Beware of downloading free software from other places than the source

published Oct 18, 2011 04:13 by admin ( last modified Oct 18, 2011 04:13 )

I asked a customer to install VirtualBox on his computer, and unfortunately he downloaded it from one of these free download sites, instead of from virtualbox.org. Nowadays many of these free download sites wrap the downloads in adware, and maybe also spyware, viruses and scamware. And this is exactly what happened to my customer who now will need to clean out his computer, if that is enough.

So, when asking someone to download a piece of the software, also specify the exact location where they should download it from.