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Old 09-08-2004, 11:11   #31
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Old 09-08-2004, 11:42   #32
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Re: Freeware Alternative Software List

are all those programs spyware/adware free? perhaps when you can edit that post again, it would be a good idea to make some indication of which ones definitely are and definitely aren't free of adware... because that's how a lot of these "free" programs generate money for their makers....
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Old 09-08-2004, 12:44   #33
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Re: Freeware Alternative Software List

Another one for you: Game Maker

http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/gmaker/download.html
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Re: Freeware Alternative Software List

Here's a list of freeware games, admittedly a couple of them are demo's but the majority are full versions.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messagev...&enterthread=y
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Re: Freeware Alternative Software List

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Here's a list of freeware games, admittedly a couple of them are demo's but the majority are full versions.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messagev...&enterthread=y
Ahh the old Kings Quest games. I loved those.
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Old 16-08-2004, 16:27   #36
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OpenVMS is not for Windows.
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Re: Freeware Alternative Software List

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OpenVMS is not for Windows.
No-one said it was, there's a lot of software listed that isn't windows based, and I don't spose you feel like changing your avatar to one that doesn't match another forum users do you? It's getting confusing.
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OK, sorry but your kinda blind then, it's different to scastles. I'll change it back to my old one just to make you happy.
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Re: Freeware Alternative Software List

Here's another free software: http://www.adwareremovergold.com/freescan/index.html
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Old 28-09-2004, 20:23   #40
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That's just a free scan, it's $60 for the clean-up software.
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For anti-spam filter, I use SpamWeed from http://www.spamweed.com. Users can get their 1.2.1 version for free.
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X-Chat is no longer free for Windows users, although it is still for Linux users.
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Re: Freeware Alternative Software List

Another FREEWARE app... http://www.trayhelper.com/indexeng.html

Tray Helper 4.5 - One tool with all the stuff you need!

It's a SMALL Windows application that takes only ONE place next to your tray system clock, 'eats' only a little of memory and CPU power but can:

# no adware, no spyware just FREEWARE!
# quick send colorful e-mails with emoticons
# TRACK if / when and how many times your e-mails are read!
# remind YOU about all YOUR meetings, important events, birthdays etc..
# check all YOUR e-mail accounts (up to 100 !) in background
# auto-delete spam messages on these accounts, important messages can be forwarded to your mobile device. There is also a build in auto-responder.
# build-in e-mail reader is much more SECURE than MS Outlook
# watch your browser's windows and kill all unwanted pop-ups
# take advantage of Tray Helper's plugins (see site)
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Re: Freeware Alternative Software List

Some Freeware Anti-Spam for you....

K9 - Version 1.28

K9 is an email filtering application that works in conjunction with your regular POP3 email program and automatically classifies incoming emails as spam (junk email) or non-spam without the need for maintaining dozens of rules or constant updates to be downloaded. It uses intelligent statistical analysis that can result in extremely high accuracy over time.

K9 learns from its mistakes and becomes better and better at being able to identify spam. More importantly it learns to recognize what you consider to be spam.

K9 is for standard POP3 email accounts only. It does not directly support Hotmail, AOL or any other kind of webmail type systems, nor does it support SSL or secure authentication as used by MSN.

http://keir.net/

Anti Spam Umbrella 1.3

Anti Spam Umbrella is a safe anti spam software for Microsoft Outlook (not Outlook Express or other email client). As an Outlook add-on, it is seamlessly integrated into Outlook to stop spam from pouring into your mailbox.

Features:
- Blocks new type of spam.
- Automatically scans your Inbox for spams whenever new e-mail messages arrive.
- Previews suspect emails in text/plain format. No worrying about email virus spreading automatically .
- Approves or Block an email.
- Adds the entire domain to friends list or blacklist
- Manages friends list or Blacklist
- Backups and restores settings

http://www.braysoft.com/

Pixbyte AntiSpam Professional 2.6

The distribution of AntiSpam 2.x and AntiSpam Freeware has been discontinued and has been replaced by AntiSpam Professional, which now also includes the update function for current filter rules.

