Sentences with phrase «junkware on»

Rather than pushing junkware on you at install - time, they may regularly pop up warnings and other messages, encouraging you to install other software or pay for services.

LG and your carrier have probably colluded to cram a healthy portion of junkware on your shiny new phone, so you ought to go through and clear all that out.

PC manufacturers include all kinds of junkware on their new PCs, and there are probably other horrifically vulnerable bits of junk software on other manufacturer's PCs.

Sure, there are many more BitTorrent clients for Windows, but these are our favorite ones that won't try to install junkware on your system.

Not exact matches

This so - called bloatware — also known as junkware or crapware — is preinstalled software that lands on new PCs and laptops, and some Android devices.

They then put GIMP downloads back up on SourceForge, wrapped in SourceForge's own junkware - filled installer.

But using critical security updates to the most vulnerable piece of software on Windows as an opportunity to push more junkware onto users computers?

Furthermore, the antivirus we recommend on Windows — Microsoft's built - in Windows Defender — is far lighter on resources, and doesn't contain any of the extra junkware, ads, or paid upgrades other antivirus suites do.

Many software projects offer downloads on their own websites and these downloads can be clean, although many software projects make money by adding junkware to their own downloads.

DevShare does require a project owner «opt in» to enable this feature on their project, although they're now hosting a variety of projects bundled with junkware against the wishes of their developers.

Much of the nastiest adware arrives the same way it does on Windows, via junkware - packed installers from application - downloading sites like download.com or via shady advertisements that push you to an unofficial, tainted installer.

Sometimes Samsung's additions can feel a bit heavy - handed, but there is definitely far less clutter and junkware than we've seen on earlier Samsung phones.

It can currently detect and remove over 250 junkware variants and apart from Windows 10, it also runs on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1, both 32 - bit and 64 - bit.

Most people focused on the storage improvements and missed the implications for manufacturer - installed junkware.

Perhaps they're flinching away from being too controlling because of the monopoly trial, or perhaps they just don't want to upset all their hardware partners who depend on this junkware for profits.

You'll also find none of the clutter that other vendors like HTC, Samsung and LG throw on top of Android, and it's free of all the carrier junkware you would find on most phones sold in the United States.

It doesn't attempt to install any junkware or toolbars on your system, and we're not aware of any time in the past that BitDefender Free actually bundled toolbars or similar junk.

You may have «junkware» on your system like browser toolbars, search engine changers, Bitcoin miners, and other types of obnoxious programs that just exist to make their creator money.

There's no distracting layer of junkware and hosts of duplicate apps, as on third - party Android phones.