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Microsoft’s Bing Bar

by certifiedbug on December 4, 2009

in Microsoft

Normally I don’t like or want toolbars, especially if they come bundled: http://certifiedbug.com/blog/tag/toolbar/

Joe Wilcox doesn’t like them either so my curiosity was tweaked when I saw he wrote a good review of the “Bing Bar.”

Article at Beta News “Microsoft’s Bing Bar takes the clutter and complexity out of browser toolbars”

I’ve been taking the Bing Bar for a whirl and so far I like what I see.

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AVG Security Toolbar

by certifiedbug on October 7, 2009

in Internet Security

IE Blog informs that the AVG Security Toolbar team released a new version of their toolbar with a more predictable user experience and doing a better job of allowing users to stay in control of their browser.

Granted it’s good that AVG is following the guidelines for add-on developers, however it is still yet another toolbar, how many do people need?

If you decide to install the toolbar as always please read the EULA first.

http://certifiedbug.com/blog/tag/toolbar/

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Toolbars by any other name

July 5, 2009

Comodo announcement
What’s New In 3.10.102194.530?
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NEW! COMODO Secure DNS is introduced as a new free service
NEW! COMODO HopSurf Toolbar – COMODO SafeSurf Toolbar has been discontinued and superseded by COMODO HopSurf Toolbar

On-going topic at calendarofupdates.com

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Mike Nash: Ask Toolbar in Online Armor Free? Nearly…

May 18, 2009

Read the journey…
Bundle Ask Toolbar and have an early retirement?
The Scoop
Sometimes, I hate the internet…
…but most of the time it rocks
A rock and a hard place
Mike Nash wrote:

Unfortunately, adding that bar would mean that our users would hate us. Vocally. Is it rational hatred? Who cares. Hate is hate, and Vocal is Vocal. We’d already [...]

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Softpedia-Comodo Software Removed

April 27, 2009

Softpedia received an official cease and desist letter (C&D) from the Comodo legal team April, 15th to “discontinue all references on Softpedia identifying CIS as adware” within seven days.
Softpedia News, CIS is adware:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Comodo-Software-Removed-From-Softpedia-110169.shtml
Certifiedbug, May 27, 2008. Comodo SafeSurf Toolbar-ASK Toolbar
I no longer use or recommend the Comodo Firewall anymore, it has become too bloated for [...]

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Trojan bundling modified StudiVZ toolbar with backdoor

February 11, 2009

StudiVZ, based in Germany, is a popular social networking platform for students.
A new Trojan (pretending to be a toolbar installer) is spreading that bundles the legitimate toolbar for the German social network “StudiVZ” with a variant of Backdoor-CEP. Among other malicious activities, the backdoor is capable of recording a user’s screen, taking screenshots, and logging [...]

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Norton 360 release to bundle version of the Ask Toolbar

February 11, 2009

Donna’s not happy with this and has added Symantec to the list of vendors barred from Calendar of Updates.
http://certifiedbug.com/blog/tag/ask/

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Consumergain.com spamvertise’s at Photobucket

August 30, 2008

So there I was at Photobucket looking at images when this popped up.

I clicked No and was redirected to the site anyway. In other words my browser was Hijacked.
WOT edged in to say no no no.

http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/consumergain.com
Site Advisor also flags consumergain.com
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/consumergain.com

Press release January 30, 2008 by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Online Advertiser Settles FTC Charges. “Free” [...]

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Pre-checked Installers

August 25, 2008

Bill Pytlovany posted that IAC/InterActiveCorp had asked him last week to reconsider adding their ASK toolbar to WinPatrol.
Again he declined.
It’s still surprising that programs like Zone Alarm, SpySweeper and Comodo Firewall install the Ask.com toolbar while other security programs still flag it as undesirable, suspicious or even adware.
What’s Wrong with Toolbars?
See Certifiedbug’s Tag [...]

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Fake e-Bay Toolbar

August 20, 2008

Avert Labs reports a new fake toolbar you should be aware of.
Upon execution the file .exe displays the eBay toolbar EULA and the installation interface. But, there is a hidden agent which silently opens TCP port 3389 and creates a new account, ”eBayMember”, with Administrator privileges.
The account’s login screen is hidden so you will [...]

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