{"id":24280,"date":"2011-09-06T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=24280"},"modified":"2011-09-06T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T18:44:00","slug":"bits-from-bill-pytlovany-dangerous-downloads-on-legit-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/bits-from-bill-pytlovany-dangerous-downloads-on-legit-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Bits from Bill Pytlovany: Dangerous Downloads on Legit Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/billpwp.jpg\" alt=\"billpwp\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7652 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Bill Pytlovany<\/p>\n<p>There are a large number of websites that provide useful reviews and what seems like easy ways to download free software. Unfortunately, these websites also sell ads and allow advertisers to use well known software as keywords in their ads. The result is users often end up with software they can\u2019t remove from their computer instead of what they were looking for.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Here\u2019s an example of the page you\u2019ll get if you search the popular download site, cnet\u2019s <a title=\"http:\/\/download.cnet.com\/windows\/\" href=\"http:\/\/download.cnet.com\/windows\/\">Download.com<\/a> for WinPatrol.&#160; <br \/>Click image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billp.com\/blog\/images\/DangerousDownloadsonLegitimateWebsitesSe_C424\/blog1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"blog1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billp.com\/blog\/images\/DangerousDownloadsonLegitimateWebsitesSe_C424\/blog1_thumb.jpg\" width=\"484\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a>     <br \/>Click any image to enlarge<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">You can see WinPatrol at the bottom of the page but if you\u2019re not paying attention you might easily click on \u201cStart Download\u201d.&#160; The resulting download is not something you want on your system.&#160; My laptop is currently using the add-on <a title=\"http:\/\/www.mywot.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mywot.com\/\">Web of Trust<\/a> which immediately warned me something was wrong.    <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"blog2\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billp.com\/blog\/images\/DangerousDownloadsonLegitimateWebsitesSe_C424\/blog2.jpg\" width=\"424\" height=\"366\" \/>Btw\u2026 if you\u2019re interested, don\u2019t search Google for \u201cWeb of Trust\u201d.&#160; Instead of WOT, you\u2019ll find a dangerous download using its keyword which I\u2019ll talk more about below. Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mywot.com\/\">http:\/\/www.mywot.com\/<\/a> if you\u2019d like check out WOT.  <\/p>\n<p>Not all but some of the other downloads advertising on the Download.com page are also dangerous. For instance, the link that says \u201c<a title=\"http:\/\/www.safer-networking.org\/index2.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.safer-networking.org\/index2.html\">Spybot<\/a> \u2013 Free Download\u201d will not take you to the real <a title=\"http:\/\/www.safer-networking.org\/index2.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.safer-networking.org\/index2.html\">Spybot &#8211; Search &amp; Destroy<\/a> program.  <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Beware of Search Engine Results     <br \/><\/strong>    <br \/>Even search engines like Google and Bing are selling search ads to bogus programs using the keywords of popular legitimate programs.&#160; If you search Google for \u201cWinPatrol\u201d you may be tricked into clicking on a dangerous deceptive link.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/billpstudios.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/dangerous-downloads-on-legitimate.html\" target=\"_blank\">Article continued here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post is excerpted with Bill&#8217;s permission from his <a href=\"http:\/\/billpstudios.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/billpwp.jpg\" alt=\"bill p\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7167 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are a large number of websites that provide useful reviews and what seems like easy ways to download free software. 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