Wish I would have found this site earlier. I installed Flashget 3 beta and my IE7 and then IE8 both crashed. When I reported the error upon crashing the MS help said it was flashget. It asked my to run the "fix" It wasn't really a fix, it just disabled the add-on. What's worse when IE restarted it enabled itself and then more crashes. I was still willing to deal with the problem until I went to the flashget site and found the forum closed and no FAQ about this problem. I used the Control Panel Relmove program to get rid of it. Hope it's good enough.

I Love FlashGet, and i am using this FREEWARE since years, BUT I HATE ADS, AND IT IS BECOMNIG AN ADDDDDDDWARE, and ads are crashing with ie7 and ie8 with last updates and on WINDOWS Vista SP1 !!

GUI (Graphical User Interface): Rated Fair / FOR Ads and icons;.
Any Sol. ??

Just a fantastic programm for no money! GREAT

Not a bad download manager. It's very similar to Orbit Downloader. I also tried the Beta version but it seemed pretty hokey. Even after choosing the English language option there was text on the skin still in Chinese including the flashing ads. It also looks more like a game than a utility. I went with Orbit.

I like the 3.0 beta2, but how to turn off the banners ? or at least make them in english :)

Flashget advertises rogueware!!! in their embedded windows. I saw it myself. Yes, the very programme of Flashget is not a spyware (at least, they were not caught...), but they may mislead and deceive naive people which make use of their download manager and may download a harmful rogueware. Yesterday, I checked Flashget again: as usual, an indecent and sly policy-they ask to fullfill their poll and they called it the most popular software.
This is a dirty and ribald tactics to manipulate users.

Which anti-virus software???

Beware of Flashget! My anti-virus software lists this program as malware. It says that it contains a trojan dropper. I am not alone. Take a good look at the forums on the official Flashget website for more details. Also note that none of the staff responds.

HI ALL!

IT IS STRANGE-ALL OTHER DOWNLOAD SITES (dOWNLOAD.COM, sOFT32, bROTHERSOFT AND OTHERS) AND THE OFFICIAL SITE OF FLASHGET SAY THAT THE LATEST RELEASE IS 1.96. SOFTPEDIA IS THE ONLY ONE WHO INSISTS ON THE SECOND VERSION OF FLASHGET.PLEAE, CLARIFY THIS.

Great program, I\'ve used it for ages to good effect. Funny thing is, due to connection problems it took me 2/3 days to download it.

Forget the adware unless you wish to pay for it.

dr_Ibanez/lucas, my flashget's speed become lower 50% than before (from 170kbps to 50kbps) when i used your setting for core.cfg. i change it back to original.

To disable unattended connections attempts, just modify your core.cfg configuration file, which you can find somewhere in FlashGet directory.
Quite easy thing, included my diff dump below (changes between my config and the original one - with disabled share-url, eMule and BT features in GUI):

#diff core.cfg core.old
16c16
< UPnP.Enable=0
---
> UPnP.Enable=1
20c20
< ED2K.Enable=0
---
> ED2K.Enable=1
22c22
< ED2K.Server.AutoConnect=0
---
> ED2K.Server.AutoConnect=1
26,28c26,28
< ED2K.Search.SearchInServers=0
< ED2K.Search.SearchInKADNetwork=0
< ED2K.KAD.Enable=0
---
> ED2K.Search.SearchInServers=1
> ED2K.Search.SearchInKADNetwork=1
> ED2K.KAD.Enable=1
33,34c33,34
< ED2K.WebSvr.MaxConnection=0
< BT.Enable=0
---
> ED2K.WebSvr.MaxConnection=8
> BT.Enable=1
39c39
< BT.DHT.Enable=0
---
> BT.DHT.Enable=1

I hope you find it information pretty useful.

regards,
Lucas

Forget the ratings !!! Spyware gross !
FlashGet 1.9.0.1012 calls:

59.151.31.139 (59.151.31.139)
60.28.197.35 (60.28.197.35)
66.199.250.170 server1.nova-mind.com (66.199.250.170)
72.51.37.237 (72.51.37.237)
219.239.90.172 (219.239.90.172)


I block them but the calls are being made from the program..
The problem is flashget may make [[60-70]] calls a minute.

