dude Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 Thought you'd seen it all? Get a look at what Download.com and C/Net are doing to you! http://www.howtogeek.com/210265/download.com-and-others-bundle-superfish-style-https-breaking-adware/ Quote Link to comment
DesDownunder Posted February 24, 2015 Report Share Posted February 24, 2015 Thanks Mike, it seems like my computer's not infected. Quote Link to comment
JamesSavik Posted February 24, 2015 Report Share Posted February 24, 2015 I've known about them for some time. Really stupid move on their part. They just took careful aim and shot themselves in the foot with the tekkie users. As soon as they started bundling spyware with their free/share/crap-ware, we were off to ArsTechnica and SlashDot as fast as the bandwidth would take us. Quote Link to comment
Nick Deverill Posted February 24, 2015 Report Share Posted February 24, 2015 I was a fan of Gimp player as it is nice and simple, and does all one needs of a video player. But the last update I had included a truly horrible piece of Adware - reset one's home page and did several other nasties. Not a simple job removing it either, and I only found the last traces quite recently. Net result, I'll never download their player again. Quote Link to comment
TalonRider Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 I recently realized I no longer had a PDF reader installed, due to my recent reboot. Instead of going to Adobe directly, I picked on after doing a search and wound up installing three other programs, on of which was a player. I did uninstall those programs. The only thing I've not been able to get rid of is Bing. When I open a new tab, it opens to Bings home page instead of showing a list of websites that I've been too. That in itself doesn't bother me. After all of this was done, I ran Malwarebytes and found a whole litter of PUP's that were quarantined. Quote Link to comment
colinian Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 Not for me. I use Abine's Blur to block trackers and it seems to do the job. Colin Quote Link to comment
Jeff Ellis Posted March 3, 2015 Report Share Posted March 3, 2015 sorry to be dim Nick, put it down to age... by Gimp player, were you referring to Gom Player? Quote Link to comment
Nick Deverill Posted March 3, 2015 Report Share Posted March 3, 2015 sorry to be dim Nick, put it down to age... by Gimp player, were you referring to Gom Player? Whoops yes, Gimp is a art package, takes forever to load but can be useful whereas Gom is the video player that was packaged with horrid infecting stuff. I'll get my coat... Quote Link to comment
DesDownunder Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Whoops yes, Gimp is a art package, takes forever to load but can be useful whereas Gom is the video player that was packaged with horrid infecting stuff. I'll get my coat... I've hidden your coat, so you have to stay. Quote Link to comment
Camy Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Nick's coat doesn't suit you, Des. Quote Link to comment
Bruin Fisher Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 I thought Gimp was a mask used in certain role-playing, er, activities? Quote Link to comment
JamesSavik Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Gimp is like an open-source version of Adobe PhotoShop. As far as I know the best and the safest place to download software is at Sourceforge All of the best open source projects are hosted there. Notepad++, Crimson Editor, ProjectLibre- it's all there. Quote Link to comment
Bruin Fisher Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 So... not this, then? Checked out the other programs you mentioned on Sourceforge - thanks for the heads-up! Quote Link to comment
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