![]() All I could do was double click the web installer, let it download files and then click next. IIRC, the installer launches a separate setup for the crapware, but you can simply click cancel and proceed with the installation. I did try installing it whilst disconnected from the internet but the installation just hung so I've wiped all traces of it from my laptop and will try IDM instead. There is no opt out function, it's straight up malware. So, even though I was using the old installation software which I'd not had a problem with previously, it was sending out to the JD website to download 'something else'. Thought I'd be clever and use the installer exe file that I still had on my old laptop from a couple of years ago which Norton said was completely safe.īUT.I immediately got a Norton warning that it had blocked JD from trying to install a Trojan, and that there had been' suspicious outgoing traffic'. Reloaded all software one-by-one until it became obvious that JD was the problem. Tried everything to get rid of it - in the end, I did a factory reset on my laptop. Got a new laptop, carefully loaded latest version of JD and it introduced malware ('Search Know Ads', and kept switching my homepage to Yahoo). I've used JDownloader for years without a problem. ![]() ![]() Just loading an older version didn't work for me. ![]()
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