Hi Spiritsongs,
Afraid I have to agree with you here, if you go by the all green by siteadvisor on the google search result place, you'd believe the site is "kasher" but then when you see this:
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/download.com?safesearchyou have to expect 3 to 8 mails sent involuntarily, and a link to WhenU which Ben Edelman classifies as unsolicited adware.
Dr Web classifies the link as free of malware. But I would not like to trust a site that has a "tinge" of adware links.
polonus
PS CharleyO Could you put your remarks on download.com to the review for siteadvisor.