OK people, I take it back - every forum besides this one has a best links thread.

 

How about we start a community project to collect links to all good FREEWARE for windows (Urgh), Mac, Linux or anyhting else

 

Heres my start:

 

http://www.opensourcewindows.org/

 

Anyone else want to contribute, remember it must be freeware (If we get a good collection going we may get this pinned)

 

Cheers,

 

Ryan Jones

http://packages.ubuntu.com/

Anti-spyware:

Ad-Aware: 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

 

Anti-virus:

Avast Home: http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

AVG Free Edition: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=886'>http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=886

Panda Online Virus scan*: http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm

BitDefender Online Virus scan*: http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html

*Not actual antivirus software, just an online scan

 

Firewall:

ZoneAlarm: http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_za.jsp

 

Browsers:

Firefox: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

Opera: http://www.opera.com/

 

General sites for freeware:

http://www.download.com/

http://www.majorgeeks.com/

http://www.fileshack.com

http://www.tucows.com/

http://www.freewarehome.com/

Windows Defender is a good anti spyware detecter and preventer which is extremely effective and can be obtained of the microsoft website for free if your are using genuine microsoft on your PC.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

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

 

AntiVir XP. Also comes in other editions for the other windows and such. Get it, because the anonymous black text in the light blue text box told you to.

Source code editor (Notepad ++)

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Windows install file creator (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System(NSIS))

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page

3D geospatial visualization platform (NASA World Wind)

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov

Virtual microscope

http://virtual.itg.uiuc.edu/index.shtml

Graphing program that works with the blind (MathTrax

http://learn.arc.nasa.gov/mathtrax/index.html

Not only are all these programs free but they are open-source as well.