RJ Software is gone, and so is the era when a small utility developer could host a simple installer page and trust that users would land on it directly. Today, searching for any old Windows tool by name risks dropping you on a clone site, a bundleware1 portal, or something worse. Before you install anything — RJ Software nostalgia piece or otherwise — here's how to find it without getting burned.
Go official, then go nowhere else
The safest download is always the developer's own site. For actively maintained tools, that means checking the URL in your browser bar matches the domain the developer actually owns. For modern alternatives to RJ Software's lineup: ShareX lives at getsharex.com, TeamViewer at teamviewer.com, CCleaner at ccleaner.com, ProProfs at proprofs.com. No mirror, no "download accelerator," no third-party portal required.
When a developer is gone — RJ Software included — the official site goes dark and the field opens up for scammers. Treat any site claiming to host old RJ Software installers with deep suspicion; we host nothing here, and any site that does is making a claim we can't verify.
Package managers are now the smarter default. On Windows, winget (built into Windows 10 and 11) and Scoop let you install software from curated, verified sources with a single command. Chocolatey is another well-established option. These tools pull packages from maintained repositories, strip out bundleware by design, and make updates trivial. If a tool you want is in winget's catalog, that's the cleanest path available.
The download-portal minefield
Sites like the old CNET Downloads, Softonic, and their many imitators made a business out of wrapping legitimate installers in their own download managers — software that installed toolbars, changed browser homepages, and worse. Some still do. The signal-to-noise ratio on generic download portals is low enough that the safest rule is to avoid them entirely. If you can't reach an official source or a package manager, SourceForge remains acceptable for open-source projects that actively maintain their presence there; elsewhere, assume risk.
For antivirus and security tools specifically — AVG, IObit, Iolo and their peers — always download from the vendor. Security software sourced from a third party is a particularly grim irony.
A quick habit: before running any installer, check the file's digital signature2 (right-click → Properties → Digital Signatures on Windows). A missing or mismatched signature is reason enough to stop. It takes ten seconds and has saved more than a few machines.