I've used FlashGet for years (right from when it was shareware and had to be paid for) and always found it marvellous. Lately, though, over the last few versions, it has deteriorated. Unnecessary abbreviation in the headings, failing to retain settings, and so on.

SPY ALERT !!!

For me, Flashget 1.8.1 ruined the reputation they used to have up to (and including) 1.73, it seems it now has a built-in spy of some sort.

This version tries to contact the mothership even when the "check for updates at startup" checkbox is disabled.

Also, it tries to modify the hosts file at startup.

Evidence:
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/galaad2/bugs/flashget_8__spyware_alert_1.png[/IMG]
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/galaad2/bugs/flashget_8__spyware_alert_2.png[/IMG]

btw, that is ZoneAlarm Pro 7.0.302

In addition, ZoneAlarm Pro warns me that their site, www.amazesoft.com is a known spy site:
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/galaad2/bugs/amazesoft_spy.png[/IMG]

FlashGet is really getting things right with their product. The only things that makes still desire to use FreeDownloadManager and HiDownload are the following, which I hope FlashGets implements:

1) Password manager. FlashGet, which I dont mind, uses a global password. Its fine if you intend to download a lot from a single, static password guarded site. But if you download from many sites or dynamic password guarded sites, its a pain in the ass ot have to keep changing the password setting. FreeDownloadManager has this really neat password manager which remembers passwords for every site, and will update if you use a new pass on an previous site.
2) Download of non-mms streaming windows media content. FlashGet can handle MMS:// links, but it cant handle .ASX, .ASF, .WMX or streaming WMV. FreeDownloadManager can do streaming WMV but not the others. Thats where HiDownload comes in :P.

Other than that, they keep improving in areas that I wouldn't expect.
New XP style icons
BitTorrent support

I wasn't expecting either of those. All the better. Ever since they decided to make this a free product it has only gotten better...

And.. if you use shareurl service, (you got the option when you install the program and in the progrm preferences), it will connect to a site in China :) in order to share the mirror !

http://www.shareurl.com/

Getright does the sem thing with his service: http://www.filemirrors.com

antigin, since version ~ 1.7x Flashget is totally free and clean.
I use this software since 0.x version :)

Now is free and is really the best for 90% of the users.

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/amazesoft.com?ref=safe&aff_id=0
It's an official site, Chinese site. Title: "The Best Download Manager". Maybe most popular, but by far no the best now! Either develops are a incredible optimists or this site was built for total gooses.
NO SPYWARE, NO ADWARE, NO VIRUSES. 100% FREE!
Yeeeaah, but what about CyDoor adware?! Never give a hundred percent.

Check your firewall log - Not at first, but after downloading a few files it suddenly DOES start talking to a site in China - 219.238.234.148 ... after every download, and having no reasonable reason to do so. Once it starts even trying to download a file from Sopftpedia does the same thing. Softpedia, you've slipped up by classifying this one as safe and as a pick ? Anypone know what the site with that IP is ?

Been using flashget for 5 years, never had any problems with it at all, to tylermenzes I would say, you must have been infected before you installed flashget what other programs did u install just before flashget, and McAfee is not the best virus scanner its a system hog like norton, my system doesnt run slow and i have it running as soon as my system starts, i run roughly 7 programs at a time, and download using flasget, To dummyforbugmenot, their is NO spyware installed with Flashget 1.73 at all, cydoor has been removed as of 1.72 maybe 1.71, the banner has also been removed. The best downloader out there, and I have tried over 20 of them over the years.

It is software that can be called FlashGet pioneer existence of the down loader software.
Adware of Cydoor Technologies was installed in the version before. However, Adware was excluded from v1.72 and it free made it to complete.

