Free AntiVir Personal 9.0.0.394

Avira security software refers to a range of antivirus and internet security software for the Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris computing platforms by Avira. These applications are based on the AntiVir antivirus engine also known as "Luke Filewalker", first launched in 1988.

Version 8.0 of all mainstream Avira products was released on April 14, 2008 and sports a faster scanning engine and a redefined GUI. Additionally, on October 17, 2008 a big update to the search engine was released, which increased scanning speed by 20%.

Avira GmbH periodically "cleans out" the virus definition files, by replacing specific signatures with generic ones, which result in a general increase in performance and scanning speed. The last database clean-out was made on October 27, 2008, which caused problems to AntiVir Personal users when updating because of its large size (15 MB) and because of AntiVir Personal's slow servers. For that reason Avira GmbH added an additional 6 GB of bandwidth to the AntiVir Personal Servers.

Avira AntiVir Personal: Free Antivirus is a nagware antivirus product for personal use only. Like most antivirus software, it scans disks for viruses and runs as a background process, checking each opened and closed file. It can also detect and possibly remove rootkits. The product performs Internet updates (daily by default) in which it opens a window, with an advertisement suggesting the user to purchase Avira AntiVir Premium. The user can also schedule different types of scans.

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Free VLC media player 0.9.9

VLC media player is an open source, free software media player written by the VideoLAN project.

VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various formats. VLC used to stand for VideoLAN Client, but that meaning is now deprecated. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

It is one of the most platform-independent players available, with versions for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BeOS, Syllable, BSD, MorphOS, Solaris and Zaurus, and is widely used with over 100 million downloads for version 0.8.6.

VLC includes a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries; on the Windows platform, this greatly reduces the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins. Many of VLC's codecs are provided by the libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project, but it uses mainly its own muxer and demuxers. It also gained distinction as the first player to support playback of encrypted DVDs on Linux by using the libdvdcss DVD decryption library.

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Songbird 1.1.2

Songbird is a free and open source software media player and web browser developed by Pioneers of the Inevitable (with members who previously developed for both Winamp and the Yahoo! Music Engine), with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."

Songbird employs Mozilla's XULRunner platform, and is thus capable of running on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Solaris and Linux. Songbird utilizes the GStreamer media framework.

Features:

• Cross-platform compatibility with Windows XP, Vista, Mac OS X v10.5 (x86, x86-64) and Linux (x86, x86-64). Mac OS X v10.4-10.5 (PPC) and Windows 2000 are unofficially supported by either 1.0 for PPC or using the official Win32 version to run on 2000.


• Ability to play multiple audio formats, such as MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Apple Lossless and WMA


• Ability to play Apple FairPlay-encoded audio on Windows and Mac platforms via hooks into QuickTime (authorization takes place in iTunes)


• Ability to play Windows Media DRM audio on Windows platforms


• A skinnable interface, via feathers


• Media files stored on pages viewed in the browser show up as playable files in Songbird


• MP3 file download


• Ability to subscribe to MP3 blogs as playlists


• User-created bookmarks


• Ability to build custom mixes


• Ability to scan the user's computer for all audio files and add them to a local library


• A configurable and collapsible graphical user interface similar to iTunes, and mini-player mode


• Keyboard shortcuts and media keyboard support


• Automatic updates


• Last.fm integration via a plugin, complete with love/hate buttons


• Insound.com and HypeMachine integration


• Microsoft MTP compatible device support


• Ability to edit and save metadata tags

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PDFCreator 0.9.8

PDFCreator is an application for converting documents into Portable Document Format (PDF) format on Microsoft Windows operating systems. Once installed, it allows the user to select PDFCreator as their printer, permitting almost any application to print to PDF.

Features:
The application is GPL-licensed free software, written in Microsoft Visual Basic, thus incurring dependence on a 32-bit Windows operating system and depends on the existence of certain proprietary Windows components, such as HTML Help and Windows Printer Drivers, further incurring Win32-only use. The actual PDF generation is handled by Ghostscript.

Besides being installed as a printer driver, PDFCreator can be associated with .ps files to manually convert PostScript to PDF format.

PDFCreator can convert to the following file formats: PDF (including PDF/A (1b) and PDF/X (X-3:2002, X-3:2003 and X-4), PNG, JPEG, BMP, PCX, TIFF, PS, EPS, TXT, PSD, PCL, RAW.

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CCleaner 2.18.878

CCleaner (formerly Crap Cleaner) is a freeware utility used to optimize a user's computer and clean its registry. It is developed by Piriform and is designed for Microsoft Windows. CCleaner is freeware, though Piriform accepts donations for the program. CCleaner is available in 35 different languages, with more planned to be added. CCleaner has had over 250 million downloads.

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CCleaner allows the user to remove unused temporary files from Internet browsers and other supported applications along with browsing history, cookies, recycle bin, and AutoComplete form history. It allows for the cleaning of the recycle bin, memory dumps, file fragments, log files, system caches, application data, and various other data. The program also includes a Registry Cleaner to locate and correct problems in the Windows Registry such as missing shared DLLs, unused file extensions and application paths.

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Windows Internet Explorer 8

Windows Internet Explorer 8 is the latest web browser developed by Microsoft in the long running Internet Explorer browser series. The browser was released on March 19, 2009 for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Both 32-bit and 64-bit builds are available. It is the successor to Internet Explorer 7, released in 2006, and is the default browser for the upcoming Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems.

According to Microsoft, security, ease of use, and improvements in RSS, Cascading Style Sheets, and Ajax support were its priorities for Internet Explorer 8.

Features:

- Fast, safe, and easy. Internet Explorer 8 takes the web experience beyond the page for quicker and more reliable for browsing with peace of mind.

- Get things done without navigating to other websites.

- Browse and get things done quicker than ever.

- Stay more secure and browse with confidence.

- Now you can get more tasks done more quickly on the web. Accelerators provide instant access to information like maps, web searches, translations, email, blogging, and more. - Simply highlight a word or phrase on a page and discover a faster way to get the information you need.

- Web Slices put you in control of the information you care about most. Now you can subscribe to specific content within a page and monitor things like auction items, sports scores, entertainment columns, weather reports, and more. Add a Web Slice to your Favorites bar and the information you care about will automatically be delivered to you.

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