AVG Anti-Virus provides excellent protection against computer
viruses. This free program includes fine documentation and is a strong
all-around contender in the field of anti-virus utilities. It runs constantly
in the background, checking files and removable disks before you
access them. You can also run complete disk scans manually or by
using the built-in scheduler. In addition to scanning your boot sector,
memory, and files for known viruses (including macro viruses), AVG
Anti-Virus employs heuristic analysis to detect unknown viruses,
worms, and Trojan horses. It offers special support for Microsoft
Exchange and Outlook. Also has automatic updates online.
Compressed Size
4,672,000 bytes
Version Number
6.0.121
System Requirements
Windows 95, 98, or NT
companion to Microsoft's TweakUI Control Panel applet. It's a snap to
use, and extends your ability to customize your desktop. It doesn't address
any of the tweaks that are offered by that very popular utility, but instead
adds several of its own. Use it to change Windows splash screens,
registered owner information, and the Internet Explorer title bar caption.
You can change many of the standard Windows desktop icons, change
icons for individual folders, change the display size for desktop icons,
and view bitmap icons as miniature file images. Tweak Revisited also
allows you to apply some useful context-menu tweaks. Other features
include the removal of temp files and cookies, as well as a cookie
manager for Internet Explorer.
Compressed Size
668,477 bytes
System Requirements
Windows 95 or Windows 98
Purchase Information
Free
Windows 95, 98, and NT 4.0 applications.
that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
With Acrobat Reader, you also can fill in and submit PDF forms online, as
well as download encrypted content from the Web and unlock it with Web
Buy. This Adobe technology is a fully integrated component of Adobe
Acrobat and Acrobat Reader (version 4.05, English only).
Version: 4.05
File Size: 5.41 MB
Approx. Download Times:
At 56k: 16 min 50 sec
At 28k: 32 min 50 sec
At 14k: 1 hr 5 min
GuruNet is a free one-click information service that works when you're on
the Internet. When the GuruNet application is active (it's based in your
system tray), just hold down the Alt key and click on a word in any
Windows document. GuruNet springs into action and pops up a window
that quickly analyzes the word in context using its Web-based dictionary,
thesaurus, and encyclopedia. GuruNet might also show you Internet links
that have already been associated with that word, let you search the Web
for more information, or display real-time data such as news, sports,
weather, or stock quotes. It's really quite amazing to see it do its magic.
GuruNet is a great alternative to search pages or traditional reference
sources and is bound to find a permanent home in many system trays
around the world
Warning:
Some users of Pentium 100's with less than 48 MB of ram have
reported
marked system problems. In most cases GuruNet seems to slow these
systems drastically. Myself included.
Version: 1.0.2.58
Size: 773.61 KB
Requirements: Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later and Windows 95, 98, or NT
Purchase Information: Free
your computer. It can process all .bmp, .gif, or .jpg graphic files in a
specified path and find duplicates regardless of their file names. You can
confine the scan to a single folder or choose to process subfolders as well.
Each time it finds a duplicate, PixScan 2000 prompts you to delete the file.
If you'd rather, you can have it delete duplicates automatically. The
program offers logging support and also includes an option to view the
image files during the scan. It's fast, easy to use, and best of all -- free .
Company
Clayton Whisman and Glenn Hopson
Version:2.3.1
Size:2.14 MB
Requirements:Windows 95, 98, or NT
Purchase Information: Free
centers on PowerDesk, a powerful file manager that is everything the
Windows Explorer should have been and then some. File manipulation is a
snap, using multiple drive or folder views. A fully-integrated archive
manager handles every major compression format with great support for
zip files, including automatic spanning of outsized files over multiple disks.
File viewing is another highlight, with built-in support for more than 80
formats; you can also convert between any of 24 graphics file formats, with
the option of batch conversion. A supercharged File Finder offers enhanced
features such as Boolean search operators, multiple disk searches and text
content searches. You'll also enjoy fast email attachment decoding and
encoding, customizable toolbars, the option to delete deleting files
permanently, encryption/decryption, directory comparison and
synchronization, enhanced open and save dialogs -- and a lot more.
PowerDesk Utilities is a must-try for every Windows user. This version
has not yet been reviewed.
Company:Mijenix/Ontrack Corporation
Version: 4.0.8.0
Size:1.16 MB
Requirements:Windows 98 and Windows 9x, NT, or 2000
Purchase Information:Free
Steve Gibson's OptOut?
3/21/2000
Several weeks ago a scare swept through the Internet community regarding
alleged Internet "spying" being done by a very popular advertising system
known as "Aureate" (now renamed to "Radiate".) Since the Aureate
system is
"carried" into the user's PC by more than 400 popular freeware programs (lik
Go!Zilla, GetRight, CuteFTP, and others), and is currently installed and
running in over TWENTY-TWO MILLION PC's!!, the threat that this
software was "spying" on its users was of great and immediate concern. Click
here to learn more and to see
some screenshots. Because I do not want to
be parranoid alone. Of course being parranoid is a good thing to be
when the whole world is against you!
File info:
Freeware
File Size: 31 kb needs no decompression software
If you connect to the internet on an hourly bases, this freeware is for
you.
