Compression utilities are used to unpack/unzip/unarchive files which you've downloaded from the internet.

• Stuffit
• Winzip

Web Browsers are used to access websites and other media online.

• Firefox
• Firefox

PDF Readers are used to view Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

• Adobe Acrobat Reader

Telnet/SSH clients are used to connect to Bard's networked UNIX computing environment and can be used for checking email, reading newsgroup postings, file management, etc...

• Putty
• Terra Term

FTP clients are used to transfer files from one computer to another computer or server.

• Fetch
• Filezilla
• Filezilla
• WS-FTP Home

Anti-Virus programs will scan your computer for, and eliminate dangerous digital viruses that can be passed from computer-to-computer via floppy disk, or files downloaded from the internet.

• Avast
• Avast Virus Cleaner
• Online Virus Scan