Never download software from software download sites<article>
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You may not need to read this column for yourself, but read it nonetheless and help those with less wariness take better heed: Don’t download software for OS X from anywhere but the developer’s own website or Apple. Period.</p><p>
For many longtime Mac users, this is obvious advice. Long ago, maybe even with System 6 or 7, you learned the hard way or through observation about malware, including both viruses and Trojan Horses. Maybe it came later, after the Internet grew, but many developers couldn’t afford fast pipes or enough bandwidth, and you wound up getting installers for software that were larded with crap.</p><p>
Congratulations to you for having gotten so savvy, but there are an untold millions of Mac users who didn’t go through those tough lessons or observations. Many download sites have tweaked their “Google juice”—aka their search-engine optimization or SEO–so that they appear as a result above the legitimate developer of a software product. That developer has likely not authorized them to offer their product for free download, because there’s no benefit to the software maker to have someone go to another site, and a lot of room for blame if something goes wrong.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3000984/mac-apps/never-download-software-from-software-download-sites.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Never download software from software download sites
