Aug 3, 2009

Comodo Internet Security 3.10

>Download - 76 Mb (Freeware)
Comodo Internet Security 3.10 includes many new features and services, including Comodo Secure DNS, Comodo HopSurf and the ability to specify alternative URLs for program and virus updates. During the setup process you will be given the choice to:

  • Install the AntiVirus as a standalone

  • Install the Firewall as a standalone

  • Install both Firewall and AntiVirus
I've personally tried Comodo Firewall, and let me say that it's great. I mean the monitoring is sensitive yet allows the vital tasks to run smoothly. I advise everybody to try it out. You can add

sites to a 'blacklist' and protect your family from any harmful websites.

ZoneAlarm® Spy Blocker™ Toolbar

>Download - 0.98 Mb (Freeware)
ZoneAlarm Spy Blocker prevents you from accidentally accessing websites that distribute spyware. The toolbar includes ZoneAlarm Spy Site Blocking and Ask.com's convenient search functionality. You'll also get links to important security services and up-to-date information on the latest online threats, risks, and vulnerabilities.
  • Spy Site Blocking prevents spyware from getting on your PC by blocking its primary source:spyware distribution websites.
  • Instantly search and access your favorite sites from anywhere on the Web
  • ZoneAlarm SmartDefense Services provide information on the latest security threats and valuable documentation on the implementation of comprehensive antivirus and anti-spyware protection and internet security.

Outpost Firewall Pro 2009

>Download Pro Version- 26.8 Mb (Trial Version)
Outpost Personal Firewall Pro gives you the latest in personal firewall technology, making it the clear security choice for your system. Explore the power and ease of use of Outpost Firewall Pro download the free 30-day trial version. Some basic features include:
  • Advanced firewall for secure connections

  • Antispyware to keep your PC spyware-free

  • Host Protection to block zero-day threats

  • Web control to protect your PC from web-borne threats

Aug 2, 2009

Firefox 3.5.1

>Download - 7.74 Mb (Freeware)
et the latest version of one of the world's top internet browser, with speeds reaching higher than ever. Many new features were added in this version, get your copy and experience life in the fast lane.
  • The enhancements to Firefox provide the best possible browsing experience on the Web. The new Firefox smart location bar, affectionately known as the "Awesome Bar," learns as people use it, adapting to user preferences and offering better fitting matches over time.
  • Firefox is built on top of the powerful new Gecko platform, resulting in a safer, easier to use and more personal product.
  • Firefox raises the bar for security. The new malware and phishing protection helps
  • Remember site passwords without ever seeing a pop-up.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 2010 9.0.0.463

>Download - 55.45 Mb (Commercial Trial)

Kaspersky released the new improved version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus. Version 2010, have a range of new features including :

  • Color coding of links to suspicious websites

  • Block of suspicious programs based on their behavior

  • Now, you can also block all kind of alerts while you play games

  • You can burn a rescue disk to restore your computer to previous state in case of infection

The Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 application was designed to be the backbone of your PC's security system, offering protection from a range of IT threats.

Nero Free 9.4.12.3

>Download - 54.54 Mb (Freeware)

Nero Free, is the easy-to-use yet powerful multimedia suite, gives you the freedom to create, rip, copy, burn, edit, share, and upload online. Whatever you want – music, video, photo, and data – share and enjoy with family and friends anytime, anywhere. It offers you the chance to enjoy Nero’s data disc burning and copying features for an unlimited time, absolutely free!

Enjoy basic data burning and copying capabilities for your CDs and DVDs from the world’s most trusted digital media brand, Nero.

uTorrent 1.8.3 Build 16010

>Download - 281 Kb (Freeware)

µTorrent is a small and incredibly popular BitTorrent client. Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet).
Additionally, µTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification (compatible with Azureus 2.4.0.0 and above, BitComet 0.63 and above) and peer exchange. µTorrent was written with efficiency in mind.
Unlike many torrent clients, it does not hog valuable system resources - typically using less than 6MB of memory, allowing you to use the computer as if it weren't there at all. Additionally, the program itself is contained within a single executable less than 220 KB in size.

Aug 1, 2009

Free Download Manager 3.0.848

>Download - 6.41 Mb (Opensource)

Free Download Manager? It is a powerful, easy-to-use and absolutely free download accelerator and manager. Moreover, FDM is 100% safe, open-source software distributed under GPL license.

