> AV: I use ClamAV for corporate antivirus protection, and Grisoft AVG > for personal/home machines. > > Drive Recovery Tools: You can do some drive recovery with Knoppix, > but I spent $150 on Spinrite 6 for it's low level functionality. > > Malware cleanup: I use Spybot Search & Destroy, and turn on the > Immunize & Tea Timer features. It does an okay job. If you can hide > or uninstall traces of IE by replacing it with Firefox, even better. > > Email: Thunderbird. You'll only get away with this if the client > doesn't rely on their email program for scheduling - the calendar > plugin for Thunderbird has a long way to go, and it's not integrated > very well. > > Productivity Software: OpenOffice.org works for this. Just make sure > you set the program to default to the MS read/write formats in order > to play nice with other people who don't have OpenOffice.org. Also > install PDFCreator. > > The preceding programs are not all open source, but most of them are > free. In the case of Grisoft AVG, I believe it outperforms McCaffee > products based on recent experience. >
I've never played with Clam. I am going to check it out. I am a fan of SpinRite, but the last time I used it was version 4. So I'm not the world's *biggest* fan... but it's certainly worth putting in the tool chest. Thanks for the ideas. Firefox is definitely awesome... not so good for cleanup after the fact, obviously, but great for prevention since it lacks IE's Swiss cheese code feature. Andrew -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
