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Ask Toolbar Now Considered Malware By Microsoft

Posted by timothy on from the stating-the-obvious dept.

AmiMoJo writes: Last month Microsoft changed its policy on protecting search settings to include any software that attempts to hijack searches as malware. As a result, this month the Ask Toolbar, which most people will probably recognize as being unwanted crapware bundled with Java, was marked as malware and will now be removed by Microsoft's security software built in to Windows 7 and above.

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  1. Re:bundle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    When will Windows remove itself then? Windows is the worst malware/crapware ever! Seriously though, Windows is actually a virus!! All software for Windows should have been forced to be like portable apps from the beginning...no part of the software allowed to be installed outside of the program's own directory, and no such thing as a registry needed. And there should never have been a way to install anything in such a way that it cannot be removed easily.

  2. Re:bundle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    oh my god shut the fuck up you are such a nimwitted faggot.