Anti Spyware/Adware
Microsoft Antispyware and Malicious Software Removal Tool
Pat Kolla's Spybot Search & Destroy
Note: If you're still using v 1.2, you can't get any new updates ... time to get the new version
Download v 1.4 here or go you can look for other mirrors
http://users.belgacom.net/bn908936/spybotsd14.exe Lavasoft's AdAware SE [download]
JavaCool Software's Spyware Guard. [download] Notice that this is java, and therefore somewhat slow.
Earthlink has a free, online spyware scan. If you have a slow net connection, don't bother.
Anti Virus/Worm
McAfee's multi-virus/worm scanner/removal tool: Stinger all-in-one scanner/cleaner for the latest 40 or so most common virii and worms - stand-alone program, no install.GRI's Free AVG AntiVirus is one of the few free antivirus products left. [download]
AVAST! is another free anti virus [download]
Free Online Scanners:
TrendMicro - Trojan and Virus Check
WindowSecurity - Trojan and Virus Check
Sygate SOS - Not only will it scan for trojans, but also checks for port vulnerabilities exploited by trojans/viruses.
Network/Internet
The Firefox browser (a strippped-for-speed version of Mozilla)lets you use tabbed browsing, will block pop-ups, and is immune to a lot of the IE specific mal-code out there.
If you don't want to switch from IE, try adding Foxie the addon for IE that will give you tabbed browsing and security to ignore pop-ups and many of the spyware infections that IE is prone to. [download]
NetPeeker is a great utility that monitors all network activity and breaks it down to individual process allowing you to cut off worms or set speed limits for programs or connections.[download]
Network Tester/Analysis QCheck 3.0 [download]
System Utils
Cool Tools from Systernals:Autoruns and Autorunsc lists everything loaded at boot-time. [download]
RootkitRevealer compares what is listed as running by the system with the start-up files to reveal programs that are attempting to hide themselves from view. (Some are legitimate, but others are malicious programs) [download]
Bluescreen Screen Saver a fun screen saver that emmulates the blue screen of death and even the following reboot [download]
PageDefrag allows you to defragment paging space and the registry hives which cannot normally be defragmented. [download]
Miscellaneous Tools is a various functions like displaying disk useage (du) forcing windows to write out any pending data (sync) and see which volumes reside on which physical drives and where.
SpaceMonger is a quick, free util to see where all your disk space went.
Download from simtel here.
TUGZip is a free file archive compression/decompression tool. It works with every archive format I've heard of (zip, rar, gz, tgz, cab) and few I haven't (imp, yz1, 7-zip). [download here]
Like linux for somethings, but don't want to reboot all the time? I learning more about coLinux which runs natively on top of Windows 2000/XP ... it seems pretty sweet, but it's kindo isolated presently and doesn't let me access files on the MS partitions.
Misc
WorldTime is the little time syncronizer and timezone calculator that I use. It can be set to show as many or as few time zones as you like and just uses a tiny amount of screen space.Picasa is a great, basic photo editing and index program from the google people that is free.
Inkscape is a free, open source vector graphics editor. As of August 2005, it's at version 0.42; so it's still being developed, but seems to have alot of the tools and options for freely placing text, pictures and geometric figures anywhere on the page. See some screenshots here, and you can download it from this page - For Linux, Mac OS X, or Windows.
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