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FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) client with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface. Some of the useful features include drag and drop support, filename filters, network configuration wizard, powerful site manager, transfer queue, and it even supports resume and transfer of files larger than 4GB. When FileZilla v3 was released a built in updater was introduced. This allowed users to update their FileZilla Client faster and easier. Included are options to check for nightly and beta builds of the FileZilla Client. Changes: Connection establishment through SOCKS proxies coul…

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Hazard Shield 2.0.0.1 License: Freeware File Size: 0.84MB HomePage: http://orbitech.org/ Screenshot: http://orbitech.org/website/shield.png About Us: http://orbitech.org/about.html Hazard Shield is a powerful antimalware program designed to detect, remove, and prevent viruses, spyware, backdoors, trojans, adware, and many other threats. Hazard Shield includes features found in many paid security applications, such as scheduled scans and automatic updates. Hazard Shield also has powerful realtime protection that can prevent the installation of malicious programs. Free tech support is also available at any time, should you ever have any problems. Features …

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SUMo (Software Updates Monitoring) detects applications you are using and tracks updates. If a new version is detected, you'll be notified by SUMo. It relies a social networking as its database is populated by the other users. By using up-to-date software you'll reduce the risk of encountering bugs and will benefit from more features. Changes: [Refactoring] Songbird multiple detection [bug] Various software misdetections [bug] Tibia Player version number is not properly showed. [bug] Songbird is misdetected [Refactoring] Regression : Nirsoft detection Download: SUMo 2.3.8.64 Homepage: KCSoftwares Link: Lunarsoft

foobar2000 is a comprehensive, easy to use audio player for Windows. Featuring full Unicode support, advanced tagging capabilities, customizable hotkeys, ReplayGain to help correct your audio and many more useful utilities to assist your media library. There are multiple ways to configure and customize your user interface. foobar's developer also includes an open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player. foobar2000 allows you to easily use multiple playlists and utilize features to remove both duplicates and dead items. foobar handles multiple popular audio formats, including: MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis,…

Thunderbird is a fast, flexible e-mail client. You can quickly search through your e-mails, worry less about spam thanks to the spam filters, and even customize how you view Thunderbird. Thunderbird works with most Firefox add-ons as well, adding more content to your e-mail client. Thunderbird makes the e-mail experience fun again. Download: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 | Other Systems and Languages Changes: Release Notes Homepage: Mozilla Thunderbird Link: Lunarsoft

IcoFX is a freeware icon editor. It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. It is designed to work with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Macintosh icons supporting transparency. With a wealth of tools and more than 40 effects at your fingertips, there is virtually no limit to the icons you can create. You can easily convert your favorite images into icons, or icons into images. It gives you the possibility to create icon libraries or change icons inside exe files. Create a favicon for your website or blog. Convert your Macintosh icons to Windows icons and vice versa. With IcoFX you can extract icons from other files, including Windows Vista and M…

SUMo (Software Updates Monitoring) detects applications you are using and tracks updates. If a new version is detected, you'll be notified by SUMo. It relies a social networking as its database is populated by the other users. By using up-to-date software you'll reduce the risk of encountering bugs and will benefit from more features. Changes: [New Feature] Unlocker support to be added [Refactoring] Google Chrome support to be improved [bug] Notepad++ 5.1.1 reported as 5.11 (unjustified use of ProductVersion / FileVersion tags) [Refactoring] Glary Utilities multiple detection [Refactoring] Multiple Firefox detection [Refactoring] Flash Player for IE v5 not detected …

SUPERAntiSpyware is an anti-spyware program that is known for taking care of a majority of malware that most other scanners miss. Besides protecting the browser's home page, it can repair more than 20 other settings that malware change to reduce a system's security. These include restoring the security settings for the Internet Explorer Internet Zone, restoring the normal Windows Explorer Shell, and restoring access to the Windows Task Manager. Changes: Interface Changes Support for Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Unicode Languages coming soon). New in-product graphics/logo. Enhanced diagnostic interface and submissions. Technology Changes Technology ad…

Tomato is an excellent firmware to replace the default Linksys firmware. The Tomato firmware will work on the following routers: Linksys' WRT54G/GL/GS, Buffalo WHR-G54S/WHR-HP-G54 and other Broadcom-based routers. The GUI is very responsive in terms of speed and the firmware is quite stable. It works using AJAX and most commonly used browsers work just fine with the firmware. Tomato includes great features such as a new bandwidth usage monitor, more advanced QoS and access restrictions and it enables new wireless features such as WDS and wireless client modes. On top of that, it raises the limits on maximum connections for P2P, allows you to run your custom scripts or tel…

Firefox (referred to as Fx) is a web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite, managed by the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox is a highly customizable browser that allows you to enhance it using Add-ons. Some examples of Add-ons that you can use to customize Firefox are AdBlock Plus, CuteMenus - Crystal SVG, DownThemAll!, TabMixPlus, NoScript and many more. Tabbed browsing is one of the many features that helps to make Firefox more secure than most browser. Firefox does not use ActiveX. Firefox does make use of many plugins to enhance your web experience. From Shockwave, Flash, Quicktime and more; your browsing experience reaches new levels with the Firefox brows…

avast! 4 is a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home users and non-commercial use. The latest version of avast! antivirus kernel features outstanding detection abilities, together with high performance. You can expect 100% detection of In-the-Wild viruses (viruses already spreading between users) and excellent detection of Trojan horses. The kernel is certified by ICSA; and frequently takes part in the tests of Virus Bulletin magazine, often yielding the VB100 award. The avast! engine also features outstanding unpacking support. It can scan inside the following archives: ARJ, ZIP, MIME (+ all associated formats), MAPI (Outlook pst files), DBX (Ou…

