FREE Software Downloads

Below is a list of FREE downloads to help you get your computer running successfully and well protected with your new broadband connection.

Adobe Acrobat Reader
This software lets you view and print Adobe PDF files on a variety of hardware and operating system platforms.

Download Acrobat Reader

Virus and Spyware Programs

AVG
AVG Free Edition is the well-known antivirus protection tool. AVG Free is available free of charge to home users for the life of the product. Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers.

Download AVG Anti-Virus

LavaSoft Adaware
With the ability to scan your RAM, Registry, hard drives, and external storage devices for known data-mining, advertising, and tracking components, Ad-Aware SE easily can clean your system, allowing you to maintain a higher degree of privacy while you surf the Web.

Download Ad-Aware

Spybot
Spybot - Search & Destroy can detect and remove a multitude of adware files and modules from your computer. Spybot also can clean program and Web-usage tracks from your system, which is especially useful if you share your computer.

Download Spybot- Search & Destroy

SPAM Filter

SPAM Fighter
SPAMfighter Standard is a free tool for Outlook and Outlook Express that automatically and efficiently filters spam and phishing fraud.

Whenever new mail arrives, it will automatically be tested by SPAMfighter. If it's spam, it will be instantly moved to your spam folder. If you receive a spam mail that is not detected, click on a single button, and the spam mail is removed from the rest of the 2.184.571 SPAMfighters in 211 countries /areas in seconds.

Download SPAM Fighter

P2P Programs

Limewire
LimeWire is the world's fastest P2P file-sharing application for all types of computer files, including music, video, pictures, games, and text documents.

Download Limewire

Web Browsers

Microsoft Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer is the most widely used World Wide Web browser. It comes with the Microsoft Windows operating system and can also be downloaded from Microsoft's Web site. The IE browser competes with an earlier browser, Netscape, now owned by AOL.

Download Internet Explorer 7

Firefox
Mozilla Firefox (originally known as "Phoenix" and briefly as "Mozilla Firebird") is a free, cross-platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and hundreds of volunteers . Before its 1.0 release on November 9, 2004, Firefox had already garnered a great deal of acclaim from numerous media outlets, including Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.

Download Firefox

Chatting & VOIP

MSN Messenger
MSN Messenger is an instant messaging client for Windows and Mac OS computers aimed mainly at home users. Among it's users it is refered as MSN, with examples of "I'll send it to you over MSN". MSN Messenger is sometimes used to refer to the .NET Messenger Service (the protocols and server that allow the system to operate) rather than any particular client.

Download MSN Messenger

Yahoo Messenger
Yahoo! Messenger is a popular instant messaging client and protocol provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used with a generic "Yahoo! ID" which also allows access to other Yahoo! services, such as Yahoo! Mail, where users can be automatically notified when they receive new email.

Download Yahoo Messenger

Skype
Skype is a free Voip (voice over internet protocol) solution, use requires the ability to record and playback audio. Add ons such as the ability to call out and in to POTS (standard phone lines) and soft answering machines (SAM is an freeware example) make this a versatile method of synchronouse and asynchronous communication.

Download Skype