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."

Comments

Re:This is old news

[GothicManSlut]

Read the fucken article. And you would have stopped yourself from making an ass of your lack of intelligence.

Imagine the pictures?

[Christopher Bibbs]

What? You can't read GIF or JPEG files? Loser.

Re:Wrong

[rnd()]

I won't take the time to include the links, but the term "GNU/Linux" strictly speaking means only the Kernel. Some interpret it to mean the Kernel plus any GPL software. In any case, I used the term "GNU/Linux Kernel" because I wanted to include the "GNU/" while still referring specifically to the kernel.

Your midwife doesn't select the name of your baby

[PapaZit]

I'm with Linus on the whole GNU/Linux naming joke. From this interview (he was talking about "lignux", which was the previous attempt by FSF fanboys to cash in on Linux, but it's the same idea)

There's a lot of GNU code out there, but it should stand on its own instead of trying to get a free ride on the Linux name recognition.

I _am_ very indebted to the gcc developers, who have made sure that there's a good high-quality compiler out there that everybody can use, but that doesn't really mean that they get to choose their own name for the system.

Your midwife doesn't select the name of your babies..