Free software

To EVERYBODY:

If somebody has links to good free software please post them with a brief description of the software, and I'll try to make a good sticky.

It's gonna be hard work but that way we'll have a place to have all the good free software links without having to make a ton of bookmarks.

Thanks in advance!

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<A HREF="http://decentdownloads.x-istence.com/" target="_new">Announcing the Best Freeware Downloads</A> ... not everything, but a decent reference source ... freeware is such a fluid thing ... always changing. Will be a headache keeping up with it ...


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I've just installed warez so I'm a complete novice at it however I was under the impression that the software searched every available shared file on the Internet .

If this isn't the case then would you explain a little about it please , thank you.

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You no longer need to search for Trojans then because you now own them all free.........

Not personnel dude but all the dumb asses focking their own systems using third party browsers and chat facking software and third party email programs good blocking luck.

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Tis true though, when you DL software that comes from suspicious websites or its name implies it's a modified version, I'd watch out. I've had a virus once out of a small crack or keygen, I forget which, and it ate my entire system's stability until it invaded my boot record too, so it would not delete even if you removed Windows. (it would actually restore Windows)

Use safer alternatives like Torrents and DC++. Limewire for music I'd guess, but software is a bit less on the safe side. It's too similar to Kazaa when it comes to executables being downloaded with infected data.

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I don't doubt that this would be a easy way to get infected . However it would seem that if you're downloading something, using for instance four or five computers to download from, that either all of those computers would be infected or what you're downloading is safe.
I know someone could place a virus in their own file with the idea that someone else would uploaded onto their computer but since you're getting sections of files from different machines how could he determin in advance which section of file you are going to upload ? Also it would seem to me that a virus uploaded in this manner would corrupt the ability of the software or program that you were downloading in so much as to make it inoperable .

I don't doubt that the viruses have spread in this manner and I am admittedly a novice at these sorts of things but it seems at least unlikely that I would get infected from this.

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Use BitTorrent's they are much better

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Torrents, in my experience, and probably many others', are relatively safe, and are some of the easiest way to get your newly released programs, games, films, etc.

They can be quite fast if you know where to look as well, and you're only limited by how much you can give back. Warez, in ye old day was found in those IRC programs or those sites with "crackz" that would launch at you about a dozen porn popups. They often were files that were cracked like hell, compressed, injected, you name the word, they had it done to the file, so you can later on download it, unpack it and run it as it is, without installation. That often made things messy and long too. So I'd rather get real programs from Torrents, with their full install files. They're more than likely to be the original source files from the CD anyways, only someone will often pack a crack file or keygen in there to help you out.

So this is why I'm not using the word warez to describe modern downloaded files or encouraging the old method, the IRC way or the 'hax0red' website way.

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But if you're downloading from many users using a method like Torrents, then yeah I think your theory is fairly correct, that it's more safe than risky. But peer-to-peer methods like Kazaa have proven to be true deathtraps.

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kinda like my ford focus...

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Which app can I install for the torrents I'm trying to install azureus but it conflicts with something else in my machine

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No I haven't used them.
Do you have links?
When I don't know an application I rather not just google for it because If you download it from the wrong site you can get a copy with spyware or something.

Thanks in advance!

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I use TorrentTopia, works well for me, but you need to find good Torrent sources or it can be a pain in the arse. It seems to be a relatively safe program.

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You can edit a sticky if you're the creator of it.

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Fredi, our great holy lord.

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Nice list of links Dunk.

Mike.

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I noticed that you didn't have Avast anti-spyware . I use it and it does a great job for me if you would like to add it to link is below .
<A HREF="http://www.avast.com/index.html" target="_new">http://www.avast.com/index.html</A>

Also I know That a lot of people are anti Microsoft , But I have been using Microsoft anti spyware and in conjunction with the Avast I am pretty much bulletproof . Microsoft anti spyware is still beta I think .

<A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx" target="_new">http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx</A>

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Actually I meant PMing Fredi. Use the very same name as his username to PM to.

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Which one is the avast anti spyware I can't find it.
What's the exact name, so I can name it right in the link.
I've only heard about the anti virus.

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<A HREF="http://forumz.tomshardware.com/software/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=53481#53481" target="_new">Free Software Links</A>

Russell gave me the link, but I can't find any anti spyware there.

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<A HREF="http://forumz.tomshardware.com/software/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=53481#53481" target="_new">Free Software Links</A>

Yet it's kind of hard to navigate that site, it really could use some improvements. Try the link below . I think that it's only one page away from the download. this page will let people check operating system requirements and so forth .

<A HREF="http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html" target="_new">http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html</A>

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Do you think audacity is a good choice for the list, it's the only free application that I know for editing audio, but I haven't used it so I don't know.

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I usually use sound forge and I like it but it's not free.
I'm not a power user, but I use it to delete clicks and pops out of my mp3s.
I'll play around with audacity and post the results, but if there's somebody that has used audacity let us know the pros and cons to see if it makes it to the free software sticky.

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I use bit tornado.

Some good torrent sites are:
www.thepiratebay.org
www.mininova.org

There's loads of others.

Of course I only use it to download freeware, and download... erm.. "backups" of my DVDs, because ripping them myself would consume too many CPU cycles and impact my gaming...[/yeah right]

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