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Wildman

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« on: January 30, 2013, 11:29:26 PM »
As of late Cnet is getting more and more negative comments as a result of their bundling an use of their own installer for a good many downloads. I suggest that AVAST provide users a choice of cites to use in obtaining it's products and better still make the downloads available from it's own cite. I currently use the FREE version and am very happy with it. I suggest it's use to others, but they get turned off when they are directed to Cnet for the download. I have to tell them it can be obtained from other cites. I have been told they don;t trust products that would even think of using Cnet any longer and are switching from those products. I think this is a tad over reaction but thought ya might want to think about all of this.

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Re: Download cite
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2013, 11:43:52 PM »
As of late Cnet is getting more and more negative comments as a result of their bundling an use of their own installer for a good many downloads. I suggest that AVAST provide users a choice of cites to use in obtaining it's products and better still make the downloads available from it's own cite. I currently use the FREE version and am very happy with it. I suggest it's use to others, but they get turned off when they are directed to Cnet for the download. I have to tell them it can be obtained from other cites. I have been told they don;t trust products that would even think of using Cnet any longer and are switching from those products. I think this is a tad over reaction but thought ya might want to think about all of this.

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When you do the download from Cnet's Download.com site, you wind up with the following:

You'll notice, there is no Download Manager just the straight download of avast!
I personally always get it directly from Avast:
Direct download of avast! Free
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Re: Download cite
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2013, 12:29:55 AM »
Here are the two that I use.

http://filehippo.com/
http://win.softpedia.com/  :)
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Re: Download cite
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2013, 12:35:53 AM »

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Re: Download cite
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2013, 12:39:24 AM »
Here are the two that I use.

http://filehippo.com/
http://win.softpedia.com/  :)
Why is Softpedia displaying the following ???
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Re: Download cite
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2013, 12:43:25 AM »
Worst the screenshots they display are a mixture of the free V.7 and for closed beta version.

http://www.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/Avast-Home-Edition-Screenshot-6474.html
« Last Edit: January 31, 2013, 12:51:23 AM by iroc9555 »

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Re: Download cite
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2013, 12:50:20 AM »
Wonder if this is where some of the screenshots came from ???
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