Antivirus & Security

Free!!! AVG Anti-Virus provides excellent protection against computer viruses. This free program includes fine documentation and is a strong all-around contender in the field of anti-virus utilities. It runs constantly in the background, checking files and removable disks before you access them. You can also run complete disk scans manually or by using the built-in scheduler. In addition to scanning your boot sector, memory, and files for known viruses (including macro viruses), AVG Anti-Virus employs heuristic analysis to detect unknown viruses, worms, and Trojan horses. It offers special support for Microsoft Exchange and Outlook, automatically checking all incoming and outgoing email messages and their attachments for virus infections. Other features include boot disk creation, MS-DOS support (useful if you can't load Windows due to virus activity), automatic online updates, logging, and shell extension support. **You may need to go to http://www.grisoft.com to get registered**

Inoculate IT Personal edition( FREE SOFTWARE!!!) A great antivirus.

AntiVir Personal Edition (Free

Norton AntiVirus 2000 If you decide to buy this, you can buy it for really cheap after a limited time rebate, click here.(about 28mb)08-26-99 Symantec/Peter Norton Product Group Norton AntiVirus from Symantec gives you the security of automatic protection against viruses, malicious ActiveX controls and Java applets, and other dangerous code. Norton AntiVirus 2000 for Windows 95/98/2000/NT protects you while you're surfing the Internet or getting information from floppy disks, CDs, or a network. It also automatically scans incoming attachments in the most popular email programs. And Norton AntiVirus is easy to keep updated, with automatic retrieval of new anti-virus definitions from Symantec as often as once a week.

Norton Internet Security 2000 Norton Internet Security provides your PC with comprehensive protection from Internet-based threats and lets you create a safe, supervised environment for family members who use the web. Using Norton Internet Security, you can: Set up a personal firewall that protects your PC and data from curious intruders, malicious hackers, and attacks by rogue Web sites; block objectionable Web sites and specify which types of Internet programs (newsgroups, chat programs, email and so on) can be used by family members; prevent family members from giving out confidential information to Web sites they visit; reduce the risks to your privacy by blocking cookies and referer fields when you visit Web sites; and block banner ads and reduce other visual distractions on web pages. -----Please note, Norton Internet security includes Norton Antivirus 2000.

McAfee VirusScan 5.0(11.72mb) scans the boot sector and memory, as well as system and data areas of disks, for computer virus infections. It adds brand new features and an improved scanning engine to a time-tested product. In addition to constant background scans, it also supplies a scheduler that allows you to perform complete scans at regular intervals or at system startup. It offers support for macro viruses, scanning within archives, and heuristic analysis that allows VirusScan to detect unknown viruses, Trojans, worms, and other suspicious activity. It also offers Internet support in the form of automatic scans of downloaded files, Java applets, ActiveX controls, and email attachments. Other features include virus quarantine support, password protection, an emergency disk wizard, command-line components, and logging support. In addition to a brand new interface, this release features a new offering that performs on-the-fly backups of critical data. Set it up to run at specific intervals, or to monitor critical data files in real time to maintain up-to-date backups. Some minor issues have yet to be resolved, but most will have scant impact on the home user. A complete list of unresolved issues is included. This is supposingly free for some reason. Not sure. E-mail me if you have problems with this, I have fixed many of these problems. McAfee VirusScan is one of the best antivirus programs. Go download this one.McAfee VirusScan Classic 4, really cheap after limited time rebate. ---heres some inside information: It seems that you get McAfee Viruscan for free if you join AllAdvantage, and use it atleast one hour a month if you never heard of it, alladvantage is a program that pays you to surf.---McAfee VirusScan according to downloads.com is a better program overall then Norton Antivirus 2000, Norton is secure, but McAfee is slightly better.

