Not only when I download something from SourceForge these days am I presented a proxy-downloader that tries to sell me on installing some unsolicited system utility — like a browser home page take over — it manages to install some other bullshit system utilities as well. Holy shit. This is not the Sourceforge I used to use. It is seriously WASTING MY TIME and making me HATE free (as in beer) software on Windows! Can’t they tell how much they are pissing in the well?
All I wanted to do was install Filezilla. Now I have crap to uninstall as well. Who at OSDL or FSDL or knumbskull.com do I have to strangle to stop this?
Update: Malwarebytes just popped up and said it blocked some malware. It started scanning and found four new bits of badness on my filesystem and asked me to reboot. Sure.
Filed under: computing, Windows Tagged: cheap bastards, freeware, frustration, open source, spyware, takeover, Windows
