Download.com Bundling Adware With Free Software

Zocalo writes "In a post to the Nmap Hackers list Nmap author Fyodor accuses Download.com of wrapping a trojan installer (as detected by various AV applications when submitted to VirusTotal) around software including Nmap and VLC Media Player. The C|Net installer bundles a toolbar, changes browser settings, and, potentially, performs other shenanigans — all under the logo of the application the user thought they might have been downloading. Apparently, this isn't the first time they have done this, either."

Downloading free software is theft

[Anonymous Coward]

Can we all agree that downloading free software is stealing from poor programmers who have to live in their mother's basement because they're so poor they cannot even afford their own place? And that as we can read in TFA downloading free software supports criminal activities, and is therefore terrorism? And that this probably means you're a communist child-abusing terrorist?

-- Yes, this was a joke, and no, I don't have a good sense of humor.

Re:Downloading free software is theft

[phrostie]

but are they required now to gpl the virus and adware?