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101 Fantastic Freebies

Want to make your PC more productive, secure, informative, and entertaining? These downloads and services will do the trick--and they don't cost a dime.

Preston Gralla, PC World

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McAfee VirusScan 2006 10.0 (Full Product)

80

Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2006 (Full Product)

73

BitDefender 9 Internet Security

88

Infrant Technologies ReadyNAS NV 1TB

76

Maxtor Shared Storage II

Artwork: Chip Taylor
Once upon a time you actually had to pay for great software and services -- hard to believe, but true.

Luckily, we no longer live in that world. The Internet is stuffed with great downloads and Web sites offering free software and services of every kind. Want to tune up your PC, keep it safe, create graphics, or back up your system with gobs of free storage space? You can find free software and sites to do all that, and plenty more.

We revved up our cable modem and searched for the most intriguing free offerings out there. After we took each download or service for a test-drive, we picked the very best, and came up with the following list of 101 great freebies.

We didn't do it alone, though -- you helped. We polled PC World readers, asking for your top freebies in several categories, so here you'll find your favorites as well as ours. (And be sure to read more details on the People's Choice Winners.)

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