Free Computer Security Programs
To surf safely you need antivirus ( a virus spreads to another computer when program that executes code, usually through:email attachments, infected floppies or flash drives ) botnet protection (bots that scan computers on the internet, looking for unprotected computers to steal personal info or turn a computer into a zombie computer sending out spam or overload attacks. It is estimated 50–80% of all spam worldwide was sent by zombie computers. ) Spyware is a program surreptitiously put on a computer when another program is installed ( a Trojan ).Spyware can be used to install website redirectors and keystroke loggers which can steal your passwords and personal info. Worms, a self-replicating computer program, worms uses a network to send copies of itself .Unlike a virus, it does not need to attach itself to an existing program. If you have a dial-up connection or a DSL connection that uses an analog modem , you should checker for dialer programs which will call pay per minute numbers without your knowledge .
To protect yourself, make sure you have a firewall, XP after SP1 has it included, if you have an older version of Windows you need to install a firewall . Next you need an antivirus program. Many are listed here, some people download two since no one antivirus program catches everything . Then you need an adware/malware/keystroke logger/spyware checker If you use a peer to peer network such as Bittorrent, you should use an ip blocker, which blocks files from blacklisted sources.
Free Firewalls ( if you have Windows XP, check for the firewall setting in the control panel )
Zone Alarm Win 2000/Xp/Vista Firewall, internet lock, alert you when a new application attempts to access the Internet.
Pc Tools Firewall Plus Win 2000/XP/Vista Can stop Trojans, backdoors, and keyloggers from damaging your computer and stealing your private information
Online Armor Personal Firewall Win2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
Ashampoo FireWall Free Win 2000/XP
Filseclab Personal Firewall Professional Edition Win95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server
Free AntiVirus Programs
AVG (Anti Virus guard) by AVG Technologies virus scan, spyware checkself healing, virus vault auto updates and auto scans
AVG Free Edition Windows 2000/XP/Vista avg.com
Comodo Anti-Virus eliminates viruses from desktops and networks, real time scanning, email scanning quarantining
Comodo Antivirus Win XP/Vista
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware Checks for viruses, worms, trojans, rootkits, dialers, spyware
Anti-Malware Windows 2000, XP, and Vista malwarebytes.org
PC Tools AntiVirus scan and protect your PC from virus attacks
PC tools free Anti Virus Edition Win 2000/XP/Vista pctools.com
a-squared free AntiVirus Scan your PC for infections of Trojans, Viruses, Spyware, Adware, Worms, Bots, Keyloggers and Dialers , Surf-Protection, daily updates
a-squared free edition Win XP/Vista emsisoft.com
Online virus scan for files virusscan.jotti.org F-Secure
Malware/Spyware/Keystroke logger/Dialer Protection
Ad-Aware malware/Adware protection
Ad-Aware - Anniversary Edition Win XP/Vista lavasoft.com
Spybot Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware
Spybot Search & Destroy Win 95/98/2000/XP/Vista/Linux(Wine) safer-networking.org
SuperAntiSpyware Free Edition Detect and Remove Spyware, Adware, Spyware, Adware, Malware, Trojans, Dialers, Worms, KeyLoggers, HiJackers, Parasites, Rootkits and many other types of threats
SuperAntiSpyware Free Edition Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista/2008 Server superantispyware.com
IP Blocker for P2P
PeerGuardian 2 Win 98/2000/XP/Vista
ProtoWall Win NT/2000/XP/Vista
Harmful Website Alert
Most search engines have alerts for potentially harmful website, tou can also install McAfee SiteAdvisor a free download that tests Web sites for spyware, spam, viruses and phishing .
Free Graphics and 3D animation
Blender modeling, animation,rendering, composing, visual effects and games
DAZ Studio 3D figure posing
Animator-9 3.6 generate an animated GIF from digital photos
AnimatorDV Simple free stop motion software
Skeleton 1.1 design a character from a skeleton
Synfig Studio free vector based 2D animations
Jumpwel animation for html
Gimp is a digital image manipulation program, similar to photoshop.
QCad a computer aided drafting program
wings3d 3d modeling tool
Dorgem OpenSource Webcam capture program
Open Office word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases
notepad++ Free source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environmented
pdktf an open source cross-platform tool for manipulating PDF documents.
Memoranda an open source cross-platform diary manager and a tool for schuling personal projects.
TurboCash a free software accounting software package
Audacity free program for recording and editing sound in mp3 (with LAME encoder download), WMV. Ogg Vorbis, AIFF
MadTracker create your own music with Madtracker
VLC player plays MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, OGG, DVDs, VCDs,
FLV player plays flash and Mpeg 4 videos
GOM player plays AVI, DAT, MPEG, DivX, XviD, WMV, ASF
CoffeeCup HTML editor with FTP
Page Breeze WYSIWYG HTML tags/source modes
HTML Kit Build a full-featured free editor for HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and other text files. 400+ plugins
nvu.com a html editor similar to Front Page and Dreamweaver for Linux,Windows and Mac.
Zeallsoft Screensaver MP3, WAV background music, transition effect, and image masking effect
Shockwave
Flash Screensaver Maker instant Shockwave Flash Screensavers.
Included are 10 free pre-created flash screensavers. Not only can you add flash, but you can also add Movies, Audio, and Scrolling Text Messages.
file compression/decompression
7 zip Open source Windows utility for manipulating archives. Formats 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
Dia Free diagram creation software for flowcharts,electrical diadrams,etc
winLibre free, legal software for Windows 98, 2000, XP
theopendisc OpenDisc is a high quality collection of open source software (OSS) for the Microsoft Windows operating system