NetNak is a small system-tray utility that graphically
displays the data transfer
rate of your modem. This ad-sponsored software is attractive, easy to use,
and best of all -- free. You see real-time graphs and text for both sent and
received data. If you wish, you can set the display to dock to the top or
bottom
of your screen. You can also set it to display only when an active connection
is detected, and to autohide -- much like the Windows taskbar. NetNak
provides a separate display that shows online time as well as accumulated
connection
statistics (hourly, daily, monthly, or just the last 5 minutes) Other features
include custom warnings and an automatic disconnect feature.
Company: Complete Software Solutions (NZ)
Version: 5.1.0
Size: 825.07 KB
Requirements: Windows 95, 98, or NT
Purchase Information: Free
versatile, powerful, easy to use, and the price is simply unbeatable. ,
PowerArchiveri is a full-featured ZIP program provides the power you
need , to do anything you can imagine with ZIP files. The attractive interface ,
provides Explorer-style view options, individual file extraction and viewing, ,
comment support, archive testing, and more. You can easily create ,
multiple-disk and self-extracting archives. PowerArchiver also offers full,
support for .cab, .lha (.lhz), .tar, .gz, and .bh compressed archives and ,
limited support (view and extract-only) for .arj, .ace, .arc, .rar, .xxe, .uue,
and .zoo, archive formats. Search support, variable compression, virus ,
scanner integration, built-in file viewers, archive conversion, and a ,
user-defined startup folder are also among the available features. Powerful ,
shell integration features include on-the-fly ZIP file creation, email support, ,
and more.
Version: 5.1
Size: 1.65 MB
Requirements: Windows 95, 98, or NT
Purchase Information: Free
applications. The latest version offers improved stability on
Windows 95, 98, and NT, and addresses known Year 2000 issues. ,
Author: Microsoft
File size: 437.3 KB
Operating System: Windows 2000, Windows 9.x
Type: Free
IrfanViewis a fast and powerful image viewer and multimedia
player that just so happens to be gratis for non-commercial
use. It supports most popular graphics formats, including
multiple image icons, animated .gif files, and multipage .tif
files. It also lets you play audio CDs and .mid, .rmi, .mov, .avi,
.mpg, .wav, and .aif files. Its impressive feature set includes
thumbnail creation, drag-and-drop support, fast directory
viewing, a slideshow mode, batch conversion, screen
capturing, cutting/cropping, image effects, and more -- and it's
all packaged in a small .exe file that requires no .dlls or
runtime libraries. Plus, the main window doesn't take up much
desktop space. Download this freeware gem today and see if
it doesn't become one of your most-used programs.
Company: Irfan
Skiljan
Version: 3.15
Size: 490.17 KB
Requirements: Windows 9x, NT, or 2000
Purchase Information: Free
utilities from FerretSoft: WebFerret, EmailFerret, FileFerret,
InfoFerret, IRCFerret, NewsFerret, and PhoneFerret. Use them
along with your Internet connection to search for general info,
Web pages, newgroups, files, phone numbers, email
addresses, and chat groups. Results are displayed in
sortable lists. Each Ferret is added to the Find option in the
Windows 9x Start menu for easy access; desktop shortcuts
may be installed as well. All seven programs are easy to use,
offer several options, and -- thanks to banner ads -- are free.
The setup program lets you install just the ones you want. Or,
you can download each individually from our library.
Company: FerretSoft
LLC
Version:
Size: 4.27 MB
Requirements: Windows 95, 98, or NT
Purchase Information: Free
This program scans your system looking for all references to DLL files
in your Windows system directory. If you have DLL files that have no
programs calling them, you can take them out of the system
directory and delete them, saving disk space and improving system
performance
Author:Kevin
Solway
Version:1.6
Operating System: Windows 3.x, Windows 2000, Windows 9.x
Type:Free
clsysd.zip
72 KB
14 seconds
based on 56 kilobits per second
Web. Enter your search words and choose from four radio buttons: All
keywords, Any keyword, Exact phrase, or Boolean Expression. WebFerret
will use your Internet connection to check several popular search engines (Alta Vista, AOL NetFind, EuroSeek, Excite, GOTO, Infoseek, LookSmart,
Lycos, and Yahoo) and return the maximum amount of links you specify.
Other nice features let you specify the closeness of the match, remove
duplicates, and filter pornography and foul language. The results are returned
in a sortable list format, complete with tooltips that give you a little more
information about a site. Just double-click on a link to bring up your browser
and launch the page. WebFerret is fast, easy to use, and (thanks to banner
ads) free.
Version 3.0100
Size:736.77 KB
Requirements:Windows 95, 98, or NT
Purchase Information:Free
one-to-one, via real-time voice or text. The days of face to face
conversations with friends and family are not over but anyone with a
computer knows, conversing in person happens less often these days
A brand new product called Cahoots is here to make conversation across
the Internet a bit more personal. Keeping in touch with friends, family,
business partners or clients can be done live, in real-time, for FREE. ,
Using Cahoots, visitors to any site on the Web can meet and talk to each ,
other and to Website personnel, live and in person. They can converse ,
publicly or privately, in groups or one-to-one, via real-time voice or text. ,
They , can send each other instant messages, and leave notes for each other
in site-specific Info Centers. Users can make free voice calls to friends, family
or colleagues worldwide. Cahoots baseline capabilities are deployed ,
automatically at all Websites and are free to users and site owners. This ,
version has not yet been reviewed. ,
Company: Cahoots
Version:1.0
Size:2.12 MB
Requirements:Windows 9x, NT, or 2000
Purchase Information:Free
"Click of Death" and can warn you when it's no longer safe to use an ,