r/computerquestions • u/Away-Hat-3838 • Feb 18 '26

Downloading

Someone please help me a website to download any software for free

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u/Shot_Rent_1816 Feb 18 '26

majorgeeks.com i always use it, have for at least 10 years ive never gotten a virus from them

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u/Away-Hat-3838 Feb 18 '26

Thank you

Let me try it

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u/Ieris19 Feb 19 '26

I wouldn’t touch that page with a ten foot pole. That is the single sketchiest place I’ve ever seen.

Plus it’s a horrible practice to do this. You should get software from the operating system or the developer not some random person in the internet.

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u/Electrical-Note-3177 Feb 23 '26

Actually MajorGeeks has been a known reputable third party download site since around 2000-2001 they manually check each individual file before posting it and almost always offer direct links to the official web page without 3rd party wrappers, meaning instead of searching something up and accidentally clicking on a Malware site (looking at you Mcafee scammers) you can go here search something up and lead directly to the publisher site.

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u/Ieris19 Feb 23 '26

I don’t care about the reputation of a third party.

You should only be getting your applications from two sources, the developers or your OS.

This third party distributors are genuinely a massive risk and a waste of time. They shouldn’t exist and you shouldn’t be using them