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  1. Or you can just click "Also scan for adware" on Yahoo Anti-Spy Favors Yahoo's Adware Partners? · · Score: 5, Informative
    This is a mountain made from a mole hill. All the user has to do is check the box that says "Also scan for adware" in the main dialog box of the application, and the tool will delete Claria and the rest of the intrusive garbage on the user's machine.

    Here is a screenshot that shows how simple it is to remove adware using the tool.

    Yahoo Anti-Spy

    The article makes it sound like you have to go clicking through a bunch of option screens, but the truth is that removing adware is exactly one click more complex that simply running the program.

    You guys are so ready to excoriate Yahoo, but all they've done is provide a free, easy-to-use tool for common users to delete crap from their computers. So what if they rely on the user to click *one cleary labeled check box* to delete software created by Yahoo's own business partners?

    Keep in mind that the program has no negative side effects...even according to the progam's critics, its worst sin is a sin of omission.