Notepad++ is a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment. This project, based on the Scintilla edit component, written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program. Notepad++ supports the following languages: C, C++, Java, C#, XML, HTML, PHP, javascript, RC resource file, makefile, ASCII art file, doxygen, ini file, batch file, ASP, VB/VBS source files, SQL, Objective-C, CSS, Pascal, Perl, Python and Lua. Changes: Fix Unicode version display Korean/Japanese language problem. Fix bug : Open in new instance not allow…

An international group formed in May to lay some ground rules for anti-malware testing has delivered a pair of documents setting forth basic principles. The Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO), which includes representatives from most of the major vendors on its membership roster, has published two documents setting forth fundamental principles (PDF available here) and best practices for dynamic testing (PDF available here). There's a little echo of Asimov in the list of nine fundamental principles, which begin with the dictate that "testing must not endanger the public." (Public to AMTSO: Hey, thanks!) Malware undergoing testing must not be accident…

Opera 9.62 is a recommended security upgrade. Please see the Security section. Opera 9.62 incorporates the Opera Presto 2.1.1 user agent engine. Changes since Opera 9.61 Security * Fixed an issue where History Search could be used to execute arbitrary code, as discovered by Aviv Raff; see our advisory * The links panel no longer allows cross-site scripting; see our advisory A full-featured Internet browser, Opera includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera's groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat. And because we know that our users have different needs, you can customize the look and …

The Shockwave player allows you to play dazzling 3D games and entertainment, interactive product demonstrations and online learning applications. Shockwave Player displays Web content that has been created by Macromedia Director. This version is suitable for both IE and Firefox. Adobe Flash Player is the high performance, lightweight, highly expressive client runtime that delivers powerful and consistent user experiences across major operating systems, browsers, mobile phones and devices. [shockwave Player 11.0.3.470] http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/shock...taller_Full.exe [Flash Player 10.0.12.36 (IE)] http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/ge…

An international group formed in May to lay some ground rules for anti-malware testing has delivered a pair of documents setting forth basic principles. The Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO), which includes representatives from most of the major vendors on its membership roster, has published two documents setting forth fundamental principles (PDF available here) and best practices for dynamic testing (PDF available here). There's a little echo of Asimov in the list of nine fundamental principles, which begin with the dictate that "testing must not endanger the public." (Public to AMTSO: Hey, thanks!) Malware undergoing testing must not be accident…

The Microsoft DirectX November 2008 release provides updates to 9.0c and previous versions of DirectX. This is the driving force behind PC games and multimedia on end user PCs. Downloads: DirectX Redistributable | DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer Homepage: Microsoft DirectX Link: Lunarsoft

foobar2000 is a comprehensive, easy to use audio player for Windows. Featuring full Unicode support, advanced tagging capabilities, customizable hotkeys, ReplayGain to help correct your audio and many more useful utilities to assist your media library. There are multiple ways to configure and customize your user interface. foobar's developer also includes an open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player. foobar2000 allows you to easily use multiple playlists and utilize features to remove both duplicates and dead items. foobar handles multiple popular audio formats, including: MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis,…

SUMo (Software Updates Monitoring) detects applications you are using and tracks updates. If a new version is detected, you'll be notified by SUMo. It relies a social networking as its database is populated by the other users. By using up-to-date software you'll reduce the risk of encountering bugs and will benefit from more features. Changes: [New Feature] FFDShow. [bug] The GIMP 2.6.2 not correctly detected. [bug] Product Version shall be used instead of Version info if 1.0.0 (Kleptomania case). [bug] When "File Description" is found, Product name shall be used (ThreatFire). Download: SUMo 2.3.6.62 Homepage: KCSoftwares Link: Lunarsoft

CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. CCleaner can also clean very quickly, usually taking about ten seconds to run. Changes: Added support for Firefox 3.1. Added right-click cleaning and analysis for individual items in the tree. Added icons to tree parent items. Added cleaning for Windows Error Reporting files. Added Include/Exclude list editing. Improved TypeLib registry cleaning. Fixed Index.dat bug that could cause a crash. Fixed…

foobar2000 is a comprehensive, easy to use audio player for Windows. Featuring full Unicode support, advanced tagging capabilities, customizable hotkeys, ReplayGain to help correct your audio and many more useful utilities to assist your media library. There are multiple ways to configure and customize your user interface. foobar's developer also includes an open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player. foobar2000 allows you to easily use multiple playlists and utilize features to remove both duplicates and dead items. foobar handles multiple popular audio formats, including: MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis,…

Notepad++ is a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment. This project, based on the Scintilla edit component, written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program. Notepad++ supports the following languages: C, C++, Java, C#, XML, HTML, PHP, javascript, RC resource file, makefile, ASCII art file, doxygen, ini file, batch file, ASP, VB/VBS source files, SQL, Objective-C, CSS, Pascal, Perl, Python and Lua. Changes: Make Notepad++ Unicode-compliant application(Unicode path supported). Fix crash issue due to the in…