Windows Live Messenger

Windows Live Messenger combines the ability to chat with one or more friends online for fun, work, or both with voice, calling, video conference, gaming, and mailing functions. The program has not changed much from the previous versions in its core, but adds a great array of new features that the user can surely benefit from.

Yahoo! Messenger

Enjoy the best experience in instant messaging, having all your friends in just one window, no matter if they use Yahoo! Messenger or Windows Live Mesenger, making worldwide phone calls, to another PC or to a regular or mobile phone, playing games, listening music, sharing documents at the easiest way possible. This program is available in several languages.

Skype

Skype is an excellent piece of software that allows the user to call any other PC for free, or any phone number for a small fee. The call quality is remarkable, even on slow Internet connections. End-to-end encryption makes it safe to talk. Skype also offers instant messaging, conference and file transfer functions, and is available for multiple platforms.

avast! Antivirus

This Antivirus comes in two flavors: Professional Edition and Home Edition. The Home Edition is FREE for non-commercial home use. This program protects you from viruses and spyware and includes several modules like Instant Messaging, Internet Mail, Network Shield, Outlook Exchange, P2P Shield, Standard Shield and Web Shield.

Google Talk

Google Talk 1.0 is an instant messaging client for Windows. Additionally, it offers free PC-to-PC voice calls, the ability to send and receive voicemails (If the person you're calling isn't available), file transfers, and gmail notifications on your desktop for new messages in your email inbox.

Messenger Plus! Live

Messenger Plus! Live adds many interesting features to your Windows Live Messenger. It allows you to change the color and format of the text of your messages, send funny sounds to your contacts, personalize your status and many other things. Download Messenger Plus! Live and customize your Windows Live Messenger.

Messenger Plus! Live & Sponsor (CiD)

Messenger Plus! Live adds many interesting features to your Windows Live Messenger. It allows you to change the color and format of the text of your messages, send funny sounds to your contacts, personalize your status and many other things. Download Messenger Plus! Live and customize your Windows Live Messenger. It's completely free!

ICQ

ICQ lets you send and view instant messages directly from within your Contact List or from the message notification. You can manage all of your conversations in a single message window. Besides, you can send your friends an SMS from your PC with ICQ. Your friends can SMS back from their mobile directly to your ICQ message window.

MSN

Microsoft Network launched its latest version of chat messenger on 18th September 2008.This version is better than others as it has option of mail filter and other security options like hiding your images.It shows how much storage is available in the messenger window itself.

Norton AntiVirus

Norton AntiVirus 2008 is a powerful, yet easy to use suite which offers a solid protection against viruses, spyware, phishing websites and many other Internet threats. The program works quietly in the background detecting and eliminating viruses, spyware and Internet worms. It also protects your computer against hackers and blocks identity theft by phishing websites.

CyberLink YouCam

YouCam is the perfect companion for your online video chats with great effects to make your conversations even more funnier. With YouCam you can show your feelings instantly with animated emotion effects, apply charming filters or frames for a conversation with a theme, and mix in silly distortions to make you appear bigger, thinner or just weird.

Camfrog Video Chat

Camfrog Video Chat is a program which allows you to access one of the biggest chat communities on the Internet. With millions of registered users, you'll find that Camfrog Video Chat is a fast, fun, easy to use video chat community. Enter a chat room, create one or search for new friends and read, listen and see what they're up to!

Xfire

Xfire is an instant messenger application for Windows. Unlike instant messaging giants like MSN or Yahoo!, this application is targeted at gamers. It is a simple application that does without all the unnecessary features of those messengers. The main window has information that resembles the friends tab of Xbox Live!

AIM 6

AIM is an instant messaging program by America Online. With this program, you can talk to as many people as you want, and all of the tabs just appear on one window for each person you’re talking to. You also can see when your buddies are typing, when they are away, when they have sent you a message or when they have signed off.

ooVoo

ooVoo is the next evolution in online communication — a remarkably easy way to have a face-to-face video chat with friends, family or colleagues, no matter where they are in the world. ooVoo has many great features — from video calls with up to six people at once to video messaging to chat and file transfer capabilities.

iMesh

iMesh 7.2 is a music and video MP3, mid, wma,etc. files search and download utility for peer to peer safe transfers. It automatically looks for new resources when the user selects "Search". The search process can be selected: Music only, Music and Video, Video only. In addition, the search can be done by the artist name, song or video tittle or both.

Pidgin

Pidgin is a great IM program available both in Linux and Windows. With this program you can chat with all your contacts, no matter the IM network: MSN, Jabber/XMPP, ICQ, Yahoo, AIM...you just set up all your accounts, and a few seconds later, you are able to send messages (and files in some cases) with everyone.

Window Washer

Windows Washer 6.5 is a complete tool for cleaning the system up, by removing all the unused parts of previous programs uninstallations, that might have left behind unnecessary trails. It cleans history and cache from Internet Explorer, Start Menu and Directory recent activity, Instant Messaging activuty, Windows Disk Error Temp Files, Windows Document History, Windows Temporary Files, etc.

Panda Antivirus 2008

Panda is one of the lightest and cheapest protection software against viruses and spyware available in the market.However, its protection leaves a lot to be desired. In testing, its anti-spyware performance was not so good as other programs, but if you're a not a heavy internet user it may work for you.