Safe icon Downloads: suggestions on safe sites for this?

As a freelance writer, I change desktop standard icons (photo looking for standard folder) for colorful images, often a link with the content of the file, to help me stay organized.   However, I'm always afraid to download 'free' icon files that are available on the Internet.

Suggestions of 'safe' or 'safer' places/sites for download image icon for Vista files?   Although my question may seem trivial, it is very important to me and my work.

Thank you very much.

Terib

We do not have a list of safe icon download sites - I never have them provided to anyone before.  All I can say is to download the file icon on your desktop, then use your security or the AV software to scan the file before installing it.  I usually try www.tucows.com and www.download.com and products they carry have always proved safe (but this is not to say they're all - you take a risk when you use 3rd party software).  Create a retore point until you do the installation you can return to him in case the program is causing problems.  I recommend and download and install the free files all the time - it's a question to revisit the website to see if there is major and not just slapped together — and the first entries in the search engines (like Google or Bing) are relatively safe because they have been consulted so many times if there is a problem, it would have already become common public and/or deleted.

The decision and the risk is yours.  We cannot help you here.  Just scan the files before installation and the system after the installation and you will have made the best you can to protect yourself.  Just because they are free does not make them any more or less of a risk - many free programs are perfectly fine to use (for example, Microsoft Security Essentials).

I hope this helps.

Good luck!

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