Below is a list of programs that are either free, or they offer a free edition. These have been chosen as some of the best and we would be more than happy to help you install these. For more details on any individual program, please see the link next to the name. If you need any help installing or running these programs, please feel free to contact us.

Anti-virus, Spyware and Malware Protection

• AVG-Free - http://free.avg.com/
• Spybot Search & Destroy - http://www.safer-networking.org/
• Ad-aware Free - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
• Avast! Free - http://www.avast.com/
• Microsoft Security Essentials - http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/
• Avira Free Anti-virus - http://www.avira.com/
• Comodo Personal Firewall and Anti-virus - http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/
• ComboFix - http://www.combofix.org/
• HijackThis - http://free.antivirus.com/hijackthis/

Mainence Utilities and Performance Boosters

• CCleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com/
• Defraggler - http://www.defraggler.com/
• Revo Uninstaller - http://www.revouninstaller.com/
• Auslogics Disk Defrag - http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/

Web Browsers

• Mozilla Firefox - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
• Google Chrome - http://www.google.com/chrome
• Opera - http://www.opera.com/
• Internet Explorer - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/
• Safari - http://www.apple.com/safari/

Content Filtering Systems

• DansGaurdian - http://dansguardian.org/
• K9 - http://www.k9webprotection.com/
• OpenDNS - http://www.opendns.com/
• Host File Modification - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file
• Glubble for Firefox - http://www.glubble.com/

File & System Recovery Tools

• Macrium Reflect Free - http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp
• DriveImageXML - http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm
• Paragon Drive Backup Express - http://www.paragon-software.com/home/db-express/
• ImageX - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722145(WS.10).aspx
• CloneZilla - http://clonezilla.org/
• TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
• Recuva - http://www.recuva.com/
• PhotoRec - http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
• Restoration - http://www.aumha.org/a/recover.php

Backup / File Copiers

• CrashPlan - http://crashplan.com/
• DropBox - https://www.dropbox.com/
• Mozy - http://mozy.com/
• FastCopy - http://www.ipmsg.org/tools/fastcopy.html.en
• RichCopy - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx
• SuperCopier - http://supercopier.sfxteam.org/?q=node/35
• TeraCopy - http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php
• CopyHandler - http://www.copyhandler.com/en
• RoboCopy - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=72969