To fully appreciate a number of sites you may run across while net-surfing you will need the latest software. Here is where you can get some of the best ones for free:

• The latest Browser is clearly the first thing you should have. Choose from:
  •   Microsoft Internet Explorer

  •   Netscape Navigator

•   Adobe Acrobat that you can use to view, navigate, and print Portable Document Format (PDF) files directly in your browser window.

•   Windows Media Player
gives you more music and more choices, and makes it possible to sync high-quality music, video, and photos to the latest portable devices.
•   Quicktime "is Apple's complete technology for handling video, sound, animation, graphics, text, music, and even 360-degree virtual reality (VR) scenes."

•   RealPlayer Delivers live and on-demand audio- and video-based multimedia over the Internet.

•   Macromedia Shockwave "enables the playback of high-impact multimedia on the World Wide Web, setting a new level of interactive performance on the Internet."

• Ad-Aware Free software to detect and remove spyware

• Spybot Search & Destroy Free software to detect and remove spyware

• More Internet Software