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The man who built the free email encryption software used by whistleblower Edward Snowden, as well as hundreds of thousands of journalists, dissidents and security-minded people around the world, is running out of money to keep his project alive.

This post was originally published on ProPublica.

Werner Koch wrote the software, known as Gnu Privacy Guard, in 1997, and since then has been almost single-handedly keeping it alive with patches and updates from his home in Erkrath, Germany. Now 53, he is running out of money and patience with being underfunded.

"I'm too idealistic," he told me in an interview at a hacker convention in Germany in December. "In early 2013 I was really about to give it all up and take a straight job." But then the Snowden news broke, and "I realized this was not the time to cancel."

Like many people who build security software, Koch believes that offering the underlying software code for free is the best way to demonstrate that there are no hidden backdoors in it giving access to spy agencies or others. However, this means that many important computer security tools are built and maintained by volunteers.

Now, more than a year after Snowden's revelations, Koch is still struggling to raise enough money to pay himself and to fulfill his dream of hiring a full-time programmer. He says he's made about $25,000 per year since 2001 a fraction of what he could earn in private industry. In December, he launched a fundraising campaign that has garnered about $43,000 to date far short of his goal of $137,000 which would allow him to pay himself a decent salary and hire a full-time developer.

The fact that so much of the Internet's security software is underfunded is becoming increasingly problematic. Last year, in the wake of the Heartbleed bug, I wrote that while the U.S. spends more than $50 billion per year on spying and intelligence, pennies go to Internet security. The bug revealed that an encryption program used by everybody from Amazon to Twitter was maintained by just four programmers, only one of whom called it his full-time job. A group of tech companies stepped in to fund it.

Koch's code powers most of the popular email encryption programs GPGTools, Enigmail, and GPG4Win. "If there is one nightmare that we fear, then it's the fact that Werner Koch is no longer available," said Enigmail developer Nicolai Josuttis. "It's a shame that he is alone and that he has such a bad financial situation."

The programs are also underfunded. Enigmail is maintained by two developers in their spare time. Both have other full-time jobs. Enigmail's lead developer, Patrick Brunschwig, told me that Enigmail receives about $1,000 a year in donations just enough to keep the website online.

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Montreal, Quebec (PRWEB) February 05, 2015

Lavasoft, makers of Ad-Aware, the worlds No. 1 free antivirus software, announced today it has achieved AV-Comparatives highest rating in three of the eight public main test-series conducted throughout 2014. This achievement and Lavasofts participation in the annual roundup solidifies the companys commitment to enhancing its solutions to keep its customers safe online.

At the end of each year, AV-Comparatives releases a summary report commenting on the various antivirus products tested throughout the year, and highlighting the high-scoring products of the various tests. This year, AV-Comparatives reviewed 23 security products, including Lavasofts Ad-Aware Free Anti-Virus+. All the programs were tested for their ability to protect against real-world Internet threats, identify thousands of recent malicious programs and provide protection without slowing down PCs. Additionally, optional tests checked how well the products could remove malware from an infected PC, block new and unknown threats and protect the user against phishing attacks.

Online threats are growing at an alarming rate, and many security providers arent taking the necessary steps to stay one step ahead of those threats, said Daniel Assouline, CEO at Lavasoft. Lavasofts participation in AV-Comparatives end-of-year review is just one of many ways were assessing Ad-Awares efficiency and ability to keep our customers protected against online threats. Its an honor to be included among the top antivirus software providers and to be awarded such strong ratings.

Lavasoft received the Advanced+ rating in both the March 2014 and September 2014 File Detection Tests, as well as in the April 2014 Antivirus Performance Test. The File Detection Tests assess the ability of antivirus programs to detect malicious files on a system. The test only assesses one anti-malware feature of the programs, but that feature can identify malware attacks from sources other than the Internet and detect malicious files already present on the system. The Performance Tests evaluate the impact of antivirus software on system performance, as programs running in background such as real-time protection antivirus software use some percentage of system resources.

All of the programs tested are from reputable and reliable manufacturers, and even the Standard rating indicates a high-level achievement on our tests, said Andreas Clementi, CEO at AV-Comparatives. Lavasofts Ad-Aware is a leading antivirus, and we found the strongest features to be its user resources, the extensive choice of interface languages and the option to install it as a secondary scanner.

