Underneath the big download button is a small "direct download" link. If you click that, you download the program without that cnet installer.
And, of course, most software can be downloaded from the makers site and tucows. In fact, I've never downloaded from cnet myself, because it uses a site (dw.com.com) that happens to be blocked in my hosts file.
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