What I got was a zip of my drivers, and also a fully installed (and already running?) group of programs - DEALPLY, MY PC BACKUP and the ASK toolbar as well as two new virus programs (at least.over 20 of them have been discovered by AVG since I went to DOWNLOADS.COM, and a few of the were major incursions - root kits) I was several feet away from it, as a series of software package names (and short descriptions) flitted by in teh CNET download manager, looking a bit like 'banner ads'.īecasue *IF* I wanted to get that file from CNET then I had to use the manager. I wasn't touching the computer at all when this went down. I have been in the IT world for a long time and am very cautious. Now people, I am outright paranoid when it comes to malware and virus software. Yet, I had three pieces of software installed on my system by CNET whilst getting a simple driver, all without clicking one thing aside from”DOWNLOAD” and taking one “opt out”. I did *NOT* click anything else to get more garbage becasue there was only one 'opt out' in the prcess' (which I d).

This happens even if you use a direct link to the file (which very often is not even a choice anymore).ĭon't believe me? Look around on the web.|ĬNET more than promotes extra software these days. They just plain shove in extra software anbd install it without telling you. Now days they no longer even try to trick you. They startdout amazing, then they started to try and tempt peopel into downloading other pieces of software, then went to deceptive practices in theri efforts to get you do download things and they included BAD software like the 'ASK TOOKBAR'. I used to be a big fan of theirs., However they have changed and each step has been from bad to worse and worse than that.

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