Here's something that was added to Giveaway pages a few days ago, and on the main site today: "Giveaway of the day is adware/spyware-free. If you want to check that yourself and keep your system healthy, we recommend Advanced SystemCare package.
Pro and Free versions are available."
My first response to this was "bull." For those who don't know how the activation process goes, the wrapper (Setup.exe by itself or Activate.exe) extracted from the zip file have the activation registry key or setup program in it, encrypted. This makes it so that it is impossible for an antivirus software to detect viruses within the wrapper unless it knows what the decryption algorithm is and where to get the encryption key. So in effect, telling people to scan giveaways is pointless. Recommending a specific software to scan it is even worse. A giveaway can be scanned automatically during the extraction process, but some antivirus softwares can't stop a program properly if it finds malware, so in the event that a giveaway has a virus in it, someone isn't going to be safe.
Any opinions?