Not a great sign for the longevity of the free software market really. Seems like lots of the old classic free software/sites have fallen into this over time (c.f. Seemed like good software before, useful for burning stuff to a CD, looked legitimate and you'd think if they're asking for money for their various products they wouldn't resort to this kind of horrible thing and completely destroy their brand, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Really sad to see this happening to Daemon Tools too, I used to use them constantly back in the day. This issue, ridiculously, also affects paying users (although not always as I have gathered). If you go on the forums you will find the developers defending this sh*t!? and just being delusional thinking this is at all acceptable. If you do happen to get infected, make sure you stop the virus from starting with your computer (in my case it was masked under "pximouse" in the startup tab, "ConstantFun" in Program Files and registry, TiltWheelMouse process, Service Mgr ConstantFun service). It is very hard to remove and will cause a ton of ads to pop up whenever you are browsing. I have downloaded it from their official website so nobody else is to blame. You dont need Daemon Tools anymore for ISO files at all. In Windows 8.x and higher you can just double click an ISO file, or right click and open as Windows Explorer. The software now installs a virus (adware) on your computer as part of the install, even if you make sure to select not to install anything extra when it gives you the option. Its ok, Im gonna make a bootable usb and fresh install it as I did not find a way to get rid of the virus.
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