Protecting Windows and some useful, free programs

List of some of the sites that offer anti virus or firewall. Although windows XP and above, have inbuilt firewall. To check out this feature you would need to take a look at windows control panel.

• Free antivirus - Avira AntiVir
• Free anti-virus roundup

below is an incomplete list of open source windows applications:

• Mozilla Firefox
• Mozilla Thunderbird
• Open Office
• ClamWin Get rid of annoying Norton.
• Pidgin
• Eraser (Data deletion utility)
• TrueCrypt (File encryption utility)

Read more about some of the utilities listed above at Geek to Live: Top 10 open source Windows apps