It's called BLOATWARE. There is nothing MALicious about it.

On Dec 6, 2011, at 4:24 PM, ron at ron-l-j.com wrote:

> I will be at the meeting and I am bringing friends. If you type nmap in to
> your browser your first result should be nmap.org. Do not use search terms
> like "download" "download driver". Most of the time source forge is the
> best place to get your code from. Softpedia and cnet have been malware
> loaded for years. Softpedia used to be ok but it is just awful now with
> adds all over and its tricky just to get what you want. Most of the time a
> .org site is safe than any .com site. I take it you hit Cnet with windows?
> ,Ron