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From the article:

> We guarantee that IOGraph is safe. Softpedia can confirm it!



I love it when banks just add a PNG to their pages with a lock and the word “Secure”.

It’s PNG-secured.


LOL. I've made a living selling downloadable software for the last 19 years. I wouldn't put any stock in anything a download sites says. I'm not sure anything has improved since this little experiment I did in 2007: https://successfulsoftware.net/2007/08/16/the-software-award...


When I was a kid, I built a simple messenger one afternoon. It would send messages to any IP address with the software running on the other end. To show it off at school, I uploaded it to Sourceforge.

Today, this messenger is all over the internet and has won many awards, with rave reviews in several languages.

Regretfully, Softpedia has given it mere 3/5 stars.

Perhaps they had to knock a few stars off considering it’s probably now just an exe not meant to run on Windows of this century, Matryoska doll-ed in malware and installers that random software download sites added to it over decades.


BTW I've got no reason to believe that this particular piece of software (IOGraphica) is doing anything bad.




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