Recommended Standard Applications 2015 V1.2

Recommended Standard Applications 2015 v1.2

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Table of Contents Adobe Flash Player ...... 2 Java Runtime Environment ...... 2 VLC media player ...... 2 7-Zip File Manager ...... 2 Foxit PDF Reader ...... 3 Printing to PDF ...... 3 Adobe Acrobat Reader ...... 3 PDFCreator ...... 3 Printing to PDF ...... 4 KeePass ...... 4 FireFox & FireFox Addons ...... 4 Recommended FireFox Addons ...... 5 Adblock Plus ...... 5 Adblock Plus Pop-up Addon ...... 5 OpenWith ...... 5 RefControl ...... 5 KeeFox ...... 5 CCleaner (Not free for Commercial Use) ...... 6 BleachBit ...... 6 Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (Not free for Commercial Use) ...... 6 SUPERAntiSpyware ...... 6 Microsoft Security Essentials / Windows Defender ...... 7 Avast! (Not free for Commercial Use)...... 7 LibreOffice ...... 7

Adobe Flash Player http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer

The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications, and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool. Flash Player was created by Macromedia and now developed and distributed by Adobe Systems after its acquisition.

Java Runtime Environment http://www.java.com/en

Java is a programming language and computing platform. It is the underlying technology that powers state-of-the-art programs including utilities, games, and business applications. Java runs on more than 850 million personal computers worldwide, and on billions of devices worldwide, including mobile and TV devices. There are lots of applications and websites that won't work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!

VLC media player http://www.videolan.org

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. It’s simple, fast and a very powerful media player that plays everything: Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams. It plays most codecs with no codec packs needed: (MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3...) It runs on all platforms: (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix...) It can even do media conversion and streaming.

7-Zip File Manager http://www.7-zip.org

7-Zip is a free and open source file archiver with a high compression ratio.

 High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression  Supported formats: o Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM o Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR and Z.  For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip  Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats  Self-extracting capability for 7z format  Integration with Windows Shell  Powerful File Manager

Foxit PDF Reader http://www.foxitsoftware.com/Secure_PDF_Reader

The Foxit Reader is a small, fast, and feature rich PDF viewer which allows you to open, view, and print any PDF file. Unlike other free PDF readers, Foxit Reader also includes easy to use collaboration features like the ability to add annotations to PDF, fill out PDF forms, and share information with social networks. Foxit Reader has a small footprint that starts up instantly, renders PDF files quickly and uses very little memory, which is especially important with today's mobile devices. The Foxit Reader is packed full of convenient and easy to use viewing, commenting and printing features that make document collaboration simple. Foxit Reader's PDF secure platform insures worry free operation against malicious virus and provides a secure and reliable digital signature verification platform for PDF documents without putting the user at risk from falsified documents. Foxit PDF Reader also comes with a PDF Printer that allows you to print any document to the PDF Printer and save it as a PDF File.

Printing to PDF

Adobe Acrobat Reader http://get.adobe.com/reader

Adobe Reader software is the free trusted standard for reliably viewing, printing, and annotating PDF documents. It's the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all types of PDF content, including forms and multimedia. Adobe Reader does not come with a PDF Printer to create PDF Documents by printing to a PDF Printer. For that reason, PDFCreator is usually coupled with installs of Adobe Acrobat Reader to provide the extra functionality.

PDFCreator http://www.pdfforge.org

PDFCreator is a free and open source application that can create PDF files from just about any program that prints using windows printers. With PDFCreator you can:

 Create PDF's from just about any program that prints using Windows printers.  Create documents in the following formats: Portable Document Format PDF, PNG, JPEG, BMP, PCX, TIFF, Postscript (PS), Encapsulated Postscript (EPS), Text, Adobe Photoshop (PSD), PCL, RAW and SVG (experimental).  Combine multiple documents into one PDF.  Password protect and apply up to 128 bit encryption to your PDF documents.

 Automatically save PDF documents with current settings without being prompted for information

Creating a PDF with PDFCreator couldn't be easier. Just follow the steps below and you will be creating PDF's in no time. There are five ways to create PDF in PDFCreator: Printing, Drag and Drop, Document Adding, Command Line, and via Windows Explorer.

Printing to PDF

1. Open the document you wish to convert into a PDF in its default application. 2. Print the document as you would on a standard printer. 3. When the print dialog appears, change the printer from your default printer to the PDFCreator printer. If the PDFCreator printer is your default printer, you do not have to change it. Then click OK. 4. Another window will appear asking you to fill in some information to create your PDF. Click on the Save button to pick the location where you want to save the PDF or click the Waiting button to create the PDF at a later time. Note: This is also the location where you can specify what format you want to save the document in. You can save in PDF, PNG, JPEG, BMP, PCX, TIFF, PS, and EPS format. 5. If you selected Save, your PDF will be created and opened up in your default PDF viewer. If you selected Waiting, the PDFCreator Print Monitor will open up with the document in the queue.

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KeePass http://www.keepass.info

Today you need to remember many passwords. You need a password for the Windows network logon, your e-mail account, your website's FTP password, online passwords (like website member account), etc. etc. etc. The list is endless. Also, you should use different passwords for each account. Because if you use only one password everywhere and someone gets this password you have a problem... A serious problem. The thief would have access to your e-mail account, website, etc. Unimaginable.

KeePass is a free and open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key file. So you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish). For more information, see the features page on the KeePass website.

FireFox & FireFox Addons http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox

Firefox is the highly popular free web browser that more than 450 million people worldwide are using to surf and interact with the Internet. Firefox is available for Linux, Mac, Windows, and handheld devices, and in more than 70 different languages.

