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This page contains a list of genuine free software, with links and optionally a small review.


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Type Name/Link Description
Office suite Open Office This is a brilliant free alternative to M$ Office. There are versions for use with Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris and FreeBSD
Portable Office Suite Portable OpenOffice This is a portable version of OpenOffice. Only for Windows but it goes onto a pen drive or similar and you run the apps from there. No need to install as there are no entries in Registry.
86Mb download and 250MB unzipped, so minimum 512MB drive I guess.
Firewall Zonealarm
Zonelabs
Free Firewall that works well -Look for "Download free Zonealarm" under Product Information
Only for Windoze 2000/XP
Firewall Outpost
agnitum.com
Free Firewall - enter your e-mail details and they send an e-mail with link to the download site
Works for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Firewall SoftPerfect Personal Firewall v.1.1
softaward
Free Firewall that works as far back as Win 95
AntiVirus Avira AntiVirus
Avira AntiVir
Free anti virus that seems to be quite good.
AntiVirus AVG Grisoft Free anti-virus and anti-spyware.
Pop-up Blocker++ Universal Web Filter www.proxomitron.info Free pop-up blocker, java control and lots more. To find out more you have to click around the documentation.
Works on Win 95,98,ME,NT,2000, and XP.
HTML Editor Micro CMS impliedbydesign.com Quote from their site -
"Micro CMS is the only program available that combines a search-engine-friendly WYSIWYG with a simple, AJAX-based content management system, making the management of your static web site incredibly easy and fast."
FTP program smartftp.com FTP program with a GUI interface
More coming . .
Micro$oft Stuff M$ Downloads Deliberately left to the end.
If you've paid for M$ software then you deserve the "free" updates. Includes Internet Explorer - click the menu on the left for Office stuff - Word, Excel, Powerpoint Outlook etc. Actually some of them are rather good




















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