Downloadable Software

There are many freeware programs (and others licensed by George Fox) that are available here for you to download that are extremely useful when using your computer. Some of them are great for keeping your computer clean and safe from programs that could possibly harm it. Others are just commonly used programs that will be helpful in your day-to-day operations.

Symtanec Antivirus is your friend Remember that. Update it and run scans on your computer frequently. It makes it much less likely that that your computer could be infected with a virus and, in a worst-case scenario, need to be completely wiped and installed fresh, losing all of your files.

Another important program to run frequently is AVG Free 8.5. AVG is a little program that deletes spyware and tracking cookies from your machine. Spyware is a name for little programs that download themselves to your machine without your knowledge when you use the Internet. They can latch onto your computer and seem harmless (and some are), but the majority of them are harmful. Some of these infect your computer with little pop-up ads; some add sites to your favorites list. Some even install programs whose sole purpose is to eat up your running power (memory, CPU). The build-up of spyware can eventually cause major problems to the best of computers.

For some programs you can either click the internal link and download the program straight over the network or click the external link and download it directly from the manufacturer's Web page.

Symantec Antivirus 9: Antivirus software.
NOTE: Internal link requires GFU login and password (same as your e-mail login and password).

AVG Free 8.5: AntiSpyware software.

Adobe Reader: Opens .pdf files.

Adobe Flash Player: A viewer for Flash animation and video.

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11: An Internet browser that includes built-in popup blocking.

Safari 4: The popular Apple browser is now available for both Windows and Mac OSX.

Internet Explorer 8: An alternative web browser for Windows users.

Quicktime 7.6.2: A program for playing Quicktime videos on either Mac or Windows (.mov files).

TextWrangler (Mac): A little writing pad that is great for all you Web programmers.

Vim (Windows): Similar to other Web writing programs.

Cyberduck: A good free FTP client.

Winrar Downloads: A slightly more versatile unzipping tool that unzips .rar files as well as .zip files.

WinZip 12: A handy unzipping tool. Try the free trial version.