Links to sites that are useful or just interesting —
All links are unpaid and unsolicited,
Black Hills Computer Consulting, Inc. has no financial interest in any of the sites or products listed
Gibson Research - a variety of tools and information to help make your computer more secure
Gibson Research - Shield's Up! - a good test of how secure you are from the internet
Gibson Research - Security Now! - podcasts of Steve Gibson discussing security issues with Leo Laporte.
Check the standards compliance of web pages - W3C Markup Validation Service
Why Bouncing Spam and/or Viruses is a bad idea
DSL Reports - useful information about DSL and cable, including speed tests
Lavasoft Ad-aware - removes adware from your computer or download from Download.com
Spybot - Search & Destroy - removes spyware from your computer or download from download.com
Spyware Blaster - removes spyware from your computer
Windows Defender for Window XP and Vista
X-Cleaner at SpywareGuide.com - online spyware cleaner
Information on how to remove CWS (Cool Web Search)
Good place to check if an anti-spyware program is legit or worth bothering with: Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware Products & Web Sites
Pop-up blocker tests - takes a while to run through all of the tests, but gives a very good indication of how well your pop-up blocker works.
Firefox - web browser - or ftp access to Firefox released files
Thunderbird - email client - or ftp access to Thunderbird released files
SeaMonkey - for those of you that want the email client and web browser to be one application
Open Office - a free suite of applications similar to Microsoft's Office suite. Contains programs for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, etc.
AVG Free anti-virus software
Avast free anti-virus software
Recycling -
HP offers a recycling program for any brand of computer hardware
Dell also has a recycling program, but I wasn't able to find it on their site.
