[übermetroid]

Any help?  Reformatting XP and I could use the best Free software.  ie: anti-virus, firewall, ect....

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[Fineus]

AVG Antivirus. Ad-Aware. Zone Alarm. CCleaner.

[Windrunner]

Avast antivirus is defenetly best free antivirus on the net

[Geezer]

Originally posted by Windrunner
Avast antivirus is defenetly best free antivirus on the net

Also:  I used Zone Alarm for years but a couple of months ago it started to occasionally freeze both my machines.  I've switched to Sygate - also good, also free.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by Geezer




Also:  I used Zone Alarm for years but a couple of months ago it started to occasionally freeze both my machines.  I've switched to Sygate - also good, also free.

[color=66ff00]I think there's a memory leak in one of ZA's components; vsmon.exe that rears it's head from time to time.
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[redsniper]

*uses Sygate Personal Firewall and thinks it rocks*

[Geezer]

Originally posted by Maeglamor

[color=66ff00]I think there's a memory leak in one of ZA's components; vsmon.exe that rears it's head from time to time.
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Interesting.  Strange that it hit both my machines around the same time... Must have been uncovered by something that I installed on both of 'em - or a Windows update.  

[Descenter]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
AVG Antivirus. Ad-Aware. Zone Alarm. CCleaner.

What he said...

[Kamikaze]

So you want security software?

Clamwin (virus scanner)
Nmap (port scanner)
Ethereal (packet sniffer and protocol analyzer)

If only the Nessus server ran on Windows too.

[übermetroid]

really anything free is good.

[Fury]

ZoneAlarm's got so many technical issues at times so I keep away from it, Sygate was bought by Norton a while ago so its future is unclear. Kerio or Agnitum would be more viable choices in my opinion. avast! 4 Home Edition is the best anti-virus software for Win I know of.

Other softwares worth mentioning:
- 7zip, better than most file compression/extraction tools.
- Daemon Tools, no burning capabilities but mounts cd/dvd images efficiently.
- FeedReader, good tool to keep you up-to-date with a lot of RSS/ATOM feeds.
- FileZilla, maybe the best ftp client software for Win out there.
- FileZilla Server, efficient ftp server.
- Firefox, you all know this.
- Irfanview, good for quick viewing of different image files.
- Microsoft Antispyware, is old GIANT Antispyware, beats Ad-Aware along with most other free malware removal tools. Also got real-time protection for the most paranoid of you.
- Media Player Classic, get this with ffdshow and vsfilter and you have nearly all media playpack covered.
- OpenOffice, good alternative for MS Office.
- PageDefrag, boot-time defragger that defrags files that cannot be defragged while Windows is running.
- PuTTY, you all should know this. One of the best telnet/ssh clients.
- Thunderbird, you all know this.
- Trillian Basic. Version 3 Basic is very good, covers AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo and IRC.

[übermetroid]

double post - too lazy to edit

actually, since I installed the above free stuff some of my web pages are messing up.  I am guessing part of the page is being blocked by something that I installed.

[kode]

Originally posted by übermetroid
Best Free Software?

Eclipse. or Ruby.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]A few more worthy bits o' kit:

Gaim:            Good, no fluff version of Trillian.
Filezilla:         Excellent FTP server.
SmartFTP:     Free, easy to use FTP client.
Azureus:       Best bittorrent client for all your legal downloading needs.


As for me I'll have to check out another firewall other than ZA. It's a pity, ZA's way of allowing/disallowing on a program by pogram basis is quite a good feature.
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[Grey Wolf]

For MPC, I honestly prefer using real codecs as opposed to ffdshow. Fewer compatibility problems.

[Fury]

Originally posted by Grey Wolf
For MPC, I honestly prefer using real codecs as opposed to ffdshow. Fewer compatibility problems.

Allright, either you've been smoking weeds your you've used some real old version.
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/FFDShow.htm

Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]A few more worthy bits o' kit:

Gaim:            Good, no fluff version of Trillian.
Filezilla:         Excellent FTP server.
SmartFTP:     Free, easy to use FTP client.
Azureus:       Best bittorrent client for all your legal downloading needs.
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I should give Gaim a go and see how it compares. But how come you listed FileZilla Server but did not list FileZilla client, instead listed SmartFTP which I've found to be inferior.
Ah, how could I forget to list Azureus, the single best torrent client out there.

[Grey Wolf]

I've had Xvid incompatibility and a few others. Mind you, this is about a year back, but still.

[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.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by Mr. Fury
I should give Gaim a go and see how it compares. But how come you listed FileZilla Server but did not list FileZilla client, instead listed SmartFTP which I've found to be inferior.
Ah, how could I forget to list Azureus, the single best torrent client out there.

[color=66ff00]Gaim's nice and light by comparison.

As for SmartFTP, it's always done a good job for me so I never bothered trying anything else I guess. I might have a look at Filezilla client.
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[Fury]

Tried Gaim 1.5.0, found Trillian 3 Basic to be still better.