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Good Programs, And/Or Good Programs For Computers
I saw a thread discussing Ad-Aware, and the suggestion was to not use, but rather to use Spybot. 
What are some other bad and/or good programs?
imesh, a file exchange program, is one of the most spy-ridden programs I've seen yet; somewhat related,
AVG, a free virus detection program, seems very good.
What are some others you would recommend, or condemn?
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January 24, 2003, 10:43
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January 24, 2003, 10:54
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KolQl8or - A handy little calculator.
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Play Bumps! No, wait, play Slings!
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January 24, 2003, 11:01
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For Windows, ACDSee classic (image viewer) and Mozilla.
Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD for everybody.
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January 24, 2003, 11:11
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Umm, despite the thread title, are these "Good" programs, or "Bad" ?
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January 24, 2003, 11:22
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Much easier to recommend good ones - a lot less to type.
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January 24, 2003, 11:59
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I agree, but I'd like to know the bad ones in advance.
The thing is, at downloads.com, if one reads the description on imesh, they tell you it's full of Spyware.
If you go to the imesh site instead, you're on your own.
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January 24, 2003, 12:05
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Good: PGP, PGPi or GPG - free public key encryption program for personal use.
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January 24, 2003, 12:43
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I use that too. So much for 'Poly's ads 
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January 24, 2003, 12:50
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It's better than PopUp Stopper? How?
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January 24, 2003, 12:54
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I don't know if it's better than PopUp Stopper. I've never tried PopUp Stopper, but it does work very well. I've never seen a popup ad on Apolyton, and it also blocks the banner ads on the top of the page.
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January 24, 2003, 16:03
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Mozilla is great. You can disable pop-up ads with it. Plus it's a good web browser
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January 25, 2003, 13:00
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Originally posted by SlowwHand
It's better than PopUp Stopper? How?
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More powerful. You can do things like block embedded MIDI files, banner ads, redirects, etc.
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January 25, 2003, 14:17
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For Windows, Editpad is a great replacement for wordpad and notepad.
http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
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January 25, 2003, 15:21
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Good - Winamp 2.8: A brilliant little program that plays music files. Does it's own little job and nothing else.
Bad - Winamp 3: A nasty, bloated piece of software that tries to be a replacement for Windows Media Player, at which it fails spectacularly. Crashes on all my computers.
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January 25, 2003, 15:53
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Do you guys know any good economics programs for either mac or pc?
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January 25, 2003, 15:59
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Most people I know use either Quicken or TurboTax, and seem to get along fine with them. I can't comment on either -- I've never used either.
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January 25, 2003, 17:41
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I have a Quicken legal program that's pretty all-inclusive.
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January 25, 2003, 17:47
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civ III PtW is a fun little program. So is an RPG by the name of Neverwinter Nights. As for more utilitarian programs, everything in my microsoft suite is pretty helpful... to lazy to write specific program titles, but im sure your familiar with most of 'em, word, powerpoint, works, encarta encyclopedia, stuff like that.
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January 25, 2003, 18:01
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civ III PtW is a fun little program.
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I hear its very buggy though
Anyway, I like Nero for all my burning needs. Much less buggy than Adaptec whatever.
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January 25, 2003, 19:53
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A great free image-viewer/editor: Irfanview.
And my absolute favourite: Eyedropper, only 28K and I use it almost every day.
For downloading all those pornflics and music from Usenet: Grabit 
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January 25, 2003, 21:24
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Xnews is a good newsreader, superior to Microsoft or Netscape in every way.
http://xnews.newsguy.com/
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January 25, 2003, 21:52
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Oy, almost forgot... If you want an excellent free, almost up to par with Photoshop, graphics program, try GIMP...
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January 25, 2003, 23:24
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SoulSeek = great music P2P program
BigFix = nice program that tracks MS patches, and also some other stuff
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