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This is my favorite messenger of all. If you've ever had numerous messaging programs installed on your computer at once it can be extremely irritating when switching from one to another. Trillian solves this slight problem by providing a clever integrated program that can communicate directly with AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN, ICQ and IRC. The latest version has many features, which can be seen at the developer's site.

AVG Anti-Virus Free and ewido anti-spyware Free is for private, non-commercial, single home computer use only.

Here's a fantastic and well-designed site that offers free emoticon (smiley) installer packs for MSN messenger. There are numerous installer packs available here so be sure to check them all out.

Here, you can create your own personalised chat room to your Web site? ParaChat's "free" package provides a feature-rich, remotely hosted Java chat room, allowing for real-time interaction. As a Webmaster, you can cutomise the colour and language of the chat room, and also integrate it seamlessly into your site's page. For creating user appeal and repeat visits, ParaChat is an excellent tool.

Amazing Counters includes over 350 counter styles to choose from and also provides Web site statistics (so you can privately view your traffic history), along with a free invisible counter, should you choose not to display a counter image.

This is the best site I've seen for locating free emoticons (smileys). At FunkySmilies.co.uk, you'll find free emoticon images for messenger programs (e.g. MSN Messenger and AOL IM), chat rooms and e-mails. Their extensive directory organises a wide range of smileys into categories, so you can easily find what you're searching for.

Free-Games.to provides hand-picked high quality free games to download, many of which are amongst the best freeware games on the Internet. The site is easy to navigate, fast-loading and also includes a screenshot, description and file size next to each featured game. All the games here will function on Microsoft Windows.

ICQ is a popular and legendry application that allows you to chat in real-time with other ICQ users and post instant text messages to them. Once registered, you'll receive a personal ID number that you can give to your friends, family and other ICQ buddies. Users can also send and receive files, play games and use the ICQ network to find relatives and friends.

The freeware messenger program from Microsoft Network has many functions in a small application. You can voice chat to anyone in the world (provided they have a copy of the program), share files, send pictures and have a text chats. MSN Messenger also supports emoticons (smileys) and now includes a fantastic full screen video conferencing mode. One of my Favs

FreeChatCode.com is a free Java chat room service for Webmasters. Here, you can create your own personalised chat room and then include it on your Web site. The chat room provided is easy to customise with your existing site and allows an unlimited number of users, with the additional option for private chat. This free service is supported by advertisements.