Showing posts with label Crappy Freeware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crappy Freeware. Show all posts

Sunday, 22 February 2015

Expert Wants End to Pre-Installed 'Crapware'


Computer manufacturers must stop before installing all kinds of software on new PCs, also known as 'crapware'. "Companies like Apple, who sell their products on their own merits, saddling their customers with this adware mess," said security analyst Ken Westin at Computerworld . Following the Super Fish-scandal in the Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo.

Practice to install software in advance, as tryouts, and other programs for which the manufacturers get paid by the software developer, will place many years. In 2011, Microsoft even came with an initiative to rid computers of crapware. Computers with no trialware (tryouts) was present and there were no programs were loaded during startup called "Signature PCs". It was also for these PCs required to provide a clean desktop without gadgets, icons and unnecessary taskbar icons.

According Westin is important that consumers, manufacturers can trust. The analyst makes the blog know his employer Tripwire that mobile phone manufacturers and laptops itself a disservice by using this kind of dated ad strategies. Meanwhile, consider multiple virus Superfish as a Trojan horse. Six of the 57 scanners on VirusTotal store in detecting adware alarm.

Thursday, 15 January 2015

Researcher Warns Of Software On Download.com


Download.com is a popular download site, but how secure is the software that is actually offered here?A researcher from How-To Geek decided the ten most popular programs from Download.com to install and startled by the result that he advises users not to repeat the experiment on their own computer. For the experiment, the programs were completely installed by default, as a typical user would do.

Download.com , which is part of CNet News, sets the policy that all downloads are offered free of adware, spyware or other malicious software. Many of the software appeared to be bundled with a variety of other programs. Via Download.com users can download the software directly, but there is also a Download.com -installer, which is much more apparent. This includes an installer that in addition to the desired program installs all sorts of other programs. It appears to include "browser hijackers" and fake "registry cleaners" to go.

Remarkably, the virus Avast is one of the first programs were installed and then some other downloads blocked because they were labeled as malicious. "Free software vendors to bundle earn almost all money through complete nonsense and scareware that mislead users to pay to clean up their PCs, regardless of the fact that you can avoid this by this" crappy "freeware nothing to install," says Lowell Heddings .

The experiment was repeated for several months and each time ended Heddings with other software on the computer. "Every software that unifies itself brings with it the same culprits: browser hijackers that hijack your search engine and home page and place ads everywhere because if the product is free, you are the real product.."