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Software Reviews

by Mike98

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.

FileZilla
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/Vista

qleft  Works splendid  qright

FileZilla version 2.2.18
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

Due to connecting problems with SmartFTP, I had to find an other FTP program. Because of big size and positive reviews I decided to give FileZilla a try. I downloaded FilaZilla from his website and it installs and uninstalls easy. I never have had a better FTP program than FileZilla, because it has all the functions you need, is fast and works splendid.

    Review date: Feb 28, 2006

NVU
  • Freeware
  • WinWin (All)

qleft  Not usefull  qright

NVU version 1.0
  • Interface: 2
  • Features: 2
  • Ease of use: 1
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 2

Easy install and uninstall. Sometimes when you skip a line on a page when writing text, it is not visible after you send this page by FTP program on the web and no matter what you do you can not correct this.

    Review date: Feb 21, 2006

Windows Defender
  • Freeware
  • WinWin XP

qleft  No recommendation  qright

Windows Defender version BETA 2
  • Interface: 2
  • Features: 1
  • Ease of use: 1
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 2

Looks nice and simple. Uninstalls easy. I did have to look at the forum (and release notes) many times, because of problems of installation (error 1609) and updating not working after second install. The updates are not incremental and cannot be removed, so you loose a lot of space of your hard disc drive.

    Review date: Feb 17, 2006

Thunderbird
  • Freeware
  • Win98/ME/2000/XP/Vista

qleft  Second password needed  qright

Thunderbird version 1.06
  • Interface: 1
  • Features: 1
  • Ease of use: 1
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 2

Installs and uninstalls easy. Does receive e-mail. Does not send e-mail, because of second password needed for outcoming e-mail.

    Review date: Feb 02, 2006

Mozilla Firefox
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/2003/Vista

qleft  No replacement for ie  qright

Mozilla Firefox version 1.5
  • Interface: 1
  • Features: 1
  • Ease of use: 1
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 2

Pros: 1. Tabbed browsing 2. RSS reader 3. Blocks worms, virusses, spyware and adware 4. No support ActiveX 5. Print the whole page Cons: 1. Too many times a website not (correct) visible 2. Flash Player for Firefox doesn't work 3. Sometimes Firefox doesn't show the latest version of a website

    Review date: Feb 02, 2006

Spybot - S&D
  • Freeware
  • Win98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista

qleft  No permanent solution  qright

Spybot - S&D version 1.4
  • Interface: 2
  • Features: 1
  • Ease of use: 2
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 3

It finds and removes a lot of spyware and is easy to install and uninstall. It causes annoying pop-ups, that are not easy to stop, about register changes, when you change a setting of your Windows or install/uninstall a new program.

    Review date: Sep 12, 2005

Avira AntiVir Personal
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/Vista

qleft  Good product, but...  qright

Avira AntiVir Personal version 6.31.00.03
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 3
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 4

Excellent detection, removing and blocking of viruses. I downloaded AntiVir from their website, because that is with uninstaller. AntiVir makes the internet connection window come up slower and sometimes slows down internet browsing. The updates are often, but takes a lot of time downloading even with the new Beta version.

    Review date: Sep 12, 2005

ZoneAlarm
  • Freeware
  • WinXP/Vista

qleft  Often internet loss  qright

ZoneAlarm version 5.5
  • Interface: 1
  • Features: 1
  • Ease of use: 1
  • Value: 1
  • Overall: 1

Easy to uninstall via the control panel. I think, that the fact, that ZoneAlarm has earned the Designed for Microsoft Windows XP Logo is fairly overrated. This firewall blocks admittance to too many websites and is therefore complete useless for the normal use of the internet.

    Review date: Aug 09, 2005

Ad-Aware Free
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/Vista

qleft  A valuable tool  qright

Ad-Aware Free version 1.06 SE Pers.
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

Ad-Aware SE Personal 1.06 and Spybot-Search&Destroy 1.4 form a great team to fight spyware on your computer. Before these I used Microsoft AntiSpyware, but I was forced to find other, because I don't have English Windows version. Lucky these two find and remove more spyware than MSAS alone. If you don't have Windows XP SP2 (=with ActiveX blocker) you might consider to download SpywareBlaster 3.4. These three (without MSAS) work together excellent without errors, problems or other conflicts and can be uninstalled without rests via control panel if you are not satisfied, which I don't think, because these three are the best free alternative for MSAS.

    Review date: Aug 09, 2005

CAM unzip
  • Freeware
  • WinWin (All)

qleft  Excellent software  qright

CAM unzip version 4.0
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

It is free and easy to use, even for a beginner. A perfect solution if you don't have Windows XP (XP's Unzip/Zip Utility).

    Review date: Aug 08, 2005

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