Banish viruses, block spam, and remove spyware from your PC for good. ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite not only eradicates threats but also prevents them from ever entering in the first place. Comprehensive protection defends your PC with robust firewall technology and stops identity thieves and spammers in a single, easy-to-use application.

* Complete PC Protection including award-winning antivirus, anti-spyware and firewall
* Multiple-layers of defense protect more deeply than other security solutions
* Easy and intuitive interface makes it simple to install, use and maintain.

ZoneAlarm Security Suite includes antivirus, anti-spyware, anti-spam and anti-phishing, identity theft protection and much more. All enhanced with the world’s top rated network/program firewall and operating system firewall.

Developer: Zone Labs
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 50.1 MB
Download ZoneAlarm Security Suite 8.0.057 Beta link

The award-winning Opera Web browser: The coolest, fastest, and most secure free Web browser available. Try it now to see just how great your Internet experience can be.

Why Opera? Safe, secure, powerful and fully customizable, the Opera Web browser is faster and more secure than other browsers available on the market. Opera delivers robust security and a far-richer feature set than any other Web browser and it’s free.

Opera is the Web pioneer that delivered tabbed browsing in 2000, and Opera 9.5 features lots of other great tricks for quick navigation, including Speed Dial, a quick way to put all of your favorite daily sites at your fingertips. You can also take, save and trade Notes attached to any Web site while browsing, or Create Search shortcuts from any search field on the Web. Opera 9.5 is super fast and free, secure and stable, and offers lots of great tools for Web Developers.

Whether you’re going to work, working from home, developing Web sites, or just looking for a quick, solid browser that can help you quickly access the Internet, the free Opera Web browser delivers a superior Internet experience for every aspect of your online life, with lots of extra tech tools for power users!

Developer: Opera Software
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 8,5 MB
Download Opera 9.51.10081 Final link

You’ve downloaded Skype, and so has your friend. Now you can get started on the really cool stuff – such as making completely free and great quality calls from your computer. That’s the great thing about Skype, you can use your internet connection and turn your computer into an internet phone and make free Skype-to-Skype calls.

You and your friend will need to have a headset (or use your computer’s built-in microphone and speakers) to talk to each other. You can really improve the sound quality of your calls with a headset, or take your calls to the next level with free video calls.

Using Skype to make free Skype-to-Skype calls is great but you can also make local, long distance and international calls to phones and cell phones at great rates too. But there’s a load more you can do as well.

For starters you can send cheap text messages directly from Skype; forward calls from Skype to your cell phone; or set up a personal online number so friends, family and co-workers can call you on Skype at local rates from their old-fashioned phone, no matter where you are in the world.

Developer: Skype Limited
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 21,3 MB
Download Skype 3.8.0.144 link

Acoo Browser  is a powerful multi-tabbed Internet browser based on the Internet Explorer engine (IE 5 or greater required). Acoo Browser provides a user-friendly GUI interface, including tabbed document windows, dockable panel groups and customizable toolbars.

Acoo Browser allows user to surf multiple Web sites within one browser window. It also includes many advanced features such as Mouse Gestures, built-in syntax highlighted HTML source viewer, powerful built-in Web page analyzer, built-in calculator, RSS Reader, recoverable Popup Blocker, Ads Filter, ActiveX Filter, script error suppression, Cleaner, external tools, web page zooming, URL Hotkey, URL Alias, Integrated search engine support, skinned window frame, and much more…

Acoo Browser can block annoying pop-ups, banner Ads, flash Ads and other Internet Ad annoyances automatically without interfering your surfing. There is also detailed logging record in Acoo Browser, and you may know the Ads sites killed by Acoo Browser so as to improve your setting.

Acoo Browser makes your surfing experience easier, quicker and more comfortable!

Developer: AcooBrowser
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 1.7 MB
Download Acoo Browser 1.87.584 link

Concerned about Internet privacy? Want to hide your IP address? Hide IP NG (short for Hide IP Next Generation) is the software you are looking for! Keeping your privacy is simple and easy: just start Hide IP NG!

Key Features of Hide IP NG:
* Don’t waste time in testing slow and dangerous public proxies. Just select a USA/UK IP you wish to use from our list. Every IP you see is usable, fast and 100% secure!
* Assign different IPs to your computers even they are behind the same router!
* A single click and you are ready to go. Hide your IP address without any configuration.
* We never ask our users to create an acount before using. Our users will never be logged and tracked.
* 1024 bits encryption prevent your ISP and your boss from spying on you!
* Prevent others from reading any data you transmit in Wi-Fi Hotspots.
* Support HTTPS:// sites and double your security!
* Send anonymous email through any web based mail system (e.g. Gmail, Hotmail).
* Post on bulletin boards without displaying your real IP address.
* Bypass the restrictions placed by some owners of Internet resources on users from certain countries or geographical regions. Bypass work/school web filter and visit any sites you want (e.g. MySpace).
* Great for monitoring your overseas search engine campaigns.
* Keeping your computer safe from hacker attacks by hiding your IP address.
* Protects you from any website that wants to monitor your reading interests and spy upon you through your unique IP address - your ID in the Internet.
* Avoid your personal information being used to send you spam and junk emails. Many marketers and advertising agencies will use you IP address, together with your email, to send you unsolicited emails.

