This is a repost of stuff I wrote before I knew what blogging was. These are all high quality MS Windows freeware programs.
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My favorite freeware tools are those that I have tested, kept and use daily.
WebMon enables you to find out when some of the other tools or websites that interest you, has changed.
Hamster is a open source local News, Pop3 and Imap server. It's easily scriptable and very solid and mature.
Proxomitron is an immensely powerful local web proxy. It can remove all the cruft from intrusive websites you visit.
K9 is a (solid beta) spam filtering local proxy, using Bayesian-like filtering.
AntiVir Personal Edition is my current favorite free anti-virus tool. I run several, but AntiVir beats AVG and others both in what it detects, and how few false positives it gives.
GUL is a lightweight URL manager. Since it's pulled from the Internet, as far as I can tell, I'm currently recreating it (faithfully!) using Python.
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Proxomitron is no longer developed, but just too good to die.
The free version of AntiVir is now named "AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic". There's a version for Linux / FreeBSD / OpenBSD / Solaris too.
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