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<blockquote data-quote="pm-r" data-source="post: 1862744" data-attributes="member: 175845"><p>Wow...!!! Talk about quoting a post from the dead past member thread!!!</p><p></p><p>Anyway, as to the safety of downloads from MacUpdate, I nor any of the local Mac users I know have not had any trouble with it but the user should certainly <em><strong>read any installer notice very carefully</strong></em> to confirm what might be getting installed.</p><p></p><p>The worst contaminated software I ever came across and downloaded was from one of the "Legit" Open-source software sites. Another one contained a copy of the invasive, dubious <span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>MacKeeper</strong></span><span style="font-size: 18px">!!!</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">MacUpdate.com was seemingly providing some corrupted software for download for a short time, but they clamped down and cleaned things up and even provided an apology disclosure notice of the situation. That was quite a while ago.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Anyway, I still suggest downloading from the developer's site if and whenever possible, but do use MacUpdate to read the user's comments being mindful of any possible bogus comments and reviews.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>- Patrick</p><p>=======</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pm-r, post: 1862744, member: 175845"] Wow...!!! Talk about quoting a post from the dead past member thread!!! Anyway, as to the safety of downloads from MacUpdate, I nor any of the local Mac users I know have not had any trouble with it but the user should certainly [I][B]read any installer notice very carefully[/B][/I] to confirm what might be getting installed. The worst contaminated software I ever came across and downloaded was from one of the "Legit" Open-source software sites. Another one contained a copy of the invasive, dubious [SIZE=4][B]MacKeeper[/B][/SIZE][SIZE=5]!!![/SIZE] [SIZE=4]MacUpdate.com was seemingly providing some corrupted software for download for a short time, but they clamped down and cleaned things up and even provided an apology disclosure notice of the situation. That was quite a while ago. Anyway, I still suggest downloading from the developer's site if and whenever possible, but do use MacUpdate to read the user's comments being mindful of any possible bogus comments and reviews.[/SIZE] - Patrick ======= [/QUOTE]
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