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Firefox is somewhat of an opposite of Opera. When you’ve downloaded and installed this browser, you will find a piece of software doing little more than browsing the net. You’ve got a bookmark manager alright, a password manager, but there’s no email client. Firefox is what you call a ‘slim’ browser initially focusing on one single task: to browse the net.
Without doubt – our favourite. Possibly for all the wrong reasons – as ImgBurn comes with a very Spartan, minimalistic look and feel.
Most certainly our first choice. The most impressive capability of this program is its tolerance toward read errors on your probably old (and sometimes dirty) Audio Disks. Very rarely indeed will that result in an error in the sound file as Exact Audio Copy (EAC) interacts very closely with your hardware. On first use a fine tuning is performed to achieve the best possible results, and alas, sometimes, a CD/DVD drive may not be supported.
If you want to play a movie or listen to an audio file, if you want it simple, easy and clean, if you just want it to work ...
The main feature list of freeCommander is a complete wish list for any decent filemanager, as a matter of fact for any filemanager that may rightfully be called: excellent!
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Do install Spybot Search & Destroy! It is very easy to use, offers an Easy Mode for beginners, real time protection and an on-line tutorial. This tutorial will help you to understand many of the tasks involved with securing and protecting your PC.
Furthermore the program may help you to turn Adware into common programs, which might violate the respective license agreement. You are well informed by Spybot Search & Destroy and the matter is left to your good judgement.
This freeware has its origin as an ersatz, a replacement for MS Paint. The features now entitle it to be classified as advanced image and photo editor. The interface is simple, intuitive, and impressive. It presents the pics you’re editing in tabs that display a thumbnail preview of the image.
This functionality can be extended by plugins, which are provided and maintained by the Paint.NET community. There you also find an extensive help, and many, many tutorials.
This one is not for the immediate beginner. First get your feet wet with the ones above, find out what image editing is about, what you like about it, what you want to do with it. Then come back. The GNU Image Manipulation Program – GIMP surprises with an unusual user interface which is adventurous at least for those learning the basics of image editing. It will take you a while to realize its benefits - which will be easy when using this professional image editor under Linux.
The theoretical history of the Computer Virus goes back to 1949, first real viruses were born into the fun department in the 70ies, in the mid 80ies they developed into the serious and ever growing threat they are today. Also, what today we call a “computer virus” may not be exactly that, but rather a worm or a trojan. It is no use to split hairs here, the combined pest is correctly called malware, and it is their malicious, malevolent behaviour from which we must protect ourselves.
Viruses are real, they are a danger and they cause a lot of damage. Not to protect your PC from infection is as irresponsible and insane as not to protect yourself in the comparable biological situation. Fortunately, there are three excellent choices, all freeware and they do compete with their commercial rivals effortlessly. In an independent test by the German Foundation for Consumer Protection, Stiftung Warentest, the first two findings were as good or better than paid-for versions, rated 2.5 and 2.1 respectively. The renowned Kaspersky also made 2.5...
Avast is a well known and respected name in the world of free antivirus. Formerly called Avast Home Edition, this very famous and excellent antivirus just got a makeover. Now known as Avast Free Antivirus, it has got a brand new, easy to use interface, with some other important changes.
Avast has a lot of features to offer, which makes it hard to believe that this antivirus is offered for free. Avast will protect your system from virus, trojan horses, worms, and other malwares. Apart from that, it also offers antispyware, and real-time antirootkit protection. Avast 5 now also has a behavior shield to monitor the computer for suspicious activity, and protect the system from zero-day threats.
This free antivirus has an excellent detection rate, and at the same time, is very light on resources, making it a favorite among many users around the world.
Apart from offering protection from virus, trojans, worms etc, it also offers antirootkit, antidialer, antiphising and antispyware protection.
The high detection rates mean there will be some false positives. The program also has a nag screen, which will pop-up every time the definitions get updated, but the excellent protection it offers, make up for these negative points.
This is a free antivirus offered by Microsoft, a fairly new product, but is already getting a good response both from users and experts.
Microsoft Security Essentials offers protection from various types of malwares, along with antirootkit, and antispyware protection. The detection rate is quite good, with very little false positives. The Rootkit detection rate is very high. Microsoft Security Essentials is quite light on resources, and integrates well with Windows. The interface is very easy to use, with easy to understand settings, making it a good choice for average users.
The updates are integrated with Windows updates, which might be a disadvantage, if you like to keep Windows updates off.
