Is www.softpedia.com Safe?

ITALIANO I download di questo sito sono pericolosi, i software non vengono controllati per l'eventuale presenza di malware. Alcune pagine di questo sito sono manomesse da malintenzionati e portano a infiltrazione automatica di malware all'interno dei pc degli utenti. ---------- ENGLISH The downloads of this site are dangerous, the software are not checked for the presence of malware. Some pages of this site are tampered with by malicious agents and lead to automatic infiltration of malware within users' Pcs.

This is a classic free and shareware download site offering other vendors' software with or without a download manager. Although it presents as a playground, be warned that the software you get may be buggy, outdated, malicious, and/or bundled with very much unwanted third-party add-ons. Always get your software from the original vendor or its designated distributor. Free download sites are recipes for trouble, as you can discover by visiting the support forums of the original vendors.

Unfortunately, Microsoft has abandoned the free viewers program, so claims here that 'current' viewers are available, are suspect. "The Word Viewer, PowerPoint Viewer and Excel Viewer have been retired. These Viewers will no longer be available for download or receive security updates. To continue viewing Office files for free, we recommend buying & installing the Office apps or storing documents in OneDrive or Dropbox, where {parasitic apps for} Word Online, Excel Online, or PowerPoint Online opens them in your browser."