I have just noticed that the Avast Software updater is now using Cnet's Download.com to deliver the updates.
Download.com has long been know to "wrap" its downloads with dangerous (but profitable - for them) crapware (I am trying to be kind).
In fact, Download.com (and others) have been in the news this month (July 2013) for that very issue (including by Tom Merit - former Cnet employee - on "Tech News Today" and Steve Gibson during "Security Now".
While I do appreciate that it must be difficult to provide such a valuable resource (Avast) to so many for so little (free!) can you really justify sending these unsuspecting (and trusting) users into the jaws of the very people they, we (techs) and you (Avast) are trying to protect them from?
Who should I contact at Avast to have them change or remove these links.
Thanks
Ed Barnat
Amgeek.com