My top favourite free security tools

By Jonathan Camp

Top Security Free Tools

My top security tools and download links. These tools should keep you PC nice and secure; run regularly for a trouble / virus free PC!

AVG (fee anti-virus software that works with all platforms)
http://free.avg.com/download?prd=afe

spybot search and destroy (IMHO the best anti-spyware)
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

Spyware terminator (including realtime detection)
http://www.spywareterminator.com/download/download.aspx

Comodo Personal Firewall
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/download_firewall.html

ccleaner – disk space tool cleanup
http://www.ccleaner.com/

Defraggler (defrag tool)
http://www.defraggler.com/

Restore deleted files
http://www.recuva.com/

Complete file eraser program
http://www.heidi.ie/node/6

Index.Dat erasers (Permanent deletion of all history)
http://www.systenance.com/indexdat.php

MRU Blaster (delete most recent file list…)
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/mrudownload.html

FileChecker (tells you what files have been modified)
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/mrudownload.html

DOC scrubber (delete all embarrasing stuff from word doc files)
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/dsdownload.html

Disposable email account
http://mintemail.com/

File dump area for uploading for 30 days
http://file.io/

Encrypt Files (TrueCrypt is the best around)
http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads.php or
http://www.encryptfiles.net/

Lock your PC (better than ctrl-alt-del)
http://www.freewebs.com/lockplatinum/download.htm

2 Comments

1. Janet | Web Design   |  Monday, 06 July 2009 at 9:57 am

   There are some really great free things, and I use some of your favorite ones too. I have just come across this blog and will be returning, nice site and good content.

   
2. Jonathan   |  Monday, 06 July 2009 at 8:42 pm

   Thanks for the feedback.