Google Search marks Softpedia as a harmful website

[Chewy]

use firefox to go there and then try finding what you need at more reputatble sites

Mcafee tested 11962 downloads and only found a few bad one

the site hosts many more than that which change daily

[admin]

Just avoid things that are likely to be bad, such as "ACME Screensaver Pro" or something like that. I don't think it's a case where Softpedia is deliberately putting malware on their software (and most likely, it's adware/spyware, not virii/trojan), it's just publishers of malware products submitting their "software" to Softpedia and Softpedia's approach to stopping bad software isn't as good as they claim.

[Chewy]

what about the possibility of drive by malware thru advertising on the site? I got that impression earlier looking at the scripting