When you’re out in the field and your laptop gets hit by a virulent strain of malware and the machine is prevented to connect to the Internet, your Web apps will be rendered useless and you’re essentially dead on the water.
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This article from PCWorld.com offers a list of ideal PC survival apps including an open source app that includes hundreds of free versions of popular programs, to a secured mobile browser, to several anti-malware programs, to a rootkit-killer, to a Linux-based operating system to help you recover files in your hard drive and back it up across the network.
The selection also includes some very useful file deletion tools, a program uninistaller and even a handy password database.
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