You ever been attacked by viruses? Are you sure you haven’t been? I was more than once, through my own stupidity. It’s easy it happen to you. If you’re unprotected, viruses can invade your pc in many ways.
Fortunately, is also easy to prevent virus, as well. For example, To help prevent some of the damage hackers do to my blog I’m tried the security software included on Google Pack. Since the topic is enough discussed on the net, I would like to share some things with you that you might be interested about Googl Pack.

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What Is Google Pack?
For who don’t know, Google Pack is a free collection of software from Google and other companies available for any user of Windows-based PCs. On march 2007, Google has included some additions to Google Pack. The updated software pack delivers a new security software.
One of better security software “Symantec Norton Security Scan” has been included in Google Pack. It is not really new, but an updated version of old Norton AntiVirus 2005 Special Edition. However, the software provides all features to remove spyware and viruses, and users are able to have basic virus protection, featuring automatic security updates and scheduled scanning, all with no paid subscription required according to the Official Google Blog.

With Norton Security Scan, users have an easy-to-use tool that scans their PC specifically for viruses and spyware. In addition to the scan feature, the Google Pack version of Norton Security Scan removes all existing viruses, trojans and worms found on a user’s PC and provides them with helpful tips on how they can further improve their PC security.
As I said first, Norton Security Scan replaces Norton AntiVirus 2005 Special Edition which was part of the initial line-up of software when the Google Pack first launched in 2006. Visit its web site( free-protection.com) to learn more.
Google pack also has a fresh way to organize your photos. Google Photos Screensaver, turning it into a digital picture frame that displays the latest photos from, family, friends and favorite photographers. Users can show images from their computer, Picasa Web Albums, or photo feeds from other photo-sharing sites.
Google Pack also includes a number of free Google products, such as:
Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips.
Google Talk is downloadable application for Windows offers many features for communicating with your friends and family.It includes: Instant messaging, free PC-to-PC voice calls, send and receive voicemails, unlimited file transfers, gmail notifications on your desktop.
Google Desktop makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google. It’s a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, files, music, photos, chats, Gmail, web pages that you’ve viewed, and more.
Google Toolbar increases your ability to find information from anywhere on the web.
Mozilla’s provides the Firefox web browser and the Thunderbird e-mail client as well as other products and technologies, such as Bugzilla.
Spyware Doctor has been downloaded over 125 million times with millions more downloads every week. People worldwide use and trust Spyware Doctor to protect their PCs from spyware, adware and other online threats.
Adobe Reader software is the global standard for electronic document sharing. It is the only PDF viewer that can open and interact with all PDF documents. Use Adobe Reader to view, search, digitally sign, verify, print, and collaborate on Adobe PDF files.
However, Google has also tied up a number of options to choose:
Skype allows you to make calls from your computer. Free to other people on Skype and cheap to phones and mobiles around the world.
Picasa is a free software download from Google that helps you: Locate and organise all the photos on your computer. Edit and add effects to your photos with a few simple clicks. Share your photos with others through email, prints and on the web: it’s fast, easy and free.
RealPlayer gives you the ability to download them all to your personal video playlist. Grab videos from thousands of Web sites with just one click. Watch them whenever you want and wherever you want. You can even burn your greatest hits to DVD*. Find the Web video you want - and Real it in.
StarOffice software is an affordable alternative in office productivity suites that runs on multiple operating systems, including Solaris Operating Environment, Microsoft Windows, and Linux.
Positive experiences
- It’s free.
- Don’t need to downloading the program.
- Very usefull and flexible for people to get just what they want.
- Good software: Google Earth, Google Photo Screensaver, Picassa, Firefox, Google Toolbar, Skype, Adobe Reader, Real Player.
- These products are still quite young and new features are added regularly usually without any action needed from me.
Negative experiences
- EVERYTHING in google pack, is basic.
- No Internet - no work.
Conclusion
It will be interesting to follow along on the scene of online applications to see what they have evolved into in a year or two. In my view, it’s very very useful, but my words won’t be descriptive enough to explain it, so just go on free-protection.com and check it out for yourself.
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