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California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Scam and phishing
January 15, 2025

Somehow, they gained access to my phone and kept sending notifications claiming that my Chrome app, Facebook, and several other apps had been hacked. The notifications urged me to click on them before it was too late.

In response, I went through all my apps and deleted them one by one—over 100 apps—thinking it would solve the problem. I had to spend countless hours. Despite this, the issue persisted. I spent hours upon hours over the course of a couple of weeks trying to stop these constant pop-up notifications.

I was on the verge of doing a factory reset when a friend recommended taking my phone to his friend's repair shop. Thankfully, he was able to fix the problem—hopefully, it doesn't return.

Now, I need to spend even more time finding and reinstalling all my apps. I couldn't sleep, couldn't work, and felt like I was going crazy for two weeks. I lost so much time that I can't get that back.

I want to sue the company responsible for this so that it doesn't happen to anyone else. However, I'm unsure if I can since they're not based in the U.S.

Date of experience: January 15, 2025
Australia
140 reviews
751 helpful votes
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Do not enter this site! Its covered in malicious content and viruses. It will also install a key-logger into your computer that is well hidden and hard to remove. I suggest blocking this site on Google.

Date of experience: July 1, 2011
District of Columbia
1 review
13 helpful votes
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This site is set up to hammer you with advertisement that is self-serving to them. They advertise software without the authors permission in order to get you to their site via the authors popularity. They are shifty at best. They make sure they come up first in search engines before an official listing from the legitimate manufacturer. They refuse to remove their illegal and unsolicited listing of a manufacturers product when requested by the manufacturer to not falsely advertise their product. They pretend to be a legitimate and official representative to other peoples products. They are an unauthorized company that has no legal grounds to represent products that they didnt advertise. If you buy anything through them or download anything through them, good luck and do at your own risk.

Date of experience: August 20, 2016
Mexico
5 reviews
41 helpful votes
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Good thing my nod32 stopped my download from this site, yes, this is a VERY malicious website that will try installing trojan's. Google should ban these sites.

Date of experience: February 13, 2014
Pennsylvania
13 reviews
102 helpful votes
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Don't be Tricked!
July 5, 2015

This website is a virus farm which will completely destroy your computer and litter it with so many viruses and trojans. You will have to either get your whole computer fixed or get a new one.

Date of experience: July 5, 2015
Macao
1 review
6 helpful votes
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You will not download the website you searched for
Instead it will give you a program that will hijack your computer in every way possible.
Don't download anything.

Date of experience: June 27, 2022
Texas
5 reviews
16 helpful votes
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Do NOT go on this website
December 23, 2018

I downloaded a software here and got a virus. Contacted them on twitter, They said everything was checked by over 30 antiviruses. I Trusted them, they lied

Date of experience: December 23, 2018
India
11 reviews
32 helpful votes
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Want free games and free softwares go to softonic u can get anything you need

Date of experience: June 9, 2015