Such ‘foistware’ (toolbars etc that are foisted upon you by being bundled as part of a legitimate program’s installation process) are the bane of a repair tech’s life. His view seems to be backed by Virus Total (a service that analyzes suspicious files) which reports that Cnet’s own wrapped installation of Nmap is detected by 10 antivirus companies as a Trojan… Sadly, this appears to no longer true – the creator of popular free tool Nmap has written a blistering attack on Cnet for wrapping his free program in what he calls their ‘trojan’ installer, including the dreaded Babylon toolbar/search engine/homepage combo. ![]() opt-out, not opt-in) and does its best to lead you into agreeing – most people will just click yes a few times as they would trust not to insert anything sneaky into someone else’s free program… It appears to be taking some installation files (that it hosts on behalf of a program’s developers) and ‘wrapping’ them in its own installation file which includes unrelated toolbars etc that can change the way you browse, your home page and your default search engine :-(Īlthough you can choose not to install such apps (if you read the small print and click the right thing), Cnet’s installer package sets them to install by default (i.e. I say ‘used to be’ because it has come in for a huge amount of criticism in recent weeks. CNET’s is a free download directory website established 15 years ago – it used to be a popular source for free downloads of thousands of legal programs.
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