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i've had viruses from it. it has fake items and children fall for it.
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Site lead to unwanted installs
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Do not use this website and all *.softonic.com: it provides adwares!! Repackage is an illegal activity and a copyright infringement.
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This website is dangerous as for it claims to give users loads of freeware that will probably be bundled with malicious content
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Se instalan buscadores, programas y complementos que no autoricé. situación que provoca un secuestro de los navegadores... A continuación, se hace casi imposible desactivar o desinstalar a estos molestosos, que se instalan de esta manera oculta porque nadie los quiere por las buenas...
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half the stuff you download is not the thing you downloaded. for example i downloaded something on a sandboxed pc so i didn't get malware and i got something completely different, plus tons of other garbage. i have seen malware on it before but only a few times.
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When downloading something from softonic.com, F-secure sometimes blocks downloaded program, and say in details '' Malware'' When it doesn't, after you run a full computer scan, wih all file types(settings option), you will see virus,adware or else unwanted program. After remove, downloaded sofware not work anymore. ALL these come from SOFTONIC
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on this site you can download apps some of them are spamed
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Very bad adware. Set the start page, search, address bar, toolbar on advertising and blocked the changes. With hardly managed recover, and the consequences stayed. Nearly reinstall the browser.
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almost all program inside this website contain unwanted e potentially dangerous software, I HOPE WOT finally will give red flag for this site!!
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I download several programs, and at even if you pay attention, they always palm some navegation bar or pop-up program. Some of them are really agressive, and it's really difficult to take them out. Some virus programmes, consider Softonic website, like a virus itself !! Some years ago was better, but recently it's really terrible !!
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Softonic is installing malwares on your computer!
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Softonic antes estaba muy bien pues podías descargar a tu ordenador un sinfín de productos. Hoy estos productos vienen con una gran cantidad de virus, malwares y troyanos que se te instalen casi sin tu consentimiento en forma de barras de navegación y demás productos peligrosos para tu ordenador.
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The once useful Softonic is now a PUP installer. Be very carefull when you download anything from them. It's much better to just google the name of the app and download it from the owner's website.
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Adwares y secuestro de navegador, mucho cuidado, PELIGRO
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Their offer of downloads are a total sham. The things you download are, pretty much viruses. Instead of downloading what you want, you download things that do not even work, which are actually putting viruses into your computer. Even people saying that it destroys their computers! So, do not download anything of theirs.
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No clue how this crap is still up and running, together with the cnet thing
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最悪 悪質 劣悪 危険 初心者注意!! 参考情報 評判の悪いアドウェアや迷惑ツールバーを盛ろうとする要注意サイト *****
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Riesgo de descarga de programas indeseados.
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pagina excelente con programas 100% seguros el problema es que los instaladores que ofrece para descargar el programa tienen "opcionales" que aconsejo rechazar(desde barras iminent hasta mobogenie)
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