[LMB] OT: AKICOL PDF transformerbot

[Michael Bauminger]

On Monday, May 19, 2008 11:10 PM, Kirsten Edwards 
<carbonelle at juno.com> wrote:

> Michael B. <snip> points me to
> this link:
>
> http://www.primopdf.com/
>
> Has anyone downloaded a free PDF wossname from this site?
>
> Because I can google with the best of them, but I lack
> the Fu that would inform me what ELSE I'm downloading
> with the "Free" ware I've found on the web.

Primus, I would not knowingly send you to a site where you 
would download malware. While I have not tested this 
software myself, I am reasonably certain you will get only 
what you are looking for with this particular program. (See 
"Secundus".)

Secundus, this is a "loss leader" type application. The 
company that makes this software is looking to get you to 
its website to download the app so that you will instead 
download the "Professional" version that costs money and has 
more features. In general, when you go to the site of an 
established company that is selling its software retail, and 
also has crippled versions it gives away, you can be easy 
that they are not giving you malware with the crippled 
versions, otherwise no one would by the retail versions.

-- Michael