This was first brought to my attention by a post on the Apple Support Communities, in which it was discovered that a number of new browser extensions were added following the install of a program that had been downloaded from. Unfortunately, I have just found hard evidence that these practices are continuing, almost 2 years later, with Mac downloads. This in particular angered Fyodor, the developer of the open source network mapping tool Nmap, so severely that he sent a strongly-worded e-mail to a security mailing list, leading to CNET being widely reviled by the developer community. In particular, they have been known to insert their own adware in downloaded installers, contrary to the wishes (and without the knowledge) of the developers whose software is being hijacked. October 29th, 2013 at 8:41 AM EDT, modifiedÄ has been accused of unethical behavior in the past.
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