The old adage tells us that if something is just too good to be true then it probably is. So it was with the free file sharing system Ares Destiny that I tried out recently. I’d heard mixed reviews and just wanted to give it a test run. It’s free so I thought that it wouldn’t hurt to try. How wrong I was: it hurt a lot. First off the Ares Destinysoftware is nothing special. There is nothing particularly wrong with it either: it is just mid range stuff that is easily bettered by searching around. This didn’t surprise me a great deal since Ares Destiny is relatively new to the market and I didn’t expect them to get it spot on first time around. The big surprise – and it is not one of those nice surprises like you would expect on a birthday or at Christmas – is that during installation (which was, unsurprisingly in hindsight, pretty much an automatic affair) it had managed to squeeze Dealio onto my computer. Dealio is spyware, pure and simple, and unless you really like popups every few minutes it will get annoying very, very soon. As a parting shot, it turns out that Dealio is pretty much impossible to get rid of. Steer well clear of Ares Destiny!

FrostWire is a collaborative effort made by various freelance and open source developers coming from around the globe. It is Gnutella peer to peer software that can be downloaded for free. The most up to date version of the program allows its users to use the best functionality of the program. The bugs which have plagued users on the old versions have also been fixed in the latest version.

FrostWire users of version 2.5 or earlier should update to the new version immediately to get the most out of the free peer to peer software. Its features include faster download rates, guaranteed not to contain spyware and adware, faster torrent speeds and compatibility with iTunes.

In addition, FrostWire is completely free and open source. It has Bittorrent support and has friendly online chat rooms. As compared with the older versions, the new upgrade has more connections and new improved skins.

FrostWire has a file size of eight point eighty four megabytes. The software requires windows XP, 2000 or 2003, Vista or Vista64, Windows7 or Windows7 64 and XP64. The program has an open source license and was added on January 11, 2010.

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Frostwire: Is a Java-Based application relevant?
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