Firefox is faster than Internet Explorer which means that you don't waste time waiting for web pages to load. With a strong focus on your online security, Firefox helps to protect your personal information and activities from being seen and exploited while you surf the Internet.

Firefox is well known for being the most customizable web browser. With a selection of more than 8,000 free add-ons on the Firefox Add-ons site, you can customize Firefox to have it look the way that you want, and function the way that you want. Millions have stopped using Internet Explorer, and those who have tried other browsers (Chrome, Opera, etc) have switched to Firefox for these reasons and for many more that you'll discover along the way.

Recommended FireFox Addons

Adblock Plus Adblock Plus allows you to regain control of the internet and view the web the way you want to. The add-on is supported by over forty filter subscriptions in dozens of languages which automatically configure it for purposes ranging from removing online advertising to blocking all known malware domains. Adblock Plus also allows you to customize your filters with the assistance of a variety of useful features, including a context option for images, a block tab for Flash and Java objects, and a list of blockable items to remove scripts and stylesheets.

Adblock Plus Pop-up Addon By default, Firefox or Adblock Plus doesn't block any pop-ups that are opened on mouse clicks or other user events. This addon complements Adblock Plus with the pop-up blocking functionality.

OpenWith While Firefox should be used 99.99% of the time, there are those moments when some websites are only able to be viewed properly in Internet Explorer. This extension displays a list of your browsers on your menus and toolbars in Firefox. Clicking on them takes you to the page you're looking at in the browser of your choice. Open With will attempt to find other browsers on your system.

RefControl RefControl is an extension for Firefox that lets you control what gets sent as the HTTP Referer on a per- site basis. This is mostly useful for privacy. Perhaps you think webmasters don't have any business knowing where you found the link to their site. The default configuration of RefControl is to not send the referrer to any site except for ones you explicitly list.

KeeFox KeeFox adds free, secure and easy to use password management features to Firefox which save you time and keep your private data more secure. Login automatically, never forget another password, stay in control of your passwords and improve their security.

Here are just some of the reasons to use KeeFox:

 Secure and automatic login to all your favourite websites, even for sites with multiple login “steps” or pages  Your passwords stay under your control, protected by the respected KeePass Password Safe application and available to all applications on your computer  Start using more secure passwords and let KeeFox remember them for you

One of the great benefits of KeeFox over similar password managers is the link to KeePass which allows you to manage more than just web site passwords. For example, you could store PIN numbers, WiFi access codes, credit card details, secret notes and even small documents alongside your website passwords. You can access your passwords on many different platforms including Mac, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Android and Linux.

CCleaner (Not free for Commercial Use) https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

CCleaner is a system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run).

BleachBit http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net

BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn't know was there. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean a thousand applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, and more. Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster. Better than free, BleachBit is open source.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (Not free for Commercial Use) https://www.malwarebytes.org

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware's industry-leading scanner detects and removes malware like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, spyware, and more. All you have to do is launch Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and run a scan. It's that simple. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is not meant to be a replacement for antivirus software. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a complementary but essential program which detects and removes zero-day malware and "Malware in the Wild".

SUPERAntiSpyware http://www.superantispyware.com

SUPERAntiSpyware is the most thorough scanner on the market. Our Multi-Dimensional Scanning and Process Interrogation Technology will detect spyware that other products miss! SUPERAntiSpyware will remove Spyware, NOT just the easy ones! Quick, Complete and Custom Scanning of Hard Drives, Removable Drives, Memory, Registry, Individual Folders and More! Includes Trusting Items and Excluding Folders for complete customization of scanning! Detect and Remove Spyware, Adware, Malware, Trojans, Dialers, Worms, KeyLoggers, HiJackers and many other types of threats. SUPERAntiSpyware features our unique Process Interrogation Technology (PIT) that allows threats to be detected no matter where they are hiding on your system. Many new types of threats utilize "Rootkits" or "Kernel Drivers" to hide themselves to avoid detection by standard anti-spyware applications. SUPERAntiSpyware's Process Interrogation Technology locates even the toughest of threats.

Microsoft Security Essentials / Windows Defender http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials

Microsoft Security Essentials is Microsoft’s Antivirus and Anti-Malware program. It has Real-time protection against spyware, viruses, rootkits, and other malicious software. Windows Defender for Windows 8.1 provides built-in protection against malware just like Microsoft Security Essentials, but goes 1 step further providing enhanced protection against rootkits and bootkits. You can't use Microsoft Security Essentials with Windows 8.1, but you don't need to — Windows Defender is already included and ready to go.

Avast! (Not free for Commercial Use) http://www.avast.com

An alternative Antivirus to Microsoft’s basic offering, we give you full-featured antivirus for free. You help us with free word-of-mouth advertising and quicker discovery of new viruses. Together, it makes us the most popular antivirus in the world. Intelligent antivirus & anti-malware Detects threats no one has even heard of yet. Home Network Security Scan your home network for weak spots. Browser Cleanup Get rid of annoying browser add-ons.

LibreOffice http://www.libreoffice.org

LibreOffice is a powerful Free & Open Source office suite; its clean interface and powerful tools let you unleash your creativity and grow your productivity. LibreOffice embeds several applications that make it the most powerful Free & Open Source Office suite on the market: Writer, the word processor, Calc, the spreadsheet application, Impress, the presentation engine, Draw, our drawing and flowcharting application, Base, our database and database frontend, and Math for editing mathematics. It can open and save Microsoft Office documents so if you can’t afford or don’t want to afford Microsoft Office, you can still get a fully functional Office Productivity suite.