CNet's Download.com now bundling Nmap with malware

Re:CNet's Download.com now bundling Nmap with malware by dangrossman on Monday December 05, 2011 @10:24PM (#3317697)

Yes. Download.com is the 173rd highest traffic site in the world. They're probably pushing over 100-200k downloads a month at least. Nothing compared to the Apple or Android app stores, but still a significant number.

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Re:CNet's Download.com now bundling Nmap with malware by burgerbrain on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @01:02AM (#3318180)

Assuming an average download time of 1 minute, that's merely 5 or so simultaneous downloads at any particular point in time. That is nothing.

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Re:CNet's Download.com now bundling Nmap with malware by peteforde on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @03:40AM (#3318554)

I'm guestimating that you're off by an order of magnitude.

According to Alexa, somewhere between 0.6% and 0.8% of the entire web goes there every day.

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Re:CNet's Download.com now bundling Nmap with malware by jiggy2011 on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @03:46AM (#3318569)

Download.com users are probably over-represented on Alexa simply because of all the tracking crapware they have installed.

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