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Protecting your computer doesn't have to be an ongoing expense these days. There is more than enough quality protection available for free if you know where to find it. That's right, zilch, zero, gratis. 

From the list below, choose one anti-virus program and one firewall (any more than one of each may cause conflicts and performance issues). Then take any number of privacy and anti-spyware/trojan programs...


Free Anti-Virus Software

https://www.avast.com/en-gb/index
http://www.avg.com/gb-en/free-antivirus-download
http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus
http://www.bitdefender.com/solutions/free.html
http://www.clamwin.com/

Free Firewall Software

https://www.comodo.com/products/free-products.php

Free Anti-Spyware Software

https://www.malwarebytes.org/antimalware/
https://www.safer-networking.org/
http://www.superantispyware.com/ 
http://www.spywareterminator.com/
 

Free Spyware Prevention Software

http://www.brightfort.com/spywareblaster.html

Free Online Virus & Spyware Scans

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/uk/
http://www.kaspersky.com/free-virus-scan?chapter=161739400
http://www.pandasecurity.com/uk/homeusers/solutions/activescan/?ref=activescan
http://www.eset.com/int/home//products/online-scanner/
https://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/tools-beta
http://www.bitdefender.com/scanner/online/free.html
http://www.windowsecurity.com/pages/trojanscan.html

Free Single File Scanners

https://virusscan.jotti.org/
https://www.virustotal.com/

Free Anti-Rootkit Tools

http://www.gmer.net/#files
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb897445.aspx
http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/icesword.html

Free Privacy Protection Software

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
http://www.brightfort.com/mrublaster.html

Free Registry Cleaners

http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm
http://system-utilities.comodo.com/


Of course all software is used entirely at your own risk.

Post any other good software you know and the list will be updated.

 

 

Hat tip to the old board's Scooter for their hard work in the original post.

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