Is Techspot.com legit? Is cnet.com good? Others

[Canada EH]

I keep running into Techspot and want to download a program. I normally use cnet.com for this type of thing. I read that cnet likes to install other crap, so is there a "go to" website for downloading freeware and buyware.

[Enderman]

What are you trying to download...?

Why not just download it from the official website of the software?

[Canada EH]

I am on a new system now.

 

I dont know whether the program I want to download is bad if I go straight to the website.

How do I tell?

 

I just always used cnet.com and did not care about the bloatware.

 

I want to check out Rufus ISO.

 

Which reminds me, I should use a sandbox program.

 

 

[onlybuilt4cubanxlinx]

I wouldn't download anything from cnet. No idea about techspot.

[Clanscorpia]

3 minutes ago, Canada EH said:

I am on a new system now.

 

I dont know whether the program I want to download is bad if I go straight to the website.

How do I tell?

 

I just always used cnet.com and did not care about the bloatware.

 

I want to check out Rufus ISO.

 

Which reminds me, I should use a sandbox program.

 

 

Its never bad on the maker's website unless the program is malware or the website is hacked. Get Rufus from their website

[YedZed]

6 minutes ago, Canada EH said:

I am on a new system now.

 

I dont know whether the program I want to download is bad if I go straight to the website.

How do I tell?

 

I just always used cnet.com and did not care about the bloatware.

 

I want to check out Rufus ISO.

 

Which reminds me, I should use a sandbox program.

 

 

How do you just ignore bloatware? It can literally cripple your PC, in my experience. Aside from viruses that disguise as bloatware...

[Canada EH]

I never had a problem with cnet.com thats why I always used it on the old 2008 AMD HP system.

I would go into Programs and uninstall whatever bloatware it added.

 

I see a website like this

rufus.akeo.ie

and it makes me leary. So I need to somehow check reviews of the program I want to install, but I found on the rare occasion I cant tell one disticnt website from another of the same program.

 

Like this one 8 or so down from the duckduckgo search

rufus-usb.en.softonic.com

 

2nd is cnet, 3rd is techspot, 5th is softpedia

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rufus+iso&t=ffab&ia=web

[WEEEEEE]

I always download from the official website, haven't encountered any problems. 

Also, Rufus is open-source, and it's a standalone exe, so no installers filled with malware there.

[TetraSky]

58 minutes ago, Canada EH said:

I never had a problem with cnet.com thats why I always used it on the old 2008 AMD HP system.

I would go into Programs and uninstall whatever bloatware it added.

 

I see a website like this

rufus.akeo.ie

and it makes me leary. So I need to somehow check reviews of the program I want to install, but I found on the rare occasion I cant tell one disticnt website from another of the same program.

 

Like this one 8 or so down from the duckduckgo search

rufus-usb.en.softonic.com

 

2nd is cnet, 3rd is techspot, 5th is softpedia

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rufus+iso&t=ffab&ia=web

Well if you go on the techspot site(or any other third party download sites), and click the link for the devs, it goes directly to http://rufus.akeo.ie
So yes, that site is legit and you're better off getting it from there without any sort of "download manager" or other crap like that.

[CBojorges]

https://unchecky.com/ this is for protecting you from those pesky installable and toolbars which some programs try to install. 

 

https://rufus.akeo.ie/ this is the link which offers Ubuntu for downloading Rufus, so I'd think it's the real deal.