Free Tools and Utilities To Help You Secure Your Computer or Network

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A categorized collection of free software that you can use for computer and network security including free antivirus, free personal firewalls, free packet sniffing, free port scanning, free encryption tools, and more.

There are a variety of threats attempting to compromise your computer and takes a variety of tools to protect against them. Many vendors sell security suites, but many people don't have the $50 to $100 to invest. This article will show you how you can put together a security suite even with no money at all by combining tools and applications that are available for free.

Free software and tools to perform vulnerability scans and proactively find the holes in your systems before an attacker or malware does.

Links to free software and tools for all areas of network security. The links are grouped by category for easy searching.

In response to the avalanche of criticism Microsoft has received regarding the security of their products, Microsoft created a free tool to analyze your security configuration. Read a review of this free tool.

Ad-Aware 6.0 is a tool freely available for personal use on Windows platform machines. It can scan your computer for stealthy spyware programs and help you to determine what they are doing and whether they are a threat to your system. At the push of a button, Ad-Aware will delete these insidious programs from your PC.

Where is al your data backed up to? Is it sitting on a DVD next to your computer? You need an offsite data backup incase both your computer and backup DVD end up in a fire. Here's how to backup offsite for cheap (or possibly for free)