You didn't buy your computer to run antivirus. That's why ESET NOD32 Antivirus gives you fast, effective and easy-to-use protection without getting in your way. Smart proactive detection blocks most known and emerging threats hours or days faster than other antivirus technologies. Fast, light and unobtrusive software protects your Internet experience without annoying system slowdowns.

Key Benefits

* Keeps you safe from viruses, spyware, trojans, password stealers and other malware threats
* Stops most new threats proactively, well before other vendors have issued a signature, maximizing your defense against new and unknown threats
* Scans and cleans Internet traffic and email, even when it's SSL-encrypted, so your email is always safe
* Stops threats from entering through removable devices so you can share files with confidence
* Integrated SysInspector and SysRescue simplify system diagnosis and recovery
* Self defense prevents malware from degrading your level of protection
* Tiny signature updates happen discretely as needed and won't bog down your system
Smarter Scanner – Threats don't always enter your network in ways you expect. ESET NOD32 Antivirus inspects SSL-encrypted communication channels like HTTPS and POP3S and intelligently scans compressed files to find hidden threats other products miss. Proactive protection begins at the earliest point in system startup to ensure your computer is always secure.

Need for Speed II featured some of the rarest and most exotic vehicles available then, including the Ford Indigo concept vehicle, and features country-themed tracks from North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. A new racing mode is also introduced in NFS II dubbed Knockout, where the last racers to finish laps will be eliminated until the only leading racer remains, and wins. In addition, track design is more open-ended; players can now “drive” off the asphalt, and even cut across fields to take advantage of shortcuts.

Squid is a high performance proxy server for web clients, supporting FTP, gopher, and HTTP data objects developed for Unix/Linux environments and now also available for Windows.

Some Squid functionality:

* proxying and caching of HTTP, FTP, and other URLs
* proxying for SSL
* cache hierarchies
* ICP, HTCP, CARP, Cache Digests
* transparent caching
* WCCPv1 and v2
* extensive access control rules
* Windows transparent authentication based on NTLMv1/v2 and Kerberos
* HTTP server acceleration
* SNMP monitoring
* caching of DNS lookups

The new version of this indispensable product doesn't introduce revolutionary changes, but it doesn't have to. As the low-end PDF reader, it simply keeps up with Acrobat Professional and Standard. This release adds the ability to play back embedded multimedia files in MP3, QuickTime, Macromedia Flash, Real, and Windows Media formats, as well as to submit Adobe PDF forms. It also replaces some of the icons in the default interface with optional, dockable toolbars. You might as well install this now before a Web site you visit prompts you to download it, because you'll need it.

Keep your computer running like new. PerfectDisk 10 Professional's industry-leading defragmenting features speed up everything you do, from browsing the web to downloading music and editing pictures. Plus, you'll see faster machine boot times and fewer software crashes and hangs. PerfectDisk 10 Professional's patented SMARTPlacement feature is the most sophisticated defragging solution available. It identifies the files you use most and then organizes them according to your unique usage patterns. This comprehensive process yields faster subsequent defrag passes, quicker computer boots, slower rates of fragmentation, reduced resource consumption and improved performance of desktops and laptops.

VCDCutter is Video Player of MPEG and AVI Movies. It plays MPG, VCD, and other video files. There are also many tools for editing and converting your movies. But operation of the program is not as good as supposed to be. In this review both features and some bugs found in VCDCutter are described.

"It plays everything!"

The media player that fills all your needs. It can handle DVDs, (S)VCDs, Audio CDs, web streams, TV cards and much more.

You don't need to keep track of a dozen codec packs you need to have installed. VLC has all codecs built-in. It comes with support for nearly all codec there is.

Sumatra PDF is a free, slim, open-source PDF viewer that does what any other pdf viewer does. It's small size and low memory consumtion makes it an ideal program for older systems.

Sumatra has a minimalistic design, small and starts up very fast. It's designed for portable use: it's just one file with no external dependencies so you can easily run it from external USB drive.

Skype is software for calling other people on their computers or phones. Download Skype and start calling for free all over the world.

The calls have excellent sound quality and are highly secure with end-to-end encryption. You don't even need to configure your firewall or router or any other networking gear.

Additionally it doesn't just work on Windows. Skype is also for Mac OS X, Linux and PDAs using Pocket PC, with a native look and feel for each platform. Talking, sending instant messages or even file transfers work between different platforms like a charm.