01 Extras
People love free. But if the income of a program does not come from the users, software developers often combine additional programs from third parties, for which they are paid by the third party to connect to it. Is still relatively harmless as, for example, a trial version of a commercial program is installed together, but it can also worse. For example if the start page of your browser is adjusted and you suddenly have another search engine that you can no longer change.
If you think that only shadowy programmers are guilty of bundled software, we must get out of the dream help: even reputable companies trying. So what happens when you do not pay attention to bringing in Adobe Reader or Java also McAfee Security Scan Plus on your computer.
02 Bait advertising
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Some free programs are actually inducements to persuade you to buy a commercial program. Take for example a tool to optimize your system. This category is notorious that they install junk, but sometimes it is even more insidious. Such a free program for instance takes place during the optimization of your computer to solve a variety of known problems and issues that you have to pull the purse for the Pro version. Do you do anything? Then the program continues to sow fear (because more often not) by your regularly report that your system is at risk or problems to be solved quickly
03 Problems prevent
In order to avoid problems with downloaded programs we have developed a number of precepts. This will help you in many cases avoid the misery, but they are not one hundred percent waterproof. If your system still rising slightly, it is useful to return to a previous situation. The program Toolwiz Time Machine (see from step 9 to 12), this is possible and you can safely experiment with software. All adjustments are disappearing to turn back by restarting from a recovery point or through your computer.
Sandboxie and VirtualBox
The precepts and solutions discussed in this article make sure that you download safer and can experiment with programs. Two additional enhancements which we do not want to remember his Sandboxie and VirtualBox. Sandboxie offers for 15 euros an isolated experimental environment where you can safely operate without your computer or files at risk. The free VirtualBox provides a bare virtual machine you can install Windows (or other OS). The VirtualBox system operates completely independently of your Windows operating system. Everything goes wrong in your VirtualBox system remains in the VirtualBox system. VirtualBox also has a snapshot function to take a snapshot of the virtual machine.
04 Download Administrators
Some websites are very well found by Google and appear reliable. , but the programs that are offered there are possible adapted. If you search on Google for example, ccleaner , you see https://www.piriform.com/CCLEANER first result and http://ccleaner.nl.softonic.com second in the list. The first link will take you to the website of the creators of this popular tool, but with the release of CCleaner you will be offered via the second link gives you allow a download manager inside. Download managers are completely unnecessary. If you’re lucky, the download manager installs end the program, but in practice there is fanatically tried to install all kinds of junk that can accommodate even spyware
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