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Why You Should Never Download From Softonic<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n We just received a request from someone who asked us for help getting rid of Softonic. Her request led us to write this post as a reminder to steer clear of Softonic when downloading or searching for software.<\/span><\/p>\n While Softonic claims to have improved its practices, there are still many good reasons to steer clear of them when searching for software.<\/span><\/p>\n Though Softonic claims to have cleaned up its act (and by this claim admits they’ve bundled software in the past) the potential for downloading bundled software from Softonic remains high. <\/span><\/p>\n Softonic has a history of bundling software with the likes of toolbars, download managers, and other useless or harmful software, with other downloads, that install automatically without clear user consent. While they claim they’ve stopped this practice, users are still encountering bundled software.<\/span><\/p>\n A high risk of malware: While Softonic says they scan for malware, there’s no guarantee they do. Reports of malware-laden downloads from Softonic persist.<\/span><\/p>\n Softonic is famous for unclear licensing terms, making it difficult to understand if the software you download from Softonic is <\/span>free for personal use or requires a paid license.<\/span><\/p>\n And, though less concerning, Softonic has a reputation for offering outdated software. You might be downloading old outdated software from Softonic which may lack security updates.<\/span><\/p>\n We strongly recommend that you not download anything from Softonic. When you search for software downloads, Softonic seems to appear near the top on the search results page. We recommend SnapFiles<\/span><\/strong><\/a> and MajorGeeks<\/span><\/strong><\/a> for downloading software. If you are searching for a particular software program or just browsing downloads, SnapFiles<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, and MajorGeeks<\/a><\/strong><\/span> are both great choices for clean, unadulterated, unbundled, clean software.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why You Should Never Download From Softonic We just received a request from someone who asked us for help getting rid of Softonic. Her request led us to write this post as a reminder to steer clear of Softonic when downloading or searching for software. While Softonic claims to have improved its practices, there are still\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1655,1669,3602],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27932"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27950,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27932\/revisions\/27950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}