FDM offers these features:

  • BitTorrent support
  • Upload Manager
  • Flash video downloading
  • Portable (USB stick) mode
  • Audio/video file preview and conversion
  • Download acceleration
  • Resume broken downloads
  • Smart file management and powerful scheduler
  • Adjust traffic usage
  • HTML Spider: Download whole web pages or even whole web sites with HTML Spider.
  • Simultaneous downloading from several mirrors
  • Zip files partial download
  • Active spyware and adware protection through active communication among users
  • Multi language support
  • Plus many more features!

FlashGet 1.9.6

>Download - 3.1 Mb (Freeware)
FlashGet is a leading download manager and has the highest amount of users on the internet. It uses MHT(Multi-server Hyper-threading Transportation) technique, supports various protocols and has excellent document management features. Flashget can increase download speed from 6-10 times. It can use up the lowest system resources and will not influence your normal work or study.
It supports HTTP,FTP,BT,MMS,RTSP and other protocols. It is seamless between protocols and there is no need to operate manually for download switch. The One Touch technique optimizes BT download and can automatically download target files after getting seeds information, hence no need to operate again.

Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) 9.2

>Download - 9.86 Mb (Freeware)

DAP provides powerful acceleration and the most complete set of download tools available.
Now with DAP 9.2 you can download your favorite videos from YouTube and other video sites, download safer with Multi Antivirus security, and choose your favorite download style.
1. Download safer as you see what the leading security programs say about your files. Some features include:
2. Continue broke or paused downloads.
3. Watch previews of videos as they download.
4. Lock, hide, and protect your downloads.
5. Expansion to watch YouTube / web videos without pauses and buffering.
and lots more.

Internet Download Manager v5.17

>Download - 2.32 Mb (Shareware) Internet Download Manager (IDM) is a tool to increase download speeds by up to 5 times, resume and schedule downloads. Comprehensive error recovery and resume capability will restart broken or interrupted downloads due to lost connections, network problems, computer shutdowns, or unexpected power outages. Simple graphic user interface makes IDM user friendly and easy to use.
It supports proxy servers, ftp and http protocols, firewalls, redirects, cookies, authorization, MP3 audio and MPEG video content processing. IDM integrates seamlessly into Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, MSN Explorer, AOL, Opera, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firebird, Avant Browser, MyIE2, and all other popular browsers to automatically handle your downloads. You can also drag and drop files, or use Internet Download Manager from command line.
Other features include multilingual support, zip preview, download categories, scheduler pro, sounds on different events, HTTPS support, queue processor, html help and tutorial, enhanced virus protection on download completion, progressive downloading with quotas (useful for connections that use some kind of fair access policy or FAP like Direcway, Direct PC, Hughes, etc.), built-in download accelerator, and many others.

Orbit Download 2.8.14

>Download - 2.17 Mb (Freeware)


Orbit Downloader, leader of download manager revolution, is devoted to new generation web (web2.0) downloading, such as video/music/streaming media from Myspace, YouTube, Imeem, Pandora, Rapidshare, support RTMP. And to make general downloading easier and faster.
  • Download Rich Media:

    Orbit Downloader supports HTTP/FTP/HTTPS/RTSP/MMS/RTMP protocols and provides a total solution to download rich media. So Orbit Downloader can be used as YouTube downloader to download YouTube more simply and easily. Additionally, you can download music and video from social music/video websites like YouTube.

  • Great Speed:

    Orbit Downloader is based on p2p and multi-source downloading technology. More Efficient mirrors selection algorithm and faster download sources which allows you to download files up to 500% faster than before. Maximum possible download speed, up to the fastest download manager!

  • Super Light:

    Orbit Downloader is written with efficiency in mind, it typically uses less than 3MB of memory and 3% of cpu when downloading. Additionally, the installation package is less than 2MB.

  • Support RapidShare

    Orbit Downloader supports most of the file-sharing service websites, including megaupload, badongo, sendspace, sexuploader, yourfilehost, uploading, filefront, 4shared, turboupload, depositfiles, filefactory, and more.

