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Free Software
Anti Virus
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AVG AntiVirus |
AVG 6.0 Free Edition. Download, install to protect your computer and data free of charge. Automatic pattern updates, and scheduled scanning. |
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Trend Micro |
Free Online Virus scan for your computer. Select to scan the entire system or selected folders. |
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Computer Associates |
Free Online Virus scan for your computer. Select to scan the entire system or selected folders. |
TBA
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Panda Software |
Free Online Virus scan for your computer. |
TBA |
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Bit Defender |
Free Online Virus scan for your computer. |
TBA
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Auditing Software
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Aida32 |
The best auditing software available and it's FREE! Aida32 will audit your PC and PC's on your network and produce the most comprehensive report on everything about the hardware and software. It includes links to the OEM sites. Easy to use. In one word "Excellent". |
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Communications
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MSN Messenger |
With MSN Messenger you can
chat online via text, voice or video. A good alternative when you can't be
there in person. Spoilt only by gawdy smilies and advertising. |
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Yahoo Messenger |
Exchange messages in real
time with other people over the Internet. Unfortunately, Yahoo Messenger is
absolutely loaded with useless and unwanted add-on's which will install
themselves if not deselected during the install. Beware. |
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Skype |
Peer to peer voice
service. Users may call each other for
free anywhere in the World and
call landlines and cellphones (for a fee). All this from your
PC!
Includes instant messaging and file exchange.
Outstanding voice quality.
Lyon Computer Solutions use Skype! |
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Email
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Eudora |
The best email software by miles and miles. Unlike Microsoft Outlook, Eudora holds your email mailboxes and attachments in a separate directory making the backing up and archiving of your emails and attachments very simple task. Friendly interface and simple to use.
Lyon Computer Solutions use Eudora. |
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Firewall
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Zone Alarm |
Always-On Internet Security, available free for the Home user. Total control over applications' Internet use it provides protection from hackers into your system. ZoneAlarm now features MailSafe to stop email-borne Visual Basic Script worms, like the "I Love You" virus, "dead-in-its-tracks". |
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ShieldsUP |
Popular and free Internet security checkup and information service. Easily check your system here, and begin learning about using the Internet safely. |
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AuditmyPC.com |
Audit your firewall with a free online Firewall Test, Port Scan and Privacy Test that provides immediate results designed to promote security awareness and help secure your firewall. Scan all 65,535 ports! |
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Health Checks
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Adware |
Freeware, shareware, cookies, media players,
interactive content, file sharing. What you may not realise is that some
(not all) of the aforementioned may contain code or components that allow
the developers of these applications to collect and disseminate information
about those using them (that would be you).
They track your surfing habits, abuse your Internet connection by sending
this data to a third party, profile your shopping preferences, hijack your
browser start page or pages, alter important system files, and can do this
without your knowledge or permission. The security and privacy implications
of these exploits should be quite obvious and undesirable on any system or
network.
Use Adware to find the spying/advertising robots on your system, then remove
them. |
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SpyBot |
As above. SpyBot Search and Destroy Searches your hard disk and registry for existing spying/advertising robots. If they are found, SpyBot is removes them. |
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Networking tools
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VNC |
Virtual Network Computing. A remote display system which allows you to connect, view and control a remote computer on your Intranet or on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. |
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Office Applications
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Open Office |
Looking for an alternative to Microsoft
software that's free?
OpenOffice.Org 1.0 is free to download but it's around 60mb. It includes all
the main features of Word and Excel and you
can install it on as many computers as you like. If you don't need all the
extra's, Open Office is a very suitable alternative to Microsoft Office. |
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Other
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Freesurfer |
EMS Free Surfer Companion (fsc)
is the best surfing tool available for Internet Explorer, including
intelligent popup stopper, complete cache cleaning and managing, advanced
and easy-to-use quick search from favorites/cache and site info manager. |
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Web Server
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Apache Webserver |
Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April of 1996. The September 2000 Netcraft Web Server Survey found that over 60% of the web sites on the Internet are using Apache (over 62% if Apache derivatives are included), thus making it more widely used than all other web servers combined. |
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Lyon Computer Solutions offers a number of computer
services to individuals and small to medium companies. Our services include
Computer and Networking
Installations, Computer Hardware and Software Maintenance, Computer Tuning,
Computer Troubleshooting, Security, Computer Repairs and Mobile Computing
Solutions. Lyon Computer Solutions operates in
Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and Wiltshire.
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