Download.com is an Internet download directory website, launched in 1996 as a part of CNET. The Software section of the site includes over 100,000 freeware, shareware, and try-first downloads. Downloads are often rated and reviewed by editors, and also contain a summary of the file from the software publisher, and one or more screenshots. Users may also write reviews and log their ratings on a scale of 1-5 stars.
I always find Download.com statistics very interesting. As of 2nd June, 2008, list the top 10 most downloaded software list, 4 are off Computer Security related softwares, AVG Anti-virus Free Edition, Ad-Ware, Avast Home Edition and Avira AntiVir Personal. It shows that people are very concern or suffering from security ordeals.
New member in Top 10 club is VersionTracker Pro, it detects out-of-date drivers and updates automatically. Personally I’ve not use this software yet, but I believe it’s a wonderful idea to have such an useful tool installed in computer.
Let’s see the whole statistics here:
| This Week Position |
Last Week Position |
Product Name | License | File Size | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition Protect your computer from viruses and malicious programs |
Free | 45.57MB | 86,322,742 (Total) 4,995,336 (Last Week) |
| 2 | 2 | Ad-Aware 2008 Protect your personal home computer from malware attacks. |
Free | 18.27MB | 293,095,227 (Totla) 1,124,051 (Last Week) |
| 3 | 3 | LineWire share files online |
Free | 4.29MB | 147,010,847 (Total) 711,549 (Last Week) |
| 4 | 4 | Avast Home Edition Scan your computer for viruses, worms and Trojan horses. |
Free | 21.98MB | 23,161,844 (Total) 473,200 (Last Week) |
| 5 | 5 | Avira AntiVir Personal – Free Antivirus Detect and remove more than viruses from your computer |
Free | 21.98MB | 8,373,164 (Total) 426,609 (Last Week) |
| 6 | 6 | ICA Communicate instantly using the lastest version of this popular chat client. |
Free | 11.07MB | 164,305,404 (Total) 3.1,696 (Last Week) |
| 7 | 7 | WinRAR Manage RAR and ZIP archives |
Free to try; $29.00 to buy | 1.15MB | 60,980,621 (Total) 285,500 (Last Week) |
| 8 | 10 | WinZip Zip and unzip your files quickly to conserve disk space and greatly reduce e-mail transmission time. |
Free to try; $29.95 to buy | 13.03MB | 182,487,504 (Total) 279,810 (Last Week) |
| 9 | 8 | BitComet Share and downlaod files from BitTorrent and chat with your friends. |
Free | 5.48MB | 62,551,558 (Total) 236,540 (Last Week) |
| 10 | 13 | VersionTracker Pro Detect and correct out-of-date drivers and software automatically |
Free to try, $29.95 to buy | 3.21MB | 7,584,856 (Total) 221,869 (Last Week) |
I hope you will find this list useful, for more information please visit download.com.
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