  • Easy to Use

    Orbit Downloader has a simple and clear user interface. It is easy to use and configure for both newbies and professionals.

Apr 5, 2009

Avant Browser 11.7 Build 23


Download - 1.945 MB (Freeware)

Avant Browser's user-friendly interface brings a new level of clarity and efficiency to your browsing experience, and frequent upgrades have steadily improved its reliability. Avant Browser is freeware, no limitations, no Adware, no Spyware.
AutoFills:
Help users to memorize web passwords, and fill passwords for users with one click.
Flash Animation Filter:
More than 85% of all flash animations on web pages are advertising. These flash files are pretty large, and normally take up to 90% of the size of the page you're visiting. With Avant Browser you can save the bandwidth by blocking the download of these flash files with just one easy click. Avant Browser also provides options to block downloads of pictures, videos, sounds and ActiveX components. With these options users can control their bandwidth and speed up page loading.
Built-in AD/Pop-up Blocker:
Easily eliminate unwanted AD banners and pop-up pages automatically with just one click.
Built-in RSS/ATOM Reader:
Avant Browser has a built-in RSS/ATOM Reader, which allows you to read RSS/ATOM feeds just like browsing web pages. And you can also keep your favorite feeds as bookmarks.
Multi-Window Browsing:
Browse multiple web pages simultaneously. All opened pages can be easily stopped, refreshed, closed or arranged with one click.
Built-in Search Engine:
Avant Browser provides a built-in search engines. Built-in search engines enable user to search for web pages, images, groups, directories, news, lyrics and software in Internet.
Control Your Privacy:
With Avant Browser, you can easily keep your privacy by deleting all browsing traces such as: Typed Addresses, Auto-Complete Passwords, Cookies, History of Visited Web Sites, Temporary Internet Files and Search Keywords.
Customizable Skins:
Express your creativity by making a skin for Avant using a custom, easy to use program called Avant Browser Skin Maker, or use any of the many and varied skins made by other users.

Mar 26, 2009

PrimoPDF



Download - 10.61MB (Freeware)

The world's most used PDF converter. Easy to use, just select it as your default printer and the rest is left to the software. It's aimed to everyone from home pc user's to occupational owners. Get your edition to save yourself alot of time and money. Completely free PDF creator - Create PDF files from 300+ file types.

Make 100% industry-standard PDF from any files that print.

Create PDF files optimized for print, screen, ebook, or prepress.

Convert to PDF from any file you can print, including .doc, .ppt, .xls

Secure with passwords and add document information (title, author, etc.) during creation.

Microsoft® Windows® 2000, XP, Vista (64-bit included).

PDF files conform to the PDF 1.5 specification.

Foxit Reader 3.0



Download - 3.57 MB (Freeware)

Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer, with incredible small size, breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7.

In the past, you've had to download a huge PDF reader from another software company, go through a lengthy installation process and wait for an annoying splash window to disappear just to open a PDF document. Moreover, if you want to annotate a PDF document, you have to pay US$299 to buy certain software.

Now with Foxit Reader, you don't have to endure such pain any more. The following is a list of compelling advantages of Foxit Reader:

* Incredibly small: The download size of Foxit Reader is just a fraction of Acrobat Reader 20 M size.
* Breezing-fast: When you run Foxit Reader, it launches instantly without any delay. You are not forced to view an annoying splash window displaying company logo, author names, etc.
* Annotation tool: Have you ever wished to annotate (or comment on) a PDF document when you are reading it? Foxit Reader allows you to draw graphics, highlight text, type text and make notes on a PDF document and then print out or save the annotated document.
* Text converter: You may convert the whole PDF document into a simple text file.
* High security and privacy: Foxit Reader highly respects the security and privacy of users and will never connect to the Internet without users' permission. While other PDF readers often silently connect to the Internet in the background. Foxit PDF Reader does not contain any spyware.

CutePDF Writer 2.7


Download - 1.54 MB (Freeware)

Create PDF documents on the fly — for Free!

Portable Document Format (PDF) is the de facto standard for the secure and reliable distribution and exchange of electronic documents and forms around the world. CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a "printer subsystem". This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to create professional quality PDF documents - with just a push of a button!

Have specific and advanced needs above and beyond that of other users?
Integrate PDF creation ability into any application, solution, service or terminal server (e.g. Citrix) environment and more. Custom Redistribution now available!

