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Hi Folks,
Johnny, a few comments on the security section.
Under AntiSpyware, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware deserves at least a mention, it is almost universally applauded as a good free scan and removal tool, usually mentioned along with SuperAntiSpyware and ahead of Spybot Search and Destroy. The toolbar problem with Spyware Terminator is major, I gather it links the Crawler crapware with some functions in order to have less opt-outs.
Under AntiVirus, folks usually need the company name Avira, Antivir is the product and Avira would be consistent with AVG and Avast. (yes, minor quibble).
Under firewall, Online Armor needs a place at the table, plus Outpost recently has a decent free edition, newly released. (There are one or two others, but those two softwares are looked upon highly by the Wilders' types.) Zone Alarm is a surprising first choice, but I have no real objection to that aspect, there are some ways in which its working is more visual. And there are 3-4-5 or more good free firewalls, with personal style being a major aspect. (e.g. Online Armor Free does not allow port configuration, restricting certain ports, which can blindside the user a smidgen). So if one is working fine, kewl.
Note though that your articles saying just use a router firewall, you can ignore a software firewall, is dubious information, a router firewall generally does not have the function and configurability of a software firewall. This is discussed at Wilders a lot.
Plus Online Armor gives you some decent HIPS, a category missing where you might also find some other products (changes to .exe files or sensitive registry entries or windows folders or startup are the types of things that HIPS will monitor and generally this type of real-time protection is not in your three categories).
A separate worthy category would be startup managers, with WinPatrol, Chameleon, Started and Anvir Task Manager having freeware editions. WhatinStartup (Nirsoft) and Autoruns also being among those worthy of consideration.
Shalom,
Steven Avery-Steven Avery (June 10, 2009, 06:02 AM)
I tried to correct some of the errors that you people mentioned, thanks for poiting them out. This list is mainly focused on the average PC user, I wanted to give people some good solid free alternatives to the paid software that they are normally using. I intend to publish a new updated list in December since I'll be trying to test other freeware programs until then.