Glenn's website - Internet Links
IT Links
http://www.bcs.org - The British Computer Society
http://www.speedtest.net - Check your internet connection speed. Are you getting what you pay for?
http://sourceforge.net/ - My favourite in "Open Source" free software downloads
http://www.winzip.com - Home of the WinZip shareware compression utility
http://www.rarlabs.com - Home of the WinRAR shareware compression utility
Microsoft Word viewer - Newest Word 2003/2007/2010 viewer (View .DOC, .DOCX and .DOT, .DOTX files)
Microsoft Excel Viewer - Excel 2003/2007/2010 viewer (View .XLS files)
Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer - PowerPoint viewer (View 2003/2007/2010 .PPT and .PPS files)
Office Compatibility Pack - Install for Office file viewing in earlier versions of office to allow 2003/2007/2010 formats
Adobe Acrobat Reader - Portable Document Format viewer (View .PDF files)
Microsoft Live Messenger - Previously known as MSN Messenger Live for Instant Messaging
http://www.hotmail.co.uk & http://www.hotmail.com - Free web based E-mail
http://www.utorrent.com – Fast & Small bit torrent client for .torrent downloads
http://www.facebook.com - Social networking 1
http://www.myspace.com - Social networking 2
http://www.friendsreunited.com - Social networking 3
http://www.twitter.com - Social networking 4
IT Security – Software and Information
http://www.auditmypc.com/ - Firewall, Popup, IP, Speed & Anonymous Tests
http://www.update.microsoft.com - Keep your MS-Windows system up to date
http://www.avast.com - Freeware Anti-Virus software (home edition)
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com - Excellent free home pro firewall for XP/Vista/Win7 (protect your PC against hackers)
http://www.zonealarm.com - Excellent commercial home Firewall, some with Anti-Virus / Anti-Spy-Ware options
http://www.peerblock.com - P2P Privacy Firewall Peer block (Latest Peer Guardian) custom block any IP Internet Address
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/ - Home of Block List Manager (create BIGGER Peer Guardian Privacy Block Lists)
http://www.iblocklist.com - Extra maintained block lists for Peer block via paid subscription (£15 a year for both paid lists)
http://www.malwarebytes.org/ - Anti-Spyware Scanner and cleaner for free - link 1 (MalwareBytes)
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html - Anti-Spyware Scanner and cleaner for free - link 2 (SpyBot Search and Destroy)
http://www.pgpi.org/products/pgp/versions/freeware/win32/7.0.3/ - Latest PGP Freeware version 7.0.3 (Pretty Good Privacy)
http://www.symantec.com/business/theme.jsp?themeid=pgp - Latest PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) Commercial version
http://www.microsoft.com/security/ - Home of Microsoft Security
http://www.rsasecurity.com/ - Corporate IT security solutions
http://www.securityfocus.com/ - Keep up to date in IT security issues
http://www.i-hacked.com/ - Security for educational purposes only
http://www.hackthissite.org/ - Practice your security skills safely
http://www.eicar.org/ - European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research
http://www.cert.org/ - Computer Emergency Response Team
Extra Links
http://www.pooletourism.com/ - Visit Poole in Dorset, England for your next UK holiday (UK)
http://www.nasa.gov - Space exploration (USA)
http://maps.google.com/ - Excellent Worldwide road travel planner (Worldwide)