NetTransport is made charged by this software's having become free, and the user who is hesitating which software to use will end hesitatingly.

Congratulations! You get my vote for WORST SOFTWARE EVER! With 700 users rating this for an average of 4 stars, I figured I'd try it... big mistake. This software slowed my new Dual-core laptop with 2GB of RAM to a complete stand-still when browsing the web or working with Windows Explorer, and I noticed a 50% performance drop when working with other applications. Uninstalling the program still did not fix this, only a system restore did, leading me to believe that Softpedia's Spyware free certification on this product is incorrect. When I first installed the program McAfee alerted me this program was a Potentially Unwanted Program. I ignored this (after all McAfee thought an earthquake effect created in Javascript fell under the same catagory) but I shouldn't have.

DON'T DOWNLOAD THIS!

I have tested some download managers but found this along time ago, it is the best, and if it is true that it is banner free now (without paying), it is even better!

There's no trick. For over a week now, FlashGet is FREE! No more banners! No need to buy it! I've sent an e-mail to the producer to update the help file (that still has a Buy chapter) and to give us more information about this sudden change :)

Freeware? Ok. It looks amazing but, according to http://www.amazesoft.com/en/whatsnew.htm it seems really that from 1.72 version onwards it's really free. Don't know if there's a trick somewhere, but it deserves a try.

Now this software is completly FREE and CLEAN !

The best download manager is now FREEWARE

Spyware?! Maybe you mean adware ;)

The license of this software should be changed from Shareware to Adware. What most of you dont know is that if you choose not to buy the software, and choose to use it for free, you are forced to see an Ad Bar at the top of the window...flash ads and all that junk.
The way those ads are delivered to your computer is by the infamous adware, Cydoor. But this isnt the conventional cydoor adware that drops the DLL file in the windows system folder. Its the embedded type, the same one that eXeem decided to use, and later dropped.
Upon opening FlashGet, it doesnt take the software even a minute to contact the cydoor servers. Once it contacts the cydoor servers it starts silently downloading the ads to the folder
C:\Program Files\FlashGet\ads\adcache434 (where C:\Program Files\FlashGet is where you choose to install FlashGet, the default location). Once there it copies all the files to the default cydoor ads location, C:\Windows\System32\AdCache...all of this stuff in this folder will be detected as cydoor by any antispyware program (Spy Sweeper, Microsoft AntiSpyware, etc.). But after the program deletes it, or if you decide to manually delete it, it will just restore itself by copying it from the adcache434 location in the FlashGet folder. If you get smart and decide to delete the ads in that folder as well, FlashGet will just contact cydoor servers again and redownload the ads...and you will have achieved nothing.

But, assuming you have no problem with the adbar at the top of the window...since of course software like WarezP2P and the sort have the same thing...
FlashGet is simply the best Download Manager out there.
Its so good that the freeware alternative, Free Download Manager, basically cloned its interface.

It has so many nicities that I use...
It supports FTP and HTTP transfer.
The only thing I wish FlashGet included, something that Free Download Manager does VERY well, is keep a list of all the logins I have used at certain sites I visit, such that I dont have to keep changing the default login information (by setting the default login information, i can automatically add all the files i want to download from a password protected site and for flashget to use that default login information on all the downloads). Once i change sites i have to tell flashget to use a different password. Free Download Manager on the other hand, sees what sites Im downloading from and sees the passwords I have used in the past and will suggest using them when i add downloads from the site.

I got rid of GetRight a WHILE back in favor of FlashGet, and i have never looked back.
Since Im still using it on a ad-supported basis, im actively persuing ways to block the ads...appending cydoor to my HOSTS file, blocking cydoor on my firewall...etc.
Its actually quite fun :).

4/5 because people are negative towards software embedding Cydoor...if you are one of those people go take a look at Free Download Manager (also available on SoftPedia).