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Updated last 11/01/2014
| ANTI-VIRUS | ANTI-SPYWARE & ANTI-MALWARE | FIREWALLS |
| 1 AVG - Highly
recommended free anti-virus 2 Avast - Free anti-virus that has been proven year on year 3 Avira - Very lightwieght but powerful anti-virus scanner 4 Microsoft Security Essentials - Microsoft's own free anti-virus, very good and detecting rootkits 5 Panda Cloud Antivirus - Award winning Antivirus using cloud technology |
1 Spybot Search
& Destroy - Destroys spyware on sight 2 Malwarebyte'sAnti-Malware - Very good anti-malware software 3 Adaware - The benchmark for all other anti-spyware programs 4 SUPERAntiSpyware - Very deep scanning software, may catch what others miss |
1 Zone
Alarm - One of the most widley used free firewalls 2 Comodo - Consistently number one free firewall 3 Online Armor - Very good free firewall 4 Outpost Firewall Free - Has very flexible firewall options |
| SYSTEM ANALYSERS | PC CLEANERS | HARD DISK TOOLS |
| 1 PC Wizard 2010 - Very complete sotware that will even scan your graphics card 2 SIW - System Information for Windows, a lightweight and comprehensive program 3 Belarc Advisor - Checks your system and advises on missing updates and anti-virus status |
1 CCleaner - One of the leading tools for cleaning your PC 2 WinOptimizer 2010 - Very good at cleaning and optimizing your PC 3 Glary Utilities - Straight foward PC cleaner |
1 Defraggler - Very useful defrag utility 2 Auslogics Disk Defrag - Disk defragger and optimizer 3 Seatools - Disk analyser and repair utility, can also run in DOS 4 CrystalDiskInfo - Hard disk health and diagnostic program |
| FAN CONTROL | GRAPHICS TWEAKS | HARDWARE MONITORS |
| 1 SpeedFan - Indespensible tool for controling fan speeds and temps 2 AMD OverDrive - Controls AMD CPU and chipset fans 3 I8kfanGUI - For Dell notebooks (Inspiron/Latitude/Precision) |
1 RivaTuner - Tweak utility available for NVIDIA GeForce and ATI Radeon based videocards 2 AfterBurner - Graphics card performance booster 3 ATI tool - Overclocking utility for ATI and NVIDIA card |
1 HW Monitor - Very nice tool giving you a read out of all sensors on your PC 2 Pandora FMS - Powerful montoring tool with graphs 3 CPU-Z - Gathers all important hardware info, focusing on CPU infoHard Drive Health Monitoring & Diagnostic Programs |
| RAM TOOLS | FILE CONTROL | WINDOWS TWEAKS |
| 1 CleanMem - Memory optimizer and cleaner 2 Memtest86 - Memory diagnostic tool |
1 Double Killer
- A great tool for removing duplicate files from your PC 2 Duplicate Cleaner - free tools for removing duplicate files |
1 Autoruns For
Windows - NiceStartup manager 2 Ultimate Windows Tweaker - Program to tweak all versions of windows |
LATEST FREE VIRUS REMOVAL TOOLS
1 Symantec (Norton)
2 McAfee
3 Eset (NOD32)
4 Kaspersky
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