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Softpedia

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URL	www.softpedia.com
Type of site	Software Index
Available language(s)	English & Romanian
Owner	Cătălin Garmacea & Bogdan Gheorghe
Launched	November 2001^{[citation needed]}
Alexa rank	~290

Softpedia is a site that indexes information and provides downloads for many games, drivers, mobile phones, and software for the Windows, Macintosh, and Linux platforms, as well as PDAs and other devices. The site also indexes major technology, science, health, and entertainment news both from ticker servers and from in-house sources. As of April 2007, it is one of the top 500 websites according to Alexa traffic rankings.^[1] The site was originally known as Softnews.ro, but was changed to Softpedia near the end of 2003.

Software categories are arranged hierarchically and are modeled after Windows filesystem paths, such as "C: \ Mobile Phone Tools \ Sony Ericsson." Users can sort by criteria such as the date of the last update, the number of downloads, or the rating. There are three viewing modes, normal, freeware, or shareware, which allows users to screen out certain types of software.^[2]

1 Malware testing
2 Statistics
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Malware testing

Softpedia claims to thoroughly test each software product and game they list and to check each one for evidence of viruses, malware, adware or spyware using a variety of well known antivirus and antispyware products. Programs which Softpedia finds to be free of viruses, malware, adware, and spyware are given its "100% Clean" award; programs which are also freeware or open source are given Softpedia's "100% Free" award.^[3]