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Security and Anti-Virus Information

Anti-Virus Software
- Ahnlab, Inc.
- ALWIL Software
- AVG Technologies
- Avira
- BitDefender
- BullGuard
- ClamWin - Free Anti-Virus Software For Windows
- Computer Associates
- eset software
- F-Secure
- Fortinet
- FRISK Software International - We use this for real-time protection and weekly system scans.
- G Data Software
- Kaspersky Lab Int.
- McAfee®
- Microsoft Security Essentials
- MicroWorld
- NetZ Computing
- Norman
- Panda Software
- Quick Heal®
- SMobile Systems - Mobile, Handheld and Smartphone Security Solutions
- Sophos
- Sunbelt Software
- Symantec AntiVirus Research Center
- Trend Micro, Inc.
- Virusbuster

Anti-Adware/Spyware

Anti-Spam
- K9
- MailWasher® Pro

Data Recovery

Encryption
- TrueCrypt - Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Firewall Software

Internet Resources
- Information
  - C|Net On-Line - HUGE source of Internet Info
  - Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - Protecting Rights and Promoting Freedom in the Electronic Frontier
- Search Engines
  - All the Web
  - AltaVista
  - Ask
  - Clusty
  - CurryGuide
  - Dogpile Meta Search Engine
  - dmoz open directory project
  - Excite
  - Gigablast
  - Google - Our Favorite
  - Ixquick Metasearch Engine
  - IZITO
  - KartOO
  - Live Search
  - Lycos
  - lyGO Visual Search
  - Mama Metasearch
  - MetaCrawler
  - metaEureka
  - Mozbot
  - Open Directory Project
  - Search Engine Watch
  - Search.com
  - Searchy.com
  - SurfWax
  - Vivísimo
  - WebCrawler
  - Yahoo!
  - YoY-Search
  - ZapMeta
- Speed Testing
  - speedtest.net

Development
- Adobe's Home Page - Makers of the Dreamweaver HTML Editor. This is the one we use.
- DHTML Menu Tools
  - Likno Software - The home of AllWebMenus.
  - Projectseven.com - Dreamweaver Menus, Widgets, Extensions and CSS Templates
  - xFX Jumpstart - Creators of DHTML Menu Builder.
- Ed Yourdon's Home Page - Source of Programming Wisdom
- The FreeImage Project - An Open Source library project for developers who would like to support popular graphics image formats.
- Greenview Data, Inc.- Home of Vedit. This is the program editor that we use. Very versatile, very nice.
- The IEEE Computer Society- The IEEE Computer Society is the world's leading organization of computer professionals.
- Microsoft - Hey man, we like Microsoft!
- PowerBASIC, Inc. - This BASIC rocks! If you use BASIC you should check them out!
- R:Base Technologies, Inc.
- Soft As It Gets - Home of ED for Windows, another excellent code editor
- SoftVelocity Corporation - Home of the Clarion database development system for Windows. Possibly the best Windows database development tool currently available. Creates true EXE files, no runtimes reqired, kind of like Clipper for Windows.
- Software Interphase, Inc. - Home of Help Magician Elite. Cool help authoring software, very nice without a killer price.
- Xenu's Link Sleuth ^(TM) - Checks websites for broken links. Nice program.

File Compression
- FreeZip - FreeZip is a small, fast and efficient Zip utility for compression and decompression of files and directories.
- PkWare - Home of PkZip and PkZip for Windows.
- The Unarchiver - Nice utility for Apple OS X.
- RARLAB - Home of WinRAR and RAR archivers. WinRAR is sweet with small archives and a self-extractor that adds very little size! Highly recommended.

Government
- National Do Not Call Registry - Don't call us...period.

