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Solar Group: Admin - Site Posts: 12028 Calendar Posts: 8745 Joined: 11-October 03 From: Macau Member No.: 1	Below is the current list of dodgy installers, discussed in our forums and started by one of CoU's MVC, weaselthatbites on Feb 29 2008, 01:53 PM. Google cache is here. Unfortunately, the topic is missing due to database issue. Please accept our sincere apology. Adobe Flash Player - Google Toolbar Adobe Reader - eBay Desktop AOL Instant Messenger - AOL Toolbar Apple’s Software Updater - Safari Browser, QuickTime, iTunes Applian FLV Player - Yahoo Toolbar AVG 8 - AVG Security Toolbar (Yahoo Search bar) BitComet - Google Toolbar CCleaner (standard installer) - Yahoo Toolbar <<<Offers ‘Lite’ version, without toolbar Comodo Firewall Pro - Ask Toolbar (This toolbar is detected as spyware/adware by several vendors) Cyberlink PowerDVD 8 - Google Toolbar and BETA of Moovielive Daemon Tools - Search tool and sponsor ad module DivX - Yahoo Toolbar Free Download Manager - Software Informer bundle Glary Utilities - Ask Toolbar GoogleTalk - no addon but will change default search setting of IE GoogleEarth - Pre checked Google Toolbar installation ICQ 6 - ICQ Toolbar Iobit advanced one care - Yahoo Toolbar (selecting no will still do changes on the system) IrfanView (Google Toolbar for IE and Google Desktop Search) Logitech Setpoint (Logitech Yahoo! Toolbar) MP3 WMA Converter - Yahoo Search and Delio Comparsion Shopping Toolbar Nero Burning Rom - Ask Toolbar (This toolbar is detected as spyware/adware by several vendors) PC Tools Firewall Plus - Google Toolbar and Threatfire ~~RealPlayer - Google Toolbar~~ - Delisted. CoU member Pat reported that the installer do not have Google toolbar anymore which I (Donna) confirmed. Shockwave Player - Norton Security Scan or Google Toolbar Skype - Google Toolbar Spyware Doctor - Google Toolbar Spyware Terminator - Web security guard, Crawler Sun Java RE (online installer) - Google Toolbar Sun Java - OpenOffice.org Trillian - Ask Toolbar and Weather Channel Desktop Veoh media player - Yahoo toolbar, search engine change & search protection Webroot SpySweeper - Ask Toolbar (This toolbar is detected as spyware/adware by several vendors) Winamp - Winamp Toolbar Windows Live Installer - Windows Live Toolbar and Sign-in Assistant Windows Update - Windows Genuine Advantage Notification - (pre-checked, not required, should not be high-priority) Windows SteadyState - Windows Live Toolbar Winzip - RegistryBooster xplorer2Lite - Conduit toolbar YaHoo! Instant Messenger - YaHoo! toolbar, with ‘YaHoo! Search Protection’ and homepage change to YaHoo! ZoneAlarm - SpyBlocker (Ask Toolbar) (This toolbar is detected as spyware/adware by several vendors)
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