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Raymond Hill edited this page Jul 5, 2015 · 38 revisions

The sites below are included in the "uBlock filters – Badware risks" -- or are candidates for inclusion. The sites are documented to be badware risks. To quote Wikipedia:

Spyware or other malware is sometimes found embedded in programs supplied officially by companies, e.g., downloadable from websites, that appear useful or attractive, but may have, for example, additional hidden tracking functionality that gathers marketing statistics.

Note the word "risks": not necessarily all downloads on a site may be affected by badware. The block page is there to remind the user to be cautious, and the user is free to dismiss temporarily or permanently the blocked page for the site ahead.

uBlock is not an antivirus, the sole purpose is to remind a user of what is ahead, and the feature is more useful to non-technical users, who are more likely to be the target of badware.

Below are sites currently part of the list, or sites being candidate for the list (will be added once there are enough sources to support the badware risks qualifier), and links giving further information as to why. Feel free to add good sources if you find more (please respect the chronological order, keep everything neat).

download.com

filehippo.com (candidate)

filehorse.com (candidate)

freewarefiles.com (candidate)

majorgeeks.com (candidate)

nonags.com (candidate)

snapfiles.com (candidate)

soft32.com (candidate)

softonic.net

softpedia.com (candidate)

software.informer.com (candidate)

sourceforge.net

tucows.com (candidate)

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