Re: Download Managers

From: nightowlcat@hushmail.com
Date: 02/27/03

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    Leon Pholi writes:
    > Just wondering on thoughts about download managers- do they pose are
    > security risk? Any known to be trojaned? The one I use is GetRight, does
    > anyone know if this one has known security issues?

    You may want to try Fresh Download available through

    http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html

    No spyware whatsoever involved.

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