{"id":14784,"date":"2015-02-06T08:57:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T07:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/2015\/02\/06\/safe-download-free-software\/"},"modified":"2018-10-02T12:03:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T10:03:10","slug":"safe-download-free-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/2015\/02\/06\/safe-download-free-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Safe download free software"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>When you download a free software you must pay attention to &#8220;fake&#8221; download buttons that often are in free software sites (but not only) like Download.com, Tucows, FileHippo, Softonic, Softpedia, SnapFiles etc&#8230;<br \/>\nJust go over with mouse and you can see that the link is not the real for download.<br \/>\nIf you click you could be redirected to ads pages or even download software that contains adware\/malware.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i57.tinypic.com\/142ublz.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can also use the useful Greasemonkey (Firefox addon) \/ Tampermonkey (Chrome extension) <a href=\"https:\/\/greasyfork.org\/en\/scripts\/4294-antiadware\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fake-Download Bypasser<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/greasyfork.org\/en\/scripts\/4294-antiadware\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AntiAdware<\/a> scripts that allows to download only the real software.<\/p>\n<p>You must also pay attention to the installation procedure of downloaded software as they can include  PUPs (Potentially unwanted programs), like toolbars, background applications that can monitor\/trace user activities, etc&#8230;<br \/>\nThe main raccomandation is to download the software only from <strong>official sites<\/strong> of developers.<\/p>\n<p>During installation process can be show various offers of these unwanted software, just uncheck all the checkboxes or click Decline.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i62.tinypic.com\/20gxzx1.jpg\" width=\"516\" height=\"392\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To avoid the installation of that junkware you can use the free software <a href=\"http:\/\/unchecky.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unchecky<\/a>, it automatically uncheck the checkboxes.<\/p>\n<p>If you had installed that unwanted software accidentally you can use free programs to remove them, there are various one very popular and working good like Malwarebytes, Spybot Search &#038; Destroy, AdwCleaner; they allows you to perform a system scan and the remove the related files and registry entries found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>When you download a free software you must pay attention to &#8220;fake&#8221; download buttons that often are in free software sites (but not only) like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3485],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials-en"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Simone","author_link":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/author\/admin\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/category\/tutorials-en\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Tutorials<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Tutorials<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 12 years ago","modified":"Updated 8 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on February 6, 2015","modified":"Updated on October 2, 2018"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on February 6, 2015 8:57 am","modified":"Updated on October 2, 2018 12:03 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}