Trailrunner7 writes "Officials at Cnet's Download.com site have issued a picture apologizing for bundling the popular open source Nmap warrant




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assurance audit form with adware that installed a toolbar and changed users' search engine to Microsoft properties. Fyodor, the author of Nmap, raised the issue earlier this week, saying that his app was being wrapped in malware on Download.com. It's not unusual for program sites to bundle free applications with some kind of adware or toolbar, but the creators of open-source applications take a dim view of this practice, given the nature and ethic of open source projects. Nmap is a timeworn
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definition:something given to guarantee the repayme audits and Fyodor wrote in a message to an Nmap mailing list earlier this week that Download.com, which is part of Cnet, a branch of CBS Interactive, was bundling the form with its installer, which, if a user agreed, would install a search toolbar and change the user's search engine to Bing."

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