Little heads up

umm, is this link malicious? MA you turned into a spammer!!!...

 

Wow! cnet

 

The interesting thing is they claim it is 100% free of spyware/viruses

http://burn4free.simone-tasselli.blueprograms.com/antivirusreport.html

Yet the faq even says it installs NavHelper

http://www.burn4free.com/faq.htm

 

Good question.... I have not had one problem with any of the software from here. I trust you guys and the software from MG. I said it before, this is the best site on the web!!!!!

 

Anyone else getting Hill Street Blues memories? http://members.chello.se/solange/smileys/jump.gif

People surprise me though... I tend to mom's puter and keep it clean and neat, updated AV etc. She works as a teacher, and she told me her students had been talking about porn sites they went to, and since they are only about 10 years old, she got the name of them and went to have a look. She was shocked at what she saw, and I was shocked that she did it on her own computer and not one at work! http://members.chello.se/solange/smileys/lol.gif

So I told her what a dialer is (she is on dialup modem) and now she is afraid of using the internet! http://members.chello.se/solange/smileys/Rotfl.gif

 

Every day at work, I hit the main page here at MG, to see if anything we need updating at work.

 

I have long suspected c/net of promoting downloads that contain suspicious files, even though they claim to be otherwise.
This behaviour is not only unacceptable, it is (or should be) illegal!

However the fine print (you mention) that they include, allows them to escape the legalities of the situation and this is most upsetting!

Thanks for exposing this MA!

 

I'm cautious about most sites, and pretty much just stick to MG. I have come to trust, respect, and greatly appreciate this site and those that created it. I in fact download and test-drive programs from this site that I wouldn't from anywhere else!

If by chance I do need a program that Major Geeks doesn't have, I make sure that before, during, and after installation of said program I throughly "poke" it with the security program "sticks" that I have obtained here! A practice I highly recommend when dealing with any unknown piece of software.

Truth be known, I rarely have a need that Major Geeks can't fullfill . . . . (umm, program-wise and advice-wise, that is . . . )

 

MG was untrusted for me 5 months ago and I had no idea of it's existance 6 moths ago. Then I saw it on a magazine, a friend recommended it and I started downloading. A couple of weeks later I was recommending it. My point is that when someone is clean the word spreads.

Lately I was wondering around a site and I saw some very interesting stuf but it was an untrusted site. It looked much like MG. I thought how useful it would be if we opened a thread where one could post an address (not a link) and the wise MG scanners would check if it's clean.

 

You know, I'm not entirely sure how I found Major Geeks for all my downloading needs. I think it was when I was downloading Ad-Aware from Lavasoft's site that there was a mirror set up at Major Geeks. That's pretty much how it started by finding the mirror, but I don't know if it was Ad-Aware or some other program.

I've always used CNet's site long ago. Even when I was watching ZDTV (later TechTV.. later G4TechTV.. now gone) that Leo Laporte would always go to their download site at hotfiles.com which was a link to ZDNet Downloads. Now with all the adware/spyware/junkware I don't even bother with CNet or ZDNet since I know CNet owns ZDNet (at least I think so since the download site looks so similar).

I also used to use Softpedia, but they're bogged down with all sorts of new applications and such. It makes me wonder if they really do testing on the programs. I know they have a graphic that states 100% No Spyware, No Adware, No Viruses, but I am very unsure about those downloads since I know for a fact that I haven't had any problems from here.

I did find a post long ago (before I started even posting to the forum myself) of the files being tested and even explained about a test one time (I think). I even remember when Weather Watcher (one of my favorite weather programs) had that WhenUNow spyware in it. Thankfully there is a non "bundled" version which does not include the spyware which that package is here on Major Geeks. I am very careful as to what I think is going to contain spyware or not. And I always have multiple anti-spyware programs running just in case one program cannot find that another will.

It makes me feel better about the software here and trust it 100%. Thank you for all the hard work!

 

Don't take it to heart MA, MG Is where it is now because of plain ol' goodness...
I salute Thee!
I need a shirt for xmas
Jaza

 

Thanks MA for the information. I had my suspicions when I was monitoring their RSS link one time for new Windows and Linux downloads. I figured they were working like CNet is.

I know I wouldn't worry about the McAfee's Site Advisor, but then again I knew they'd screw up that program just like their other programs. And here I used to use McAfee's Virus Scan for DOS way back in 1991.. yet now I am not a huge fan of that company or their products. I have been wondering if I should dump my Site Advisor, however, I haven't paid any money for the program... yet.

 

When you have MG available
tested and true
why go somewhere else??
This is the ONLY site i trust
keep up the excellent work
I never worry about a download from here

MG thank you for what you do

 

I agreee with this. People who care.
abri

 

Hi sorry for intruding on a post, Im pretty new here at MG and was browsing around the forum. Just noticed this post mentioned siteadvisor. Do you still recommend it here? Im just asking as I see that siteadvisor is still recommended here in the following post about setting up a new computer -> http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=107991

Does anyone have any experience with sitehound free from firetrust, Im using it myself after ditching Siteadvisor a couple of months back and it looks pretty good so far. Available for IE and FF browsers -> http://www.firetrust.com/firetrustsitehound.html

Thumbs up on a great site, I now know where I need to be for downloads and advice

 

You mean there are other places to download freeware? I will stay with the MajorGeeks site myself.

E

 

Since finding MG I stay here pretty much for my software needs. If by chance I need some program not offered here that is hosted on another site, I google said program for feedback - and if mollified with what I find I then download it while "loaded for bear" as it were - I am lucky to have more then one computer at my disposal, and I download any "wild" programs onto my spare under the watchfull eyes of the security solutions I have found here at MG. Only after extensive scans and testing do I then allow it onto my main PC.

I must add that I have not had to do this much . . . most of what I need I can find right here. In my 10 years of online activity this is the best site I have found, both for software and for forums.

Well done, Major Geeks - you are an oasis in a bleak internet desert, and I appreciate the effort taken to create and then maintain the high quality of this site.

 

This is such a wonderful metaphor I had to quote it and allow it a second viewing in this thread Nice one Nat

 

Since I've become such an avid geek of portable applications, I'm glad that some of them have been posted here. Granted I've been getting more from portableapps.com (John Haller's website) mainly I can trust him to do a good portable application.

Also I'm thrilled that AutoPatcher is mirrored here! After seeing the AutoPatcher Vista version, I know I'll see the XP version when they've got the version they're using on the Vista version.