ATTENTION FILEHIPPO HIDE A DANGEROUS… ATTENTION FILEHIPPO HIDE A DANGEROUS ADWARE ON ITS INSTALLER DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANYTHING FROM THIS WEBSITE

A shadow of its former self FileHippo is not what it used to be. I switched to ninite long ago.

In the past In the past, FileHippo.com had been a trusted source for clean downloads of hand-picked software. Well, that's over now! Sadly, they recently joined the trashnet of sites wrapping downloads in adware installers. Called "Download Manager" on their site, it is a wrapper you get instead of the software you actually wanted.

Going to this site induces fake virus… Going to this site induces fake virus scam popup notifications. AVOID, dangerous

Certainly a shadow of itself in many… Certainly a shadow of itself in many respects. I think that the company changed hands over a year ago but they have certainly been having technical problems over the last few months. Their update page simply fails to update. The listed updates to mid January only show two so far this month; it did resume late last month but seems to have stopped again. The FileHippo updater, a program that you run on your PC to automatically scan for updates now fails to download definitions. In defence I have not experienced any malware issues though. It looks like this website is heading for the high road and I cannot see it lasting. My recommended alternatives would be Patch My PC, or Ninite.