Free Helpful Resources for your home computer!

We like to stay committed to our community, please take a look at a few of the following useful resources to help keep your computer up-to-date and virus free!



Useful Places

Microsoft's Spyware Prevention Site - Good resources for spyware prevention
Windows Update - Keep your computer up to date with windows update!
LavaSoft, USA's Ad-aware - A very good spyware scanner
Spybot Search & Destroy - SpyBot Search & Destory seeks out bots, adware, and malware.
Trend Micro's Housecall Virus Scanner - Free online Virus Scanner
PennState's How to Backup your Computer - A good tutorial on how to back up your windows PC
CCleaner - Cleans Temporary files
Save Energy With Windows XP! - A energy saving walkthrough for your home PC
Backup with GoodSync - A Very useful backup program! We reccomend this to all of our customers
Free Antivirus From Avira - By far one of the best virus scanners on the market, and its free!


How-to's / Free Hosted Utilities

  • Free! Firewall Generator (IPTables / IPFilter) - Generate a firewall with nat support, port forwarding and more. Tested with Fedora Core 8,9, Centos 4,5 and RedHat Enterprise 5
  • Need a counter on your webiste? Simple, Fast, Easy and FREE! check out http://counter.coolcatpc.com a new free website counter service offered by us! Click here
  • CoolCat Wiki a new free service offered that has asterisk, synchronet, and many more various howto's, guides and utilities (under development) Click here


  • Must have Tools & Applications

    Microsoft Worldwide Telescope - A pretty neat app, kind of like google earth.
    Avast Virus Cleaner - A Small, Ready to go App that can be used on a flash drive. Cleans many viruses and worms.
    Floppy Office! - A Tiny Office suite started out as a project that ran off a single floppy disk, now Tiny USB office.
    Open Office - An Alternative to Microsoft Office. Works very well, and is highly reccomended! Inter-compatable with Microsfot Office this powerful tool does it all, and for free! visit http://why.openoffice.org/ for more information on why you should run open office.


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