How to Secure Your PC with free software - Updated

These days there are a lot of people paying for software they can get for free. I have included a list of products, I have used, and do the job the same or better than products that can cost hundreds of dollars.

If you have any suggestions or products you think are better feel free to post them !!

For a antivirus program, I think AVG antivirus is your best solution. Not only is it free for personnel home use, but it works better the Nortons and doesn't use a lot of system resources. AVG Antivirus.

Everyday you here of new vulnerabilities with Microsoft Internet Explorer. I don't know about you, but I am sick of patching IE. Also IE is terrible with pop-ups. Even with XINXP SP2, you still get popups. What to do?? Get a new Internet Browser. I have tried multiple browsers including Netscape and Opera, but I think Mozilla Firefox is the best, and its a pretty small download. It features many plugins and skins. If you need your browser to do it, most likely Firefox will do it. You can download firefox.

If you still need to use IE, some sites only work with it, then you need a good popup blocker. Google offers a excellent popup blocker, that also lets you do a google search from your IE menu bar. To download the Google toolbar

Thunderbird 1.0 is Mozilla’s next generation e-mail client. Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the industry’s best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, saved search folders, builtin RSS support, privacy protection and much more.

Even the best and most cautious PC user gets spyware,adware, and malware. The best solution to trying to prevent this is to install a software firewall and a spyware scanner. I have had the best luck with the following 2 products.

Firewall : Zone Alarm

Spyware scanner: Ad-Aware