Hey guys! I am Mehmet Akar. I have a serious obsession with file security. So, I decided to set up a download website for the first time in the world, where I would prioritize safety and share the virus scanning page of each file. It is not possible for me to present all the files in the world on this website for now, but I will continue to add the files you need the most in line with your requests, while paying attention to copyright.
Is Uptodown safe? Another question asked too many times by download geeks. Uptodown website safe issue is so serious because it is also too popular among download geeks. So, here is the question&answer:
Question: Is Uptodown safe?
Answer: Unfortunately no!
Why I said No! Let’s look at uptodown website and explain it…
Uptodown is located in Spain as its competitor Softonic. It uses same method for SEO. What is this method? Of course, subdomain method. They pretend to be official website of the file when people look at the domain because all file title is located on front of main domain as subdomain.
Is Uptodown Safe? I explain with Screenshots
Let’s start to analyze the question: Is Uptodown safe? When I visit the home page it uses google auth and automatically asks me to sign in via my google account. It does not disturb as its competitor asking for notifications. On the other hand, I think this is also useless and disturbs little bit. Whenever I see it, I close it immediately. You can ask it while commenting or doing anything which signing up is needed.
After that, when I click any file’s page. I see a big ads which deceive visitors to click and download the original file but, it is sponsored ad file and it may have security risks.
As yo see, the add is so disturbing and may deceive visitors. The actual download button is at the bottom left part but it is tinier than ad download button. It is disgusting.
After clicking button, it does not download, it brings you to the another and latest download page, but why are they need more one page and make complex for visitor? Because they want to more money with an extra more 1 page to view an extra one more ad that can be clicked by visitors mistakenly. It is ridiculus.
As you see, actual latest download button is on the deeeeeeepppppp bottom :)) It is a shame…
Ok, let’s click on the security symbol near the file title. We see virus total link with sha code. It is very nice, I did not wait for this, actually. They did a good job. It shows result of the scan of Virustotal.
By the way, you can read my “How to download files safely from the internet” article for general safety issues as basic level.
Is Uptodown Safe? Conclusively…
As a result, Is Uptodown safe? Unfortunately No! It seems a little bit more secure than its competitor but it is not enough. We see some safety and security risks on up to down website as you read above. Especially ads place is strictly deceive visitors to download non-safe trojan-virus-malware stuff. This is unacceptable!
By the way you can read the competitor >> Is Softonic Safe Article.
