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The links on this page are about the things that I have found helpful. They cover: computer security, free tools, free antivirus and firewall, email protection, spam, and web tracing. These are all very useful if you take computer and Internet security seriously.
Download the Firefox Browser from Mozilla:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Meta Carta Geographic Text Search program, can be used to pinpoint your location anywhere in the World. Partly funded by US intelligence agencies, they are using it to analyse large amounts of data collected as part of the war on terror. Program automatically extracts geographic references from text documents like emails and web pages (January 2004):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3430987.stm
Shields Up - part of larger security site, offers tools to check computer's vulnerability to attack:
http://grc.com/intro.htm
UK Security Online aims to quantify the threat to your systems & networks:
http://www.uksecurityonline.com/
Avast! - free anti-virus:
http://www.avast.com/
Add Aware – free spyware:
http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Spamhaus - tools to find out who's spamming you:
http://www.spamhaus.org/index.lasso
New European law bans unsolicited spam and text messages (December, 2003):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3308989.stm
A good web-tracing site:
http://www.internic.com/whois.html
Free online network utilities:
http://centralops.net/co/
Whole site of Look Up tools:
http://www.dnsstuff.com/
Network Tools offer some very easy to use tools:
http://www.network-tools.com/
Alternatively, you might try using the Neo-trace software. This is the same software that the CIA uses to trace your own IP number!!!
Save complete web sites/pages to hard drive:
http://pagenest.com/
Free membership site to install or update a driver – enormous driver database including old/out of date ones:
http://www.driverguide.com/
V3, (previously known as Vnunet), - UK site offers technology news, virus information, reviews, downloads:
http://www.v3.co.uk/
Internet jargon – site contains thousands of words and definitions describing technology/community of the World Wide Web:
http://www.netlingo.com
Trolls, Kooks, Shills, Flamers – what they are, how they work, and comprehensive information about their activities:
http://www.searchlores.org/trolls.htm
ISP Review site for UK ISPs:
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/
Free UK site offering solutions to a whole range of computer problems:
http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/
Archive of Web pages available on the Internet, some program skills needed to use this resource:
http://www.archive.org/
Commercial site, but offers free website and text translations from English into Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Norwegian, and vice versa:
http://www.freetranslation.com/web.htm
Help with creating search-engine friendly web pages, and submitting URL to all major search engines:
http://selfpromotion.com/