GNU Ghostscript is an open-source interpreter for the PostScript language and the PDF file format. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License. You may obtain the source code for GPL Ghostscript 8.15 here.

Mar 17, 2009

AVS Video Converter 6.2.4.330


Download - 38.63 MB (Freeware)

Convert Video between Almost Any Formats:
HD Video (inc. AVCHD, MPEG-2 HD and WMV HD), TOD, MOD, M2TS, AVI (DivX, Xvid, etc.), MP4 (inc. Sony PSP and Apple iPod), WMV, 3GP, QuickTime (MOV, QT), SWF, DVD, VOB, VRO, MPEG-1, 2, 4, H.263, H.264, Real Video, DVR-MS, MKV, FLV (see a full list of Supported Formats here). Benefit from batch and multithreading conversion. Make the most of your multi-core processor power.

Create Movie DVDs from video files of all supported formats. Use DVD menu templates. Split your movie into chapters. Watch them on your home DVD player.

NEW!Manage Videos from HD-Cameras. Key HD-Formats are supported: AVCHD, MPEG-2 HD, WMV HD, TOD, MOD, M2TS, M2T, MTS, HDV. Edit, split, trim HD-videos, add text & effects and convert them to DVD or any other supported video format. Burn a DVD-disc and watch it on your DVD-Player.

Output Videos to Various Devices:
iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zen, PS3 (HD support), XBox (HD support), Archos, phones, DVD/MPEG-4 players (with DivX/Xvid support) and portable media players.

Make Videos Ready for Website Flash SWF, Real Video or WMV movies. Copy videos and home. Extract Soundtracks and Images from Movies. Save audio streams as audio files, save single frames as images.

Any FLV Player



Download - 20.06 MB (Shareware)

Any FLV Player is an easy-to-use web video player utility for playing FLV (MPEG-4 encoded video file for Flash) files on the Internet. With Any FLV Player, you can easily play your FLV videos on your website as it doesn't require the complicated flash authoring tool or flash development tools. It also allows you to play FLV files in your computer. Any FLV Player also features its powerful function of video conversion. It accepts video files in a variety of formats such as MOV, WMV, FLV, MPEG-4, MPG, RM, RMVB, AVI, VOB, ASF, DV, 3GP, M1V and M2V and enables you to convert videos into FLV format for creating web videos.

CDBurnerXP

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Download - 3.04 MB (Freeware)

CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.

Key Features

  • burn all kinds of discs
  • audio-CDs with or without gaps between tracks
  • burn and create ISO files
  • data verification after burning process
  • create bootable discs
  • multi-language interface
  • bin/nrg → ISO converter, simple cover printing and much more!
  • Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista/Windows 7

WavePad Sound Editor

Download - 423 KB (Freeware)

This sound editing software is a full featured professional audio editor for Windows or Mac. It lets you make and edit music, voice and other audio recordings.
Features
  • Sound editing functions include cut, copy, paste, delete, insert, silence, autotrim and more.
  • Audio effects include, amplify, normalize, equaliser, envelope, reverb, echo, reverse, sample rate conversion and more.
  • Full featured Mp3 editing software support.
  • Supports a number of other file formats including wav (multiple codecs) vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and many more.
  • Batch processing supports up to 32000 files allowing you to apply effects and/or convert your files as a single function.
  • Tools include spectral analysis (FFT) and speech synthesis (text-to-speech).
  • Recorder supports autotrim and voice activated recording and more.
  • Audio restoration features including noise reduction and click pop removal.
  • Supports sample rates from 6000 to 96000Hz, stereo or mono, 8, 16, 24 or 32 bits.
  • Includes its own CD ripper with 'ultrafast 'rip mode and cddb music database lookup.
  • Works directly with MixPad multi-track audio mixing software.
  • Links directly to the Express Burn CD Recorder to burn your sound files to CD.
  • Edit tracks for the Zulu DJ software.
  • Easy to use interface will get you started editing in just minutes.

Mar 10, 2009

FileZilla Client 3.2.2.1 / Server 0.9.31


Download Client (32bit) - 3.68 MB / Download Server (32bit)- 2.72 MB (Freeware)



Overview

FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface.

