World's Most Annoying IE Toolbar

nautical9 writes "Following the same devious footsteps of the infamous Bonzi Buddy, Gator, and Comet Cursor "enhancements", Xupiter now has their own self-installing toolbar for IE. There are many claims that if you leave your security preferences at their default level, it will install itself without your express permission. And once on your system, it's gracious enough to reset your homepage to xupiter.com, forward all your searches to their search engine, download and automatically launch applications (like gambling applets), and blocks all attempts to set these back to normal. Removing it isn't trivial either - it automatically checks for updates upon reboot, where it constantly changes the registry settings it uses, making the jobs of spyware removal programs like AdAware or Spybot Search & Destroy much harder. No word yet if it collects and forwards personal data."

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My searches

[govtcheez]

to their credit, Xupiter's search engine returns the best quality squirrel porn I've ever seen.

THANKS

[ematic]

Thanks a lot. I clicked on the link, and now I have this stupid toolbar installed!

Help!

[LucidityZero]

Help, help! My Bonzi Buddy is eating my Gator, and my Comet Cursor is header for a direct impact with Xupiter!!!

Re:Sick the Lawyers on Them

[stratjakt]

We need laws for everything!

Every time I wiggle my mouse around or push my spacebar I need a law to clearly define what I'm doing, what my rights and responsibilities are, and what the punishments are if I wiggle that mouse a little bit too far to the left!

Laws, laws, more laws! We dont have enough laws!

People are too stupid to live lives themselves or take any sort of personal responsibility! We need laws and lawyers and lawsuits!

More LAWS! Laws are the answer.

I'm writing my congressman right now, demanding more and increasingly complicated laws!

What? No Mac version??

[christurkel]

But...but...I want my browser taken over too! We Mac users never any get any of the cool stuff Windows does...::snifff::

This just in

[Bob Abooey]

There is also no word in yet if it will cause cancer or format your hard drive...

There is also no word in yet if it will blast your brain with secret radio waves that will make you submit to secret commands from the government but it's a good idea to always wear your tin-foil hat anyways.

Sheesh...

You asked for it!

[Cpt_Kirks]

That's what you get for running IE.

REAL MEN parse the raw html in their heads and just imagine what the pictures are from the tags.

Wimp.

Re:You asked for it!

[aengblom]

REAL MEN parse the raw html in their heads and just imagine what the pictures are from the tags.

Oh GOD, now it's installed there too!

Already given up

[mao che minh]

My Windows partition is just a big heap of junk, I gave up on it a long time ago. I got me this purple bear that likes to hop at out me when I open the control panel. I got women that skate around on the title bars until I crash. There is some winsys32 process that sends my ICQ password (like I care) to a hotmail account everyday. My Internet Explorer is now more of a "Yahoo!" explorer. I even have these helpful little pop-ups that inform me of terrific new offers in internet gambling and travel - every 30 seconds.

Actually, now that I think about it, my Redhat desktop is kind of boring.....

Re:no it won't

[jaavaaguru]

The Tooth Fairy is known for leaving money in exchange...

Viruses are known for leaving megabytes of junk in Exchange.

Re:Wrong

[lessthan0]

"isn't that the digital equivalent of mugging and rape?"

Well, if someone was walking around the Internet, flaunting their IE all over the place, with their security settings half way down to their waist, then weren't they asking for it?

Come on, you know they wanted Xupiter. They wanted it!

Re:A few questions answered:

[cant_get_a_good_nick]

My favorite is how ads are "enhancements":
To further enhance your media viewing experience, Xupiter reserves the right to run advertisements and promotions

To further enhance your sensory experience, Xtupider reserves the right to beat you upside the head with a large multi-colored baseball bat.