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What an egregiousness abuse of user trust. I hope this destroys their brand forever.
by resnamen 15y ago
What an egregiousness abuse of user trust. I hope this destroys their brand forever.
- Metapony 15y agoIt has in my mind. I feel sorry for all the users who would still trust them.
- astrodust 15y agoI feel sorry for anyone who's ever had to use download.com.
- PakG1 15y agoUntil this story hits mainstream, there's no hope of that happening. Even if it does hit mainstream, you need a bunch of talking heads that are able to explain to luddites what the implications are.
- VMG 15y agoOne can hope it destroys the brand for power-users. It's been a while since I've been using windows, but in the past I've trusted download.com when I needed some piece of freeware. I'll be more careful now. What about all the the open source projects hosted there? A quick search shows that they offer VLC and Firefox - are they clean?
- icebraining 15y agoThe guy in the Nmap mailing list says I've just discovered that C|Net's Download.Com site has started wrapping their Nmap downloads (as well as other free software like VLC)