We have found free software that helps make your Internet experience safer, more enjoyable and productive. Although they may not be the absolute best program in it's catagorie, they are free high quality programs with many of the same features as their commercial counter-parts.

(Free) Essential Internet Software
AVG Anti-virus (Anti-Virus system to reliably protect your computer and data with free updates)
Zone Alarm Basic v3.1 (a firewall that provides the basic protection individuals need to secure their PC and keep their valuable information private)
Sygate Personal Firewall (free for personal use, prevents unauthorized or malicious applications from bypassing the firewall, easy to use)
PC Inspector™ (file and data recovery program that supports FAT12/16/32 and NTFS file systems.Finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged)
Email Remover™ v3.0 or Pop3 Scan (retrieves email header info and lets you delete unwanted email without downloading it)
Acrobat® Reader™ (view and print Adobe PDF files)
Pop-Up Stopper® (browser pop-up ad blocking utility for Internet Explorer and Netscape)
Free Surfer (EMS Free Surfer mk II is an intelligent popup stopper, cache cleaner and surfing companion from EMS-Project)
Spybot (SpyBot-S&D searches your hard drive for so-called spy- or adbots, and removes them)
Ad-Aware (free multi spyware removal utility that scans your memory, registry and hard drives for known spyware)
FreeZip v1.4.9 (a small, fast and efficient Zip utility for compression and decompression of files and directories with a Windows Explorer interface)
WS_FTP LE (32-bit) v5.08 (a standard FTP client with an easy-to-use graphical interface and advanced features)
RealPlayer
Trillion (allows you to chat in ICQ, AIM, IRC, MSN and YIM...skinable, no spyware, no ads)

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