Some handy sites and downloads.

[popeye67]

Free programs to download.
http://www.filehippo.com/
Programs to download many of them free.
http://downloads.cnet.co.uk/

Free programs for testing repairing minor errors on hard drives.
http://support.wdc.com/product/download ... =3&lang=en

For web surfing anonymously, .
http://www.torproject.org/
not sure if it works with firefox3 so heres a link to firefox2.
http://www.filehippo.com/download_firefox/5015/

Tests broadband speed.
http://www.speedtest.net/
Tests if your isp is throttling your connection
http://loki10.mpi-sws.mpg.de/bb/bittorr ... uration=20

Erase individual files beyond recovery.
http://eraser.heidi.ie/index.php
For erasing hard drives beyond recovery (be careful)
http://www.dban.org/download

Good torrent site, yet to find any virus's or trojans.
http://overget.com/
Lot of them download as a lot of rar files, use 7zip to extract the last rar file (the one without a number)
http://www.filehippo.com/download_7-zip/[/url]