Sure, we test everything before we post.

I'm curious as to what those people downloaded then, could be anything. I don't go to those sites anymore.

 

will download.com or cnet.com receive any penalties about it? I mean like Ashampoo suing them or something?

 

Is there no prob with naming a product "Ashampoo something" without having the rights to do? Perhaps this program contains malware, isn't that libeling against Ashampoo? I speak like it's my company, LOL. Just curious.

 

As M.A.'s thread suggests, stick to Major Geeks downloads, and links, wherever possible. :major Bazza

 

MajorGeeks.com - download what it says on the tin

 

Wow MA , those sites didn't stick with their previous agenda. You mentioned that they promised clean downloads quite a while ago and obviously money got in between. I can't see a responsible corporate entity here except for MG. Thank you for the clean downloads and if it ain't listed here, they can go screw themselves!:mad

BTW, I'll post the ashampoo disclaimer elsewhere. Thanks for the heads up!

 

I am so glad I have nothing more to do with download.com or any of those other download sites. I know I used to trust them until the spyware craze happened. Now almost nowhere is safe. I know when I refer a site for good stuff that doesn't clog a computer with spyware I will know that I feel safe going to the place as well.

I want to thank everyone for their hard work and looking out the average joe out there.

 

wow!

 

wow!

 

Last time I downloaded from download.com I ended up reformatting my hard drive. That was a long time ago. Since July(look at my join date) I have not downloaded anything from anywhere else except here, unless I was told it was safe by someone here. Thanks for the great content, being friendly and puting up with my nonsense.

 

Check out http://www.majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=2 for the MG "mission statement".:major
Thanks to the big "A" for the link.

Bazza

 

CNET ...what a joke..

Majorgeeks.. crushn'em for the second time .. squish,like grape *sqwish*

 

I feel that anyone who is serious about mitigating their chances of infection should malware scan EVERYTHING THEY DOWNLOAD BEFORE EXECUTING, regardless if the source is trustworthy or not.

On that note, does anyone know of any anti-malware products that will monitor a folder, and scan it upon every change of its contents? This would simplify the scanning process for users like myself that have every program download to a common folder....

 

That's fine and good, but I'm talking about more of a hybrid of real-time and on-demand scanning... as soon as I have something downloaded to that folder, scan it. Most products I've tried have a scheduling/startup feature like what you mention (Avast! being one such product, which is what I use on my x64 system), but that doesn't cover me between scheduled scans or reboots if I were to download something and try to execute it.

 

Yes, this AVG 7.5 IS suite will too.

Besides Ashampoo, pirated versions of MaceCraft's JV16 Power Tools is/was on major download centers too. And payments were routed to a fake address.

 

I don't know if there are any antivirus programs which do that, but many download managers/accelerators (such as gigaget, for example), have options to integrate with the antivirus and automatically scan any file downloaded, so that may work for you.