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Author Topic: The Worst Downloads of 2008 (CNET)  (Read 8817 times)

wreckedcarzz

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The Worst Downloads of 2008 (CNET)
« on: January 21, 2009, 07:18 PM »
Download.com comes up with some very... whats the word... bizarrely interesting (that seems to fit) software from '08. Check it out here.

Summary:

  • SKAT - Rat card playing game
  • MB Free Psychic Color Test
  • Alien Communicator
  • Psychiatric Diagnosis Suite
  • Automatic Print Email

In the little snippet about "Automatic Print Email", GreenPrint is mentioned - I use this program on ALL my computers, and absolutely love it (I'm not related to GreenPrint in any way other than an end user).

fenixproductions

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Re: The Worst Downloads of 2008 (CNET)
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2009, 04:53 AM »
Hopefully: nothing from DC is mentioned :)

justice

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Re: The Worst Downloads of 2008 (CNET)
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2009, 05:17 AM »
Cheers for the greenprint link, checking it out

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Re: The Worst Downloads of 2008 (CNET)
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2009, 03:02 PM »
Nice find, and an interesting list of infamy.

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Re: The Worst Downloads of 2008 (CNET)
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2009, 04:27 PM »
Wouldn't the worst downloads automatically be anything that came with viruses or other malware, or that file you torrented which ended up with an unknown password on it or was a completely different thing than the download description said?

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Re: The Worst Downloads of 2008 (CNET)
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2009, 04:37 PM »
I love this Greenprint!  Thank you, it's very useful. :Thmbsup:

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Re: The Worst Downloads of 2008 (CNET)
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2009, 05:37 PM »
Wouldn't the worst downloads automatically be anything that came with viruses or other malware, or that file you torrented which ended up with an unknown password on it or was a completely different thing than the download description said?

Shush! It's CNET.  :mad: (sarcasm)

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Re: The Worst Downloads of 2008 (CNET)
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2009, 07:40 PM »
ahhh well to make the list you had to, to quote from the cnet article
To qualify, these downloads have to meet the minimum requirements specified by Download.com in our software policies. That excludes all spyware, adware, and rogue software--which disqualifies public enemy No. 1, the notoriously annoying Antivirus XP 2008 and its many variants, which continue to plague Google ads.

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Re: The Worst Downloads of 2008 (CNET)
« Reply #8 on: January 22, 2009, 08:36 PM »
Grorgy, nice find. I didn't quite spot it.

CNET doesn't exclude buggy software though and from what I understood about the applications, it was more like silliest downloads or worst interfaces rather than a list of bad downloads.