Internet Download Accelerator is an easy-to-use and effective download manager that can increase download speed by up to 500 percent. It uses intellectual multi-section download technology to provide the best possible performance for all connection types, resumes broken downloads, supports FTP, HTTP and HTTPS protocols, firewalls, proxy servers, cookies, redirects, authorization and a lot of different platforms and servers. IDA lets you conveniently manage downloads by orginizing them in categories with automatic category detection option. The category list has uniqe drag and drop possibilities of download management. Another feature is the original Active Visual Cart technology which significantly improves your download experience by giving you quick access to the most useful program features. Integrated FTP Explorer lets you conveniently browse FTP sites. IDA also allows you to browse ZIP archives before loading them and to choose only the desired files to download. IDA integrates into Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera and others. Also IDA adds a toolbar to Internet Explorer, monitors the system clipboard and cooperates with antivirus programs. Other features include: plug-ins support, skins support, scheduler, site manager, import and export of the download list, various download speed modes, downloads history, multi-language interface option.

Internet Download Accelerator 5.0.5 has been tested on 2006-09-11 and received a complete evaluation by the Soft32Download experts and due to the great results it has been awarded with the "Clean & Safe" award, meaning that this product is 100% clean of adware/spyware/trojans/viruses and it is safe to install.