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"so the likely explanation was that the toolbar had come onto my system piggybacking on the installation of one of the several video-card stress testing and tem
by raintrees 16y ago
"so the likely explanation was that the toolbar had come onto my system piggybacking on the installation of one of the several video-card stress testing and temperature profiling tools I used while overclocking the system."
So why would a browser toolbar component become part of a video-card/temperature tool bundle? Poor DLL tracking on the tool developer's part?
- GFischer 16y agoMost often than not, it's adware explicitly included in the installer by the software's creator to make a profit on shareware or freeware. They usually have opt-outs, but the shadier ones do not - and you can legitimately click "next-next-next" and don't read about them and uncheck the button that installs it - that's what they're counting on. If someone like Russinovich didn't see it, it was probably not opt-out. Edit: here's some relevant info http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090518120035AAtbHlN http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090518120035AA... Google purportedly pays U$ 2 per install, I guess Yahoo! does the same
- raintrees 16y agoThanks, that seems so obvious, now that you've explained it. I hadn't though about the advertising angle (silly me)...
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoYahoo! toolbar in particular has moved to the status of virus, in my view. If you get "infected", it takes an expert to expunge it totally.