Free Utilities for Your Computer September 20, 2007

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1 Free Utilities for Your Computer September 20, 2007 Frank Crua Phil Goff Dean Steichen 1

2 Free Software Programs Avast! 4 Home Edition AntiVirus ZoneAlarm Firewall WinPatrol 2007 Monitors Malware attacks, Hijackings, Program changes and Start t up programs A Square Free AntiMalware 2

3 Avast! 4 Home Edition Antivirus ALWIL Software is a Czech based company A full featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home users Simple User Interface is used to start on demand scanning Features modules for the protection of IM (Instant Messaging, "chat") and P2P (peer to peer) peer) programs. 3

4 Avast! Antivirus Overview Simple User Interface Very Effective Antivirus Detection kernel Real Time Standard resident protection P2P and IM Program Shields Network Traffic Shield Web Traffic Shield Frequent Automatic Updates Safe, Isolated Virus Storage Chest System Integration Operation Integrated Avast! Virus Cleaner Support for 64 bit Windows 4

5 ZoneAlarm Firewall by Check Point A A firewall shuts your computer's door to hackers A A firewall can block unauthorized access to your Internet connected computer and protect against both known and unknown malicious software and Internet threats. At the same time, a firewall allows your computer complete, unrestricted access to the Internet. 5

6 Downloading Free ZoneAlarm Firewall It may be a challenge to get past the advertising First Log on to On the Home Page on the left under Products click on Home & Home Office Go to the bottom of the new page and under Free ZoneAlarm press click here On Table go to column titled ZoneAlarm Firewall Free Version and click Download At the next window select I only want basic ZoneAlarm Protection At next window select Run or Save 6

7 WinPatrol 2007 Monitoring Program by BILLP Studios WinPatrol alerts you to malware attacks, hijackings and attempted program changes to your computer It allows you to control Start Up programs It has a feature that lets you delay launch of nonessential programs at boot up so Windows loads faster. WinPatrol consumes few resources and doesn't slow your PC." 7

8 WinPatrol Display Window 8

9 A Square Free AntiMalware by EMSI Software Protects against the following: Trojans, Backdoors, Keyloggers and Rootkits Spyware, Adware and TrackingCookies Worms and Bots Dialers 9

10 A Square Display Window 10

11 Other Free Programs AVG AntiVirus Program SpywareBlaster Anti Spyware & Adware Lady the Task Catcher Automatically Restart Programs that Fail, Close or Crash (Associated with WinPatrol). www. Taskcatcher.com 11

12 Google Pack Google Pack Google offers several free utilities that are rock solid. URL is pack.google.com Download Google Installer Select the free software to install on your computer. 12

13 Google Pack Norton Security Scan Google Desktop Google Earth See Earth and Stars Google Photos Screensaver Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer (Great search tool.) Firefox with Google Toolbar Spyware Doctor Picasa Good Photo tagging and editing program. Google Talk Star Office Open Office built by Sun Microsystems. Skype Video telephone calls Adobe Reader Just a convenient link (Programs shown in blue are my favorites) 13

14 Google Pack Google Pack installs a new Icon on Desktop 14

15 Google Pack Be sure to install Spyware Doctor. It is top rated by PC World. 15

16 StarOffice 8 Check out Google s StarOffice Suite of products (in Google Pack) Free clones of MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. 16

17 MediaFire.com MediaFire.com This is a website for sharing large files with others. Rather than attach very large files to s, just upload them to MediaFire and send your friends a link to their location. Friends can logon to MediaFire.com and download the files at their convenience. Totally free (with some annoying advertising). Can upload up to 100mb per file. Can upload unlimited number of files. Accepts Zipped folders ofmultiple files. 17

18 MediaFire.com 18

19 MediaFire.com 19

20 MediaFire.com MediaFire assigns a unique URL to your file and you just send the link to whoever you wish. MediaFire will not let you send folders, but it will let you send Zipped files. Select all the files you wish to transmit, right click them and select send to Compressed (zipped) Folder. MediaFire treats Compressed Folders as if they were a single file. MediaFire is SLOW! Uploading and downloading takes a long time. 20

21 Belarc Advisor Utility that reports everything about hardware and software on your computer. URL is Download and install Belarc Advisor Run the program to see complete info about your computer including all hardware and software Very helpful if you need the model number for any of your components or driver version installed 21

22 Additional Programs Spybot Search and Destroy is the old favorite Can be downloaded at Adaware is an old favorite to remove unwanted advertising. Can be downloaded at Mozy Allows free online backup for up to 2 GB of data. $5 per month buys you unlimited data storage. Backs up data when your computer is not in use (you must leave it on for long gp periods of time.) The first backup may take days or weeks Once the backup is complete, Mozy does incremental backups which are must faster. 22

23 Easy Cleaner Main Pg 23

24 Easy Cleaner Source 24

25 Bulk Rename Utility Main Pg 25

26 Bulk Rename Utility Inst. 26

27 Bulk Rename Utility Source 27

28 System Info Windows Main Pg 28

29 System Info Windows Example 29

30 System Info Windows Source 30