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I rescued my neighbor's Mac from an adware invasion using Malwarebytes so I I would argue that not all these tools are created equal.

sundvor 9y ago
Malwarebytes is great. However, what if it was their installer that was attacked in such fashion? Trusting old memories of what's good or not can be dangerous. I remember getting caught out once by CoreTemp which suddenly packed a load of dung in its default installer. :(
- kbutler 9y ago
  Sourceforge revolutionizes open source by providing free hosting for projects! [later] Sourceforge - You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. [still later] Sourceforge is respectable again! (hopefully?)
  - kevin_thibedeau 9y ago
    > Sourceforge is respectable again! (hopefully?) When pigs fly. I cringe every time I encounter a project hosted on SF and have to play their stupid find the download link game.
    - PenguinCoder 9y ago
      Uh have you been there recently? Like in the past year? The company is under new management, and cleaned up their act and download pages a lot. Sourceforge is headed in a better direction again.
      - lightedman 9y ago
        Yet while SourceForge improved, Slashdot became a clone of HN's front page and is a cesspool of horrid editing staff, now. So take that as you will. That tells me that SourceForge is probably bound to degrade some time soon.
- foobarchu 9y ago
  For apps it supports, Ninite is a good way to avoid that kind of thing, although it may not have stopped the CCleaner issue. They package their installer with extraneous bundles removed.
  - godzillabrennus 9y ago
    I hope Ninite reads this and pulls them off their list of installers. It should be automatically removed from end users by Ninite as a direct response to this.
    - foobarchu 9y ago
      Well, it's not on the list currently, so either they never had it or they did indeed remove it.
  - voltagex_ 9y ago
    BoxStarter is looking promising - http://boxstarter.org/ http://boxstarter.org/

sundvor 9y ago

Malwarebytes is great. However, what if it was their installer that was attacked in such fashion? Trusting old memories of what's good or not can be dangerous. I remember getting caught out once by CoreTemp which suddenly packed a load of dung in its default installer. :(

kbutler 9y ago
Sourceforge revolutionizes open source by providing free hosting for projects! [later] Sourceforge - You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. [still later] Sourceforge is respectable again! (hopefully?)
- kevin_thibedeau 9y ago
  > Sourceforge is respectable again! (hopefully?) When pigs fly. I cringe every time I encounter a project hosted on SF and have to play their stupid find the download link game.
  - PenguinCoder 9y ago
    Uh have you been there recently? Like in the past year? The company is under new management, and cleaned up their act and download pages a lot. Sourceforge is headed in a better direction again.
    - lightedman 9y ago
      Yet while SourceForge improved, Slashdot became a clone of HN's front page and is a cesspool of horrid editing staff, now. So take that as you will. That tells me that SourceForge is probably bound to degrade some time soon.
foobarchu 9y ago
For apps it supports, Ninite is a good way to avoid that kind of thing, although it may not have stopped the CCleaner issue. They package their installer with extraneous bundles removed.
- godzillabrennus 9y ago
  I hope Ninite reads this and pulls them off their list of installers. It should be automatically removed from end users by Ninite as a direct response to this.
  - foobarchu 9y ago
    Well, it's not on the list currently, so either they never had it or they did indeed remove it.
- voltagex_ 9y ago
  BoxStarter is looking promising - http://boxstarter.org/ http://boxstarter.org/