

I've found those two, but they are from the pre-release of JD2. 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. JDownloader 2 Clean Installers (No Adware) 1. 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'.
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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.

We also received a further round of complaints mid-2014. Several sources have told us that the JDownloader install contains adware, including the developer’s own forums. If you chose to ignore this advice and install JDownloader using the standard installer packages, then you run the risk of installing adware on your system. Does Jdownloader Have Adware The JDownloader download manager is written in Java and allows you to automatically download groups of files from your hosting site.

Got a new laptop, carefully loaded latest version of JD and it introduced malware ('Search Know Ads', and kept switching my homepage to Yahoo). That said, it’s important to only download/install it using the safe method described above. I've used JDownloader for years without a problem. Just loading an older version didn't work for me.
