Freeware Antivirus, Firewalls and more!

[Wildhawk]

A list of good freeware programs from PC Magazine. The ones with the * I've used or am currently using. Enjoy and if you have any comments on these or other good freeware share with the group.

Antispyware
Ad-Aware SE Personal 1.06 www.lavasoftusa.com *
Microsoft Windows Antispyware (beta) www.microsoft.com
Spybot Search and Destroy 1.4 www.spybot.info *

Antivirus
AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic www.free-av.com
Avast! 4 Home Edition www.avast.com
AVG Free Edition www.grisoft.com *

Firewalls
Kerio Personal Firewall 4 www.kerio.com *
Sygate Personal Firewall 5.x www.sygate.com *
ZoneAlarm 6 www.zonelabs.com *

Office Suites
OpenOffice.org www.openoffice.org
ThinkFree Office Online www.thinkfree.com

Images and Graphics
GIMPshop www.plasticbugs.com
PhotoPlus 6 www.freeserifsoftware.com

Photo Managers
Picasa www.picasa.com *
Preclick Silver Photo Organizer www.preclick.com

Maps
Google Earth www.earth.google.com *

[stratman50th]

Microsoft Windows anti-spyware (beta) didn't do so hot. It missed a lot of stuff that ad-aware and spybot S&D found.
We all loaded it on our machines to test it out and nobody liked it. Problem is finding a good anti spyware that has an enterprise addition and finds everything, or most everything.

[PhantomLord]

you seem to have covered all of my bases already.

[AryanDawn]

Thefreesite.com has a good collection of useful programs. I use their EasyZip.

[stratman56]

I use AVG anti-virus and it works very good! Light on system resources too!

Google Earth is AWSOME!

Thanks for the post!