Softpedia is fooling everybody, 100% guaranteed by me
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006Not many readers heard of the Softpedia seal “100% clean”. Some Romanian readers have read the interviews Softpedia founders and owners gave to the Romanian media like Evenimentul Zilei, where they say both that they would like better skilled employees, but they pay 300 dollars a month, while shamelessly evaluating their website at a few millions.
With 300 dollars a month, it is hard to keep even a good personal assistant in Bucharest these days, so no wonder that the seal comes together with a button to help you report spyware, which is also read “do our work”. Now, why would I report ad/spyware, when the software is supposedly certified by Softpedia as “100% clean”? Probably their pirated Lavasoft Ad-aware Pro copy stopped working, and you can see that they even certified Sopcast 1.0.1 as clean. (more…)