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A Computer Repair Utility Kit

Technibble, the Australian site for aspiring computer techies, recently released the second version of its popular Computer Repair Utility Kit, a collection of 57 hand picked tools to help you diagnose and repair your Windows machine.
While all of the utilities are freely available online, this all-in-one kit saves you the trouble of searching for and [...]

Free firewall

A firewall’s basic task is to regulate the flow of traffic between computer networks of different trust levels. Typical examples are the Internet which is a zone with no trust and an internal network which is a zone of higher trust. A zone with an intermediate trust level, situated between the Internet and a trusted [...]

Free antispyware

Spyware is a term that is given to a category that encompasses a variety of software applications which compromise your system security. Tracking cookies, keystroke loggers, remote administration tools and screen capture applications all fall under the definition of spyware. Spyware is any technology that aids in gathering information about a person or organization without [...]

Free antivirus

Virus scanners work by searching harddisk for files which might be infected by a virus. This method of course is never 100% secure, since only known viruses (or known virus patterns) are detected. If an infection has been detected in a certain file, the virus scanner might be able to clean the file. In that [...]

Online virus scanners

Online antivirus scanner gives you the option of an alternative virus scan without downloading a full product. This is not a replacement for full antivirus programs but an alternative second opinion. Each online antivirus has requirements. Most of them work only with Internet Explorer. But Trend Micro Housecall and Panda NanoScan work also with Firefox.