The award-winning AVG has always been one of the lighter Anti-Virus (AV) applications. Now version 8 has been made avail-able for Public Beta. The Profes-sional upgrade includes compo-nents like Web shield, Link scanner and Anti-Rootkit. Possiout prior installation, can use skins, is highly customizable, and

uses very little memory due to its minimalist design. The current builds of Miranda transfer files well, but Audio and Video chatting isn't supported yet.

bly the only AV to reduce system requirements while others increase it, this version features a new scanning engine with improved detection capabilities,and automatic proxy server detection for updates. It also has improved support for sched-uled tasks.
In a world of instant communication via multiple protocols, using a single instant messenger might seem a little outdated. Miranda 1M lets you connect to multiple services such as MSN, Yahoo!, Gtalk, IRC, AIM, ICO simultaneously. It can be run directly with- out prior installation, can use skins, is highly customizable, and uses very little memory due to its minimalist design. The current builds of Miranda transfer files well, but Audio and Video chatting isn't supported yet. bly the only AV to reduce system requirements while others increase it, this version features a new scanning engine with improved detection capabilities, and automatic proxy server detection for updates. It also has improved support for sched-uled tasks.

uTorrent 1.8 build 7928 Alpha
This efficient little BitTorrent cli-ent packs in even more features and bug-fixes in this version. It
has advanced functionality like the webUI, which lets you login

with a password to access and control the running list of tor-rents from anywhere on the web. Some internal changes have been made as well, allowing for better operation of uTorrent under WINE on Linux. Labels and RSS feeds continue to be



In a world of instant communication via multiple protocols, using a single instant messenger might seem a little outdated. Miranda 1M lets you connect to multiple services such as MSN, Yahoo!, Gtalk, IRC, AIM, ICO simultaneously. It can be run directly with improved upon, and torrent details are broken into the new tabs that make an appearance in this version (Transfer and Trackers).

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