Windows Live Messenger 2009 (14.0.8089) (Freeware)

Windows Live Messenger makes it easier than ever to stay connected to the people you care about.

• Favorites and groups - Put the people you chat with most at the top of your contacts, so you easily see when they're online. Want to chat with several people in one window? Just set up a group.
• Share photos - Look at photos together, right in the conversation window. And Messenger tells you when people you know post new photos on Windows Live.
• Customize - Show off your personal style with custom scenes, animated display pictures, and signature sounds.
• Mobile and web - Using a public computer without Messenger? No problem! You can chat on the web from Windows Live Hotmail. Or, use Messenger on your mobile phone.

HOMEPAGE: download.live messenger.com
DOWNLOAD: Window live messenger
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SIZE: 1.09 MB
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Yahoo! Messenger 10.0.0.542 Beta (Freeware)

Yahoo! Messenger is an advertisement-supported instant messaging client and associated 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. Yahoo! also offers PC-PC, PC-Phone and Phone-to-PC service, file transfers, webcam hosting, text messaging service, and chat rooms in various categories.
Yahoo! Messenger was originally launched under the name Yahoo! Pager on March 9, 1998.

HOMEPAGE: messenger.yahoo.com
DOWNLOAD ver. 9.0.0.2162 stable : Y! Messenger
Yahoo! Messenger 10.0.0.542 Beta :Y! Messenger 10.0.0.542 Beta
SIZE:16.10 MB
GOOGLE HITS: 99 millions +

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Internet Explorer 8.0 IE8 (XP) (Freeware)

Windows Internet Explorer 8 (abbreviated IE8) 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, and Windows 7.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 Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems except in Europe.IE8's global market share is estimated to be about 18-20%.
According to Microsoft, security, ease of use, and improvements in RSS, Cascading Style Sheets, and Ajax support were its priorities for Internet Explorer 8.

HOMEPAGE: windows-Internet-explorer
DOWNLOAD: Manual Download
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SIZE: 16.10 MB
GOOGLE HITS: 56 millions +

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ClamWin 0.95.3 (Open Source)

ClamWin is free, open source antivirus software for Microsoft Windows. It provides a graphical user interface to the ClamAV (Clam AntiVirus) engine.ClamWin is a Free Antivirus program for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003 and Vista. ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge.

HOMEPAGE: www.clamwin.com
DOWNLOAD: clamwin-0.95.3-setup.exe
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SIZE:  32.7 mb
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AVG Free Edition 9.0.704 (freeware)

AVG is an umbrella term for a range of anti-virus and internet security software for the Microsoft Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD computing platforms, developed by AVG Technologies, a privately held Czech company formerly known as Grisoft.
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is trusted antivirus and antispyware protection for Windows available to download for free. In addition, the new included LinkScanner® Active Surf-Shield checks web pages for threats at the only time that matters – when you're about to click that link.

HOMEPAGE:  free.avg.com
DOWNLOAD: AVG free edition 9.0.704
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SIZE: 73.98 mb

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Ares 2.1.2 (open source)

Ares Galaxy is an open source peer-to-peer file sharing application that uses its own decentralized supernode/leaf network. It was spun-off from the Gnutella network in 2002, and is currently hosted on SourceForge.net. Ares Galaxy has a simple, quick access interface with a built in audio/video viewer. The latest versions also support the BitTorrent protocol and Shoutcast radio stations.

HOMEPAGE: aresgalaxy.sourceforge.net
DOWNLOAD: aresregular212.exe
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SIZE:2.27 MB
GOOGLE HITS:1 million+

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FrostWire 4.18.4 (open source)

FrostWire is a peer-to-peer file sharing program for the Gnutella and BitTorrent protocols. FrostWire is written in Java, and is a fork of LimeWire, another popular Gnutella client. Released under the GNU General Public License, FrostWire is free software.

HOMEPAGE: www.frostwire.com
DOWNLOAD: frostwire.exe
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SIZE: 9.22 mb
GOOGLE HITS: 247k+

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