Winpooch is a very good open source security tool for your Windows. Similar to the freeware WinPatrol, it monitors the programs on your computer to catch any suspicious behavior.

Associated with ClamWin, your computer will have a complete open source protection system against virus, spywares, and trojans. ClamWin alone currently doesn’t have real time scanning function but with Winpooch it will. It is also important to note that Winpooch will not remove spywares but work to prevent them from acting on your Windows machine.

Need a dictionary, thesaurus, translator? StarDict works well for all of these purposes.  Install this program on a Linux or Windows machine and just add free dictionary databases to it.

StarDict does some pretty interesting things such as:

• translates with google or yahoo engines;

• uses a “glob-style pattern matching” to find associated words

• plus more functions such as direct access to the web based Net Dict, and what is called “fuzzy query” (I don’t know what this last one actually does but I like the term).

I’m pretty happy with this program on both Windows and Linux. It is faster to use then going to a website and the amount of free dictionaries available are more then enough for me.