Useful Free Software

[Lisa]

Spyware and adware removal tools
Adaware - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

SpyBot Search and Destroy - http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

SpyWare Blaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

HiJackThis - http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html

Windows Defender - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/browse.aspx?displaylang=en&productID=F8F1C499-E587-48A5-AC81-164E850DCA48


Anti-spam programs:
K9 - http://www.keir.net/k9.html

MailWasher- http://www.mailwasher.net/

POPFile - http://popfile.sourceforge.net/

SpamBayes - http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/


Anti Virus
AVG - http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/

Avast - http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/


Firewall
Kerio - http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Kerio.cfm

Zonelabs - http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp

Commodo - http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

Safety Net - http://www.netveda.com/consumer/safetynet.htm

Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html


Pop-up Blockers:
Google Toolbar - http://www.google.com/

NoAds - http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/

PopUp Stopper - http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html

Proxomitron - http://www.proxomitron.info/


File repair and recovery:
PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm


FTP Clients:
Filezilla! - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla

SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/
 

FTP Servers:
FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd


Defrag Software:
DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/


Best Free Software Suite
The Open CD - http://theopencd.org/

Ubuntu - https://shipit.ubuntu.com/login

602PC Suite free edition - http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html

AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/

If you know of something that can be added to the list, pm me and i will modify this post.

[Lisa]

Free Image Software
Paint.net - http://www.getpaint.net/index.html

Picasa -  http://picasa.google.com/


Image viewers:
Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe

Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/

SlowView - http://www.slowview.at/

XNView - http://www.xnview.com/


3D Graphics:
Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/

Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/

gmax - http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/

Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://www.alias.com/eng/products-se...le/index.shtml

Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm

SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP - http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/

Photo manipulation and image design:
ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/

Pixia - http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/

Sodiodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/

The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/

Tuxpaint - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint


CD/DVD Burning:
Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/

Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/

CDBurnerXP - http://hem.bredband.net/cdburnerxp/

CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/

CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/

Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/

DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/

Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr


Audio Players:
1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch

Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/

iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/

Jet Audio Basic - http://www.jetaudio.com/

Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/

QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/

Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/

Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/

 
Audio Tools:
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

dBpowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm

EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

Encounter 2003 - http://www.waschbusch.com/

GermaniXEncoder - http://www.germanixsoft.de/

K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/

KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/

ModPlug Tracker http://www.modplug.com/

MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/

MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/

mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/

MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/

mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/

MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/

Rarewares - http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/

SoundEngine Free - http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm

TagScanner - http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm

The GodFather - http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/

Video codes :
DivX Codec - http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=toptab...rom_/index.php

FFDSHOW - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow

Kazaa Lite Codec Pack - http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/

Nimo Codec Pack - http://www.divx-digest.com/software/nimo_pack.html

Quicktime/Real Player Alternative - http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/
 
Video players :
BsPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/

Cygwin MPlayer - http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/

MaximusDVD - http://www.maximusdvd.com/

Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=82303

VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org/

 
Video tools:
DVD Shrink - http://www.dvdshrink.org/

DScaler - http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/

FlasKMPEG - http://www.flaskmpeg.net

GSpot - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/

VirtualDubMod - http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=65889

xviD - http://www.roeder.goe.net/~koepi/xvid.shtml

Zwei-Stein Video Editor - http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html

[Lisa]

IRC Clients:
BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/

BitchX - http://bitchx.org/download.php

HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/

TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/

XChat - http://www.xchat.org/

 
Compression / Decompression:
7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/

bzip2 - http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html

FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/

IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/

QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/

TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/

UltimateZIP - http://www.ultimatezip.com/

UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/

Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm

Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/
 
 
Desktop Enhancements:
CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html

MobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/

tclock2 - http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm

 
Download managers:
Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html

LeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/

Net Transport - http://lycos26486.l78.lycos.com.cn/default.htm

Star Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php

wackget - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/


 
Encryption and data security:
Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/

Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm

Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php

File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm

GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/

PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html

WindowsCleaner - http://www.winnowsoft.com/internet-eraser.htm

 
File Managers:
2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/

A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/

Gyula's Navigator - http://www.wanari.com/

JExplorer - http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/

MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/

 
 
HTML Editors:
1st page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml

AceHTML - http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html

Aracnophilia - http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/

HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/

Selida - http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/

Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/

TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/

 
Instant Messenger:
Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/

Rhymbox - http://www.rhymbox.com/

PSI - http://psi.affinix.com/

Trillian Basic - http://trillian.cc/downloads

[Lisa]

