RegistryHeal.com has investigated the most downloaded free program on the Internet this week. Antivirus and file sharing is high on the list. Forbidden fruit tastes best "the old saying goes". That need not be the case with handy programs to your computer. There are a lot of really good programs to download which is completely free.

A constant question that many ask themselves how they can be free, just for free. There is no sensible person who wants to spend a lot of time to develop and maintain a program that you can not make money from?

The fact is that there are indeed a few non-profit souls who burn to develop good programs and do not care if they earn a penny at work. These are very rare and a dying species.

The new business model is to create two versions of a program. A version that is free and have limited functionality. Then there is usually a more advanced version with more features that users have to pay to download. There are many security programs like antivirus, antispyware and registry cleaner who uses this model.

RegistryHeal gives you a list of the free program downloaded most of the past week according to the web service Download.com.

1. AVG Anti-Virus
AVG Anti-virus has been involved for many years and is a really good anti-virus software. The program is located, and monitors your computer in the background and updated automatically to be able to find new viruses. The program has no limits as long as you are a home user.

2. Ad-Aware 2008
Malware is the English name of the program that only pretending to be an innocuous little programs that you can download at any site. The program is often a Trojan horse that collects information about your computer use and sell the information on to a third party. These programs are often poorly programmed and slows down your computer, or can even get it to crash. Ad-aware is a very good program to detect and stop these programs from invading your computer.

3. Limewire
Limewire is one of the most popular fildelningsprogrammen. We need enough not to make any deeper analysis of how these programs are used most often. Limewire is fast and easy to use. In addition, there are several different platforms such as Windows and Mac.

4. Avira Antivir Personal
Avira is just as the AVG anti-virus software. The interface is a little easier but the functions are basically the same. Which program that suits you is a matter of taste.


5 Avastar Home Edition
Avastar is also an anti-virus program like AVG and Avira above. The only difference is that the program looks a bit cooler and you can change the "skins" if you feel like it.

6. ICQ
Icq was the first and still is the highest among the independent chattprogrammen. Microsoft MSN has now taken a large share of the cake. Icq hold the fort well and offers a variety of functions such as videochat and other goodies. Unlike MSN, you can in Icq easily search for new friends all over the world.

7. Bitcomet
Bitcomet is one of the most popular programs for downloading and uploading a bittorrent files. Bitcomet is just like Limewire a file-sharing for the sharing of files to other users.

8. Frostwire
Frostwire is just like Bitcomet above a program to download bittorrent files. Which program is best is a matter of taste.

9. Mirc
Mirc is a client for chattprotocol irc. Irc used most of the really advanced desktop user, and perhaps none of the street. However, there are thousands of groups in various interest on irc where you can find like-minded.

10. Spybot
Spybot is just like Ad-Aware above a program to find spyware and other evil that can hide themselves on your hard drive. Spybot is anything less in their size, but has essentially the same functions as Ad-Aware.