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by John48
The reviews and opinions below are posted by SnapFiles visitors. They do not necessarily reflect our opinion, and are solely based on the experience of individual users.
- Freeware
Vista/2008 Server
Improved but problematical... 
Internet Explorer version 7.0
- Interface: 2
- Features: 2
- Ease of use: 2
- Value: 2
- Overall:
It's an improvement over it's predecessor but , having installed it , I had problems with most of my third party software which have automatic updating facilities. They no longer update , usually claiming that there is no internet connection when there definitely is. These include Superantispyware , AISBackup , Registry Tweaker , CloneCD. Since these are more important to me than a relatively poor browser , I uninstalled IE7and everything is fine again. IE7 is still not as good in either facilities or performance as most of the popular "competition".
Review date: Nov 09, 2006
- Freeware
- 98/ME/2000/XP
Does what it says...easily
ProxySwitcher Lite version 2.3
- Interface: 4
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
Small program , very easy to use , uses hardly any resources and simply does what it says. Useful if placed as a button on your browser rather than keeping loaded.
Review date: Oct 21, 2004
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Brilliant browser
Maxthon version 0.9.27
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 3
- Value: 5
- Overall:
Recently evaluated the main competition...Avant and SlimBrowser anyway. This one seems much better featured (particularly proxy , sidebar and utility addition features). Performs well and not yet had any problems. The major problem is the total lack of any sort of user manual and whilst most of the parameters are obvious , some are not.
Review date: Oct 06, 2004
- Free Trial ($45.00)
- Win (All)
Shame about the size restriction
Cryptainer PE version 4.1.3
- Interface: 5
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 4
- Overall:
Excellent product , but the LE version has the restriction of 20mb per volume although any number of 20Mb volumes can be created. If you want a bigger size than this have a look at TrueCrypt (not yet on WebAttack) which is at least as good and has no restrictions.
Review date: Jul 21, 2004
- Freeware
- 98/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
Excellent free antivirus
avast! Home Edition version 4.1.412
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
Having used AVG for several years I had not intended changing from it until the update system started to fail and they were not interested in resolving it. I changed to Avast and only regret wasting those years with AVG. Updates/VDB's are produced very frequently are seamlessly downloaded when the system detects them. There's also a useful news/alert box to keep the user informed of potential dangers. Has a virus recovery database so you can restore files if you get a virus. Also useful is the free cleaning tool (aswlclnr) which can be downloaded from the web site.
Review date: Jul 21, 2004
- Freeware
- 98/ME/2000/XP
Good solid performer
MyPopupKiller version 1.23
- Interface: 4
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 3
- Value: 5
- Overall:
Very small download , installation defaults are OK , but plenty of options for later. Very effective and configurable. I've tried most of the 5* rated competition , but prefer this one. Hardly any resources used when running. It could benefit from a few additions such as an auto update feature and popup log, but hopefully they will come soon. I find it useful to use CustomiseIE from the same author so I can control it from the IE Toolbar easily.
Review date: Jul 17, 2004
A powerful monitoring solution to record PC activity, including keystrokes, email and more.
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