Ad-Awares Free Anti-Virus+ is software for consumers and includes fast antivirus, legendary antispyware, real-time protection, download protection, safe browsing and gaming mode. Download Ad-Aware today at http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php.

For more information, you can view the full AV-Comparatives 2014 end-of-year test cycle summary.

About Lavasoft Lavasoft is the maker of Ad-Aware, the worlds No. 1 free antivirus software. Founded in 1999, Lavasoft is the original anti-malware company, creating award-winning, security and privacy software. Born of the belief that online security should be available to everyone, Lavasoft offers millions of users maximum protection for their computers and online identities. With nearly 500 million downloads, its flagship product Ad-Aware has blocked and removed billions of threats, saving consumers from all forms of attacks and malware including viruses, spyware, adware, phishing and drive-by downloads. Lavasoft is a global company with operations in North America and Europe. For more information, visit http://www.lavasoft.com.

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Office, PDFs, ebooks, archives, audio, video, images: the average PC owner regularly encounters a lengthy list of file formats, and viewing them all typically requires an entire library of software.

Free Editorclaims it can simplify all that by opening 70-plus file formats from a single interface, and editing some of them, all for free. Too good to be true? Lets see.

As you might expect, the installer will by default change your browser home and search pages. But this is easy to avoid, as long as youre paying attention, and we didnt find any other issues.

Free Editor can open Office documents (doc/ docx, xls/ xlsx, ppt/ pptx, odt), many image types (including RAW, ICO, PSD, TIFF), videos, audio files, archives, PDFs, RTF, ePubs, source code, binaries, plain text and more.

The program wasn't always successful in our tests. Free Editor failed to open some large PDFs. It crashed with one test PSD, and we found complex Word documents were sometimes formatted incorrectly.

The program's editing abilities are limited, too. You cant edit PDFs; audio and video files are strictly for playing only; and the image editor is just about as basic as you'll get anywhere (it includes only rotate, resize and crop tools, grayscale/ blur/ sepia effects, brightness/ contrast adjustment and simple tag editing).

Free Editor is better at text-based documents. There are all the usual text formatting options, indents, paragraph settings, lists, tables, images and more. The spreadsheet is more basic (no charts, not even a formula bar, although you can enter a formula directly in a cell), but you can still view, edit or create sheets, edit formatting, and edit/ enter data.

Another plus is that youre sometimes able to save your files as another type, although this didnt work as often as wed like. PDFs can only be saved as PDFs. Image exports are restricted to BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, TIFF and TGA. Word documents may be saved to DOC, DOCX, ODT, RTF and TXT (no PDF).

There are a few unexpected extras. A hex editor, a very simple resource editor for binary files, and a source code editor with syntax highlighting for a few languages.

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MICROSOFT revealed this week that its much-heralded free upgrade to Windows 10 will not apply to Enterprise edition users.

Now, we're not going to be too hard on ol' Microsoft for this. After all, it's a commercial company and it needs to make money somewhere to keep Ballmer in basketball teams and Gates in poowater in their old ages.

But it got us thinking - how many other supposedly free things are there in tech that in fact have a big old price tag attached? Here's our top five.

1. Microsoft Office 365 OK, this is not going to be one of those 'pick on Microsoft' articles like we used to do, but really? A monthly subscription to use an office suite? As a business model, it's still a bit ... well, odd.

There are loads of free, full functioning office suites out there, maintained and run by volunteers. We often report on OpenOffice and LibreOffice but there's also Kingston Office, and we're sure a whole bunch more that you can recommend.

2. Bundleware Bundleware is the pits. If you don't know the term, it refers to when you download a supposedly free program and because no-one reads the terms and conditions, it automatically downloads a trial to a driver manager, a system optimiser and some very suspect art package.

The author of the software gets paid for putting it there - that is, after all, how it ends up being free. But it relies on people not knowing they've done it and it's a pain.

We do, however, have a solution. It's called Unchecky. It runs in the background and automatically unchecks all the tick boxes, so by default, you won't install anything you shouldn't.

Unless the question is: 'Would you not like us not to install this piece of software?' In which case, we're not even sure what you do there. Call a philosopher maybe?

3. Completely free (trial)You finally find the program that does exactly what you want it to, check the site all over, and there's not even a whisper of pricing. Must be freeware. Wrong!

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