- NEW: Now with a free update function for current filter rules
- NEW: "Dictionary" filter added
- NEW: Systray menu function has been extended
- NEW: Storing of the email log list
- More than 25 new filter rules, 42 modified test
- AccountWizard 2.0 for Outlook Express 5 and 6, Outlook 2000, 2002(XP) and 2003
- SuperSpam Filter: you can set two thresholds to define two spam actions (advanced mode)
- You can add header information (SMTP Header) to spam mails, you donââ‚Âà ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢t have to tag the subject any more (advanced mode)
- You can import email addresses from your Outlook Address book, Outlook contacts and from the Windows address book (e.g. as used by Outlook Express) to your whitelist.
- Contains one of the most complex filter and rule techniques
- Detection rules can be set individually
- Detects unwanted sales promotion via email

http://www.pixbyte.com/

SpamBayes 1.0

SpamBayes is not a single application. The core code is a message classifier, however there are several applications available as part of the SpamBayes project which use the classifier in specific contexts. For the most part, the current crop of applications all operate on the client side of things, however, a number of people have experimented with using SpamBayes on mail servers to classify incoming mail for multiple users. The table below outlines the main applications which are part of the SpamBayes distribution.

http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

SpamItBack 1.023

Tired of receiving spam? Wouldn't it be nice if spammers didn't send spam any more?

Get spammers back, and send your own message once, a thousand times, or as many times as you want back to them. And get a hi-score at the same time.

http://www.spamitback.com/

Spamihilator 0.9.8.4

Spamihilator works between your E-Mail client and the Internet and examines every incoming E-Mail. Useless spam mails (Junk) will be filtered out. This process runs completely in the background.

The new Learning Filter (Bayesian Filter) uses the rules of Thomas Bayes (English mathematician, 18th century) and calculates a certain Spam-Probability for every E-Mail. You can train this filter! So it will know your messages even better than you. Hence the recognition rate will continuously increase. In addition Spamihilator uses a Word-Filter, that searches messages for known keywords.

The program works with almost every E-Mail client, such as Outlook 2000/XP/2003/Express, Eudora, Mozilla, Netscape, IncrediMail, Pegasus Mail, Phoenix Mail, Opera, etc...

http://www.spamihilator.com/

Lockspam Free 3.0

Lockspam Free 3.0 is a free email anti spam filter for all POP3 mail clients, like Outlook, Outlook Express and Eudora. Especially, it could be seamlessly integrated into Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express to stop spam from pouring into your mailbox.

http://www.polesoft.com/

Cactus Spam Filter v1.13

Cactus Spam Filter is a free easy-to-use spam blocker. It protects your inbox by learning to detect spam as it's being used. After a short while it has adapted to your personal mailbox and blocks out most of the junk e-mail. Since the filter becomes personal, spammers will not be able to fool it.

Even though this is a brutal, merciless spam killer, no e-mails will get lost unless you delete them. Installation is very simple. No setup is required in your e-mail client; this spam stopper integrates seamlessly with all e-mail clients that use POP3. It has been successfully tested with Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, Netscape, Opera, Mozilla, Eudora, Pegasus Mail, IncrediMail, Foxmail and Phoenix Mail.

http://www.codeode.com/spamfilter/

Matador Spam Fighter 1.0

- Bayesian mail filtering for Outlook 2003 with self-learning mechanism
- Creation of corpus both from Junk mail folder for spam corpus and Inbox folder for no-spam corpus
- Check of every incoming message through the filter
- Precreated spam corpus with most common spam words and most common messages
- Statistics of spam received and stopped by the filter
- Actions to mark as spam and no-spam messages that had already been processed from the Outlook 2003 toolbar
- Cleaning of folders through the filter, allows you to process a full folder and clean it of spam
- Auto-update of the filter over the web
- Logging of every action and exception performed by the filter
- Moves every detected spam to the Outlook Junk Mail folder, no mail is deleted, just moved

It requires Outlook 2003 and .NET Framework 1.1 ... (adapting the filter to work in Outlook 2000 and 2002) This is a beta version of the filter... more features are being added in this time.

http://blogs.clearscreen.com/migs/ar...09/16/400.aspx

SpamPal v1.583

- Check your mail against the freely-usable DNSBL lists (aka "blocking lists") of your choice.
- The list of available DNSBL services is automatically updated, so new DNSBL lists can be used as they appear!
- Whitelist the email addresses of your friends and family so that mail from them will never be tagged as spam!
- Don't agree with a listing in a DNSBL list? You can whitelist entire netblocks so you'll never be troubled by that listing again!
- Do you think part of the Internet should be blocked that isn't in a DNSBL list? Add it to the local blacklist and all mail from it will be tagged as spam! You can blacklist email addresses or entire netblocks!
- People and mailservers with whom you correspond frequently are Automatically Whitelisted - without you having to lift a finger!
- More than one mailbox? Don't worry, SpamPal supports multiple POP3 servers.
- Supports APOP authentication!
- Can filter IMAP4 mailboxes!
- Can even protect an SMTP connection!
- Unobtrusive! Once installed, SpamPal sits in your system tray and you can forget all about it - except spam won't be causing you so much trouble!
- Multi-language support! Use SpamPal in English, German, French, Italian or Russian
- Subject Line Tagging. As well as its special header, SpamPal can put "**SPAM**" in the subject of spam messages.
- And if all this isn't enough, you can extend SpamPal with third-party Plug-ins!
- SpamPal will not be able to detect all of your spam. However, I think it will detect enough to make a considerable difference!

