[Ghost]

The only problem I've had so far with Gaim is the fact that it hates to send files/direct connect.

[Grey Wolf]

Originally posted by Mr. Fury
New versions are far better than what they were year or more back. All I need is Media Player Classic with ffdshow and vsfilter (vobsub). Some people might also want to get Real Alternative and QuickTime Alternative.

I think I'll just stay with my Xvid 1.1 Beta 2. Koepi's binary is really quite nice.

[Fury]

Originally posted by Grey Wolf
I think I'll just stay with my Xvid 1.1 Beta 2. Koepi's binary is really quite nice.

Nobody's forcing to switch.
I simply like the fact that ffdshow handles xvid, divx, ms mpeg4, windows media, 3iv2, 3ivx, rmp4, dm4v, mpeg 1, mpeg 2, h.236, h.264, mjpeg, dv, huffyuv, corepng, mpng, mp2, mp3, vorbis, ac3, dts, aac, amr and flac. A real powehouse in one small tight package.

[aipz]

Avast Anitivirus
Zone Alarm or Sygate Personal Firewall
Spybot or Ad-aware
Firefox
used all of these and I was/am satisfied with the protection they offer

[SadisticSid]

Kerio PF > ZoneAlarm  - almost the same features as Pro but in a much tighter, less bloated package. Plus ZA Pro you have to pay for, as the free basic edition is woefully inadequate for most.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Been running Sygate for the last while, I'm impressed.

Good call all those who listed it.
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[Fury]

This thread is a good way to educate some of the masses about alternatives to commercial softwares, so I thought I'd bumb this thread a bit with following comment.

Sourceforge.net is perhaps the biggest open-source hosting out there. You can easily find good open source software there, if you don't know where to begin, I suggest you first check Top Downloads (Past 7 Days) and then Top Downloads (All-Time). Sourceforge.net might be a tad slow at times, but from time to time I have found some gems there.

[Grey Wolf]

Sourceforge is a fun site. If only K-Ninja had been easier to get set up as the default browser...



In case you don't know, K-ninja is a cleaner version of K-meleon, which is a slashed down version of Mozilla 1.7 that runs quite a bit faster than Firefox.