Programs that Every Computer User Should Install

Well I have compiled a list of programs which I believe, no matter what your computer experience, should be installed on your PC..

Step 1: Antivirus software

So there are three different free anti-virus programs that received high ratings, and all three are good enough to abandon your high-price anti-virus software
Avast --My personal preference
Avira  --Make sure you pick the right site (I just download it from download.com), some say that it is annoying.
AVG   --Nice quality, but once again, my personal preference is for Avast
... and I don't know why they all start with av

Another program that should be installed alongside almost any anti-virus program is ThreatFire.  This program analyzes program activity, rather than virus signatures, to detect viruses, so it performs magnificently against new threats that haven't been seen by your anti-virus company yet..

Comments

[mrtape01]

avast is a great antivirus unlike Norton updates every 5 minutes i use it and win7 and have never got a virus if you go to a page that has infected files on it it blocks the site and the site will not load but if it is a site you always go on and it blocks it just refresh the page.

[lieuwe]

 you might want to add Google Chrome to your browser list, and be carefull with ccleaner, it can actually fubar your browser(it prevented autologin on just about all forums)

[killersquirel11]

How did I forget about Chrome!?!?!

Good call...

[lemonie]

I've not heard fubar used as a verb before...

L

[sedition]

SciTE is a rreat open source cross-platform editor that I couldn't work without. Much, much better than all of the default OS editors.

[whytwulf35]

The only thing I would have to add would be openoffice, and maybe GIMP.  But you can get all these really easy at www.ninite.com.  Select the apps you want installed, download the ninite installer, and run it.  Automatically installs all the apps you've chosen from the list and does it without installing the toolbars so many apps come with nowadays.