http://www.spampal.org/

Mail Box Dispatcher 2.11

Stops spam, viruses and other unwanted emails without downloading them. Built-in self-learning Spam Detector helps you to recognize spam messages. Has four filter lists that enable spam filtering by senders, recipients and 'bad phrases'. Highly customizable interface provides maximum comfort for deleting spam messages. And much more...

http://www.anti-spam-tools.com/

SPAMFighter 3.0.9

SPAMfighter is Europe's leading Anti Spam Filter developer, providing Spam Protection for hundreds of thousands of home and corporate users on PC's and Servers.

If you need a spam filter for your home/office PC or you need to spam protect a server, you have come to the right place.

567.490 users are already Spam protected by SPAMfighter, and in the last 24 hours 998 new SPAMfighters joined the battle. If a SPAMfighter receives a spam mail that is not detected by SPAMfighter, the user reports the spam mail with one click, and it's removed from the rest of the SPAMfighters in seconds.

http://www.spamfighter.com/

Spamdel POP3 utility & anti-spam 1.0

Easy-to-use tray based utility ideal for Outlook/Outlook Express (or any other email program). Dial-up manager, email notifier, anti-spam, and more. It's advantages over other mail utilities include many features, ease of use, and its free!.

Spamdel shows your mail on the server, including the message body †“ it doesn't have to be downloaded to your PC. You can view and delete mail, then let your preferred email client download the desired mails. Unlike most other email utilities, Spamdel operates on the server (away from your PC) which means a tremendous improvement in safety against virus attacks and spam.

http://www.spamdel.com/

No Hawkers - AntiSpam 1.0.0.12 Beta


No Hawkers - Antispam is a peer-to-peer spam stopping solution. Using the same community technology that makes products like Kazzaa © and iMesh © some of the largest file sharing communities in the world No Hawkers - AntiSpam links you into every other person in the world using the software. You receive second by second spam updates, spam tollerance control and the ability to fight back against spam by being able to send your own received spam messages back to the network to be reported to others.

Best of all No Hawkers - AntiSpam requires no setup you simply install it, let it detect your mail accounts and have it sit in your task bar doing the work for you. You don't have to setup filters or keywords or be a spam expert in any way.

Are you using another spam filter that catches 90% of your spam? thats fine, you don't even have to uninstall your original software, just install No Hawkers - AntiSpam and it will supplement your original software giving your PC more stopping power.

http://www.code-builders.com/

SpamBuster 1.10.2


Run Spam Buster before your email program as the first line of defense against the junk. Spam Buster compares the email message, header information, sender, and size to the spam settings you've defined to see if the message is spam. Then Spam Buster even checks the sender against a blacklist of known spammers.

Spam Buster displays the email with a red checkmark indicating they are spam, a question mark if the mail appears to be spam, and those on the exception list (such as your friends) with a special icon. Should you decide that some of the messages not marked with a red check mark are spam, you can flag them for future spam detection. Of course you can unmark any message marked as spam too. Then launch your email program to retrieve and read the "clean" email. Since Spam Buster does NOT download the entire message it is much quicker than using your normal email program which will actually have to retrieve the entire message including any attachments.

http://www.contactplus.com/
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Just installed this little gem, all sorts to do with it, my main one was for keeping OE open in the systray below is a snippet taken from it's site

If this is in the wrong spot then can it be moved, it's freeware so i assume it goes here


TWI has lots of wonderful features. With it, you can:
  • Assign hotkeys for common tasks such as minimize windows, restart Windows, etc.
  • Automatically change your system's sound-effect files every few minutes or every few seconds if you want!
  • Minimize programs onto the taskbar tray instead of just onto the taskbar, either by a keystroke or by right-clicking a window's Minimize button with your mouse
  • Configure a menu of easily-accessible commands
  • Increase or decrease speaker volume with the press of a button
  • Automatically run programs at start-up, and hide them, minimize them to the taskbar tray, etc.
  • Lots more!
  • Oh yeah, and it's free!
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