However, trusting any download portal at all is becoming a difficult task for most people due to the rapid growth of bundled PUPs and the software reviews on the sites that often don’t seem objective. Most of them claim to have “clean and safe downloads” and many portals express this on their website. Since the results were quite disturbing, we decided to look into the habits of other popular download portals to see if they are any better, or whether it’s better to avoid download portals altogether.
We recently researched how many potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) come with the 50 most popular applications on.