Commonly Requested Applications

Adobe Acrobat Reader
Description: Free software for viewing and printing Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Adobe PDF files can be viewed on most major operating systems. Filesize: 14.69 MB

WinZip 9.0
Description: WinZip is the original and most popular of all Windows file compression utilities. In addition to basic zipping and unzipping, features include tight integration with Windows Explorer, support for most Internet file formats, advanced AES encryption, and much more. Filesize: 2.19 MB

Spyware

Ad-Aware - LavaSoft
Description: Ad-Aware is designed to provide advanced protection from known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components. With the release of Ad-Aware SE Personal edition, Lavasoft takes the fight against Spyware to the next level. Filesize: 2.48 MB

CWShredder
Description: A small utility for removing CoolWebSearch (aka CoolWwwSearch, YouFindAll, White-Pages.ws and a dozen other names). Spybot S&D and Ad-aware tend to forget essential parts of the hijack, so until they update, you can use this to completely remove the hijack. This program is updated to remove the new variants once they come out. Filesize: 130.86 Kb

HijackThis
Description: A general homepage hijackers detector and remover. Initially based on the article Hijacked!, but expanded with almost a dozen other checks against hijacker tricks. It is continually updated to detect and remove new hijacks. It does not target specific programs/URLs, just the methods used by hijackers to force you onto their sites. Filesize: 153.32 Kb

Spybot -Search & Destroy
Description: Spybot - Search & Destroy can detect and remove spyware of different kinds from your computer. Spyware is a kind of threat that most anti-virus applications do not cover. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you didn't intentionally install, if your browser crashes, or if you browser start page has changed without your knowing, you most probably have spyware. But even if you don't see anything, you may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging that is silently tracking your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile of you that will be sold to advertisement companies. Spybot-S&D is free, so there's no harm in trying to see if something snooped into your computer, too :) Filesize: 3.94 MB