Internet Explorer Front-Ends:
Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/

MyIE2 - http://www.myie2.com/

SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm

 
Mail programs:
i.Scribe - http://www.memecode.com/

Mahogany Mail - http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/

Pegasus Mail - http://www.pmail.com/

Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
 

 
Network Tools:
CMDTime NTP Utility - http://www.softshape.com/download/

Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/

NMap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/

Ntop - http://www.ntop.org

PingPlotter - http://www.pingplotter.com

PuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty

RAS Graph & Stats - http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread...&threadid=2400

RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/

TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/

UltraVNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/

WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/

 
Partition Managers:
Partition Resizer - http://zeleps.com/

Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/

TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

 
PDF Utilities:
Foxit PDF Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

Free PDF - http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm

Ghostscript/GSView - http://www.ghostscript.com/

PDF 995 - http://www.pdf995.com/

PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
 
 
Programming:
ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl

Dev C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/

Dev Pascal - http://www.bloodshed.net/

Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/

Freepascal - http://www.freepascal.org/

jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/

PHP Hypertext Parser - http://www.php.net/

Python - http://www.python.org/

Ruby - http://www.dm4lab.to/~usa/ruby/index_en.html

SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/
 

 
 
System Information and monitoring:
AIDA32 - http://www.aida32.hu/

CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

Gkrellm - http://bill.nalens.com/

Motherboard monitor - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311

WCPUID - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002.../download.html
 
 
Web browsers:
Firefox - http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Internet Explorer - http://www.microsoft.com/ie

K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/

Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/

Netscape - http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp
 

Web servers:
Abyss - http://abyss.sourceforge.net/

Aprelium Abyss - http://www.aprelium.com/

Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/

Sambar - http://www.sambar.com/

Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/

TinyWeb - http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html

 
Webcam Software:
booruWebCam - http://www.booru.net/

Pryme - http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/
 

Checksum Utilities:
fsum - http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/

hksfv - http://www.big-o-software.com/products/hksfv/

md5sum - http://www.etree.org/md5com.html

md5summer - http://www.md5summer.org/

 
General Utilities And Other Applications:
AnalogX - http://www.analogx.com/

AppRocket - http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/

Celestia - http://www.shatters.net/celestia

Cygwin - http://www.cygwin.com

Dirkey - http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/

EditPad Lite - http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html

Inno Setup - http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php

Memtest-86 - http://www.memtest86.com

MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html

NetTime - http://nettime.sourceforge.net

Nullsoft Installer - http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis

Peerguardian - http://xs.tech.nu/

QuickSFV - http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/4668/

png2ico - http://winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico

Stickies - http://finiteloop.org/~btaylor/software/stickies/

Sysinternals - http://www.sysinternals.com/

TClockEx - http://www.rcis.co.za/dale/tclockex/index.htm

Vim - http://vim.sourceforge.net

[Maria K.]

OpenOffice.org

[Nizzle]

nice list Lisa

but with the  "Best Free Software Suite"
Ubuntu can be downloaded.. for free.. without login
https://shipit.ubuntu.com/

also there's Kubuntu.. Xubuntu.. and well.. Fedora seems to be good too.. even though it once screwed my pc..

[Brains]

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/

[Bruno]

Utility:
The xp-AntiSpy is a utility that lets you disable some built-in 'features' in WindowsXP.
xp-AntiSpy Setup - http://xp-antispy.org/index.php?option=com_remository&func=sellang&iso=en

Mail program:
Free Email Notification and Retrieval Program.
Eprompter - http://www.download.com/ePrompter/3003-2369_4-10354637.html?tag=tab_rev

[Bruno]

Html editor:
NVU - http://www.nvu.com/download.php

Internet service:
Yahoo! Widget Engine 4 - http://widgets.yahoo.com/download/

[Leonidas]

Microsoft World Virtual Earth Map

http://www.microsoft.com/virtualearth/overview.mspx

[fred]

screen grab and selective grab

http://www.softwarelabs.com/tsl4/3-spgdownload.htm

[quaalude]

oldversion.com  QC

[Pegasus]

Lisa.

Some of Your links don't work (I got a '500 code' error when I clicked on the 'TClock2' link)!

[Lisa]

cheers pegasus, i'll go through the list and remove the dead ones later

[Mojo]

Anyone come across a good free backup app?