Free Tools & Softwere

Tools

Gibson Research Corporation - Security check

Trend Micro Housecall - Free online virus Scan

Sam Spade - DNS lookup

DNS stuff

World Wide Web Consortium

AntiVirus (must have)

AVG (Recommended)

AntiVir

Avast

FireWall (must have)

ZoneAlarm Security Suite (Recommended)

Trackware/Spam/Spyware

Lavasoft Ad-Aware (Recommended)

Backing Up

Cobian Backup

Media Players

VideoLAN - VLC (Recommended)

Real One Player

Microsoft Windows Media Player

Quick Time

iTunes

Video Converting and Editing

Any Video Converter

Magic DVD Ripper

Browsers

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Mozilla Firefox (Recommended)

Mozilla SeaMonkey

Flock

Opera

Safari

Google Chrome

FTP/SSH

WinSCP

Remote Access

Real VNC

Putty

Log File Analysis

Sawmill

PDF Weiter

CutePDF

Chat

MULTY INSTANT MESSENGERS (TEXT, VOICE, VIDEO)
Pingin Multiple logon to: Yahoo! - MSN - AIM - ICQ - IRC - Jabber - GaduGadu (Recommended)
Trillian Multiple logon to: Yahoo! - MSN - AIM - ICQ - IRC - Jabber
Jabber logon to: Yahoo! - MSN - AIM - ICQ - IRC - Jabber
ICUII logon to: Yahoo! - MSN - AIM - ICQ - ICUII
Qnext logon to: Yahoo! - MSN - AIM - ICQ - Qnext
Maxx logon to: Yahoo! - MSN - AIM - ICQ - IRC
PalTalk logon to: Yahoo! - MSN - AIM - Paltalk

INSTANT MASSENGERS/CHAT (TEXT, VOICE, VIDEO)
Yahoo! Messenger (Recommended)
ICQ
AOL Instant Messenger
iChat
Novell GroupWise Messenger
Eyeball
iVisit
OnlineCall
CUseeMe Networks/White Pine Software/First Virtual Communications
Dwyco Video
VIC
Daviko
Windows Live Messenger
Tlen Polish
GaduGadu Polish

(VOICE, TEXT)
TeamTalk (Recommended)

VoIP (Voice over IP)
Microsoft Windows NetMeeting
Skype

IRC CLIENTS (TEXT ONLY)
dIRC
Hotline Connect Client
Ice Chat IRC
Leaf Chat
mIRC
Net IRC
NexIRC
Turbo IRC
Pirch IRC
Chainsaw
Chatbot
jasoncox
Visual IRC

WEB PAGE (JAVA & WINDOWS) INSTANT MESSENGERS (TEXT ONLY)
odigo logon to: Yahoo! - MSN - AIM - ICQ - Odigo

3D AVATAR BASED CHAT (TEXT ONLY)
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