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Seriously, we don't recommend doing this at home on your primary PC, unless you want to make your computer a smoking pile of useless. If you do want to try it, make sure to use a virtual machine.
Time to begin. But where to begin?
The first thing we did was head straight to the Windows downloads page and take a look at their Most Popular Downloads. The list seems puzzling, almost like it's not really the real list. Why would almost everybody download... YAC? Have you used YAC? It's... a bunch of YAK. This list is suspect and never seems to change. That's suspect. Oh well, onward.
The plan is to download and install the top 10 apps, but as you can see in the list, the top two apps are both antivirus, and since we aren't crazy people, we're not going to install more than one active antivirus at a time. And despite a lapse in judgement by Avast in the past, we still prefer Avast over AVG (the Avast people were up-front and honest in response to our article and their product is just better in our testing). So we're going to install that one and skip AVG. Surely that will be free from any bundled crapware, right?
Well... it's not crapware. Dropbox is awesome. But yeah, the bundling starts here. Free software vendors make so much more money by bundling other software than they do by selling subscriptions that it's pretty much the only business plan that anybody can consider using. At least Avast is bundling something good, so we can't really argue with it.
Our story ends here, but hopefully we've all learned some important lessons from this quick journey through the world of crapware. Freeware software vendors make almost all of their money by bundling complete nonsense and scareware that tricks users into paying to clean up their PC, despite the fact that you could prevent the need to clean up your PC by just not installing the crappy freeware to begin with.
And no matter how technical you might be, most of the installers are so confusing that there's no way a non-geek could figure out how to avoid the awful. So if you recommend a piece of software to somebody, you are basically asking them to infect their computer.
And it doesn't matter which antivirus you have installed -- we've actually done this experiment a number of times with different antivirus vendors, and most of them completely ignored all of the bundled crapware. Avast did a pretty good job this time compared to some of the other vendors, but it didn't block all of it for sure.
There are also no safe freeware download sites... because as you can clearly see in the screenshots in this article, it isn't just CNET Downloads that is doing the bundling... it's EVERYBODY. The freeware authors are bundling crapware, and then lousy download sources are bundling even more on top of it. It's a cavalcade of crapware.
Each time we ran through this experiment over the last few months, different software would end up being bundled in a rotation, but every single software that bundles itself ends up bundling the same culprits: browser hijackers that redirect your search engine, home page, and put extra ads everywhere.
Because when the product is free the real product is YOU.
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