Graphics and Desktop Publishing
- Adobe - Home of PageMaker, FrameMaker, InDesign, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Flash and Shockwave.
- Corel Corporation - Home of CorelDraw!, Painter and other excellent illustration and image software.
- Digital Workshop - Home of Illuminatus Opus, an extremely powerful, yet intuitive, multimedia development tool. It simply leaves the others in its dust.
- Equilibrium - Home of DeBabelizer. Awesome graphics and palette optimization.
- Hash, Inc. - Home of Animation:Master. You may not have heard of Animation:Master, but you should check it out. You won't find better bang for the buck.
- A:M Films - Have a look at some fantastic animation created with Animation:Master
- Microangelo™ - The "Grand-Daddy" of icon software.
- QFX - combines the features of both a paint and a draw program in a single integrated graphics environment.
- Quark Incorporated - Home of QuarkXPress

Music, Sound and Video
- Adobe - Home of Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro)
- Cakewalk - Home of Sonar and Project 5
- RBF Software - Home of Med Sound Studio
- Sony - Home of Acid Pro, Sound Forge and Vegas

Must Have Utilities
- Acronis - Home of Acronis True Image. An excellent way to backup your system. It also has a cool disk cloning feature that makes upgrading your hard drive a snap.
- CCleaner
- CROA - Clear Read-Only Attributes
- Disable/Remove Windows Messenger
- Disk State - From GeekCorp. This valuable utility shows you the size of the folders on your drives, helps you delete duplicate files and cleanup temporary/unnecessary files. We use this to keep our computers clean and smooth.
- Gibson Research Corporation - Home of the Spinrite Hard Drive Utility (the BEST) and the ChromaZone Screen Saver (the COOLEST). You'll also find some interesting security and computing information here.
- Kookaburra Software - Home of Cookie Pal and 'Net Pal. We use Cookie Pal to take control of those cookies!
- Magical Jelly Bean Software - Home of Keyfinder, a freeware utility that retrieves the Windows and MS Office Product Keys (cd keys used during installation) from your registry.
- MetaProducts Corporation - Home of Mass Downloader (we use it AND it doesn't spy on you!) and some other small, cool utilities.
- Microsoft PowerToys
- Nullsoft WINAMP - Music player with many plugins for different music file types. Version 5 is excellent and uses old-style plug-ins.
- Petges.com - Home of Attribute Changer. This utility allows you to change date/time stamps and other file attributes on groups of files. Very nice.
- Power Quest Corporation - Home of PartitionMagic. You may be Wasting some of your Storage Capacity, Optimize those Hard Drive Partitions!
- RAXCO Software - Home of the PerfectDisk defragmentation utility. This program is part of our regular system maintenance.
- Removal Tool to Fix .NET Framework Install Failures
- ShellExView - Displays the details of shell extensions installed on your computer. It also allows you to disable/enable each shell extension.
- Startup Control Panel - A nice program that allow you to configure that programs that automatically start with Windows.
- ToniArts - Home of EasyCleaner and many other cool programs. EasyCleaner is highly recommended.
- Unlocker - Allows you to delete Windows XP files and folders when you get that annoying "cannot delete: in use by another person or program" message.
- V-Com - Home of Partition Commander, System Commander and the new home of SystemSuite.

News and Magazines

Operating Systems
- FreeDOS
- Linux
- Microsoft Windows
  - Windows Update Page

On-Line Museums and References
- Wikipedia:Public domain resources
- The Internet Public Library
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Museum On-Line
- WebMuseum On-Line
- Science Museum
- Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, Fuller, R. Buckminster
- Thomas - Legislative Information on the Internet

Open Source
- Ohloh
- sourceforge.net

Fauquier County

Gaming
- TombRaider
  - Stella's Tomb Raider Site - Excellent walkthroughs and a nice site. This is the first place we go for Tomb Raider info.
  - TR Triad Network
  - Tombraider 1
    - Glidos - High quality graphics for the original Tombraider
    - VDMSound - VDMSound is a modular, extendable soundcard emulator for MS Windows DOS boxes
    - Tomb Raider Xtra - High Resolution Graphics for Glidos
- World of Warcraft
  - Game Guide
  - Slash Commands
  - Emotes
  - More on Emotes
  - World of Warcraft Game Glossary of Terms - Common abbreviations
- Digital Eel
- PopCap Games
- StarForce Copyright Protection - Information and removal

Cool Places in the Real World
- Alligator Bayou

Just Because!
- History of the Pledge of Allegiance (by CNN)
- Multi-Touch Interaction Research
- Sci-Fi .com - Because Sci-Fi is COOL
- Serenity Movie
- The C&O Canal Association - Protecting, Preserving and Promoting the assets of the C&O Canal Historic Park.
- The Hampster Dance - Well...you just have to see it.