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well you can download this yourself. www.zonealarm.com. It's a great firewall when you consider the price, FREE.

Regarding stuff in the mail, the best just have to be those adorable AOL FREE 400 HOURS cd's. Everyone loves those!
They make great coasters.

Why get it in the mail when you can download it today at simtel.com or freefiles.com ?
Turn in a search in yahoo for freeware and you'll get all kinds of hits.

The 'best' overall free software package is a somewhat subjective topic.

I have several CDs worth of 'freeware' on my hard drive.

Among my favorites:
Open Office www.openoffice.org
AdAware www.lavasoft.de
Mozilla www.mozilla.org
k-meleon http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/

I have several Image viewers / editors
MP3 and other audio applications.
Pages of utilities

My favorite sources for 'freeware' are;
www.completelyfreesoftware.com
www.nonags.com

If you wish to, I could burn a few onto a CD for you.
You can contact me, and send me land mail address via the peer directory.

Chas

I have Changed my mind. the points will go to the person who can give me or show me where to get the best free firewall software.

I like the outpost firewall which has a free version available from www.download.com (and other download sites) but the 'Best' firewall is subjective, well all like something different.

Try it and let me know if you like it.

go here. http://jupsoft.host.sk/fosi/

I have a utility which repairs & compacts access databases up to access' 97 without you having to open Access and manually selecting .mdb files for repair and then manually selecting them for compacting. "So what" you may think, well, there's more. You can also repair & compact all mdb files within a directory (including sub directories) or just in that directory. It will also make a copy of all repaired mdbs before compacting and make the mdb readily available for use. To be precise, you only need to click the mouse between 4 & 5 times to repair & compact 1 to several thousand access databases within a one tree structure.

If by "best" you mean the software that will make your machine subject to the least ammount of exploitation, Download Red Hat Linux. Problems solved. www.redhat.com

Don't think this will get the points, but it certainly is the best free software/firewall (you can make a linux box nothing but a firewall).

Joe

BlackIce http://blackice.iss.net/ Does some stuff that ZoneAlarm.

Zonealarm is worth looking at if you can get v2.6. In my experience V3 and later are a little flaky in basic and pro versions.

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