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This redirect--and the corresponding lack of an article on CNET.com--does a major disservice to most readers, who are coming here to learn about the current website with which they have some familiarity. CNET.com is still a very much active site, a top site at that, yet this redirect takes the reader to a website that starts out "CNET Networks, Inc. was a media company". I am going to take steps to help the average reader find what he is looking for. 98.82.34.167 (talk) 05:01, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Installation of adware/malware without user permission

II am a regular Linux user and an occasional Windows user. On January 21st 2014 at 0:30, using Windows 7, I downloaded Ghostscript for Windows from download.cnet.com. It was near the top in Google and since I never had had any major problem with that website before I did not bother to choose another one. I was a bit surprised to see a fullscreen popup with ads appearing but I managed to close it rather easily without even reading and without accepting anything. I did not think about this anymore until today, after having experienced several occurrences of unexpected and heavy disk activity, when I noticed that an unknown program named Mobogenie was first in my taskbar. Checking browser history and file dates, I could immediately see that Mobogenie.exe had been installed at the same time as Ghostcript. Looking at the list of automatically started programs (msconfig.exe/startup) I noticed Mobogenie, Conduit Search Protect and nengine.dll. I could uninstall Mobogenie but had to restart Windows before I could uninstall Conduit Search Protect. I also removed the 3 entries from the startup of course. As you can easily figure out on the web, those programs are adware/malware which collect your data and attempt to hijack your browser search engine default and home page (though I did not experience this). I must also mention that Windows protection feature ("Do you want to allow program XXX to make changes on your computer") was active. I guess the authorization was taken by cheating with my authorization of the Ghostscript installer. I have now blacklisted download.cnet.com. Cheers, Alexandre Alexandre Oberlin (talk) 21:49, 24 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Why is the criticism section devoid of all the IT and CyberSec professional claims that attest and scream that CNET is a malware nest? 63.239.65.11 (talk) 19:41, 23 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the move request was: No consensus for the move (non-admin closure) — Andy W. (talk · ctb) 04:29, 23 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

CNET → CNet – It's not an acronym, so "grand-capping" it as "CNET" is against MOS:CAPS and MOS:TM (cf. Sony not SONY, etc.) The SCREAMING ALL-CAPS is just one of their former logo stylizations.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  09:09, 10 August 2016 (UTC) --Relisting. Anarchyte (work | talk) 06:38, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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