Favorite piece of Free Software

[Estar]

AVG Anti-Virus Software.


Has saved me a load of money and got me out of a few tight spots.:cool:

Site Link (http://www.grisoft.cz/us/us_dwnl_free.php)

[A face]

Apparantly ... most of the Anti-Virus providers add in code/viruses into their software so that you'll have to get an upgrade of the software to rid yourself of the new viruses.

It is just a ploy to get you to pay for an upgrade.

But then again ... i could be wrong and most companies wouldn't dream of trying to generate repeat business for themselves that way.

[Estar]

Originally posted by A face
Apparantly ... most of the Anti-Virus providers add in code/viruses into their software so that you'll have to get an upgrade of the software to rid yourself of the new viruses.

It is just a ploy to get you to pay for an upgrade.



I wouldn't be astonished if it was true. Haven't had any problems with this software yet.

I'm saving all the viruses I get onto a disk, it's a new hobbie of mine. I've got quite a collection.:D

[A face]

Originally posted by Estar
I'm saving all the viruses I get onto a disk


The idea is to get rid of them ... not save them !! :)

Shareware sites ....

most popular is www.tucows.com

[yur man]

[And there was me thinking everyone would be intelligent enough to realise that warez was a no-no. Duh. --adam]

[Estar]

Originally posted by yur man
[And there was me thinking everyone would be intelligent enough to realise that warez was a no-no. Duh. --adam]

Another Pirate of the Caribbean!:D

What's Bill's number in Ireland again (only joking I'm not a great fan of his either) he offers a bounty:D ;)

[yur man]

what i do :D

[gustavo]

i dont know where i'd be without winamp

[tetsujin1979]

Opera internet browser is a god send - way faster at loading pages than internet explorer and you can block pop-ups!

The new Firebird browser from Mozilla looks decent too.

[Jim Smith]

The WebCrawler toolbar is a nifty piece of software - I find it produces more and better results than google once you get used to it.

If your looking for free stuff that's a bit unusual try:

http://www.arachnoid.com

I particularly liked the idea of 'careware'

http://vps.arachnoid.com/careware/

[John83]

Originally posted by tetsujin1979
Opera internet browser is a god send - way faster at loading pages than internet explorer and you can block pop-ups!

The new Firebird browser from Mozilla looks decent too.
Definately my favourite. I use it at home. The tabbed browsing is very hadny.

[UCD_4_Life]

WinZip is as good as.

After that Winamp is handier than Windows Media, Kazaa Lite is great and Ad Aware ha done me a lot of favours.

[Plastic Paddy]

Leaving out WinZip, my choice of superb freebies in no particular order:

1. AdAware - rooting out spyware.
2. AVG - anti-virus program.
3. SoulSeek - the best P2P network of the lot.
4. Mailwasher - amazing for bouncing unwanted emails before downloading to PC.
5. ZoneAlarm - very effective firewall.

:D PP

[Jim Smith]

How many people actually paid for WIn Zip? I did - years ago. At the time there were no CD's and zip drives were very rare so it was something that was needed to make spanning floppies much easier so I felt I should do the right thing. It cost next to nothing.

A good free statistics package is:

PAST http://folk.uio.no/ohammer/past/

OK, its slanted a bit towards palaeontology and all the case studies are palaeontological but anyone needing to use it can adapt or 'evolve' the case studies.

[Footie_Fan]

Kazaa for my mp3 needs.

[patsh]

1. Mozilla
2. AVG
3. Nedit
4. Jedit
5. WebPad (well it's not free, but the best $25 I ever spent!)

[Plastic Paddy]

Originally posted by Footie_Fan
Kazaa for my mp3 needs.

And all your spyware! Try SoulSeek - ****es all over KaZaa. And no nasty mess after.

:D PP