I decided to try for you some popular and free programs. They all are free, but there is a big difference between freeware and GPL license. A freeware software is released under a copyright, and you commit an offence if you change its source code. A GPL software means you can change, modify and sell a new your own version with no restriction.
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ZONE ALARM 5.0.5 Producer: Zonelabs Licence: Freeware Download: www.zonelabs.com Dimension: 5,5 mb Language: English, French, German, Spanish. |
If you surf a lot the Internet or you have a static IP you really need a good firewall. This program is quite easy to use and complete, I think. An Italian version is not yet available. Sometime it has "misunderstandigs" with Eudora! |
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AVG FREE EDITION 7 Producer: Grisoft Licence: Freeware Download: www.grisoft.com Dimension: 7,2 mb Lingua: English |
There are not a always sure antivirus. Maybe you spent a lot of money and anyway you MBR is dead and gone because of a virus... So it's better don't pay, when AVG it's old you uninstall it and you download the latest version (there is also a upgrading routine) |
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DEEP BURNER 1.1.1.126 Producer: Astonsoft Licence: Freeware Download: www.deepburner.com Dimension: 2,7 mb Language: also Italian! |
As good as commercial softwares like Nero Burning, it's really easy in all its options and you can also create audio cd from MP3 files. |
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MOZILLA 1.7 Producer: Mozilla corporation. Licence: GPL Download: www.mozilla.org Dimension: 12 mb Language: Italian, English |
That's the best way to say stop to all the virus you can have from Internet Explorer or Outlook. This is a good browser and it also has a good email client. You can also have the two programs divided, the browser is called Firefox and the email client Thunderbird. |
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OPEN OFFICE 1.1.1 Producer: OpenOffice.org Licence: GPL Download: www.openoffice.org Dimension: 64 mb Language: Only 30 more or less at the moment... Of course available all the European languages, and some from Asia like Laotian and Hindi. |
Better than Microsoft Office and free!!! It has its own extention but it supports all the Office ones (doc, pps, xls and go on..) Last year I wrote a part of its Italian Thesaurus, it was a good experience to know the open source world. There are a lot of programs like this, 'cos free software it's also based on volunteers' work! We need also your help!!! |