What Download sites are safe

[SHELBYGT]

I just downloaded a program off of Softtonics and i believe i may of got a virius. Is Cnet a reliabe source?

 

[Joe C]

Cnet is probably worse....They give you an installer that contains adware.

Major Geeks, File Hippo and TuCows are o.k. but that does not guarantee that you'll never get something you do not want. Always scan your downloads before you open them with a good antivirus program, Like Eset, Kaspersky or Bitdefender....ect.

 

[Trotter]

+1 for MajorGeeks. Only one I use.

 

[Area-1255]

Cnet is probably worse....They give you an installer that contains adware.

Major Geeks, File Hippo and TuCows are o.k. but that does not guarantee that you'll never get something you do not want. Always scan your downloads before you open them with a good antivirus program, Like Eset, Kaspersky or Bitdefender....ect.

I can't stand that sh** , mostly for newer programs, too.

 

[SubliminalX7]

ninite is good. ninite dot com. Go there.

 

[iFargle]

+1 for Ninite.
And I like FileHippo.

 

[SubliminalX7]

+1 for Ninite.
And I like FileHippo.

Yeah Ninite is where I go when I setup a new machine. Then I go to filehippo to get applications which Ninite did not have.

 

[iFargle]

I really wish Windows had a package manager like Linux... apt-get can string together multiple installs into one command... Setting up a new *nix machine...

apt-get install cmatrix gparted sshfs blueman autofs nvidia-current vlc terminator htop nload mc fuse-utils ubuntu-restricted-extras gcc git vim tree links nethogs iftop openssh-server docky synapse etc etc etc

 

[SubliminalX7]

I really wish Windows had a package manager like Linux... apt-get can string together multiple installs into one command... Setting up a new *nix machine...

apt-get install cmatrix gparted sshfs blueman autofs nvidia-current vlc terminator htop nload mc fuse-utils ubuntu-restricted-extras gcc git vim tree links nethogs iftop openssh-server docky synapse etc etc etc

I KNOW RIGHT! You can only install one freakin thing at a time with Windows! UNLESS you have Ninite or something like that. But all that does is install programs while others are downloading. So in a sense you really can only install one at a time.

What Linux distribution do you use? I use Kali which is Debian based and I have used Fedora and Ubuntu but currently only Kali is installed.

 

[carnageX]

You can install multiple items at once . Just gotta run each executable - only installers you can't run concurrently are MSI's.