jcl5fa Posted July 10, 2011 Share Posted July 10, 2011 (edited) I love .NET Paint and use it all the time. I often refer friends to download this free application and have been getting reports that the download contained a bunch of spam. I had assumed my friends simply downloaded the wrong product by mistake; however, I now think I know what they were talking about... Recently I had to download .NET Paint for my new laptop and was SHOCKED to see a GIMP 2 download link confusingly placed inside of the download page for .NET Paint: http://www.getpaint.net/download.html Now I don't want to knock GIMP 2 or any advertiser for .NET Paint, but the download page is very confusing for some. Downloading GIMP 2, a paint program, will install a bunch of spam on your computer if you don't know what your doing. What makes things worse is GIMP 2 is a paint program. That's it. I just wanted to let you all know that some people are being turned off by .NET Paint since their mistakenly downloading GIMP 2... Its a real shame IMHO. Johnny Edited July 10, 2011 by jcl5fa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Brown Posted July 10, 2011 Share Posted July 10, 2011 It's adsense, ads don't have to be manually approved (although I think Rick has the ability to block specific ones). A similar thing is also happening to VLC, unfortunately. If you want to refer friends to Paint.NET without worrying about them downloading the wrong thing, direct them to cnet's Paint.NET page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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