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If I see someone being immoral I'm going to tell them "how to make their living" not because I hope they are going to be so inspired as to change for the better because you and I both know that's not going to work.

I do so because I hope other people will listen and stop doing business with them leading to a decrease in profit and THEN changed behaviour from the culprit.

There is lots of factual information. They are factually doing a lot of malware like behaviour in their installer and bundling software from questionable sources they have no control over. At best they are putting their customers at risk.

The only facts that can possible emerge is that its actually worse and customers are getting their identities stolen or some such.

Rabble rousing is literally the only way anything gets fixed.




Okay, but malware "like" is not actually malware. If it turns out that it is, then ofcource why would anyone support a malware distributor.

>They are factually doing a lot of malware like behaviour in their installer and bundling software from questionable sources they have no control over.

Their explanation was that AV vendors flag their competitors, so now in the 'arms race', competitors have resorted to downloading individual bits from random URLs and then merging them together. While this would be a technique that malware software would use to possibly defeat security software, but hey, its also how torrents work. Tools can be used for good or bad.


Their explanation is obviously a lie they are getting around Antivirus software flagging it as adware.




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