Useful freeware list.

[RyanJ]

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

[Klaynos]

http://packages.ubuntu.com/

[5614]

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/

[scientist]

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

[Kermit]

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.

[Guest_Jim*]

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.