Malwarebytes 3 is the next generation of the popular malware killer, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.

The product is a combination of every Malwarebytes technology, including anti-malware, anti-exploit, anti-ransomware, web protection and more.

The interface is straightforward and familiar. A dashboard displays your current status, you can launch a scan with a click, and most of the time there's nothing else to do at all.

This doesn't mean you won't notice any changes. Despite all the extra technologies, for instance, Malwarebytes says system scans are now 3x to 4x faster.

Experienced users will also find an array of options, switches and settings to help tweak the program.

To take a single example, you don't just have an option to turn the anti-exploit on or off. You can also configure 6 separate six component technologies (DEP, anti-heapspraying, ASLR, more), eight memory protection methods, five application behaviour checks, five Java technologies, and individually define the types of apps where each of these will be used (browsers, Office, PDF readers, media players, more).

Please note, this version willl automatically update any existing Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, Anti-Exploit and Anti-Ransomware installations to a 14-day trial of Malwarebytes 3.0.

What's new in 3.2 (see changelog for more)?

- Improved memory usage
- Reinstalling with an older installer will no longer downgrade update packages
- Improved self-protection module stability and resiliency
- Numerous enhanced malware protection techniques and remediation capabilities

Malwarebytes 3 is the next generation of the popular malware killer, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.

The product is a combination of every Malwarebytes technology, including anti-malware, anti-exploit, anti-ransomware, web protection and more.

The interface is straightforward and familiar. A dashboard displays your current status, you can launch a scan with a click, and most of the time there's nothing else to do at all.

This doesn't mean you won't notice any changes. Despite all the extra technologies, for instance, Malwarebytes says system scans are now 3x to 4x faster.

Experienced users will also find an array of options, switches and settings to help tweak the program.

To take a single example, you don't just have an option to turn the anti-exploit on or off. You can also configure 6 separate six component technologies (DEP, anti-heapspraying, ASLR, more), eight memory protection methods, five application behaviour checks, five Java technologies, and individually define the types of apps where each of these will be used (browsers, Office, PDF readers, media players, more).

Please note, this version willl automatically update any existing Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, Anti-Exploit and Anti-Ransomware installations to a 14-day trial of Malwarebytes 3.0.

What's new in 3.2 (see changelog for more)?

- Improved memory usage
- Reinstalling with an older installer will no longer downgrade update packages
- Improved self-protection module stability and resiliency
- Numerous enhanced malware protection techniques and remediation capabilities

SmartFTP is a fast and easy-to-use FTP client that will make quick work of all your file transfer tasks.

The program supports regular FTP connections, as well as FTP over SSL, SFTP over SSH, or TLS (FTPS) for extra security. And then SmartFTP follows a familiar two-pane approach, allowing you to browse your local system on the left-hand side, your server on the right, and transfer files between the two just by dragging and dropping.

Sometimes you may have a lot of files to upload, of course. SmartFTP helps out by compressing files on the fly to save time, but if that's not sufficient then you're also able to schedule transfers to run at a more convenient time. Or you can simply close SmartFTP for the moment, and it'll carry on from where you left off when you next launch the program.

If you have complex transfer needs then you can alternatively set up SmartFTP to keep specified local and remote folders synchronised. So there's no need to worry about locating particular files: SmartFTP itself will figure out what's changed, and upload everything that's necessary as quickly as possible. The program can even handle uploads to several servers in one click.

And there's support for editing files directly on the server, with whatever application is appropriate, which means that again you don't have to worry about manually downloading documents - SmartFTP handles everything in the background.

Please note, there are two SmartFTP editions available. The Ultimate edition has everything we've described here, includes a terminal emulator, Rapidshare and Amazon S3 support, and costs $99.95; the Professional edition is essentially what we've described, and costs $59.95.

What's new in v9 (see completely version history for more)?

- Windows 10 support for latest version

Windows Repair Toolbox is a small portable tool which makes it easier to find and fix many common Windows problems.

The program doesn't contain any real troubleshooting technology itself. Instead, it acts as a simple front end for various third-party utilities and Windows commands.

The Tools tab, for example, provides buttons for HWMonitor, HWiNFO, CPU-Z, GPU-Z, Ninite, PatchMyPC, Snappy Driver, Autoruns, Process Explorer, FixWin, Recuva, Geek Uninstaller, chkdsk, sfc, Regedit and more.

Windows Repair Toolbox doesn't come bundled with any of these, fortunately. Instead, when you click something like Recuva, the program goes online, downloads the correct portable edition for your operating system, then launches it for you.

The Malware Removal tab offers a little more functionality. As well as providing one-click access to many popular malware hunters - Emsisoft, Malwarebytes, Kaspersky, Microsoft, RKill, RogueKiller, AdwCleaner, Hitman Pro, more - you're able to run unattended fixes using multiple programs.

Other malware-related options include a selection of update links (Windows, Java, Flash, Adobe Reader), and a few cleanup and repair tools (CCleaner, WinRepairAIO).

A "Final Tests" tab provides speedy to some common system checks. Is Flash installed, or Java? Does your system open various common file types: Office, MP3, PDF, more? What's in your HOSTS file? Are your webcam and microphone working? The answers may be just a click or two away.

You're able to save notes relating to your actions, which might be useful if you regularly run the program on other people's systems, and there's even an option to email an activity log to your Gmail address.

Do you remember the days when music players just played music? It seems that they now want to show video, display lyrics, sell you CDs or tell you what else you should be listening to. When you start up Audacious your first thought will be "this is XMMS" (or WinAmp if you only recently moved from Windows). Audacious is a fork of BMP which in turn built on XMMS, so this is no great surprise.

While XMMS had its faults, its small interface was perfect if you just want to have audio playing in the background while doing something else (like writing a review of an audio player) instead of having the music player be the main event.

Audacious is fast and lightweight, but it still handles the core responsibilities of an audio player. It plays all popular formats, including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WAV, WMA, MIDI and a variety of MOD formats. IT also handles playlists in the standard WinAmp format, as used by just about everything. Plugins enable you to add features, like listening to Last.fm streams, adding visualisations, displaying the current track on an OSD, or shrinking everything down to an icon in the system tray.

Whether you are using a netbook or just don't want your audio to take over your computer just to play background music, Audacious is an excellent choice of player.

What's new in v3.9? See the changelog.

Bulk Image Downloader is a powerful program for batch downloading images. And that means no more tedious right-click, Save As, over and over and over again - just point the program at the URL of interest and it will locate and grab your photos in just a few clicks.

Bulk Image Downloader works almost everywhere. It understands all the main image hosting sites (flickr, imagevenue, imageshack and so on), and can download entire albums from social networks (Facebook, MySpace, tweetphoto.com, twitpic.com, more). Use it on web forums and it will automatically scan multi-page forum threads, extracting all the image links.

The program is smart, too. You won't end up with a folder full of thumbnails, at least some of the time - Bulk Image Downloader will usually detect and download full-sized photos only.

Despite the name, the program works with videos, too, and is able to grab clips from YouTube, Google Video, Daily Motion, MetaCafe and more.

Multi-threaded downloading means you can fetch up to 50 images at once. If you lose your internet connection, accidentally hit the power button or otherwise interrupt the program, then Bulk Image Downloader can resume its downloads when you restart. And if any of this doesn't work quite as you expect then a huge array of configuration options allow you to tweak the program to suit your needs.

5.11.0.0 changes (Version History):

- photobucket support updated
- imgsrc.ru support updated (first image on a page was not being detected due to it not containing a hyperlink)
- instagram support updated (BID will now automate the "Load More" button clicking before auto scrolling the page when loading)
- imgtaxi support added