Good evening Dr_Wholmes and Welcome to the Community! 

 

I personally have found CNET downloads to be the opposite; however, I had no trouble downloading Duplicate-File-Finder ( http://download.cnet.com/Duplicate-File-Finder/3000-2248_4-10300084.html )

 

Could you possibly elaborate a bit more?

 

TIA

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Sure thing. I am trying to find certain files in a pile of somewhat randomized recovered files. I find the basic file searching capabilities of Win 7 to be lacking in functionality, so I thought I would just download a free program from CNET, as I've done many times before when all I want is a simple, quick solution to a small need. I tried maybe half a dozen such programs, and WR throws up a flag each time, then deletes the offending file. It may well be that each of them actually IS infected with something annoying; it just seemed odd to me to have that much bad luck at once. I guess my question really is whether or not I should trust that WR is more likely to be just doing its job than it is to be just overcautious in this case.

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Welcome Dr_Wholmes,



Great to have you here! Are you aware of this KB article here.. http://live.webrootanywhere.com/content/592/Enabling-Disabling-Shields



If you have anymore questions don't hesitate to ask!



Best Regards,

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Well, IMHO - and this is my personal point of view as a Webroot user - YES; I trust what WR tells me 99.9% of the time.  There are somerare  instances where the info may not be current; e.g. BrightCloud data not being up-to-date but, that is rarely the case.   So, if WR is saying something is wrong, then something is wrong.

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CNET used to be great but now its full of PUA wrapped software. Your probably getting a detection for the PUA wrapper more than the program itself.

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