Features

Among others, the features of FileZilla include the following:

  • Easy to use
  • Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
  • Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X and more
  • IPv6 support
  • Available in many languages
  • Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB
  • Powerful Site Manager and transfer queue
  • Bookmarks
  • Drag & drop support
  • Configurable transfer speed limits
  • Filename filters
  • Network configuration wizard
  • Remote file editing
  • Keep-alive
  • HTTP/1.1, SOCKS5 and FTP-Proxy support
  • Logging to file

SmartFTP Client 3.0.1026


Download 32-bit - 9.29 MB / Download 64-bit - 9.83 MB (Freeware)

Features

  • FTP and FTPS (Secure FTP)
    • 256 bit, HIPAA compliant
  • SFTP over SSH
  • Modern Graphical User Interface (GUI)
  • File/Folder Synchronization
  • Multilingual (more than 20 languages)
  • Thumbnails View and Preview
  • Visual Compare
  • Advanced Schedule
  • IPv6
  • On-the-fly Compression (MODE Z)
  • UTF-8 Support
  • Drag & Drop
  • Multiple Connections
  • Auto reconnect and resume of broken transfers
  • Transfer Integrity
    Verified Transfers (XCRC, XMD5, XSHA)
  • FXP (Server-To-Server Transfer) support
  • Remote Edit of files
  • Search for files and folders on the server
  • Enhanced NAT/UPnP Support
    UPnP (Universal Plug and Play), ICS, ICF
  • Transfer Queue
    • Scheduling
    • Uploads/Downloads/FXP
    • Unlimited simultaneous threads
  • International Domain Names (IDN)
  • Proxy / Firewall support
    • SOCKS5, SOCKS4, SOCKS4A, HTTP Proxy
    • Wingate, Winproxy, CSM, Checkpoint FW-1, Raptor
  • Backup Tool
  • URL Watcher
  • Cache Remote Directories
  • FTP command line
  • Custom Commands
  • CHMOD (Properties)

Note: If unsure what Windows version you are running download the 32-bit version.



Mar 9, 2009

AOL® 9.5


Download - 203.22 KB (Freeware)

Download the latest version of AOL's familiar all-in-one Internet software, making Web browsing, email and instant messaging more convenient than ever before.

If you've used previous versions of the AOL software, you'll find AOL 9.5 to be very comfortable. But it includes all-new features such as tabbed browsing, which lets you surf multiple Web pages at the same time without cluttering your screen. This is an online installer, please be connected to complete the installation.

DivX 7 Player


Download - 18.43 MB (Freeware + Commercial Trial)

DivX® 7 for Windows is a free download that provides everything you need to enjoy high-quality digital videos on your computer, including HD H.264 (.mkv) videos with AAC audio and videos created using all previous versions of DivX technology. You can also play your DivX files (.divx, .avi) on millions of DivX Certified® devices today. Look for DivX Plus™ HD Certified devices later this year that will support playback of all DivX and DivX Plus files, as well as .mkv (H.264/AAC) videos from the Internet.

DivX for Windows requires Windows XP or Vista (32-bit).

Mar 8, 2009

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Mar 7, 2009

Firefox 3.0.7

Download Firefox 3.0.7 Download - 7.17MB (Open Source)

The award-winning Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence. Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups.

Enjoy improvements to performance, ease of use and privacy. It's easy to import your favorites and settings and get started.

The latest version delivers easier navigation for everyone, including those who are visually or motor-impaired. Firefox is the first browser to support DHTML accessibility, which, when enabled by Web authors, allows rich Web applications to be read aloud. Users may navigate with keystrokes rather than mouse clicks, reducing the tabbing required to navigate documents such as spreadsheets. Firefox is also the first browser to meet US federal government requirements that software be easily accessible to users with physical impairments.

NOD32 AntiVirus 4.0.314

Download - 29.87MB (Commercial Trial)

ESET's NOD32 protects you without requiring you to become an expert in malware. Because everybody deserves the best protection possible against viruses, worms, adware, spyware, and phishing.

NOD32 gives you the same high-grade protection chosen by thousands of corporate IT professionals around the globe.

Join the ranks of those who have said "NO" to weak protection, bloated security suites, and slow performance.

The version made available here is a 30 day trial for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP.

