Links to Anti-Malware Reviews
When asked to make a
recommendation about specific
antivirus software packages I am always a little cautious because the relative rankings constantly evolve and frankly
who has the expertise to make valid recommendations! I
am therefor provided links to sites that actually do
reviews and ratings and in my opinion these were excellent reviews:
ICSA
Labs
Consumer
Research, Anti-Virus Software
Star
Reviews
Anti-Virus
PC
Magazine, Best Free Anti-Virus Anti-Malware
Free
Anti-Virus Reviews
The Spyware
Warrior List of Rouge and Suspect Anti-Spyware Products and Websites. Some free, and even some paid, anti-malware software is a
actually malware itself. It will report infections that are
not true and/or lead you to websites that download malware onto your
PC
Google
search for freeware Anti-Virus Reviews
Free and Paid Home PC User Tips, Email
Newslettes and Websites
Windows
Secrets, everything Microsoft forgot to mention.
Terry's
Computer Tips
Jake
Ludington's Digital Lifestyle brings you the latest tips
for maximizing productivity, simplifying digital video and audio
frustrations, and solving computer problems.
AllenWyatt’s
Word Tips – Daily and weekly
Tips on using MS Word 97-2003. There are separate newsletters
and websites for Word 2007, Excel 97-2003 and Excel 2007. The
Word and Excel sites allow you to submit questions that are selected to
be answered in subsequent newsletters. The site also has
links to many other Home and personal tips sites and newsletters.
Tech
Target has several sub sites with their own
newsletters. These sites provide newsletters, articles,
podcasts and live webcasts on a variety of subjects including
Enterprise applications, Application Development, CIO and IT
management, Storage, Data Centers, MS Windows and distributed
computing, Security and Disaster Recovery.
Search
Security Channel, “The Web’s best
resource for Security Channel Professionals” for advanced
security information.
Sources for Articles, independent hardware
and software reviews and online help forums
PC World Newsletters
Subscriptions
PC
Magazine home page
PC
Technology, News and Analysis
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Start Support, supporting computer learning
DAL
Friendly
Free Computer Help
Sharing Windows secrets
Last, but not least, as a source of help for
Microsoft products, Microsoft
Help and Support
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