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Qmmp description:Qmmp description at MajorGeeks:My removed comment:I get the impression that MajorGeeks is run by a bunch of idiots (or perhaps a single idiot)- not only they didn't correct their 100% erroneous description of Qmmp but they also deleted my comment.

I've run into that on a lot of sites. It's really arbitrary and frustrating.

They have a disclaimer in the comments about how "pointing out listing errors will be deleted" and require that you email them. What an odd policy, especially as two people are asking very legitimate questions about the program but efforts to answer them are somehow against policy? What a bizarre and contradictory system.

So many questions:

• Why delete the messages but ignore the content? What if it was listing Audacity as a star chart program?
• Where did they get a "Quicktime" requirement in the first place?
• I've got to give them my email address to get them to stop doing something stupid? How many people actually email them about issues?
• [Maybe most importantly] How many errors are up on Majorgeeks because of this?

This whole episode was disappointing, though I'll admit not really using Majorgeeks that often. I actually like the color scheme but find the interface a bit cluttered.

I emailed the included address and that appeared to finally work.

I noticed that MajorGeeks injected "Visit Majorgeeks.com" link into SIV archive (siv.zip):

File information about System Information Viewer version 5.14 downloaded from FileCroco (official mirror):
Name: siv.zip
File Size: 5931707 Byte(s) (5.66 MB)
MD5: 3cddead5b466c44e2289fe783dba45c3
SHA1: 8c0c87b8905253d8976ada672fded066867f80f4
SHA256: 701305e480cef280ac0dc5c9865235cdcdf701d1f860cdd1fffc934dc82fdfb8
CRC32: 76c35c54
VirusTotal analysis - Detection ratio: 0 / 55

File information about System Information Viewer version 5.14 downloaded from :
Name: siv.zip
File Size: 5932158 Byte(s) (5.66 MB)
MD5: 9fee5e7c3031f0ffa0beec8ab2eb9d7c
SHA1: 1edea2899f399fd8f0253750387d1b913ab7aff3
SHA256: 7fa3cb7b335e5c50b1862a4b7225a474e77a09939a1746378a1d46e7049d46d7
CRC32: eb97cdca
VirusTotal analysis - Detection ratio: 0 / 55

This link injection may seem innocuous but for me it is not. I can no longer trust MajorGeeks as a download source.

Most likely Softpedia got System Information Viewer version 5.14 from MajorGeeks- they offer for download the same archive with the same "Visit Majorgeeks.com" link and it seems that they did not bother to check the archive.

Interesting. Additionally, I'm getting a malware warning from the Softpedia download that is not triggered from the home page.



(From Firefox)

This link injection may seem innocuous but for me it is not.

I can't find a license with a "no-modify" clause that would make link injection a license violation but the malware warning would seem to suggest that program modification throws the program into a sort of "danger" list, which is bad for everyone.

Thank goodness for the prevalence of hashes and the 100s of different checking programs.

I've never trusted MG. The pages I've seen don't make it clear where to find the original site of a piece of software they offer for download.

MajorGeek has a lot of stuff but should be used as a news-feed only type site IMO, and use an ad-blocker for Christ sake, they have many times served up bad ad's that have caused some Antivirus's to go off, I don't really trust them.

Their descriptions are pretty bad as well, I remember their description for Flash (I know it terrible, but still be professional) it went something like "Flash is a lightweight lol..."

MajorGeek's would be better if they clearly listed the changelogs for the updates, much like here.

When I post a useful comment trying to help users my comment gets deleted:



I will not waste my time on MajorIdiots website