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Jun-5-08

Don’t risk Ares Destiny

posted by Laura

I looked up Ares Destiny recently. On the face of it everything seemed good: I use filesharing software regularly and I felt that its was time for a change, and Ares Destiny offered me the chance to do this entirely for free. Wooohooo!

So off I went, found the site quite easily and had a look around .The site is uncluttered and professional looking. I quickly found the download button and within seconds the file was on my computer. I started the install process and, in a rare pleasant surprise, I found that easy to follow. 10 minutes later and I’m downloading my favorite music tracks onto my computer.

Ares Destiny makes filesharing easy, as you would expect from any offshoot of the Ares software. The interface might look a bit bland and occasionally a little tire but it does its job. You’re here to download files, not look at interfaces, anyway.

But then the reality hit home. All this Ares filesharing niceness was for nothing as Ares Destiny had installed Dealio on my computer. Dealio, in case you haven’t had the misfortune to come across it before, is a nasty little application that gives you ads on your computer. It’s very likely that you don’t want these ads, and trying to get rid of Dealio is a bit of a mission in itself.

Unfortunately what started out as a decent enough piece of software is fatally flawed by spy ware. Stay away from Ares Destiny.

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