Downloadme

Posted by Max Lehmann on October 29, 2015

What is Downloadme?

Downloadme is not an application that you should trust entirely even though it is advertised as a great tool. On its official website, you are greeted with statements claiming that it is a smart and up to date application designed to help you with managing your download procedures. Unfortunately such claims are mostly used to fool Internet users into installing an application that our malware researchers have classified as a potentially unwanted program. Such categorization is mostly due to the dubious way that this download manager works and its suspicious means of distributions. In fact, we highly advise you to delete Downloadme as there are very few if any at all valuable features. Read the rest of this report as we include our further findings about the functionality of this tool along with a comprehensive removal guide that will help you terminate this potentially unwanted program. test test test

What does Downloadme do?

If you expect Downloadme to actually help you manage procedures of your downloads, you will be disappointed. This is so because the ways of customizing these processes are not that that great to say the least. In some cases, the download manager might crash randomly, which is annoying and irritating. What is even more invasive is that at times this potentially unwanted program could present you with invasive third-party web content, which usually manifests itself mostly as various commercial ads, coupons, and pop-ups. It goes without saying that such activity will affect your online in a negative way. In addition to such questionable and invasive functionality, this unwanted download manager is known to collect data while it is active on your PC. It gathers information about your online activates like you favorite website, time that you spend on those sites, your geographical IP address, and your ISP (Internet Service Provider). All of this data is shared or sold to various third-parties. This is rather alarming since the developers of Downloadme do not review their third-party associates, which means that the information could be shared with malware developers. These are the main reasons we advise you to delete this potentially unwanted program without any hesitation.

Where does Downloadme come from?

You can download Downloadme from its official website since it hosts a direct download link. Despite this, our reports show that in the majority of cases users obtain this suspicious tool via bundled installers. Generally questionable software bundles are acquired from various third-party hosting websites. Often users do not realize that such web pages are not authorized distributors of software. You can significantly reduce the risk of infecting your PC with any suspicious program by avoiding all such sites and downloading your software from official vendors’ websites only. Also, you need to have a professional malware detection and removal tool to safeguard your PC. Such a tool provides overall system security at all times; it can detect any potentially malicious software on your computer in no time at all as well as it can warn you about any questionable downloads and websites beforehand.

How to remove Downloadme

The removal of Downloadme is, fortunately, rather simple because you can delete this potentially unwanted program via Control Panel. If you wish to be sure that every single bit of this dubious download manager was removed from your PC you need to conduct an in-depth analysis of your operating system. Only after such analysis you can absolutely be sure that Downloadme was terminated completely.