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Looking for a good list of freeware and software? Check these out. I hope this site is a help to the new users.

Firewalls: www.zonelabs.com. You need one of these first, ZoneAlarm from Zonelabs. Read it all and set the permissions right. This one is not too bad. A firewall is basically a filtering router it protects an internal lan or network from an unprotected network. Security policies are about who or what can use the services and programs and files on your computer.

Anti Virus programme: Spybot is a good free one. Or you could try AGV. Spyware is all over the internet , invading your personal privacy.Some spyware is embeded into downloaded software/cd software and some can come via your web browser and active-x/java scripts in web pages.Also Adaware from www.lava.de is also good. If you read the comments by their users you can make your own mind up about which to use.Mailwasher is good at stopping all the spam mail.

Downloading files: P2p is good and use WinMx from www.winmx.com and kazaa lite from cleanclients.sk or www.kazaalite.com

If say a divx file you've just downloaded wont play the video attatched, you'll need CODECS... available at www.geocities.com/addict1_uk

To burn cd's use CloneCD and Nero. Cloneyxxl from http://kickme.to/englishclony because it helps a lot with copy protection issues.

To copy dvd's use dvd2avi smartripper TmpgENC You get these from www.geocities.com/addict1_uk. Help is at www.vcdhelp.com.Only if you know what you are doing with the registery check out this reg cleaner at www.vtoy.fi/jv16/shtml/software.shtml. It'll sort out the registry problems on "trial periods".

For your driver back up when you need tore-install on another computer go to www.jermar.com. It'll find all the right drivers and save them to where you want.

With media players win-media 6.1 and with added codecs along with Winamp from www.winamp.com.

If you have a lot of passwords you want to store becuse it's hard to remember them all you can put them here at http://www.romanlab.com/apw/ it has a master password controlling the file. Or ou could use Pegasus Mail which is free. There site is at http://www.pmail.com/ Or even Eudora at http://www.eudora.com/ though ad supported.

For mail try Foxmail it's free, and its ad free, imports everything from outlook and also hotmail, so you don't have to go to that site.ICQ for chatting ,DAB Bar runs Wavefinder and Soulseek for top quality tunage.For something that will make upload/download speeds in real time utry Miranda ICQ.It's an opensource clone of the popular IM software ICQ .If you are into hand-coding websites, try the free First Page 2000 from Evrsoft. it's simple and very good.

serials2000 is great for serials and cracks. Its updates every 2 weeks http://www.serialz.to/

A great freeware is BS Player, as it's the best and most feature-rich DiVX/XVID/other media player there is. When it's combined with ffdshow it's a veritable DiVX-playing powerhouse.

To detect whether you have a computer virus try micronetservice.com