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Sandra Coulter looks at
Windows Shareware Picks for December
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OptOut Kills the Aureate Trojan horse
- Now you can rid your system of the Aureate Trojan horse that transmits user info
and causes browser crashes. Aureate (AKA Radiate) silently installs itself along
with ordinary free software available on the Internet. It can then send personal
data about you via the Internet back to a master server and may remain active long
after the original software carrying it is removed. The Aureate company boasts that
over 400 software products include their technology. OptOut completely removes it.
See more details and a long list of affected software at the author's website.
Price: Free File Size: 31K System Requirements: Non-specific IBM/PC compatible -
Thanks to: Sandy Coulter for sending this in. File this one under:
OS: Security, backup Download it at: http://grc.com/files/optout.exe
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- CDML
Personal Calculator V.3
- Besides the functions of a standard calculator, the CDML Personal Calculator
provides users with the following features:
*A resizable Tape Display with user-selectable
fonts
* 7 Memory Functions
* 8 Financial Functions
* 9 conversion modes
* A Scientific Expression Evaluator
* A Calendar and Scratch Pad (editor)There
are also many Convenience Features, such as user-defined number of Decimal Places,
2 Percentage Calculation modes, and more.
__ The conversions come in handy when dealing with various
international and time standards. The financial functions make it easy to derive
various payments and dividends (i.e. Mortgage, credit cards, stocks, etc.). The scientific
expression evaluator helps to process advanced mathematical expressions and to print
them out with the result. The tape is useful for reviewing your work.
__ The tape can be searched, printed, annotated or published
to another program. The CDML Calculator uses minimum screen real estate. Supports
Always On Top and Tray and has complete On-Line help. Replace your Windows calculator
now!
File Size: 2.3MB, System Requirements: Required Configuration is Intel 80486 Windows
95 or higher., Price: FREE (for personal, non-commercial use only) - Thanks
to: Sandy Coulter for sending this in. File this one under: Personal Productivity
Download it at: www.cdml.com/files/calc/cdmlpclc.zip
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- ZoneAlarm
2.0
- This is totally FREE firewall software that is essential protection for DSL and
Cable modem users, but can offer protection to anyone, including AOL users. Zone
Alarm offers five critical security services for free:*
Firewall * Application Control
* Internet Lock *
Security Levels * Zones
__ This is free for personal and non-profit use and
requires Windows 95/98/NT/2000
__ Notes: This program works very well, but has some
minor bugs. It may cause your computer to hang or get the blue screen of death when
you shut down. Simply terminate Zone Alarm from the taskbar first and there should
be no problem. File Size: 1.5MB Price: FREE - File this one under:
OS: Security, backup Download it at: www.zonelabs.com/downloads/zonalm20.exe
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- EasyCleaner
cleans that Windows Registry
- EasyCleaner (version 1.7) is a small program which searches Windows' registry
for entries that are pointing nowhere. Deleting these entries will speed your computer
up. But as you already might know, deleting entries from registry can be dangerous
to your computer, so it is wise to make a backup of your registry. Deleting entries
which were pointing nowhere, speeded my computer up!
__ EasyCleaner also lets you delete all kinds of unnecessary
files like temps, backups etc. You can search for duplicate files and you can view
some interesting info about your disk space usage! And starting from version 1.7
deleting invalid shortcuts from start-menu is possible as well. ToniArts may not
be held accountable in any way if EasyCleaner affects your computer in a negative
way. Here is a list of some additional features:*
Very user friendly and customizable. *
Multi-language support! * Uses
very small amount of resources while running! *
Huge help file which gives you every little detail about EasyCleaner!
__ EasyCleaner is an self-extracting-EXE so, it won't
require any special programs. Just start EClea1_7.exe.
__ EasyCleaner has minimal requirements, it will work
almost in every machine that Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT is installed.
__ Notes: The author of EasyCleaner and owner of the
ToniArts company is a 15 year old boy named Toni Helenius from Finland. Considering
the high quality of this software and Toni's website, I find this fact amazing.
Price: FREE >File Size: 1.27 MB - File this one under: OS: Utility
Download it at: www.saunalahti.fi/tonihele/files/EClea1_7.exe
Special thanks to Sandra Coulter,
Rock Mug of NY, for helping put together this issue of the PCUG Shareware Manager.
Don't forget to join your fellow PC User Group officers each Sunday night at 10 PM
as Sandra moderates the AOL/PCUG CHAT. Visit Sandra at her web site: The Coulter Group
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