Welcome to Daily Downloads brought to you by CyberNet! Each weekday we bring you the Windows software updates for widely used programs, and it’s safe to assume that all the software we list is freeware (we’ll try to note the paid-only programs).
As you browse the Internet during the day, feel free to post the software updates you come across in the comments below so that we can include them the following day!
–Stable Releases–
The software listed here have all been officially released by the developers.
- Comodo 3.0.15.277 [Homepage] [Release Notes] [Mirror] [Review]
Type of Application: Personal firewall
Changes: Fixed the bug causing Windows Updates to fail in Windows Vista and fixed the bug causing Windows to show “Access Denied” message while deleting a folder - Miro 1.1 [Homepage] [Release Notes] [Mirror] [Review]
Type of Application: Video streaming and downloading
Changes: Drastically improved torrent downloading performance and get combined search results from 5 different engines - Notepad++ 4.7.4 [Homepage] [Release Notes] [Mirror] [Review]
Type of Application: Text editor
Changes: Bug fixes - Paint.NET 3.22 [Homepage] [Release Notes] [Mirror] [Review]
Type of Application: Image editor
Changes: New “Reduce Noise” effect, and bug fixes
–Pre-Releases (Alpha, Beta, etc…)–
The software listed here are pre-releases that may not be ready for everyday usage.
- Opera 9.5.9735 [Homepage] [Release Notes] [Review]
Release: Post-Beta
Type of Application: Web browser
Changes: Bug fixes
–Release Calendar–
- Early 2008 – Vista SP1 [Review]
- Early 2008 – Internet Explorer 8 Beta [Review]
- Early 2008 – XP SP3 [Review]
- January – PhraseExpress 5 [Review]
- January 15 – Mac Office 2008 [Review]
- January 31 – Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 4
- February – iPhone SDK [Review]
- February – Deskscapes 2.0 [Review]
- February 27 – Windows Server 2008 [Review]
- March – WordPress 2.5 [Review]
- March 4 – OpenOffice.org 2.4
- April 24 – Ubuntu 8.04
- September 2 – OpenOffice.org 3.0 [Review]
- 2009 – Windows Mobile 7 [Review]
- 2009 – Paint.NET 4.00 [Review]
- 2010 – Windows 7 [Review]
Thanks to dtanderson for the tip on Comodo!
It’s about time Comodo fixed those Windows Updates bugs. I’ve been using Comodo for a few months, and I’m not impressed. Granted, it’s free, so I shouldn’t expect much, but still… I’ve read rave reviews from other users, but I don’t consider this firewall to be all that great.
Unfortunately, it’s one of the few firewalls that will work on Vista, so until the choices expand a bit more, I think I’ll have to stick with Comodo–the lesser of the evils…
Out of the options available for Vista I would definitely say Comodo is at the top. I never experienced the Windows Update bug, but I could see how that would be a bad issue to have.
I was going to upgrade, then read a few similar posts of bad experiences and decided to stay at 2.4, even though I’d like to put this onto Vista and not use Windows Firewall.
Sounds dodgy though.
The bug related to Windows Update for Sidebar security. If you don’t use sidebar or install many 3rd party gadgets, maybe you won’t have problem installing the update.
Is this update fix problem with Avast?