Adobe Acrobat Reader DC v2023.001.20174 Free - Offline installer.Google Chrome v1.93 - Offline Installer.
Mozilla Firefox v113.0.1 - Offline Installer. I wasn’t redirected, but other users have been – so be on your guard. The installer still contains a PUP (now Opera, a perfectly good browser but a PUP in this context), and I had to give EaseUS my email address and dodge a few upgrade traps. So I did some digging, and found other EaseUS users reporting they’d been redirected to dodgy domains such as ‘’, as well as the site Peter mentioned (here’s a discussion on Reddit: According to company data base MatchDeck, EaseUS owns both these domains (I installed EaseUS ToDo Backup Free to see if I, too, would be sent to a mysterious site – and I wasn’t. I can ’t get to load at all, and it doesn’t sound like part of EaseUS. Then when he ran the installer, his antivirus, Kaspersky, tried to block it.ĮaseUS ToDo Backup Free bundles an Opera PUP in its installer – but that may be the least of its crimesĪt first I assumed that Peter had run into a phishing site posing as EaseUS. Reader Peter Comley wrote to us to say the EaseUS site forcibly redirected him to a third-party site () when he tried to download the installer for ToDo Backup Free. But that may be the leas t of its crimes. A Yahoo search engine and the browser hijacker ByteFence were both bundled in the company’s installers. I’ve slammed EaseUS before for peddling PUPs. Worse, it seems to be redirecting users to sites that may contain malware. It ’s currently exploiting users’ fears about WannaCry and Pety a ransomware to plug its backup software (scroll down for the spiel), and then uses said software to ferry junk into PCs. 
At best, Chinese software firm EaseUS is a junk offender.
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