Free things that I recommend and are useful and safe.
VLC media player
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
You can find it here
VLC Homepage. It's about the only player I use. I rate it a 10 out of 10.
Apache OpenOffice - Microsoft Office alternative
OpenOffice is one of the more renowned pieces of open source software on the market and has been so more than 15 years. The bundle contains tools for creating word documents, graphics, presentations, spreadsheets, databases, and a slew of other commonplace file types. The software stores your data in an international open standard format, it also supports Microsoft Word documents, handles cell-dependent calculations, and spell checks your work.You can check it out and download on their web page here:
OpenOffice
