I agree with what others has said which is basically. For example, when saying that AV detected 'potentially unwanted software', rather than explaining what the software was, he said, 'It's a tautological false-positive, by the very definition of the term, everything is potentially unwanted.' At the same time he has dodged a lot of questions that tried to understand why the weird behaviors were present or how we could know they were safe.

To really seal the deal, when confronted, the developer offers incomplete and defensive responses. It sounds like they may only run if you opt in to the promotions in the installer, but it's not clear. For example, it downloads a series of unsigned dat files from a series of anonymous domains which are then pieced together into an exe and run which then opens several hidden cmd windows and edits the registry. Basically, the installer contains sketchy malware-like behaviors. Follow the link in the description text for the post which in turn has a link to the forums.

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