MACUPDATE DESKTOP REVIEW UPDATE
MACUPDATE DESKTOP REVIEW SOFTWARE

*) NOT to be confused with the MacUpdate discount software bundles.

But their simple and safe usage may get compromised by 'value-added' bundles like these.

MACUPDATE DESKTOP REVIEW UPDATE

MacUpdate also lists a link to the software publisherâ€™s website, allowing the user to check or download an update directly.ĭespite this potentially confusing development, I still think consolidator sites like MU are useful, if only as a means to track update availability. The bundle image also contains a complete Little Snitch updater, albeit not the latest one, but version 3.6. Note that this bundle does NOT appear to contain any adware * *, but may be an attempt to increase the use of MacUpdateâ€™s software auto-updating utility MacUpdate Desktop. It consists of a disk image containing several items, including a small Little Snitch updater file, (apparently to go with) the MacUpdate Desktop app, plus a folder called â€˜Manual Installâ€™ containing the. I first noticed this today with MacUpdateâ€™s Little Snitch 3.6.1 updater. In the latest development (at least as far as I have experienced it), MacUpdate uses what it calls a â€˜ MacUpdate Bundleâ€™ * to update certain software. I plan to update this post when more specifics become available. Suffice it to say that one should NOT run these, but navigate to the original software publisherâ€™s website (a link is present on the softwareâ€™s MacUpdate page) and download the official updater or installer directly from them. So far, not all updaters are adware-bundled (yet), but the fact that MacUpdate is actively â€˜moderatingâ€™ complaints and cautionary comments (scroll down) on the affected pages doesnâ€™t help spotting the ones that are.Ĭontrary to CNetâ€™s, the adware-installer hobbled MacUpdate downloads are not immediately obvious as such only after downloading and opening the XYZ Installer.dmg is the user presented with a nondescript â€™ MacUpdate installerâ€™ instead of the properly named software. Recent developments suggest that MacUpdate may have to be added to such sites, despite previous noises to the contrary. CNetâ€™s (successor to VersionTracker) and Softonic come to mind. In the past couple of years we have had a few threads dealing with download aggregator sites which used â€˜ installersâ€™ bundling genuine updaters with adware.

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