I had a trojan horse problem earlier this year and I think it had something to do with a few download managers that I downloaded to test out. Many of them will actually broadcast your IP address and share information with other users. It is stated quite explicitly on some that this is done, with the pretense of finding faster downloads from peers. Once the trojan is in, it can load itself before a software firewall and use ports destined for legit purposes to do totally other things.
Considering that you have to let a firewall like Norton Internet Security give permission to the download manager to access the internet, you are totally opening yourself. I don't understand how come some programmers can know how do downloads faster than legitamate companies who already had programmers address the problem. "Beware of greeks baring gifts." Frank >> I found this version at a site out of Japan. The site bandwidth is low so you have to use a internet download manager software to get it out of there. Mozilla here did not want to download this, so I got one of the Free Download Managers from freedownloadmanager.org
