Stop Wasting Your Money Buying Firewalls, Spy-Ware and
Anti-Virus Software
Who needs all this protection anyway? The answer is everyone,
well at least everyone who connects to the internet. Lets face
it, there are a lot of nasty people out to spoil your day by
infecting your computer with a virus or worse retrieving all of
your personal information and even stealing your identity. To
avoid this, like most people you will go out and buy the best
firewall, spy-ware and anti-virus software you can find, it's
not cheap, but you don't care so long as your protected. You
will pay to be protected because you have no choice, or do you?
What a lot of people don't realize is that there are many good
down loadable free software programs on the internet that rival
there expensive counterparts. You don't have to spend a lot of
money to be protected as a matter of fact you don't have to
spend any money at all, because these programs are totally free.
May I suggest the following four freeware programs, they are
easy to use and give excellent protection against hackers and
viruses.
Avast Home Edition is a complete anti-virus package, that is
free for registered home non-commercial users. It contains an
on-demand scanner with two interfaces (simple for novices and
advanced for experienced users), an on-access scanner with
Standard Shield (which protects against execution and opening
malware programs) and an embedded e-mail scanner which scans
incoming and outgoing email messages. avast! Home integrates
with the Windows Explorer right click menu and also includes a
special screen saver which is able to scan your system while
your computer is not in use.
Spyware Blaster doesn`t scan and clean for so-called spyware,
but prevents it from being installed in the first place. It
achieves this by disabling the CLSIDs of popular spyware ActiveX
controls, and also prevents the installation of any of them via
a webpage.
AdAware is a privacy tool, that scans your memory, registry,
hard, removable and optical drives for known data-mining,
aggressive advertising, and tracking components. It then lists
the results and offers to remove or quarantine the components.
The program detects a wide range of adware/spyware related
issues and can be updated with the latest signatures via the
built-in update utility.
Sygate Personal Firewall is more than an advanced, user-friendly
personal firewall -- it is a bi-directional intrusion defense
system. Sygate Personal Firewall ensures your personal computer
is completely protected from malicious hackers and other
intruders while preventing unauthorized access from your
computer to a network. In essence, Sygate Personal Firewall
makes your protected machines invisible to the outside world.
I use all of these programs on my own personal computer and have
found that they give excellent protection against hackers and
viruses and are as good or exceed any software out there
regardless of price.To learn more about and to download any or
all of these free programs for your own personal use go to
http://www.ajlfreeweb.com/free_software2.htm