Resolved scam repair site: Major Geeks

Ditto. MajorGeeks is a great site.

 

Yeah, it is most likely an advertisement link that you clicked on which redirected you to that reimage website. That ad is not affiliated with MG so I would advise that you don't click on ads like that since most of those ads lead to websites promoting rogue software.

 

That's a questionable statement.

 

I know but I said most ads not all of them.

Let me clarify, I am basing that statement off my experience when visiting download sites. Most of the time when I'm downloading a program from any download site including MG I see an ad that when clicked on advertises a registry cleaner or a system optimizer of some sort which more often then not turns out to be rogue.

It may not happen all the time but based on my experience I see it happen a lot.

 

Agreed.

However some reputable site should be paying more attention to who advertise on their site.
ReImage belongs to the very same same category as SpeedUpMyPC, Registry Booster etc.
So called miracle tools, which don't really do anything but may harm your computer.

I had very personal experience while testing ReImage.
See here: http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php?topic=73633.0 (very long thread).
Among other things ReImage representative PMed me and tried to convince me to EDIT my postings so ReImage doesn't look so bad.

 

It was totally pathetic...

 

I thought it was a pretty funny but a bad attempt all the same for that representative to try and convince you to change your opinion about that shady product.

If the marketing managers/directors of that ReImage program were threatening you to alter your negative feedback of that program in your post, especially since you did some thorough testing of the application, proves that the company is not to be trusted.

If that happened to me I would probably just blow those people off and warn as many members as possible about programs like that.

 

My favorite download site is SnapFiles.

http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/freeware.html

 

For me, my download site of choice is Filehippo because its pretty easy to navigate.

http://filehippo.com/.

 

Majorgeeks IS a reputable site, however the site's pages are cluttered and can easily confuse people.

Decent free software downloads are usually hosted at several community sites such as Majorgeeks so as to reduce the amount of bandwidth used for downloads at the software developer's sites. (it costs them more money when gigabits of downloads build up) It also gets their products in the eyes of more people.

To offset these costs, sites such as Majorgeeks host the developers' software and they make money from the ads at their sites.

Some of these 3rd party sites are easy to navigate and some are so cluttered that one's attention gets dispersed easily. This is intentional; more clicks on ads = more money for the site.

What makes it worse is those sites don't have full control over the content of the ads, they just allocate space on their pages for the ads (width & height of ad boxes). Thus, a misleading ad could state something like "Your Download Is Here. "

My post in another thread, which led to this thread being created by dispatch trophy stated:

I linked to the download at Majorgeeks because MS does not offer that download anymore. I was weary about what I posted because I knew in advance that dispatch trophy could find the site misleading, which is why I said, "...beneath DOWNLOAD LOCATIONS heading. "

That dispatch trophy ended up downloading something other than intended proves that Majorgeeks clutter can be distraction.

I personally don't dig the site, and experience has taught me how to navigate it. The only reason I used it in my original post is because I know that the actual download is real, and that other reputable sites that host the MSJVM removal tool are few and far between, as can be seen if ones does a Google search for: download MSJVM removal tool