Herdprotect by Reason Software I don't use malwarebytes, Hitman Pro, Adw cleaner, Super Anti Spyware, Spybot search and destroy or any other anti-malware programs any more even if I paid for them. I've tried them all. No need too! This program finds malware that these and almost all other antivirus software out there miss, and if you enable false detection most times you're not bothered by false positives from the 68 search engines they use. It does a better job than Virus total enabled programs. It says it's a second line of defense, but I think it's my first line of defense. It never fails where others do!
What is herdProtect?
herdprotect is a second line of defense malware scanning platform powered by 68 anti-malware engines in the cloud. Since no single anti-malware program is perfect 100% of the time, herdProtect utilizes a 'herd' of multiple engines to guarantee the widest coverage and the earliest possible detection. As a second line of defense anti-malware solution, herdProtect is designed to run with any existing anti-virus program already installed on a user's PC. herdProtect is a free service to help user's find and remove malicious software.
https://www.herdprotect.com/
https://deluge-torrent.org/ The best free and free bittorent cleint, no spyware, advertisng or malware or bandwith stealing apps included like Utorrent and Bittorent and Vuse and others include. Tons of plugins available including bandwidth scheduler and bad ip blocking plugin. I've tryed them all. Faster than all the others including my second choice
https://www.tixati.com/ Not the fastest, that would be Torrex but it's a windows 8.1 store program and can't be runned in a sandbox enviroment and it's dangorious to run a torrent aplication unsandboxed.
What is Deluge?
Deluge is a full-featured BitTorrent client for Linux, OS X, Unix and Windows. It uses libtorrent in its backend and features multiple user-interfaces including: GTK+, web and console. It has been designed using the client server model with a daemon process that handles all the bittorrent activity. The Deluge daemon is able to run on headless machines with the user-interfaces being able to connect remotely from any platform.
Deluge features a rich plugin collection; in fact, most of Deluge's functionality is available in the form of plugins.
Deluge was created with the intention of being lightweight and unobtrusive. It is our belief that downloading shouldn't be the primary task on your computer and therefore shouldn't monopolize system resources.
Deluge is not designed for any one desktop environment and will work just fine in GNOME, KDE, XFCE and others. We do our best to adhere to the freedesktop standards.
Deluge is Free Software and is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
https://www.sandboxie.com/
I was tired of getting infected by software that multiple anti-virus engines said was safe then iIfound sandboxie. Now I run all the free software I find in it and also run Chrome and other programs such as my torrent program in it. It has saved me lots of head aches. It only failed me once YTD manged to install malware outside of the sandbox while being installed inside the box, but that was one time out of a hundred. The only problem is some antivirus software like Bitdefender won't scan inside the sandbox and you have to know where to look for the malware that bad programs installed. Webroot Secure anywhere does scan inside the sandbox and finds malware in it so I recommend that antivirus. I use to use Avast Free
https://www.avast.com/ for 10 years, and Bitdefender after avast but don't use either now.
Have you ever had the need to make a ISO file bootable from a USB drive and Nero and other programs will only burn DVD's then you look on the internet and all the free programs that do this have malware in them. Who can you trust for malware free software that runs on windows 7 and 8, 8.1 and 10 why Microsoft of course. The Windows USB/DVD Download tool will do this for any ISO file even though its made for windows installs.
https://wudt.codeplex.com/
The Windows USB/DVD Download tool allows you to create a copy of your Windows 7/8 ISO file on a USB flash drive or a DVD. To create a bootable DVD or USB flash drive, download the ISO file and then run the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool. Once this is done, you can install Windows 7 or Windows 8 directly from the USB flash drive or DVD.
Also there's
https://rufus.akeo.ie/ I can't vouch for it being malware free though. I wen't the safe route with Microsoft.
Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.
It can be especially useful for cases where:
you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.)
you need to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed
you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS
you want to run a low-level utility
Despite its small size, Rufus provides everything you need!
Oh, and Rufus is fast. For instance it's about twice as fast as UNetbootin, Universal USB Installer or Windows 7 USB download tool, on the creation of a Windows 7 USB installation drive from an ISO. It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USB from ISOs.
