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Free Antivirus – Avast! 5

For quite some time I have been recommending avast! Antivirus to Friends, Family and Colleagues to protect their personal computers. It’s simple, covers all bases and easy to maintain but most of all it’s free!

I was glad to find out recently that they’ve just released their latest major version of their free Antivirus product version 5. They’ve made it easier to use and it looks so much better.

Changes I’m glad to see:

• Simplfied layout in program window
  The previous layout was far to confusing, I had trouble every time I launched it…
• Easy access to Boot-time Scan under ‘Scan Computer’
  My must suggested fix for viruses on a computer, as it scans your disk for viruses before Windows starts making it possible to delete them.
• Gaming mode
  Supresses notifications when a full screen application is launched
• Easy to see protection status
  Nice big letters and colour right up the top so you know everything is running and up to date

If you’re not running antivirus or your currently paying for virus protection I’d strongly recommend avast! 5. Download it here: http://www.avast.com

ViStart : Change Your XP Start Menu Like Windows Vista

ViStart : Change Your XP Start Menu Like Windows Vista. The one good thing I like about Vista and can’t live without, their improved start menu with quick search. Vistart add this functionality to XP, w00t! digg story

Sync Facebook and Outlook Contact Photos with OutSync

Sync Facebook and Outlook Contact Photos with OutSync - I started by saving Facebook profile photos and manually adding to Outlook contacts. Thinking there’s surely a application for this, I found it on Lifehacker. Outsync is simple, it matches Outlook contacts to Facebook friends and adds their photos to Outlook. Which for me means I now have most contacts on my Windows Mobile Phone with pcitures now!

SlySoft Virtual CloneDrive

SlySoft Virtual CloneDrive. Free Virtual CD/DVD software. Quick and easy ISO mounting to save burning discs!