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Solve : The software awards scam? |
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Answer» Full article, a MUST read. The software awards scam I put out a new product a couple of weeks ago. This new product has so far won 16 different awards and recommendations from software download sites. Some of them even emailed me messages of encouragement such as “Great job, we’re really impressed!”. I should be delighted at this recognition of the quality of my software, except that the ’software’ doesn’t even run. This is hardly surprising when you consider that it is just a text file with the words “this program does nothing at all” repeated a few times and then renamed as an .exe. The PAD file that described the software contains the DESCRIPTION “This program does nothing at all”. The screenshot I submitted (below) was similarly blunt and to the point:Do these PHONY files do anything?Nope. It describes exactly what it does. Nothing, proving they never even tested it. They are just after traffic. When launched you got this message. Heh, interesting..........Hmm...what ? weird world!I've never used any of those sites. I never use shareware sites anyway. I'd like to think my sites are pretty trustworthy.Go Snapfiles! Never had a problem with them.Bah...If MajorGeeks or FileHippo doesn't have it I don't need it Any site that hosts a bunch of screensavers is suspect IMHO!! Those almost always pack some sort of extra baggage Lot's of cool stuff on Snapfiles! I think I'll upload some of my software there when it's complete if they will allow. Screensavers- I never Download those. If it isn't interesting enough for me to write myself, it's not worth having. Hey I know where you can get some cool 5 Star Awards for your efforts LMAO.almost everywhere? The only PLACE I've so far uploaded any of my programs to was www.vbcode.com. I never got any awards there- it did get a lot of HITS though. But who knows- maybe these places actually attach spyware and/or malware to uploaded programs? |
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