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Download.com not so safe.

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Post April 15th, 2008, 1:52 pm

Did this happen when you installed the evaluation software, or when you tried to use it on something? If it happened when you were trying to scan one or more of your files, then it may have been perceived as a threat. I installed it and ran the executable, but I did not install it on a computer with any web files or web server to test that aspect.
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Post April 15th, 2008, 2:06 pm

I got this when I did a virus scan. It does this when I download anything. Thats when I got the errors.

But more than one picked it up.
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Post April 15th, 2008, 2:33 pm

Just out of curiosity what are you using for a download manager?
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Post April 15th, 2008, 2:46 pm

I am aswell getting alot of trojans of download.com in the last cople of weeks but i have used download.com for a while before and it has not done it before so i have no idea what is going on about it.
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Post April 15th, 2008, 3:50 pm

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Just out of curiosity what are you using for a download manager?


Well my downloads are used Via Winrar is that what you mean :?:
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Post April 15th, 2008, 4:17 pm

Download manager would be something like Getright, downThemAll! or the built in downloads protocols in IE/Firefox.

WinRar is an archival tool :)
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Post April 15th, 2008, 4:24 pm

Well, bottom line is, I've been using download.com for nearly as long as I've been on the internet and never once downloaded anything that contained a security risk. So I'm thinking there has to be an outside factor.
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Post April 15th, 2008, 5:44 pm

I wonder if that outside factor maybe a hijacked connection, DNS poisoning, for example.

I emailed the tech contact at cnet, the owners of download.com and have not received an answer yet.
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