Charlie: I run a registered version of malwarebytes which catches most of this stuff. it even prevents you from opening a potentially malicious site
Dave Sent from my iPad > On Nov 18, 2014, at 10:39 AM, Charlie Noah <[email protected]> wrote: > > I recently migrated my wife's laptop to Windows 7, and had to reinstall some > software she uses regularly. One such program was PDF-XChange Viewer, which > is a very fine free product. When I Googled it, I ended up clicking on one of > the download portal sites (I was very tired and bleary-eyed at the time, but > that's no excuse). Big mistake! Not only did I get the viewer, but I also got > a load of crapware I didn't want. I bailed as soon as I saw what was going > on, but it was too late. It's taken me the better part of a week to get rid > of it all, and I'm not even sure I got all of it yet. > > Many of these software download portals used to be reputable, but now they > sneak Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs), adware and even malware on to > your computer, many times without telling you! There appear to still be some > safe download sites out there, but the only really safe thing I can recommend > is to download software from the author or manufacturer's official site, and > not from these software download portals. > > Here is a link to a very good article on the subject: > Download Wrappers and Unwanted Software are pure evil > http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DownloadWrappersAndUnwantedSoftwareArePureEvil.aspx > > "Let's be careful out there." > > Regards, > Charlie Noah > > -- > -- > IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. > > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "jBASE" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jBASE" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
