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Athletic Supporter · **Posted:** Wed Dec 15, 2004 9:46 am

I'll start with a basic necessity.

Google Toolbar. (toolbar.google.com)

The popup blocker works great, you've got Google at your finger tips. I dig it.

Yeabudy · **Posted:** Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:07 am

Lavasoft Ad-Aware and/or Spybot: Search and Destroy

ACDSee

Trillian

Peeps · **Joined:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:15 am **Posts:** 33031

i have norton internet security 2004 and systemworks 2004, i bought both on ebay for a whopping 54 dollars total

i havent had a pop up since (not that i had one before, since i had older versions of them also)

i'm very careful about what i download on my home computer as well as websites i go to, so spyware isnt much of a issue with me. maybe in the last 6 months i've had two to contend with. ill run adaware maybe once ever month, if even

tommymctom · **Posted:** Wed Dec 15, 2004 5:07 pm

Athletic Supporter wrote:

I'll start with a basic necessity.

Google Toolbar. (toolbar.google.com)

The popup blocker works great, you've got Google at your finger tips. I dig it.

I like my Firefox toolbar better :wink:

meatwad · **Posted:** Wed Dec 15, 2004 6:32 pm

Some sort of firewall.

PJam26 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 15, 2004 8:12 pm

Mozilla FireFox, i know it isnt a utility, but is an awesome browser!! i think everyone should get rid of ie if they have it, and use FireFox

Peeps · **Joined:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:15 am **Posts:** 33031

PJam26 wrote:

Mozilla FireFox, i know it isnt a utility, but is an awesome browser!! i think everyone should get rid of ie if they have it, and use FireFox

i have aboslutely no problem with IE

Athletic Supporter · **Posted:** Wed Dec 15, 2004 9:06 pm

tommymctom wrote:

Athletic Supporter wrote:

I'll start with a basic necessity.

Google Toolbar. (toolbar.google.com)

The popup blocker works great, you've got Google at your finger tips. I dig it.

I like my Firefox toolbar better :wink:

I think I'll look at installing that this week

Ender · **Posted:** Thu Dec 16, 2004 1:38 pm

I'll add:

Total Commander
http://www.ghisler.com/
It's an absolutely vital file manager for Windows if you ask me,.. but it's not free
Firewall - I use ZoneAlarm
http://www.zonealarm.com/,
I use the free version, but I'm also behind a good corporate firewall, so...
EditPad Lite
http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
Replacement for the Windows Notepad
CDEx
http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
Free CD ripper, MP3 encoder. BTW I would recommend using LAME MP3 encoder if you're thinking about econding your music into the MP3 format.
Mozilla Thunderbird
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
Free mail client from Mozilla, has a built in RSS support that I like a lot. If you're a fan of Firefox, you may like it, too.

Buggy · **Posted:** Thu Dec 16, 2004 4:13 pm

Athletic Supporter wrote:

tommymctom wrote:

Athletic Supporter wrote:

I'll start with a basic necessity.
Google Toolbar. (toolbar.google.com)
The popup blocker works great, you've got Google at your finger tips. I dig it.

I like my Firefox toolbar better :wink:

I think I'll look at installing that this week

I say FireFox as well. It blocks all popups too, and has a search bar that you can use google with built in already.

Buggy · **Posted:** Thu Dec 16, 2004 4:14 pm

Also, for IM, Gaim is nice:
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

For FTP FileZilla is good:
http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

meatwad · **Posted:** Thu Dec 16, 2004 5:43 pm

Calculator. That shit's the bomb.

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