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This is on the PC Authority (Australian PC Magazine) site:

"The Freerip 2.931 application, featured in the Multimedia section of the
May 2005 disc 1 has been
discovered to install Download.Trojan. The application also gives you the
option to install Comedy-Planet
which also installs Trojan.dropper. We advise that you do not install
Freerip 2.931 or any of its components."

http://www.pcauthority.com.au/

FWIIW

"tiddlywink" <tbra at hyper dot net dot nz> wrote in
news:42760a80$:

> PC Authority:
>
> "The Freerip 2.931 application, featured in the Multimedia section
> of the May 2005 disc 1

Thanks for the alert.

--
dee

"tiddlywink" <tbra at hyper dot net dot nz> wrote in message
news:42760a80$...
> This is on the PC Authority (Australian PC Magazine) site:
>
> "The Freerip 2.931 application, featured in the Multimedia section of the
> May 2005 disc 1 has been
> discovered to install Download.Trojan. The application also gives you the
> option to install Comedy-Planet
> which also installs Trojan.dropper. We advise that you do not install
> Freerip 2.931 or any of its components."
>
> http://www.pcauthority.com.au/
>
> FWIIW

I found most 'free' software applications to be shite. It is either
severely disabled or just not very good . But, fair enough, you get what you
pay for.

Anyone care to differ?

"JedMeister" <> wrote in
news:BqAde.3180$:

> I found most 'free' software applications to be shite. It is either
> severely disabled or just not very good . But, fair enough, you get
> what you pay for.
>
> Anyone care to differ?

'Most' - yes I agree.

Definitely not all though!


Here are some 'free' software applications that are definitely not shite:
Virtual Dub
XNews.
Ad-Aware
Spybot Search & Destroy
AVG7 Free
Winzip
Winamp
IrfanView
Mozilla
Firefox
RNameIt
QuickPar
MPlayer is my favourite media player
Xplorer2 Lite
Zone Alarm
Kerio
GSpot
Starter
The virus removal tools available from Symantec
OpenOffice.org
And heaps more.


Yeah, I know there are hundreds of shite applications for each good
application I can list. But my point is that there are some damn good apps
out there which are free (free for personal use anyway).




--
Mark Heyes (New Zealand)
See my pics at www.gigatech.co.nz (last updated 3-May-05)
"There are 10 types of people, those that
understand binary and those that don't"

On Tue, 03 May 2005 02:04:27 GMT, MarkH <> wrote:

>And heaps more...
Free Agent
Eudora
CutePDF Writer...

On Tue, 03 May 2005 16:06:46 +1200, Me <> wrote in
<news: >:

> On Tue, 03 May 2005 02:04:27 GMT, MarkH <> wrote:
>
>>And heaps more...
> Free Agent
> Eudora
> CutePDF Writer...

Pricelessware is "The best of the best in Freeware as determined by the
readers of alt.comp.freeware".

Pricelessware information:
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org
http://www.woundedmoon.org/PL/ (mirror)


--
Regards,
Nicolaas.

2005 Pricelessware CD now available.
E-Mail me for details: - mention CD in subject.



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"MarkH" <> wrote in message
news:L_Ade.1809486$...
> "JedMeister" <> wrote in
> news:BqAde.3180$:
>
>> I found most 'free' software applications to be shite. It is either
>> severely disabled or just not very good . But, fair enough, you get
>> what you pay for.
>>
>> Anyone care to differ?
>
> 'Most' - yes I agree.
>
> Definitely not all though!
>
>
> Here are some 'free' software applications that are definitely not shite:
> Virtual Dub
> XNews.
> Ad-Aware
> Spybot Search & Destroy
> AVG7 Free
> Winzip
> Winamp
> IrfanView
> Mozilla
> Firefox
> RNameIt
> QuickPar
> MPlayer is my favourite media player
> Xplorer2 Lite
> Zone Alarm
> Kerio
> GSpot
> Starter
> The virus removal tools available from Symantec
> OpenOffice.org
> And heaps more.
>
>
> Yeah, I know there are hundreds of shite applications for each good
> application I can list. But my point is that there are some damn good
> apps
> out there which are free (free for personal use anyway).
>
>
>
>
> --
> Mark Heyes (New Zealand)
> See my pics at www.gigatech.co.nz (last updated 3-May-05)
> "There are 10 types of people, those that
> understand binary and those that don't"
>

I don't know/need 1/2 those things on your list - but, winzip is not really
free is it? They ask you to pay something but noone actually does.

"Jedmeister" <> wrote in
news:B2Ede.3267$:

>> Here are some 'free' software applications...

> winzip is
> not really free is it? They ask you to pay something but noone
> actually does.

It's payware AFAIK (http://www.winzip.com/ seems to say it still
is). - Although, he did type 'free' in single quotation marks.


--
dee

Jedmeister wrote:

>
>
> I don't know/need 1/2 those things on your list - but, winzip is not really
> free is it? They ask you to pay something but noone actually does.

Speak for yourself, it is a very useful and even essential program. I
was happy to pay for it.

Jerry

"Jerry" <> wrote in message
news:42773003$...
> Jedmeister wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I don't know/need 1/2 those things on your list - but, winzip is not
>> really free is it? They ask you to pay something but noone actually does.
>
> Speak for yourself, it is a very useful and even essential program. I was
> happy to pay for it.
>
> Jerry

I agree, congrats!!