Developer: hide-ip-soft.com
License: Shareware
OS: Windows All
Size: 0.86 MB
Download Hide IP NG 1.26 link

BWMeter is a powerful bandwidth meter, monitor and traffic controller, which measures, displays and controls all traffic to/from your computer or on your network. Unlike other products, it can analyze the data packets (where they come from, where they go, which port and protocol they use). This makes it possible to distinguish between local and internet traffic for example.

BWMeter can also be used for traffic control by setting a speed limit for all kinds of connections or restricting access to certain internet sites. It creates statistics for all computers in your network, measuring and displaying all LAN traffic as well as download / upload from the internet. You can even define filters which show your transfer with certain internet addresses (e.g. to see how much data you download from your favorite news server).

BWMeter is ideal for home users to get an overview of how much bandwidth they use, as well as small to large businesses, where one computer can control the traffic and maintain the statistics of downloaded / uploaded data of all computers in the network. The product is easy to configure and offers a rich set of options and features for beginners as well as experts and network administrators.

Developer: DeskSoft
License: Shareware
OS: Windows All
Size: 0.6 MB
Download BWMeter 4.0.1 link

Maxthon Browser is a powerful tabbed browser built for all users. Besides basic browsing functionality, Maxthon Browser provides a rich set of features to improve your surfing experience.

The Ultimate Out-of-box Experience
* Easy to use and powerful straight out of the box
* Created by people thinking out of the box to come up with new ways to use the Internet
* So out of the box, there’s no box! Download now for free, forever! More than 100 million other smart Web users have.

Maxthon Works the Way You Want It To
* Swap, add, move, remove, and change Maxthon’s tool bars, icons, menus, colors, skins, and layouts until it looks the way you would have designed it.
* Don’t like menus? Use hot keys. Don’t like hot keys? Use word aliases. Don’t like aliases? Use toolbars. Don’t like toolbars? Then use mouse gestures. It’s all up to you.
* Think we left something out? Pick from more than 1,400 plug-ins that make Maxthon the do-all of browsers.
* Other companies sell remote conferencing, screen capture, electronic passports, and automatic password managers as separate programs.  With Max, they’re free – just like Maxthon itself.

Maxthon’s so secure you can throw away that blanket
* Maxthon is 100% free of viruses, spyware, adware – any kind of malware.
* The built-in Ad Hunter blocks harmful, or just irritating ads, images and pages.
* Filter packs screen out offensive and irritating Web pages, and you decide what’s offensive and irritating.

Developer: Mysoft Technology
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 4.7 MB
Download Maxthon 2.1.2.589 link

Enhance the speed of your internet connection with NetScream. One of the best modem enhancers on the market, it boosts download and upload speeds your modem is capable of. Very easy to use, fully compliant with all versions of Microsoft Windows and compatible with all internet connection types. Download music, movies and play internet games faster.

NetScream Details
* Makes direct changes to system registry and system files to enhance internet download and upload speeds.
* Automatically adjusts settings and changes made based on computer and modem specifications, complete fault tolerance system implemented.
* Compatible with all modem types - Dial-up, DSL, ADSL, Cable, ISDN, and Satellite internet connections.

Developer: SwiftDog
License: Shareware
OS: Windows All
Size: 0,8 MB
Download NetScream 1.5.5.2008 link

Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 now available to all users running Windows. Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 is the most secure version of Internet Explorer to date and now it’s easier to install.

Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 provides improved navigation through tabbed browsing, web search right from the toolbar, advanced printing, easy discovery, reading and subscription to RSS feeds, and much more.

Why upgrade to Internet Explorer 8 beta 1?
* See how it helps to protect you from viruses, spyware, and other risks, plus more easily find the information you need.

Get keyboard shortcuts
* Check out or download our Quick Reference guide to learn keyboard shortcuts for Internet Explorer 8 beta 1.

Explore the features
* See the advances that have been made to ease of use, security, and the development platform in Internet Explorer 8 beta 1.

Learn about a new security feature added to Internet Explorer 8 beta
* Stay safer online with Extended Validation SSL certificate functionality.

Developer: Microsoft Corp.
License: Freeware
OS: Windows XP
Size: 14,4 MB
Download Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows XP link