Thank you for the vehement expressions of horror, frustration and disgust, which mirror my sentiments exactly.However, keep in mind that FileHippo App Manager only supports software available in its database. You wrote: "The problem is especially bad at CNET's site, and they deserve to be shunned and scorned for it." I stopped going anywhere near CNet over a year ago. This is a bad-news trend - and a bad reflection - on freeware. Gizmo's site still carries such freeware, but along with a warning, which is great and acceptable. Now one has an informed choice.Įven good names like Avast! and Avira are now popping up adds from subscription AV programs and from iobit I got a purchased program with 75% of the interface taken up with an advertisement for another "Buy NOW" program. (I am beginning to HATE that word "NOW"!) It took me five months to get a refund - through a third party activist. I wrote Avast! a very straightforward email telling them I left Avira mid-term, with 6 months subscription left, for sinking so low, only to find that who I thought was way above such sordid practices, was also there. I made no bones that Avast! had now lost it's good standing and integrity as well. Odd that I am unable to log in to see Avast!'s reply to my ticket: my username and password, hitherto fine, no longer work. I also wrote to FileHippo, also one of the best in the past, for carrying programs with foistware, without a warning, from which one is unable to opt out, as it is now included in the EULA! - stuff like Open Candy, AVG Toolbar, Ask Toolbar, Conduit, Delta etc etc. These days I seldom venture to download a program, but just make do with what I've got. Gizmo's TechSupportAlert investigated a small program named "Unchecky", found it good, and offered it.
I installed it and it runs unobtrusively in the background, and unchecks those slimy, checked tick-boxes that we all know so well.
A great little program, rendering a smart service to the unwary.īob. I had missed your first article, written early in 2013. I downloaded, I think it was Avast's Free version and I got the Conduit and Sweet Packs added to my PC, without asking for permission or even notifying that these two Foistwares, would be installed, as well. I took me almost a week, to get rid of them. I had to get into the Registry, to achieve this, too! I tried using Malwarebytes, that didn't work, the program simply kept on scanning and making no progress. I tried Malwarebytes' Chameleon and still Conduit was there, as was Sweet Packs.
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