics.com/forums/

Had an online site/search box that would state whether program to be d/l contained spyware but lost it!!

Hope this helps and happy safe surfing.