Zone Alarm 2.1.25hot!! Protect your PC from unsavory Internet activity with ZoneAlarm. This free, easy-to-use security utility sets up a personal firewall that's particularly well suited to cable modem users. You can select one of three (low, medium, high) security levels to separately apply to local and Internet traffic. In addition, you can designate which programs on your computer are allowed to access the Internet. Each time a new application attempts to access the Internet, ZoneAlarm alerts you and asks whether or not to allow this access. You can answer in such a way that access is granted without intervention in the future. Anytime an event occurs that ZoneAlarm blocks, you're notified immediately with a pop-up window that details the offense. The program's system tray icon provides a handy menu that enables you to disable all Internet activity with a mouse click. You can also set this "lock up" to activate automatically after a selected period of inactivity or whenever your screen saver activates. Please note for AOL users you must put the security level on medium in order for your browser to work.

May 13, Saturday- 6:39 am CST- New Downloads:HOT!! IDcide Privacy Companion(1.43mb) You are being watched on the web all the time! Do you wish to stop it? IDcide Privacy Companion is a free browser add-on that alerts you when you are being watched on the Net. It also shows you who is following you and lets YOU decide how much personal information to give away with three levels of security. This product is first of its kind to bring web surfers' privacy back to their own hands.

TDS-2*: Trojan Defense Suite The world's most comprehensive anti-trojan package, speech synthesised and detecting over 360 trojans and worms, peace of mind with a state-of-the-art defence system is just a short download away. Also detects port-scanning, trojan hacking attempts and has over 150 configurable items. Automatic updates, a jam-packed featureset, dozens of utilities, and 3rd party plugins extends the use of TDS beyond your imagination.

WebCrypt 2000 Stop linkbacks that eat up your bandwidth. Guard agains spammers who use spiders to get email addresses from your site. Protect your graphics by encrypting your html and using WebCrypt's built in no-right-click script. This software takes your HTML code and encrypts it.

DesktopShield 2000 Keep others from accessing your computer with DesktopShield 2000. You can choose from an array of available options to apply just the right level of security to meet your needs.

F-Secure Anti-Virus(demo) is a comprehensive real-time and on-demand virus scanning and protection system for all Windows platforms. F-Secure Anti-Virus is the first line of anti-virus software to combine multiple-virus scanning engines into a single framework. What one virus scanner misses, another will find.

Cryptext is a fast, easy-to-use encryption program that makes files unreadable to those without the password. Install Cryptext, and it becomes an extension on the right-click pop-up menu, displaying options to encrypt or decrypt files. Simply choose Encrypt, and you're prompted for the password. Cryptext then scrambles the file, making it unusable. Decrypting is just as easy -- simply repeat the procedure, choosing Decrypt. Cryptext includes source code that uses a sophisticated 160-bit key using the RC4 algorithm, making the data virtually uncrackable. For other language versions click here.

Web Sleuth is surveillance software that runs unnoticed and virtually undetectable on your PC, capturing screen images at pre-set intervals and storing them for later viewing. Know what your children or employees are seeing!

April 28, Friday- 3:52 pm CST- New Downloads: SecurDat Keep critical data safe with SecurDat. This fine (and free!) utility automatically backs up key files as they're modified, and maintains copies of previous versions as well. SecurDat runs quietly from the system tray, keping a close eye on the files and folders you've added to its watch list. Add as many folders as you like, then fine-tune your selection with exclusions and file spec filters. A equally high degree of control is offered over the process itself. You can limit the number of backup copies to maintain, select the backup folder, employ a size filter, and impose other limitations to keep your backups from overrunning your disk. Other features include multiple-language support, logging, and a global exclusion list. SecurDat has no noticeable impact on system performance while active.

HackerWacker 2000 PE monitors and logs all user activity on your system. This includes Internet activity. It includes a small personal firewall, email notification, keystroke logging, active window logging, URL logging, firewall logging, file/system logging, executable file logging, options to close apps and lock cursor, User customized word detection system, immunity user list, screen captures, sound notify, stealth mode, and more

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