Opinions differ geatly on the matter, but I and many other find Avast! to be better than the expensive packages out there.

It is free for personal use and can be downloaded Download

You do need to register (free) to use it, the program helps you do so.

For spyware there is the golden tool, spybot search and destroy
Download

Lavasofts ad-aware fights advertisement bots (adware)
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Microsoft Windows Defender is another tool some use, I had no luck with it. It didn’t pick up anything that spybot didn’t, so wait for someone elses verdict on that tool.

THe ones I have linked to are all rock solid when used properly.

Contain the best Anti-autorun software:

Tiros Anti-autorun
Flash disinfector
USB Gate autorun
CPE17 Autorun killer

http://rapidshare.com/files/144868496/Anti-Autorun_AIO.rar

Google Chrome is a web browser project by Google. It was leaked yesterday, and Google held a press conference to announce the launch of Chrome. With Chrome, Google hopes to bring the best of various browsers and code, like Firefox and WebKit (WebKit is used by Safari too).

Google may well have been forced into a damage control mode, as the first bit of news that we knew was Chrome’s information being leaked. Furthermore, Linux and Mac versions have not been launched - that leaves a large number of Google fans displeased.

First impressions
Chrome is smooth, well refined (as of limited usage I have done) and manages the migration process flawlessly by importing every bit of important data from IE or Firefox. The innovative placement of tab bar, lack of title bar (that’s right, no title bar for Chrome), omnibar (that is what Google calls Chrome’s search-cum-address bar) are all a fresh breath of life in an otherwise plain browser. Did I tell you Chrome follows Firefox shortcuts (mostly)?

I had upgraded to WordPress 2.6 today (late, I know), and clicking on the Turbo link did not prompt me for any annoying Gears installer - Gears is built into Chrome.

Currently, there are no extension capabilities to rival those offered by Firefox, and that is one reason why Firefox users will not hurry to Chrome full time. Notice that I say “full-time”, because Chrome makes a very compelling case as a casual browser - lack of extensions notwithstanding.

If Google’s promises of fast Javascript rendering, security, extensions etc. is delivered, Opera, Firefox and several other browsers could have one very interesting competitor to deal with. None of the other browsers have the backing of a company as large as Google (Microsoft and Apple do not count, as one suffers from lack of quality and the other suffers from lack of quantity). Whether Chrome and Firefox would coexist in Google’s future plans also has to be seen.

Converting, recording and editing media may require you to install separate softwares, having a single software to do all these tasks would be great, but unfortunately there are very few softwares that do all these tasks.

Blaze Media Pro definitely packs in a lot of features which make this software a definite must have if you work with media files extensively or are looking to start out with complex media tasks like recording, editing and converting one format to another.

There are many feautures using this product, some of them are
Audio recording, conversion, editing and burning.
Video encoder, editing, burning.
CD burning software
DVD software
Ability to encode and decode media files.
CD / DVD Ripper.
Sound and Video Recorder.
MOV converter

This website provides you their best tools and their services of conversion, ripping, editing, recording, burning, playback, and much more.In addition to this if you are interested in making your own audio cd or video cd then their burning cd facility is also available to you. Just take a look at this site and enjoy the features of this product.

I will tell you that if you are interested in protecting your system from any virus attack then please don’t go for Norton. It is one of the worst anti virus one can find and use. I used Norton for a while and suffered a lot with it. It didn’t even detect any virus in my system. Then I went for Zone Alarm and that protected my system for a while. But then it also started to fail me now and then. But Zone Alarm is far more better than Norton. The firewall of Zone Alarm is very good and I use it even now. Then I went for Kaspersky and it was also good. The firewall is as good as Zone Alarm and the anti virus was also good. But then some problem came and it too failed me. Then I went for AVG anti virus and am using Zone Alarm firewall and AVG detected all the viruses and till now my system is perfect. But I don’t know when it will also create some problem. So always try to use the best anti-virus and firewall to keep your system protected.

MiniLyrics is a fancy synchronized lyrics viewer. It can show lyrics automatically. You can follow along with the artist and catch every word. It is skinnable, has cool display styles. The lyrics database expands every day. MiniLyrics support most of popular players, including Winamp, Windows Media Player, iTunes, Foobar2000, Realplayer, MediaMonkey, JetAudio, XMPlay, Yahoo Music jukebox, Quintessenial Player, MusicMatch Jukebox, The KMPlayer, Media Jukebox and J.R Media Center.You can view lyrics in Windows Media Player, iTunes and iPod. It is the most easy-to-use lrc lyrics editor. It only take a few minutes to make a synchronized lyrics. t launches simultaneously with your music player.Then, just click on the Play button and the program will automatically look for lyrics, based on the information provided by the file’s tags. If automatic lyric search doesn’t work you can look them up manually in a very easy way. I learned to sing many western songs and now its your turn to sing it.

Have you deleted any file in your hard disk by mistake? It happens often that you will delete some files and then you will realize that it is important file. of course you can take it from your recycle bin, what what if you delete the file using  Shift+Delete.

Here is a software which can get the data back and easily recover the deleted file. The software is Undelete Plus and its purpose is to scan the volumes of your computer and find the files that have been deleted and recover them. Additional information tell you about the size of the file, format, path, date of its creation and modification. The software is capable of recovering entire folders and preserve the structure, this way you can retrieve the files in the exact order they were stored.

You can work with this software easily, Simply select a drive to scan, or tick all the options if you’re unsure of where the deleted file came from. The program instantly lists all of the files recently deleted from the drive. To narrow the results, you can filter the scan by indicating the file name, modify date, and file size. The application can successfully retrieve files as long as the system hasn’t written over the deleted file’s freed space.

This is just a freeware and you need not worry about its perforamance, if you feel it is bad and you can uninstall it anytime and it just takes few space in your hard disk.

Download Undelete here.

Here is a tool for you to speed up your PC, This will help you to make best use of all that processing power you have. SpeedUpMyPC 3 lets you monitor and control all your PC resources with easy, one click instructions. System settings, internet usage, disk clutter, RAM and CPU are all automatically scanned, cleaned and optimized for peak performance. You can also selectively disable or remove unnecessary background and auto-start processes to cut valuable seconds off your startup time.

You can optimize your CPU usage and processing power and boost speed for particilar application you need and reduce speed for those not needed. These are some of the feautues it provides.
- Removes unnecessary backgrounds and application which starts automatically and thus you get faster start up time.
- Improves data security with the file shredder, Privacy Protection tools to completely remove unwanted files and folders, permanently.
- You can delete unwanted files to automatically free up more disk space.
- Optimizes your internet connection settings for improved bandwidth, faster browsing and quicker downloads.

Download it here.