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Software Reviews

by tarzanna

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.

HDD Thermometer
  • Freeware
  • Win98/ME/2000/XP/Vista

qleft  Handy little utility  qright

HDD Thermometer version 1.3 beta
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 3
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 4

If you're solely interested in monitoring your HD's temperature, this program does the trick. Clean, intuitive interface with useful (and customizable) audio warnings when the temperature reaches a certain point. There are other programs which do the same and also offer additional statistics (which is why I only gave the 'features' rating a 'good') - but for a temp-only tool, this program is great. The mandatory free registration is annoying, but aside from that - I've no complaints.

    Review date: Dec 26, 2005

avast! Home Edition
  • Freeware
  • Win98/ME/2000/XP/Vista

qleft  Needs a scheduler but great aside from that  qright

avast! Home Edition version 4.6.744
  • Interface: 3
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 4

I decided to test this program out after exclusively using AVGFree for the last year or so. It is very robust and thorough - however, my only complaint is that the free version doesn't allow you to schedule virus scans. Not a big deal if you can remember to manually run scans a few times a week. The default interface is quite ugly - but this is easily remedied by using a different skin (my personal favorite is the MacLover skin). Due to the lack of automatic scheduling, I haven't decided if I'll keep this as my default anti-virus scanner over AVG (which also has an ugly UI but at least has a scheduler). Even so, I'd highly recommend this program to anyone who doesn't mind the absence of a scheduling feature and wants a reliable (and best of all, free!) anti-virus program.

    Review date: Dec 26, 2005

SpamBayes
  • Freeware
  • Win98/ME/2000/XP

qleft  Catches 99% of my spam  qright

SpamBayes version 1.04
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

Have been using this program for about two weeks now. After organizing my mail folders in order to "teach" the program how to differentiate between good and bad mail - this program has been incredibly reliable in filtering out my high flow of spam. Very few mistakes since I've configured it (before configuration, or rather, out of the box, it flagged almost everything as spam). I'm very impressed with this program, especially given that it is freeware. Highly recommend.

    Review date: Dec 26, 2005

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