New
#10
Yes, I get that, but even my father has started to hate the ask toolbar, although he has no idea how it was installed. I would imagine this generates a lot of bad will towards those crap companies.
Even semi-professional users can fall for the victim of crapware, sometimes you only see the opt-out button if you click the custom install button, and sometimes you actually have to click cancel to decline the offer and just unticking the selection is not enough.
Yes I know these installer say "read the following carefully" but who has time to do that?
Its not over yet. Correction from original source link.
JimCorrection: After this article was published, Microsoft clarified that the version of the Ask Toolbar it classifies as malware is not the current version. The latest version of the toolbar will not be banned by Microsoft as it does not contain search protection code. PCWorld regrets the error.
It's good that Ask ceased its troublesome behavior. Unfortunately, it looks like you'll still be manually uninstalling the Ask Toolbar for the foreseeable future. —Ed.
Who uses toolbars anyway?
I thought toolbars were more surfing 'social butterflies' and, more or less, a thing of the past.
In other news Ask Toolbar has been rebranded and redistributed as You asked for it toolbar. They will try to figure a way around the block.
I can remember when my step daughter got her first laptop. It didn't take long before there were a dozen or more toolbars in IE. She just assumed you had to accept the extras to get program X. She would just blindly keep clicking next etc to get her program installed as quick as possible. These types of drive by's count on that. For most of us here, its just an inconvenience to watch out for it and uncheck the boxes.
For us here yes. For the not so tech savvy, not so much. Most of my can you fix Windows for me, its so slow, instances are because its full of search toolbars etc and other drive by downloads. I just go right to control panel and start uninstalling the gunk. If it will uninstall that is.