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Ad-Aware ... AskToolbar ?

Cracks me up ....your 'Label' is in the mail..don't cash it until the end of the month.

»securitygarden.blogspot.com/2008···ide.html
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reply to winchester73
Sadly, Winchester73's inquiry at the LS forums directed @urizen has been deleted. My subscription is still there

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Ask Toolbar ToolbarSettings ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Advisory Available in Danish Advisory Available in German

Secunia Advisory: SA26960
Release Date: 2007-09-25
Last Update: 2007-09-28

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software: Ask Toolbar 4.x

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reply to winchester73
Well it all reminds me..

January 2008
18-19 Poor days for planting, seeds tend to rot in ground.

»www.farmersalmanac.com/home_garden/gardening

"There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind." - Francis Bacon

But glad some are now really asking..rather than spreading fertilizer.
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reply to winchester73
Yeah, I saw my thread over there had been deleted. I'm not sure why really ... it was a simple request to urizen for some clarification. There was nothing inflammatory or negative.

I had hoped that there would be a message in my box explaining "why" it was removed or "who" had done so. I guess no one thought it would be a courteous thing to do. When I was a moderator on the old LS forum, I always sent a message to each and every person whose post I tampered with, in any way, even if I was just breaking a link to keep someone from clicking on it.

Oh well, times change.

Not that anyone cares, but count me in the disappointed camp should LS start packaging the AskToolbar with their download.

reply to winchester73
Corrine ... spot on: »securitygarden.blogspot.com/2008···iry.html

It seems Lavasoft office staff doesn't work weekends, although someone from Lavasoft certainly spent enough time at my rather obscure blog both yesterday and today:

»securitygarden.blogspot.com/2008···iry.html
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reply to winchester73
this is sadly why i walked away from Lavasoft adware a few years ago....

Seems like everyone wants to install a toolbar nowadays

Symantec always trys to push their yahoo toolbar on you
ccleaner trys to push one as well
Adobe is always trying to get you to install google toolbar

The only Toolbar i use is Windows Live Toolbar Straight From Microsoft...it is the only toolbar worth a darn

But i don't see any sites or software activly pushing it though...and my IE has never crashed or anything, plus Microsoft Updates the Windows Live Services though Microsoft Update(including the toolbar)

But the rest of these toolbar just suck...Microsoft is the only one who has gotten the toolbar right with Windows Live Toolbar

the Ask toolbar is just a worthless piece of dung

reply to winchester73
»sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2008/01···-to.html

No matter how it is dressed up,it plainly sucks

I will NOT use any "security" software that comes with a toolbar.

Anti Adware/Spyware software is often used to remove such things - it shouldn't add them!

Maybe these companies need tons and tons of angry emails!

Edit - gotta love all the political double talk in that statement by Lavasoft . What nonsense.

reply to winchester73
well, well another one bites the dust!!
goodbye Ad-Aware

reply to winchester73
Ben Edelman: »www.haloscan.com/comments/alexec···/#406495

I can certainly understand why a user might want a browser toolbar, and I have no problems with something that isn't a pre-checked option ... but I fail to see why an anti-spyware application needs a toolbar.

The Bar will supposedly be "opt in" only. However, any A/S shipped with a toolbar - especially one with a shady background - is just too much to stomach for me.

They claim the reason for possibly including ASK is to "help change the world" but I tend to think that money is the real factor here.

reply to Corrine
I'm with you 100% on this issue.
I doubt the complaints will stop the practice, but at least it is an "opt-in" choice in Adaware's case, unlike Zone Alarm.

reply to winchester73
Does company getting paid for including a foolbar in their software?

reply to winchester73
I really don't understand why everyone gets so upset whenever another company includes the option of adding a tool bar when installing their software. Note, please, that I said option. I always choose the "Custom" installation option whenever it is offered, so that I see exactly what is being installed on my computer, and I have no difficulty either checking or unchecking the box regarding the installation of the third-party tool bar, or whatever.

As much as we would like our security and other software providers to remain pristine and "true" to their product, they are after all in the business to make money. If they are providing a product, it's their choice regarding how they package it. And if it is a free product - one that the user pays no money for - to gripe about a way they've found to make money from it seems a bit hypocritical to me.

Don't get me wrong - I do find it annoying when I'm buying a piece of software and the manufacturer is trying to get me to add extra software that I don't need. I am paying enough money for a product that is costing them virtually nothing to transmit to me - no packaging or shipping costs, etc. But as long as they provide the option of opting-in or opting-out of the extraneous features, it remains merely an annoyance to me.
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reply to winchester73
I know someone who loves to make foolbars he made tons of useless foolbars claiming the state willing to pay money for the crap he makes

reply to DownTheShore
Yes it is optional.

But to me it would be like finding a cigarette vending machine in the waiting room of my heart doctor.