(plus I get the file for any later reinstalls)ģ) run several AVP on the file: Spybot S&D, MWB. why bother letting the web site know yourġ) try to find the web site of the program’s original manufacturerĢ) when downloading, always shoot for the offline installer (or vice versa… not sure which is better).

If you need to download something, I'd suggest you check out those portals first.Ġ) hide. Direct download links are nowadays also available on many - but not all - download portals.īefore we take a look at software download portals that use web installers to bundle third party offers, I'd like to take a moment to list a few portals that do not: Softpedia, File Hippo, Freeware Files and Major Geeks. The strategy has been changed slightly lately. Most sites claim that web downloaders improve the reliability and security of the download, and even if that is the case, the fact remains that they bundle adware, toolbars and other software offers in the downloader to increase revenue. The company received lots of criticism for it at that time because it failed to inform software companies and developers about the practice and did not offer full program downloads for some time on their site. Cnet's for instance started to bundle their own downloader with programs last year. Several large software repositories in recent time have started to bundle all programs that they host on their servers with a web downloader.

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