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Apparently, sometime between end 2016 & early 2017, Snappy Driver Installer (under SamLab) started including adware/PUPs in the compiled builds distributed to the public.

Users encountered advert popups/ runtime GUI adverts for Avast Antivirus, or SDI quietly downloading & running the Avast AV online installer if the user didn’t quickly dismiss (or accidentally overlooked) the advert countdown timer. [Ref: 1, 2, 3, 4]

As a result, Snappy Driver Installer Origin — the fork by Glenn Delahoy (the original developer of SDI, before the second developer took over & then handed the project to SamLab) — was started to address the adware/PUP issue, & promises to always deliver a clean product to users. [Ref: 5, 6]

No idea if SamLab’s SDI has stopped including unwanted “extras” — although I noticed that user complaints have ceased. Or maybe SDI’s mainstream users are generally indifferent to (or don’t even notice) the presence of adware/PUPs.