Yes you are. Cnet was a fairly good site, but has degraded a lot. I'm guessing that you didn't properly avoid the sneaky toolbar and home setting checkboxes of the cnet installer. You can change your homepage and remove the toolbar, but if your browser opens by its self, you need the help of an antivirus. If it had malicious software, uninstalling the original software does nothing for you. Simply running the software is enough. Any software you run should be fairly reputable from a trustworthy source. A hint: open-source software is nearly always safe if downloaded from a good site (it's not hard to figure out why). Always check the web address that you are actually using. If it says download.microsoft.com, it's probably good, but watch for thing like d0wnload.microsoft.com.

Sincerely,
Jacob Smith
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