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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. Ahhh... Toolbars! by neilo_1701D · · Score: 5, Informative

    I always remember this image of IE7 stuffed with toolbars. A similar test was done on Windows XP.

    In the case of IE7, this was done as a test to see if the reset function would work correctly. It did.

  2. Re:bundle by robmv · · Score: 5, Informative

    That is something Minecraft developers could have done years ago. The binary license of the JRE allows it to be bundled with an application for private use of that application.

    When redistributing the JRE on Microsoft Windows as a private application runtime (not accessible by other applications) with a custom launcher, the following files are also optional. These are libraries and executables that are used for Java support in Internet Explorer and Mozilla family browsers; these files are not needed in a private JRE redistribution.

    from the Java 8 README