ICQ 6.5.1042

Download- 15.97MB (Freeware)

ICQ or 'I Seek You' is simply a way of getting in touch with people and friends. ICQ makes it easy to find people with similar interests across the globe, to establish new friendships, to communicate with colleagues, family members and friends no matter when or where they are. And once friendships and connections have been established you just need to go online to get in contact without the geographic and time related limitations of the offline world.

The most popular method of communication on ICQ is instant messaging, enabling you to send a message that immediately pops up on an online contact's screen. But there's a lot more to ICQ than that.

With ICQ Instant Messenger you can video/audio chat, send email, SMS and wireless-pager messages, as well as transfer files and URLs. If you're away from your personal computer you can still chat with friends and contacts, even where the ICQ client is not installed, by using the web-based ICQ2Go that works from any computer.

With ICQ 5 you can customize your ICQ to be exactly what you need and always up-to-date by adding shortcuts to your favorite features in order to launch them directly from your ICQ. This means that you can send your friends & contacts greeting cards and invitations to games, multi chats, video sessions, and more directly from your client and/or the message window. In the message window you can also choose to display your photo or one of ICQ's unique, animated devils.

uTorrent 1.8.3 Beta 14715

Download - 275KB (Freeware)

uTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. It was designed to use as little cpu, memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients.
  • Multiple simultaneous downloads
  • Configurable bandwidth scheduler
  • Global and per-torrent speed limiting
  • Quick-resumes interrupted transfers
  • RSS Downloader
  • Trackerless support (Mainline DHT)

NVIDIA Forceware 182.08 WHQL XP

Download - 77.01MB (Freeware)

NVIDIA ForceWare software unleashes the full power and features in NVIDIA's desktop, gaming, platform, workstation, laptop, multimedia, and mobile products. Delivering a proven record of compatibility, reliability, and stability with the widest range of games and applications, ForceWare software ensures the best experience with your NVIDIA hardware.
  • Incredible 3D and video performance for all of your applications.
  • Rock-solid system stability, greater compatibility, and reliability with NVIDIA® Unified Driver Architecture (UDA).
  • Industry-leading features for graphics, audio, video, communications, storage, and security.
  • Robust product support for over ten unique operating systems.
  • Continual product performance and feature updates for the life of your NVIDIA hardware.

This software requires Windows 2000, XP or 2003 server.

Mar 3, 2009

Safari 4.0

Download - Apple (Freeware)

Apple has released a new version of its famous browser Safari. Safari 4.0 is now available for PC and Mac users.

The new version comes with a new javascript engine called Nitro, which Apple claims that it loads javascript much faster than Internet Explorer 7.0 and Mozilla Firefox 3.0 .

AVG Free Edition 8.5.278

Download - 59.39MB (Freeware)

AVG Free Edition is the well-known anti-virus protection tool. AVG Free is available free-of-charge to home users for the life of the product! Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high-level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers. AVG Free is easy-to-use and will not slow your system down (low system resource requirements).

Highlights include:

  • Automatic update functionality
  • The AVG Resident Shield, which provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run
  • The AVG E-mail Scanner, which protects your e-mail
  • The AVG On-Demand Scanner, which allows the user to perform scheduled and manual tests
  • Free Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product
  • AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files

GOM Player 2.1.16.4631

>Download - 4.48MB (Freeware)

GOM is a FREE media player with popular audio & video codecs built-in.

No need to install codecs separately! Try one of your broken AVI files or one of the files that is being downloaded with GOM.

GOM Player supports most popular codecs (AVI, DAT, MPEG, DivX plus many more) with its own embedded codec system that you won't have to look for appropriate codecs everytime you can't play a certain video format. For those codecs that require a license that cannot be distributed, GOM will automatically lead you to an open-source codec web-site.

Watch video files while you are downloading them! GOM has a registered patent for playing broken AVI files and files that are still being downloaded. So try one of your broken AVI files or one that you are downloading right now. You'll find it amazing!

GOM supports a lot of advanced features for advanced users. You can customize the player by creating your own skin, setting toggle keys, VMR modes, detailed resolution among others. It also provides features such as an overlay mixer, real-time index rebuilding for AVI files, unicode support, key frame based RW/FF and many more!