Luckily for users, alternative download sites exist. The only way to avoid this new installer is to log into CNET and clicking the small Direct Download link:

Only after accepting or declining these toolbars will you actually be allowed to install your own software. You’ll notice that, before letting you actually download anything, it wants to install a new toolbar, change your search engine, and even change your homepage. Not only that, but it complicates the already complicated process of installing new software. Starting this new web installer, you’ll notice that it’s a four step process in place of a one-step process. (Firefox is several megabytes, not 400KB!) Wait, what?Īfter downloading a program from, you’ll notice that it’s not actually an installer–just another downloader. However, now bundles its own crapware with those software developers’ code you download from its site.

Luckily, software developers know people hate this and have taken to bundling less and less with their code. This means downloader’s computers get filled to the brim with stuff they don’t want and stuff they’ll never use. One of the worst parts of bundled software is that the vast majority of people don’t actually read installers as they go by, they simply click NEXT NEXT NEXT NEXT.

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