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I viewed a web site offering free download of Fresh View, an image viewr among other things. Has anyone had experience with that software?

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If you mean this “freshdevices” site, I am almost instantly cautious as it offers free driver tuneups & pc tuneups. While this site may be completely innocent, such offers on other sites are known to be methods of installing malware on unsuspecting machines. In short: personally I would be disinclined to test such software – even though it may be a harmless image viewer.

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If you mean this “freshdevices” site, I am almost instantly cautious as it offers free driver tuneups & pc tuneups. While this site may be completely innocent, such offers on other sites are known to be methods of installing malware on unsuspecting machines. In short: personally I would be disinclined to test such software – even though it may be a harmless image viewer.

Depends on your definition of harmless
The utility is OK – but you need a code (freely provided) and they constantly send you emails – then you need to renew the registraion (and revalidate your email every month or so).

I had a few of their utilities (View / Download etc) installed but eventually gave up after multiple “you need to reregister” cycles.

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Depends on your definition of harmless
The utility is OK – but you need a code (freely provided) and they constantly send you emails – then you need to renew the registraion (and revalidate your email every month or so).

I had a few of their utilities (View / Download etc) installed but eventually gave up after multiple “you need to reregister” cycles.

I ran into the same situation. Came across them when I was much more of a newbie. Curiously, I never used any of the software, even after dutifully downloading them repeatedly. Fresh Devices is a one-man operation out of Santa Monica, California as I recall. The click-throughs were the revenue stream for the site.

hth

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