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Veign:
Just wanted to let everyone know about a new company that is preying on novice computer users to get them to buy a one year membership to download free software.  This company has 27+ domains and is relying on Google Ads and I'm sure other sponsored ad sources to get there pages above developers pages.  I was tipped off when doing a search for Irfanview and with a little research I found a lot of information about the company.

Read about them:
http://www.veign.com/blog/2007/05/software-scammers-prey-on-novice-with.html

Digg the Story to spread the word:
http://digg.com/software/Software_scammers_ripping_people_off_with_free_software

This kinda of stuff bothers me so much as it makes people distrust the internet and small honest companies.

Carol Haynes:
Dugg (is that a real term or should it be Digged?) and commented ...

Everyone should report this scam to Irfanview, Adobe etc. and Google !!

(or alternatively install AdMuncher !! The sponsored ads don't appear then ;))

Veign:
I contacted Irfanview and waiting to see if he returns my email.

Veign:
By-the-by I have never found a good way to report companies like this to Google and Yahoo.  I searched when I was writing about ThinkAll as they were doing something similar.

mouser:
That is absolutely outrageous.  :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

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