The beauty of the Internet lies in communities and free public programs. Not communities of people( well those are good and have their purpose) but communities of knowledge. Every topic out there pretty much now has a page. If the topic is of vast interest it might even have a forum. If the forum is established and popular you can find information going back years and years. I will give one example of a great community. Recently I came across a trojan called Virtumonde on a computer. Damn thing would not come out. Norton could not remove it. Spyware search and destroy could not destroy. Jeezzzz!. What could remove it? Well that is where this communities of knowledge come in. Look into the right forums type of your problem and you will get plenty of information to lead you in the directions. I got plenty of information and hopefully eventually to a solution that works for me.
So this communities of people sharing information exist all over the world. If they have been around for a while they will have plenty of users and information you can acess and read. There is pretty much a forum from everything from congressional bills to the color blue.
So free programs. Yes. They exist. There are tons out there and some really great ones. They can possibly take a bit longer to learn then the main stream programs but hey if you have the time why not. And on ocassions this free programs work even better then commercial ones. Take my example. NOrton could not fix the trojan Virtumonde but guess what a free program did. How about that?
So to conclude the post. Whatever you are looking for…. Sometimes it takes a while to reach the right site, but once you do you have reached a wealth of information that can keep you reading for as long as you want.:)
p.s. Google, Yahoo, and MSN don’t always have this great sites at the top of the searches; look past those few pages of search results.